This fantasy adventure series is based on the young adult fantasy book series by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. The books have been popular for years. Will the Shadowhunters TV show on Freeform have the same kind of longevity? How will it perform in the ratings? Cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
On the Shadowhunters TV show, young Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) celebrates her 18th birthday at a New York City nightclub and sees a group of teenagers with supernatural abilities attacking a demon. She realizes that she is the only person who can see them and later learns that she’s one of a long line of demon hunters. When her mother is kidnapped, she must join other hunters to try to save her, all while learning about her new supernatural abilities. The rest of the cast includes Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Matthew Daddario, Emeraude Toubia, Isaiah Mustafa, and Harry Shum, Jr.
Below are the show’s TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will be cancelled or renewed. These figures will be updated as the weeks progress.
3/14 update: Freeform has renewed Shadowhunters for a second season. Details here.
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Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays. They are sometimes harder to come by so there may be occasional delays or gaps.
What do you think? Do you like the Shadowhunters TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Oh, NOOOOOO!!!! Please watch more and make it renew, mundanes!!!
This is my FAV “GAY-INCLUDED” fantasy, I want to see more romance (BTW I’m gay livin’ in Korea. Even this country has NO “Shadowhunters” novel with a decent translation.
You seem to be doing pretty well with English but have you tried looking online for a decent translation? It would be a shame if you couldn’t really enjoy the books.
Yeah, It is a big shame. When I read novel it needs full concentration of mine, but foreign languages keep me away from it. Even though I can speak it fluently.
Wow!!! These numbers dropped. YAY!!!
Please can you stop? Can’t you get a life and stop ruining things for other people. This may surprise you, but some people actually want a second season! If you don’t like Shadowhunters, that is okay. Just stop ruining its chances for us!
Seriously. If you hate it so much, why do you keep coming back and keeping track of its ratings? It is seriously annoying and makes me wonder if you actually have a life.
What is wrong with you? This site has nothing to do with whether the show continues or not. They don’t even look at it. They look at the numbers and other information. Also. I’m entitled to my opinion. As long as this show is terrible I will bad mouth it. You say I don’t have a life but you’re so wrapped up in the show I could say the same to you.
Wow troll much.
Please, you just don’t like the fact that I’m right. And obviously, you don’t know the definition of “troll”.
Perhaps you are the one that needs to look up the definition of a troll because that is precisely what your comments aim to do.
I absolutely love this show, and totally want a second season!! DON’T HATE ON IT!!
I’m right there with you. YAAAYYYYY!!!!!!
This TV show doesn’t do the fantasy world Clare created justice.
This show is just dumb teenage rubbish that the smarter teens are avoiding like the plague, according to the ratings. Clare’s story was decent, but not made for TV, the pacing is too quick.
If this were to be canceled, another reboot would eventually surface, but with a story that’s made for TV, that’s what I’m hoping for.
I want a second season you can’t tell how good a show is going to be by it’s first season!
Actually that’s how they pretty much judge all tv shows. By their first season.
Wow!! Those numbers dropped. This thing should be cancelled as soon as possible.
Have you ever thought about just not watching it instead of keeping track of the ratings and hoping it gets cancelled? Because you see, a second season would do no harm to you if you stop watching it, but there are people who would be really sad about it being cancelled.
No I haven’t. I hate shows like this. This show is an insult to the genre. It’s just geared to the pre-teen/teen crowd who doesn’t care about talent and substance. They just care how attractive the actors are. Meanwhile really good shows get put on the back burner. It would do harm if there was a second season. It would harm people who have good taste. As long as this show continues to suck I will continue to bad mouth it.
Ok so I was about to explain something but clearly you’ll stick with your opinion.
Anyway, have a good day.
Thank you, Amalia. You have a good day too. You’re so sweet.
You took the words right out of my mouth. McNamara can’t act to save her life.
It would do harm not just because it harms people with good taste, but also because it’s taking up space from another new show that possibly has better quality. 🙂
You bad mouth the shanarra chronicles, and In My eyes that is better in acting and graphics, you do know that you don’t have to talk bad about every single show, in this case this show, and for your information I am not a teen I am 20 attending college, yes I think jace and Alec are good looking but I look more/ deeper into a show and look at the positives and negatives yes the show has negatives but It has positives as well, Why are you blaming just the teens beucase thats rude other ages watch the show… Read more »
So it’s ok for people to sing the praises of this show but not alright for me to criticize it? If I came on here every day talking about how I love it you wouldn’t have a word to say. I’m also saying that the mentality of the show is that geared towards teens. It doesn’t seem like you’re respectful of my opinions.
I agree with you, yes this show doesn’t have the best acting or the best effects but it is improving, I have hope for this show and I am a big fan of the books, but I love that my love of the books is coming to life. Also you have to take in perspective that they have to add in other ideas to bring in more viewers so that’s why it’s different, also they don’t have a big budget in the first season. I hope for a second season because I believe that it is getting better and it… Read more »
You just said I’m entitled to my opinion but I should keep it to myself. Why are you allowed to make comment’s but I’m not? If I was on here talking about how I love it you wouldn’t have a problem. It’s an open forum. I respect your right to voice your opinion, you should respect mine.
Please renew! It started off rocky but I think it’s getting better!
I thought so too but the ratings show otherwise.
I need second season! Please! I can’t watch it in the TV, because I’m not from the US, and I’m not the only one..
I need another season so badly, it’s getting better and better!
Please renew Shadowhunters! This show gets better and better with every episode!
I love it! But I have to DVR it and watch it at a later day and time because of young kids in the house. I sometimes even have to watch it the next day on Hulu while I’m at work. Please renew it for a second season!
I love it! I really want a second season!
WE WANT A SECOND SEASON!!!PLEASE RENEW SHADOWHUNTERS!!
i think the show is doing great and, seriously, i don’t understand what is everyone’s problem with kat. so please make a season 2 because i need to see what happens next!! P.S. i’m a great fan of the books..just beautiful!
I think the show is doing great and i don’t understand everyone’s problem with kat. so please make a season two because i need to see what happens next!! P.S. i’m a great fan of the books..just beautiful!
OK, so I just checked all the shows on freeform and I mean I see at least two mroe seasons. If Baby Daddy can have 5 and Young and Hungry 3 which really low ratings? This has to get another chance, cuase it will piss me off if we get cut off again like we did with the movie. Malec is amazing, Simon is great, Valentine can get inretesting, Luke is awesome. I hope to hear Dom speak in his normal accent if there will be other seasons and the hair that Kat has is a little bit distracting.
Young and Hungry and Baby Daddy have a steady viewership. Their numbers are low but they are steady. And they do well for their time slot. They spent a lot of money on this and are not getting the viewers for the money and the viewership is falling every episode. And it will continue to fall. It just plain sucks. They are going to cancel it because they are not getting the profit they need to keep it going. Simple business. Sorry but it won’t see a second season.
AgentSpy, I understand if you don’t like the show, but it’s simply not true to say that viewership keeps falling. The numbers are VERY steady, unusually so, and have been for four episodes in a row.
Also, the awful special effects suggest they aren’t spending much money at all. *laugh* Who knows? Maybe it’ll be cancelled, since ratings aren’t stellar and dropped a lot after episode one. Or maybe steady ratings, which are higher than other Freeform shows, plus huge gains on other platforms, will equal a renewal. Right now it’s hard to say.
Of course it’s true. Last week is the first-week viewers didn’t fall. Demo numbers are very low. They have spent a lot. Go look at their budget compared to other shows. It’s not hard to say. It will get cancelled. Do some more homework next time. Don’t just look at the numbers above. They aren’t the who picture.
I am aware of that, and have done my homework. In demo, the ratings have been .4 to .5 every single week, and in numbers, they’ve been between .94 to .98. That’s really, really consistent, which is very unusual, especially for so many weeks in a row. The biggest drop after episode two was only #%, which was made back just this week. Numbers have been steady and NOT dropping for weeks. Also, on TV by the Numbers, the show gains something like 100% viewership in +3 nearly every week (the latest numbers were just posted a couple hours ago,… Read more »
#% is supposed to be 3%.
Shadow hunter is amazing I watch day on evening get really excited if not on don’t know what I do please keep it on
That’s funny because Shadowhunters is the 2nd top on freeform. It’s right below pll and even above switched at birth and the fosters. So they would be sorta crazy not to give this a second season. Just because you don’t like a snow doesn’t mean at all that it’s gonna be canceled. So I’m sorry but j think you’re wrong on it not getting a 2nd season. Cuz the ratings tell a different story
The girl who plays Clary is a horrible actress so is Luke and Clary’s Mom. They need to stop showing the place where Valentine’s is. So fake! I really like everyone else. The actor who plays Jace finally acted how he did in the book. They would need to change a lot of stuff before I see a second season. Love Simon!
I dnt understand the viewers went up but the demo went down how??? Why?