Last season, NBC launched a dozen new scripted TV shows. Some found success in the ratings but they schedule had a few ratings successes but far more were cancelled. Which will be cancelled or renewed during the 2016-17 season? Stay tuned.
NBC shows this season (so far): America’s Got Talent, Blindspot, The Blacklist, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Carmichael Show, Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Chicago Med, Chicago PD, Dateline NBC, Emerald City, First Dates, The Good Place, Grimm, Hollywood Game Night, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Little Big Shots, Little Big Shots: Forever Young, Marlon, Midnight, Texas, The New Celebrity Apprentice, The Night Shift, Powerless, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, Superstore, This Is Us, Timeless, The Voice, The Wall, and World of Dance.
There’s lots of data that NBC execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but the ratings are typically the biggest piece. Here’s how the network’s shows are doing.
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A couple of notes about these charts:
These figures are updated automatically as new ratings are released. The averages are based on the final national numbers (live plus same day viewing), unless marked with an asterisk (*). For technical reasons, I have to resort them manually so feel free to let me know if I missed something.
Keep in mind that the demo numbers are typically what’s most important to advertisers. Therefore, that’s how the networks measure success. Advertisers pay more for ad time on a show that has a higher demo rating. Because older viewers don’t count? No, it’s because younger viewers watch less traditional TV and are harder to reach.
Demo numbers are typically reported using the 10ths decimal place (2.4, for example). In the averages, I’m using an extra decimal for easier ranking. The networks take into account when shows air on Fridays and Saturdays, nights when TV viewership is lower.
What do you think? Which shows are you rooting for? Which one isn’t as big a hit as you thought? Are you hoping any series will get cancelled to make way for something else?
Please don’t cancel Chicago justice. That was one of my favorite series Give it a another season. You may put it on a different nite.Maybe Thursday nite where it is not fighting other tv series. You did even have it on for very long . How do you rate. You leave other show that have kind of sex and dump stuff on them. Nothing for peple that are over 50 or 60 years. That like think like this tv serie. So please give this show another try.
Oh please keep midnight Texas, as a t.v show fanatic for years I have been quite upset when grimm ended. Then sleepy hollow was cancelled and now midnight showed and i have finally found a new supernatural show to now love!!! It is my family’s monday night show!!! I haven’t even read the series yet but now i will!!! Please keep this show or please give it to another network instead of cancelling it!!
Yes plz keep it on! Everyone in my family watches it well. It just started you have to give it more time the ratings will go up. I was reading above that u rate based on watching in real time. Thats the problem most people including myself record and watch later. Me mainly because i hate commercials. But we love this show. Please don’t cancel.
Please bring back emerald City!????
Please bring back emerald City!!???
I’m sorry but the Chicago Justice cancellation makes no sense!!
What a shame, I was really liking Redemption, and wanted to see where it was headed – was Scottie the “evil woman”, or was Howard Hargrave a conniving psycho? Hopefully they can touch on that in an episode of The Blacklist – still one of the best shows on tv, next to Agents of Shield and The Expanse.
Please renew powerless, i was really looking forward to see season 2??
Looking at those rati gs, just show you the times we are in, violence still seems to be what people want, the scary thing about this, the more gory and detailed the shows have become leaving nothing to the imagination. We are desensitizing the people to violence, hence the more violent we become. Very few people write fantasy anymore, so the rest of us that see enough violence everytime we watch the news have nothing left to watch. Fantasy could do well and is much needed for our futures and the futures of our children, unfortunately I find NBC jumps… Read more »
I love Blacklist – Redemption – please keep it !!
Please do not cancel Chicago Med!!! My favourite show.
Chicago Med was renewed. Chicago Justice was cancelled.
Please renew timeless
Please please please renew taken it is AMAZING. I need this show
Blindspot is a great show please renew this, get rid of reality shows to many of these.
You have to renew this show, it would be great to merge both shows into one.
I vote for Timeless to be renew!!!