After big drops in the ratings, it looked like So You Think You Can Dance might be cancelled last year. FOX renewed the program but the focus has shifted to young dancers — So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. Will this change bring in a bigger audience or will the ratings drop lower? Will it be renewed for a 14th season? Stay tuned.
Hosted by Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance is a competition that pits dancers (now ages 8-13) of various backgrounds against one another to become “America’s Favorite Dancer.” They are partnered with “all-star” dancers from past season. Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul, and Jason Derulo return as regular judges. They are joined by 13-year-old judge Maddie Ziegler (Dance Moms).
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 12th season of So You Think You Can Dance averaged a 0.94 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.24 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 the So You Think You Can Dance TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a 14th season? Is the “Next Generation” format working?
Please renew .. I love the show, adult or children .. The last season with children was tryly amazing . I always look forward to the show
How about showing us ratings for the last fiversion seasons side by side
While Stage vs Street sucked, the kiddie version sucked even more
if maddie is on it I won’t watch it
I prefer SYTYCD with the young adult dancers rather than the kids, and I disliked the street vs stage format they tried a year ago.
Also, I preferred it when they awarded two top dancers, one female and one male; since the skillsets are so different, I think it only makes sense to award two different genders.
Furious that they ruined a superb dance show by switching to kids. Please return to the original format.
They didn’t ruin anything!!! if you bothered to watch it those kids were amazing and better than most of the adults who have tried out in earlier seasons.
I admit it wasn’t as bad as I had feared, but where was the Gravity (the Addiction Dance), or Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, or the Chairman’s Waltz (the hummingbird and the Flower), or the Hallelujah, or the Outta Your Mind??
Oh yes they did. The kids are amazing. Thats true. But not amazing enough for this TV show.
Couldn’t agree more!
I used to love SYTYCD, but I’m not interested in children. Bring back the old format or cancel it.
then you missed a great show those kids were better than the adults.
I have watched this program from the very beginning. I am not interested in another season of watching children dance. Return it to its original format please.
I agree with you, Karen. In fact, for the first time, I didn’t even watch the whole season.
Same here. For the first time I didn’t watch a single episode. I kept going to YouTube to try to find clips of the past seasons!
Bring back Mary and no kids please. This was my favorite summer show until the format changed.
Until this year, this was an outstanding, Emmy Award winning show that had a lot going for it. Please go back to the original format and bring a little taste back to the vast wasteland.
Season 11 was the last great season of SYTYCD. I doubt there will be another. Getting rid of Mary was the beginning of the end.
FOX really needs to go back to the original format and stop messing around. I watched one audition show and one performance of this season’s episodes and found it lacking. I didn’t watch the entire series this year. It reminded me to much of my daughter’s dance recitals. Watching children dance with adults in sometimes sexy numbers was creepy. The season before that had more street dancing and hip hop than I cared to watch. No wonder the ratings from the last two years have been lower. This was one of my favorite shows until this year. I want to… Read more »
Dance Recitals . Exactly
Cancel it already!!! What are you waiting for??!!
Dancing is at its best when the dancers connect, sexy, soulful etc. I don’t like seeing children “connecting” with adults in sexy Latin numbers. I find it very
inappropriate. This was my favorite show until this season.
To me, the artistic CHOREOGRAPHY is the thing that makes this show amazing, and stands out above any other dance show ever. The choreography has always been so beautiful and that carries the show. The All Stars are the other great thing about it. Also: Cat Deely, the lighting designers and camera crew, Nigel’s judging, and the general production value is all so so good. I like that it isn’t gimmicky and it feels real, and I love that the choreography and dancers are real professional artists (unlike DWTS). Luckily the professionalism and artistic value has all continued in every… Read more »
The camera wirk?
Really
Thst has been a major ***** sonce S3 when I started watching, and has NEVER IMPROVED
LOVE everything about SYT. This is the only show on tv I’ve found that really gives amazing art for us to watch. Please renew, in any format. I just adore it and I don’t want it to leave. I love the original format best, but all are great. Oh and Travis Wall is a genius and he should be highlighted. Could Fox give Travis his own show? So You Think You Can Choreograph ?
I much prefer the original format. Children can be entertaining but they lack the sexuality and emotional connection of the adult dancers. This is always been one of my favorite shows so I hope they listen to the comments and forget about the next generation. I skipped through the chats that Cat had with the kids. I also like having the guest judges every week.