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.
5/15 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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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.
Cancel it, the writers had their chance to make changes to the show and all they did was make it progressively worse, no matter how much it’s advertised it wouldn’t be enough to lure the fans back into watching it for the simple reason that the writers have messed up so much over the past 2.5 seasons that a lot of fans have no faith left in them.
Keep it going but ABC needs to take a look at what made people watch and get it going…They also need to promote the series more…advertise it…it is one of the few shows families can watch
No this show needs to go, the quality has gone rapidly down the toilet since season 4 and many viewers have given up watching. The dual Reginas and Aladdin storylines have been a bitter disappointment this season, Beauty and the Beast have been destroyed beyond repair, the Gideon storyline was atrocious and Snow, Henry and Charming may as well not be in the show anymore because they only serve as props to CS. The whole show is being used as one big prop for CS now and people are sick of having it shoved down their throats. OUAT needs to… Read more »
No way.. Keep it going! Too many of you negatives out there!!! The show is great.
There’s nothing else like it on T.V.. We get too many cop shows, crime shows, dramas, sitcoms.. etc. etc…
This show needs to stay!! Love love love it!!
Huge fan
Please cancel Once Upon a Hook.
Cancel it
Don’t cancel I need to know the ending, I need to know whether Emma’s vision of her death comes true. Don’t cancel until you’ve finished the story. Thank you
I wouldn’t be sorry to it cancelled I’m sad to say and everything does feel like it’s leading up to an ending this season.
Nah this show has had it’s chance, time to either cancel it or end the series, they’ve had six years to plan a decent ending for it and if they couldn’t come up with one in that time then another season won’t make any difference, just cancel it now.
I love OUAT, and feel they should have a season 7 but let it be its last. At least during this time events could lead up to its ending.
THIS SHOW NEEDS MORE HOT LESBIANS CHARACTERS AND I GUARANTEE THE RATING WILL RISE AGAIN
Oh please cancel it, this show has had its day.
The first season of ONCE was its best by a clear mile, no question, seasons 5 and 6 have been the worst and I’m going to suggest that the reasons for this are the following three characters: Belle, Hook and Zelena. Of these three Belle was only in two episodes of the first season and Hook and Zelena were in none. I find it more than a coincidence that the more these characters have been moved front and center the further and faster down hill the show has gone.
i love once upon a time i think honestly that killing off the main characters is making the viewers not watching it i have been watching it every since seasson 1 honestly the first seasson was stupid but now it has gotten even better i love it please dont cancel it!!!!
I just want for rumple and Belle to end up together