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.
Renew it….entertaining
OUAT has become a perfect example of how a show should not be written, the writing is an absolute joke, jusy cancel it.
OUAT is the best ever…I’m so addicted! Keep this show going!
OUAT has run its course and should have been cancelled a season and a half ago. It’s beyond embarrassing at this point.
Wow this show’s stories have gotten so bad it’s no wonder the ratings are dropping so much, this mess of a show doesn’t deserve another season, cancel it.
It is painfully obvious that Once is no longer an audience draw, the show has been hitting new series lows in almost every consecutive week this season barring 1 or 2 exceptions, the writers have screwed things up far too much in this show to hold on to their viewers and the fandom is too divided. Once is done, it’s time to cancel it.
WOW. Looks like this could be cancelled this season and we might not even get a proper ending, the writers should have really come up with an endgame a long time ago, the show is dragging on now and really needs to wrap everything up. Maybe it will get like a 10-13 episode final season.
Please don’t cancel this show. It’s the only good show left to watch. The reason they lose viewers is because of the way they go on hiatus all the time instead of once a year like the shows use to. Change TV back to the way it was where it just took a two month hiatus in the summer.
Great show with potential for so many more stories. Grimm should not have been cancelled either. Once has so many well developed characters and since folks can get the series from the beginning and watch maybe there could be a campaign to get that going. I know people who are just now starting to watch Walking Dead.
The show needs to keep going
Cancel it already, the show is played out and the viewers are deserting it.
KEEP THE SHOW ON
Any Season 7 for this show with the current writers is just going to be more CS which is already tanking the show so please just cancel it already.
No keep this show on the air for a season 7 because maybe swan queen will get together.
Lol.Eddy and Adam have said SW will,never happen.Plus Hook and Emma are true Lve and marry in 6.20& Reginas soulmate/true love is Tobin .
Cancel it, I used to love the show, I’ve been watching since season one but ONCE has now reached the point where it needs to be put out of it’s misery, I’ve read better fanfics than the stories I’ve seen on this show in the past two seasons, please just cancel it.