Last season, The Originals became The CW’s highest-rated new show. Will it continue to be a ratings success for the small network? Cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.
A spin-off of The Vampire Diaries, The Originals revolves around the world’s original vampires who’ve returned to reclaim New Orleans. The cast includes Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Leah Pipes, Danielle Campbell, and Claire Holt.
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 the following morning, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
1/11 update: The Originals and seven other shows have been renewed for the 2015-16 season.
Final season averages: 0.59 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.31 million total viewers.
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Due to a Nielsen glitch, some of the early ratings of the 2014-15 season were revised a few weeks later.
These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
For comparisons: The first season of The Originals averaged a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.98 million total viewers.
What do you think? Do you like The Originals TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a third season?
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I am a huge fan of the show! TO has a lot of loyal fans in Mexico.
Season 2 has just been incredibly redundant and weak. you can really see that the writers lost the plot and spends 95% of the time writing exposition. It’s become evident that Julie Plec cannot handle being a showrunner, look at what she did to the previous crown jewel of the CW that was TVD. If they want the originals to have the same longevity as its mother show, the network will have to get a new slate of writers.
just watched the originals on net flix, show is great so leave it on. CW has some great shows so don’t stop
Last night’s episode was soo good! Keep it coming TO! Way into season 3.
I agree with Susanna! That’s only reason why I watch cw I even change my cable boxes on w/my cable company to watch T.O. &reign renew on both I know I won’t watch c.w. If it’s not playing all the good shows all these station are just canceling the shows, right when it’s even getting better. Please let us have our shows as a mother of 3 it’s what gives me a break even if it’s just an hr
The thing is two of a half men is repeating their reruns all over again and that’s where the raitings are so high and I am wondering if that show is causing problems with the cw raitings and that’s the reason why cw network is having difficulties with their programing shows raitings
Are people watching The Orginals and the TVD
Ouch- I didn’t realize the winter finale of TO scored so low in the demo. I think all the promos of klaus with the baby probably alienated some of the target demo. I guess not even the return of Claire Holt helped. There’s no question the ratings have really dropped this season for TO. I guess it wasn’t strong enough to weather the Monday time slot change. However, I think it will probably get renewed mainly because it is still doing better than what the cw typically does on Mon nights (.3-.4 with last year’s lineup.) It will be interesting… Read more »
I love TO, and still like tvd. The haters and jealousies are louder than the loyal fanbase for sure.
The orginals ratings are not that good so i need people to keep on watching the orginals and only then the raitings will get high for more renewals
I am a huge fan of the Originals and I am 34yrs old. I believe the mistake was moving the show to Mondays. If something is working in a time slot or a day why move it? There are shows in the CW that should definitely be cancelled but the Originals is not one of those. I am a fan of the Vampire Diaries someone has dropped the ball with the writing but non the less is one of the reason the CW is still alive. 1. The Originals 2. The Vampire Diaries 3. Supernatural I’m sure there are a… Read more »
The Originals as one of the backbones of the CW?? Don’t make me laugh. Try Arrow, The Flash and yeah, Supernatural which are trouncing TO in terms or ratings, media support and fan support. Even The Vampire Diaries is pulling in higher figures than this supposed fresh, new show. The Originals need to be worried. Ratings are low, fan support is low, media support has this show labelled as poor to mediocre. They aren’t winning any significant awards or even getting significant nominations. The anti community has a louder voice than the fan community. Now with Jane the Virgins Golden… Read more »
The Originals isn’t even in the top Five most important shows to the CW never mind the top three. Try (in no particular order) * Arrow *The Flash *Supernatural *TVD *Jane the Virgin That’s right. Jane the Virgin just piggybacked TO with that Golden Globe nod. The Originals is considered a complete failure that never lived up to massive potential and support it had. It has poor ratings, minimal fan support and very little media support. The anti voice is louder than the fans and even TVD is doing better, overall. If I was TO, I would be very worried.… Read more »
That’s not true. There are a huge variety of fans who like TO and the show is doing fantastic compared to TVD. Both of the shows are amazing and on par with each other. but also think about it, TO’s firat two seasons are just as good as TVD’s if not better, you have to think about the story line, the technical details, everything factors in.
And make sure you have solid facts on the majority and minority of who is a fan of TO and who is not.
TO consistently ranks 0.1-0.2 demo points lower than TVD. It’s not doing better than its mother show. Also S2 of TO has literally been a ripoff of all the better written elements that TVD did in its earlier seasons.
The majority has been leaving the show in droves. The General Audience numbers fluctuates but remains consistently under 1.70 million each week for the most party.
Why aren’t more precise demos being posted anymore like last year?
I haven’t been able to locate them unfortunately.
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2014/10/week-4-tv-ratings-and-analysis-how.html
you can you use this site, they post the precise demo every Sunday afternoon
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Michele
Well regin got 0.9 in the demos raitings for two seasons well the cw network got mixed reviews and mixed raitings for regin for some reason but why
Michele
Monday’s nights are stronger for the cw network shows it’s just the raitings predictions to the shows are terrible do you agree with me
Arrow
Jane The Virgin
Reign
Supernatural
The 100
The Flash
The Originals
TVD
ANTM
Are the only shows i watch on the cw network i love this shows
Why ???????????????????? Why Would CW pair Originals on Monday night line-up,where all CW shows go to die? Should have kept paired up with Supernatural or Vampire Diaries? And PLEASE don’t let REIGHN Go Down either?
They don’t move a show to Monday nights unless its doing far worse than expected in its original slot. The CW had high hopes for TO and Plec blew it. Simple as that. They moved the show to see if it was a show that could perform despite its slot (as originally anticipated) but the fans didn’t care enough to follow and the CW got their answer. Its affiliation with TVD might drag it through to a season 3 (despite TO fans claiming that TVD is sooo much worse) but Plec lowers that chance the more she clearly tries to… Read more »
I agree with those of you who say the writing is a bit off the track, but, I have to hope the series continues as I very much enjoy it and would enjoy, TVD, if the writing would lean more toward the characters as adults and less of the high school/college story line. I have to admit, when my granddaughter told me ND was leaving, I was relieved. If one of the two shows has to go, please take TVD and leave this old lady with the enjoyment of TO. I am 59 years old, and I love it.