Last season, the Live + same day ratings for Once Upon a Time dropped more 30% on ABC. Can the series recover? It’s tough to attract new viewers when a show like this one has so many characters and such a complex back story. Could this fantasy drama be cancelled or will it be renewed for a seventh season? Stay tuned.
Once Upon a Time follows the continuing adventures of fairytale characters whose tales unfold between their storybook world and Storybrooke, a small town in Maine. This season, the good guys will have to contend with inhabitants from the Land of Untold Stories and the return of the Evil Queen. The large cast includes Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Emilie de Ravin, Colin O’Donoghue, Jared S. Gilmore, Rebecca Mader, and Robert Carlyle. Expected to recur are Beverley Elliott, Raphael Sbarge, David Anders, Jessy Schram, Tim Phillipps, Ingrid Torrance, Peter Marcin, Hank Harris, Sam Witwer, Tzi Ma, Gabrielle Rose, Kristin Bauer van Straten, and Agnes Bruckner.
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 around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
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Last year comparison: The fifth season of Once Upon a Time averaged a 1.37 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.40 million total viewers.
Note: 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.
What do you think? Do you still like the Once Upon a Time TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a seventh season?
5/11 update: ABC has renewed Once Upon a Time for a seventh season. Details here.
I’ve never seen a show cause so much hate, spite and division amongst its fans add to this the plummeting ratings of the past two years and the drop in the quality of the stories in the show, the constant mistreatment of certain characters and blatant favouritism of others now, OUAT should not be allowed to continue it should be cancelled.
The writers of Once should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to Beauty and the Beast, I used to be a big fan of this show but the way Beauty and the Beast has been portrayed since season 3B was what started turning me against Once. I stuck with it in the foolish hope that things would improve but they didn’t, they’ve gotten worse and the Morpheus/Gideon storyline in season 6 was the last straw for me, please either cancel it or end it in May this year.
Cancel it or end the show in May, Once Upon a Time had such promise in the early seasons only for it all to be flushed down the toilet around 3B/4A and it hasn’t been the same show since, its an embarrassment now, to the point that I actually feel sorry for the actors.
Cut your losses ABC this show is dragging you down, the millions of people who don’t watch anymore stopped watching for a reason because the show is utterly depressing crap and has been for the past two seasons, season 5 was a disgrace and season 6 hasn’t been any better, and the writers only cater to fans of CS and Regina, the rest of us are just ignored so the audience will survive without this show and the terrible mess its made of our favourite stories and characters.
I live in the U.K. and can’t access the show until it’s out on blu ray it’s just come out as 1-5 box set, I love the show and was only able to get season 1& 2 recently. They should look at sales numbers Netflix views etc there are millions of people watching this and loving it don’t cancel IT straight after releasing 1-5 in the U.K. take in to account those views at least this is a cash cow show worldwide, if abc cancel this I will NEVER watch an abc show again they always cancel with no endings… Read more »
Yeah cancel it this show used to be something special but the magic is long gone, its like the writers just put the characters names into a computer and wait for it to spit out the plot of the next episode no matter how dumb it is, how little sense it makes or how much it messes up the show.
Some people need to grow up, its just a TV show, they all have to end sometime and when it does we will be just fine without it as we always are after shows end because they are just shows not life altering events. I hope they cancel it now because its turned to absolute crap and no amount of hot air from anyone else can change that only the writers can and its too little, too late for that, I was a Rumbelle fan from day one and that ship and the two individual characters Rumple and Belle have… Read more »
To drop ONCE UPON A TIME would Be equivilent to dropping a nuclear bomb on Washington I have been with ONCE UPON A TIME since episode one Infact I hadn’t even fully watched the first episodes when I went out and bought the DVD set I had hired the first disk just to see if it was any good I now have all the seasons and can’t wait for season six to come out on DVD Right from the start the show has captivated me So much so that if I was left to me I would view the whole… Read more »
I enjoyed watching Once Upon A Time. I DVR to make sure I did not miss an episode. Get rid of all the commercials and it would be perfect. When is it coming back on? Nice family show and there aren’t to many of those left.
Please renew. AT least for season 7. Its like a really good book. It needs a fitting ending. Don’t leave us hanging.
This season is horrible there no meaty storyline just the EQ being campy and boring. There no mystery they should have keep Hyde longer and focus on land of Untold story instead or the really go deeper with the Savior stuff.
Now, they should wrap the storyline for the main characters in their last season next year.
Cancel this mess of a show already ABC
I rewatched season one recently and comparing it with the few eps I managed to watch from season 6 I could not believe the difference in the quality of show. Once became so woefully bad from season 4 onward that its hard to believe that season 1 and seasons 4-6 are seasons from the same show, I vote cancel it.
Cancel it, for a show that used to be so good I’m shocked at how bad it is now.
I love it.