Last season, the ratings for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD dropped once again. This time around, ABC has moved the series to 10pm when expectations are a bit lower. Will the numbers hold steady or continue to fall? Will the show be renewed for a fifth season or cancelled, now that they have enough episodes for syndication? Stay tuned.
On Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, the organization no longer needs to operate in the shadows but the world still presumes Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is dead. As a result, a new Director (Jason O’Mara) is named and Coulson is teamed with Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie (Henry Simmons) to track down and confirm the presence of Inhumans. The rest of the cast includes Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, John Hannah, and Gabriel Luna.
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 — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/17 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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Last year comparison: The third season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD averaged a 1.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.43 million total viewers (live + same day ratings).
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 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a fifth season?
5/11 update: ABC has renewed Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD for a fifth season. Details here.
I would like to see the show renewed and for it to have more support from ABC. Constantly changing the time slot and pushing it further and further back, along with long cuts between airing times has made it difficult for the show to grow. It’s a wonderful show with diverse and excellently written characters. Season 4 has been the best season yet writing wise. Give it a chance and stop handicapping it with changed times, constant breaks etc.
LOVE THIS SHOW !!!
I think that it would help if they killed off May and brought in Yo-Yo and anot her Inhuman to train. That would free up the show budget. You could keep Mace as the face of Shield. I think it should be renewed or have Netflix pick it up.
I think that it should be renewed for another season. My son and I watch it every time it’s on, it’s definitely one of our top three shows.
Hola!! Me encanta agentes de shield!!! Por favor no cancelen la serie!!! Es la mejor!!!! Todos en mi casa la miramos!!!!
WE LOVE AGENTS OF SHIELD IT IS AWESOME THE CHARACTERS ARE ALL GOOD WELL EXCEPT THE ONES WHO DIED LOL PLEASE KEEP IT GOING
Agents of Shield is my favorite show on ABC, and this season might very well be the best, rivaling season 2. Don’t cancel it!!!
I would like to see it renewed. And I’d like Marvel/ABC to give it some love and let it tie in more to the MCU at large. It has an amazing cast, mostly solid writing, and if used better, would be a great vehicle for fans between movie releases.
I would like it renewed. Big fan of the original cast though I still miss Ward. Would miss it greatly if it were cancelled.
I LOOOOVE AoS,since the pilot,S1,S2,S3, the show had a enormous jump of quality. i’m from Mexico and i Don’t understand why the ratings are so low! Here is a popular show and i hope get a renew for a 5 season.
It’s lost almost 28% of its live audience and 34 % of its 18-49 demo and it is still popular? You mean it is popular with YOU! You better pray the CW picks it up.
to be fair, it did get stuck with a later timeslot which is one explanation for losing it’s live audience
I really hope cw doesn’t with their cringe worthy teanie bopper writing. While I like flash its full of “hey we all love a each other and dont say it enough or hug enough hey lets do it again” and the music to their shows, omg its so awful. Plus everyone of their super hero shows someone is lying or keeping something from someone for dramatic reasons and it lasts so long then its revealed and its back to I love yous and hugs, every damn season. While shield does it to its at a way lesser capacity and realistic.… Read more »
AGENTS OF SHIELD IS THE BEST. I love this show, and my whole family will even watch it with me sometimes! It’s my number one favorite! Just this past Tuesday my mom said that we were going over to have dinner at a friends house, and I legit slowly fell to my knees (dramatic I know) and cried out, “noooooo shield comes on tonight!!” And continued to talk about how I had to find out what was going to happen in this next episode. Please give us a season 5!!! And for any who were concerned, I got home just… Read more »
It is SO DUMB that they were not on for three weeks in November, on for two weeks, then off again for 4 weeks from the 6th of Dec. to the 10th of January. I’m thinking such discontinuity cost viewer interest.
I love this show and my teen daughter and I have a tv date every time the show is on. Good writing is hard to come by these days and the storyline and characters in this show are interesting. I’m going to miss it. Don’t see how it survives with these numbers. Netflix, maybe? Hope so.
I love Agents of shield I always watch it every night and I would like to see season 5 soon and change the time around like 8 pm instead 10 pm because I have school in the next day
Love, love, love this show!!! The plot goes in unexpected directions. The writers keep it fresh with imagination and technology that says anything is possible. Every week we are on the edge of our seats wanting more!!! And just like the Marvel movies their characters have some funny lines at just the right moment… like Mac’s “Role the credits”! Please keep the only sci-fi show worth watching on tv… otherwise, I have no reason to tune into ABC.
Really glad AOS is doing so bad. Started as an amazing show, I fell in love with all the characters. Then it became dark, and toxic and immoral, the characters becoming strangers to me, so twisted they didn’t even seem the same. They made die or disappear Trip, Kara, Bobbi, Hunter, Dr. Garner, Lincoln, Ward… slaughtering a dead man! It was frankly horrible to see! They transformed everybody in blood cold killers. Where is Skye, that sensitive girl of the first series? She killed a kid without changing her heartbeat and being complimented about that. She said to a suicide… Read more »
The only toxic and immoral thing I see here is your inability to accept narrative change and then state that you hope it gets cancelled. Now that is truly a dark sentiment for the people who are making a living creating this show and also for the fans who aren’t you and actually like characters that go thru something and come out the other side. Hope you are happy in la la land where nothing ever changes and the sun is shining out of your ass.