Despite mediocre and poor ratings, Parenthood managed to escape being cancelled for years. But now, NBC has decided to end the show with season six. Will the ratings rise in the final year or will they drop even lower? Will they regret the decision? Stay tuned.
Parenthood follows the lives of the extended Braverman family in Northern California. The large ensemble cast includes Bonnie Bedelia, Joy Bryant, Tyree Brown, Max Burkholder, Erika Christensen, Lauren Graham, Miles Heizer, Sam Jaeger, Peter Krause, Xolo Mariduena, Craig T. Nelson, Monica Potter, Savannah Paige Rae, Dax Shepard, and Mae Whitman.
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.
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For comparisons: The fifth season of Parenthood averaged a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.98 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 Parenthood TV series? Do you agree with the decision to end the series? Should there be a seventh season or is this the right time to end the show?
I agree with everyone that I will miss the Braverman Family so very much and I also hope that another network will pick this show up! However I have been seeing many commercials for this NEW THURSDAY night shows and neither of the two new shows hold any appeal whatsoever for me personally, so NBC will lose their viewing audience at least in my family by replacing Parenthood with these stupid new shows they are going to be airing. I wish the networks would just get the saying “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”!!! The 4 and more million… Read more »
Please NBC reconsider canceling, this is by far the best show on tv. Try another time slot or day. This show will be missed if it goes.
Hate to see this show end! I have a hard time believing the numbers,low ratings!
Everyone I know loves this show!
Hollywood! Uk!
Love this show, it makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me think. So true to life’s situations, well acted. Makes me feel like I’m home every week. I will miss the braver and for sure.
Please reconsider canceling . It is the most realistic show about real life issues we all deal with. Love the show and know many others that due too. It is the best show series on TV!
I love the show
This is by far one of the best shows on the television. If there is a chance for it to be renewed, please consider. The writing and acting is superb.
This is by far one of the best shows on the television. If there is a chance for it to be renewed, please consider. The writing and acting is superb.
I wonder if the rating are currently a true indicator of how a series is doing in this dy and age with extremely hectic lives most of my friends and family record shows they live on their Dvrs and TiVo. I and all of my friends watch parent hood and its almost never on the day it air. The question is is that factored into the ratings. I absolutely love the show and cannot imagine the ratings are truly this poor.
Please do not cancel this show ! It has amazing storylines and all the wonderful actors seem like family ! Please don’t cancel. !!!!
Emotionally invested in this show! My husband, and I never miss it. We laugh, cry, and feel like we can relate. The Bravermans, although fictional, are a family like most of ours. Raising children, tending to our careers, and caring for our aging parents while building relationships. There isn’t another show like this. I too, wish another network would pick this up. It beats the pants off most.
This is the best show on TV. Very bummed its ending. Hoping a cable channel picks it up.
Please do not cancel this show! I wait anxiously every week to see what is going to happen. This is the only show I have ever gotten so caught up in and I will be lost without it. It is like the others said, this is a show that hits on many everyday things and shows you how families cope. It is a family show, one I can actually sit down with the kids and watch where someone is not shot, raped, murdered or scalped. Please please please reconsider…
I would love to see another season of Parenthood. I like the characters and enjoy that they have taken on some tough subjects: Interacial marriage, Autism and drug abuse. I also like the fact that it is a Bay Area show. I believe if more advertising of the show was done you could have more viewers.
Really sorry to see the show leave… Thanks for the good work..
I have never commented on a TV show or anything else, however when I heard this would be the last season for Parenthood it made me sad. I do think it is one of the best shows on television , excellent writing, a good feel good show, A show with integrity, you did get it right. It is just not that many good shows on since all of the so call reality TV shows which I refuse to watch people behaving badly, doing and saying anything for money/ratings it would be me acknowledging that this behavior is okay. I tell… Read more »
I absolutely agree with you on all points. I have never bothered checking about a tv show being cancelled until this one. It is, hands down, my very favorite show. The actors are great, the writing is wonderful, the story lines poignant. Why can’t they move it to another day or time slot? NBC please reconsider! I will miss this show so much. Please don’t cancel it.