It’s hard to believe that Law & Order: SVU has been around for so long but it remains one of NBC’s top scripted series. Many other programs have been cancelled over the years but this one has hung around. Will it be renewed for an 18th season? Time will tell.
Law & Order: SVU follows an elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes in New York City. This season, the cast includes Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, and Raul Esparza.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
2/1 update: NBC has renewed SVU for an 18th season. Details here.
5/26 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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For comparisons: The 16th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit averaged a 1.62 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.31 million total viewers
Note: 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 still like the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV series? Would you like to see it cancelled or renewed for an 18th season?
I am super pissed off. I am a DISH subscriber and have not had NBC for about a month and have not been able to even watch SVU. How can ratings be counted if dish hasnt had NBC? I will be super angry if my show gets cancelled and will never watch another NBC show again. SVU fans should join me in this boycott of NBC if the cut SVU.
I love this show!!! Watch it all the time!!! I hope season 18 is on Netflix!! Please do not cancel the show!!
I can’t wait every week I watch me and my wife and my children watch SUV I love it and I love the people on there keep up the good work NBC understand you got a winner here from the Garcia family in Arlington Texas
Great ShowI love it and hope it makes 25 seasons
Love SVU. I watch it every time it comes on. The best show
The viewers number for 17-11 is incorrect. It should be 8.009, not 7.525.
Thanks for spotting that!
Why has episode 2 of this season, Criminal Pathology, taken down from video on demand. It was therre last week, and now it’s gone.
I love Special Victims Unit, but don’t like that Rollins is pregnant on the show that’s just more personal issues. I just like for them to fight crime.
Ms. Giddish was pregnant in real life which was written into the script, just as it happens all the time with female members of the NYPD. They could have had her hide behind desks and folders like SVU has done before, but that just seems silly.
I been watching Law and Order from day one. Love,Love it.
What we do not understand, is why do they play this horrible music in the background.
You cannot hear the people talking. I really do not remember the music in the early shows.
How can I turn the music off , so that we can really enjoy the show again.
This was one of the best season openers ever!
Love this show but I do agree, I miss a lot of the original characters.
LAW & ORDER IS A GREAT SHOW AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN. . .DANNY PINO IS A BETTER FIT I THINK THAN SCANANINO OR WHATEVER…MISS HIM. 17 YEARS ON AIR ISN’T NOTHING TO THINK CANCEL – RENEW, RENEW AND RENEW.
I could look at Olivia all day & night and more, but I can do without the graphics. I’ve seen autopsies & other corpses, and that’s more than enough for my tastes.
With numbers like these I would assume (perhaps erroneously) that this show will survive …
WONDER HOW THE RATINGS WERE THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS SHOW. PROOF WAS JUST CANCELLED, NO SECOND SEASON. HOGWASH. HOW ABOUT GIVING THE SHOW A CHANCE. I LOVE SVU, I MISS ELLIOT, I WISH THEY COULD BRING HIM AROUND ONCE AND A WHILE, BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT I TRULY NO KIDDING LOVED JOHN, AND FINN. ALL OF THE LAW AND ORDER SHOES WERE GREAT. NCIS, WAS ALSO GREAT. LOVED AND STILL DO MARY MCDOWELL, ALL CRIME SHOWS. AND GOOD ONES. SO, HERE COMES A SHOW, ABOUT DEATH, AFTERLIFE, A CALMING EFFECT, SORT OF SHOW, AND, INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE… Read more »
Show still packs a punch! It’s a win-win for the network, no doubt.
Law & Order Special Victims unit season 17
is good I would like to know
what would be next week.