Week-to-week gains: Smash.
Week-to-week losses: Revolution, Go On, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Grimm, The New Normal, Whitney, 1600 Penn, The Celebrity Apprentice, and Rock Center with Brian Williams.
New this week: The Voice (both editions).

These are the NBC TV show ratings averages as of the end of week 27 of the 2012-13 season (Sunday, March 31, 2013). Ratings are typically the best way to tell if a show will be cancelled or renewed.

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These charts incorporate the daily final NBC show ratings (reported by Nielsen) and are sorted by the 18-49 demographic. Network advertisers typically prize those viewers most and so will pay more to reach them. There’s lots of information that the networks take into consideration when cancelling or renewing a TV series but the ratings are the biggest factor. The higher the ratings, the better chance that the show will be renewed. And yes, they take it into account when a show airs on a Friday or Saturday night.

What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the averages? Which show(s) do you feel should be doing better or worse, based on their quality? Comment below.