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.
Please a renewal for show the Regina´s adventures, please hahahahahahhaa.
Cancel it.
Once is done, the writing is on the wall and anyone who can’t see it is in denial, the show only caters to CS and Regina fans now and as the writers are learning that just isn’t enough to keep the show from sinking, they barely had three million viewers for the mid season premiere and I’m betting next episode will be around 2.9 million viewers, time to Cancel OUAT.
This show is toast, it’s been dragged through the gutter enough over the past 2 seasons, there’s nothing left of the show I used to love and it saddens me but Once Upon a Time needs to wrap it up in 6B.
The series should to be renewed and focused in Regina´s fate.
I’m a fan of Once Upon A Time I think it should be renewed for a seventh season
I willy want to see what happens next i do enjoyed watching this show.
One good season (season one) and everything after has become worse and worse. Hope they cancel this dumpster fire. Turning it into the Captain Swan lovefest show was a disaster. Outlaw Queen was a disaster. Emma was given a lobotomy so she could be in a passionless, unconvincing relationship with her abuser, and Regina becomes a needy, desperate stepford wife whenever Hood is around – glad he is going (finally! Why is he even back AGAIN?) This show started off being about strong women, mothers and families. Its going to end with one female lead, Emma, in a relationship with… Read more »
You are right Regina is weak they need to get this love thing out of the show am tired of it they have four strong woman on the show Regina Emma Zelena and Snow even belle brings back glinda and more villains like Elvira and also demons on the show too make it interesting again. l love once upon a time always, I want it to keep going renewed
CANCEL IT, the mid season premiere did even worse than the mid season finale, barely making 3 million viewers.
DONT CANCEL! This is my favorite show and it kills me to see the ratings go down
Please DO NOT CANCEL Once Upon a Time! My family & I love this show and have watched every single episode every year. There’s no other show like it and I look forward to it every week. Thank you.
The show has lost the majority of its viewers over the past two and a half seasons, those viewers have not returned and the show is still losing more with every episode that airs therefore it can’t be saved and may as well be cancelled.
The series can be saved. We need bad Regina back a little longer and mix up some characters left from Disney. Bring back Red Robin and put action on the series. No soft charmin or snow. Yes I would like to see more seasons. My friends and family enjoy this show. The visual effects are really great. Send the team to Orlando, FL and make a big event here at Disney. And let the characters be a little closer to their fans. More parties with them in it, be able to take selfies with them with our cell phones. Please… Read more »
Excellent idea I agree 100%
I would love to see another season. I would hope to see less of whiny Belle, annoying and Hook-less Hook, just wrong… I was really looking forward to seeing Regina finding her happy ending with Robin.
The only way to save this mess from cancellation is to get rid of the CaptainSwan relationship, get rid of Hook, Zelena and Gideon, completely reset Beauty and the Beast so that the damage to them is undone, Belle actually has a purpose of her own for being in Storybrooke rather than just the same old reforming the beast that we’ve seen for the past almost 6 years now and Rumple isn’t constantly demonized by the writers, get rid of Regina because the constant regina vs evil queen malarky is stale and people don’t really care about either one now… Read more »
Renew the show but cancel the Captain Hook/Emma snoozefest that has taken over the show and ruined Emma’s once gritty character.