In 2017, ABC famously cancelled the Last Man Standing sitcom after six seasons. Though the series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the FOX network didn’t save it. A year later, FOX decided to revive the Tim Allen series and give it the same Friday night timeslot. Will the ratings be better on FOX than they were on ABC? Will Last Man Standing be cancelled or renewed for season eight? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
A family sitcom on FOX, Last Man Standing stars Tim Allen, Nancy Travis, Amanda Fuller, Molly McCook, Christoph Sanders, Jordan Masterson, Hector Elizondo, Jet Jurgensmeyer, Krista Marie Yu, and Jonathan Adams. Kaitlyn Dever will recur. The series revolves around Mike Baxter (Allen), the marketing director of the Outdoor Man sporting goods stores and a “man’s man”. His family doesn’t see eye-to-eye with him so it can sometimes be a little tough for Mike to stand his ground and stay in touch with his inner man.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
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For comparisons: The sixth season of Last Man Standing on ABC averaged a 1.15 rating in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and a total audience of 6.41 million viewers.
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like the Last Man Standing TV show? Should it be cancelled or renewed for an eighth season?
*4/18/19 update: FOX has renewed Last Man Standing for an eighth season.
Go back to the original cast, all of them, and more Eve!!!!!!
Please bring back Molly (Mandy), The new Mandy is an entirely different character, and not as funny. I haven’t gotten over losing the first Kristen. I love Eve, need more of her.
LMS is like an old friend for whom you now no longer have anything in common. You still have history but…it’s not enough. Things went rapidly south with the loss of Eve as a regular & the original Mandy. The new cast members lack the juice that made this show great. Sad to say, LMS time is nigh. Next season will be the last. I’ll still watch but…it’s like watching an old friend slowly die from cancer. Thanks for the first 6 seasons & GLTA.
Dam…. They cancelled The Exorcist for this crappy ass show LMS. SMFH. I hope it gets canceled…
LMS is the best show going. Do not cancel it. We look forward to it each week.
Absolutely love LMS please renew.
Love Last Man Standing! Not crazy about the new Mandy. She’s trying to hard to be like the original. still it’s a show I look forward to watching.
Please renew. Thank you
I love the show but I dont like what they have done to Kyle. And the new Mandy makes it almost impossible to watch. She is just so far off from the original and acts way to stupid. I have been liking the episodes where they keep Jay Leno and the older story line characters in.
Ryan really grew on me the last few seasons and I like his character but Kristen has also really changed her look and increases my confusion on what they are doing with her.
Love Last Man Standing. I do NOT like the tall blonde girl that is now playing Mandy.
She is not as funny or clever as the original Mandy.
The original Mandy was perfect in that role! If you couldn’t get her back as Mandy,
FOX could & should cast a actress that was the approximate height & color of hair as the original Mandy. FOX had the guts to bring Last Man Standing back & I applaud FOX.
Love Last Man Standing! One of the best shows on TV!
Love this show! PLEASE PLEASE keep it on! Tim Allen is a national treasure and it’s fun and funny to watch him.
No he’s not he’s been a nuisance in some parts of his life
Great show, love the humor. Watch it as much as possible. Please keep it on…
Like and watch the show. He is very good at poking fun of his views and himself.
Watched a few episodes last year but was turned off by the political remarks, could easily tell this was a FOX channel.
Haven’t watched it since.
The so called “unbiased” MSNBC and CNN have a constant bombardment of political remarks that I don’t like as well as the rest of TV land, except for Last Man Standing!