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.
This show should have been cancelled three seasons ago. Please stop this nightmare and cancel it this year.
This show needs to go this year, it’s just getting worse and worse with every new season, I used to love this show and I’ve watched since day one and I’d say I’d like the show to end with some dignity left but it’s already well past that point now, just end Once Upon a Time this year.
I don’t know what everyone wants but my whole family loves this show we all watch at my house an there are 35 of us in one room so please keep this show for people who are like me an want to see more. and need something to keep everyone happy this show is the only one we all agree on it put my family back togather please keep it running
OUAT needs to be cancelled, because to renew this show for another season would be like flogging a dying horse.
Bitterly disappointed over what’s happened to this show, great characters and stories ruined, please cancel it.
It definitely should be renewed for season 7. We need that captain Sean wedding after all…. yes it’s not as good as it used to be but I can see season 6 making a comeback…. And even though I know it’s not as good, I still watch every episode…. I’m not always available to watch it at 8 and plus I don’t have my own cable at college so I dvr it…. I mean it definitely should be kept in live tv but there’s nothing wrong with watching it on dvr. That doesn’t say people don’t want to watch it.… Read more »
omg!! NO this is one of the few shows i like now that i actually keep up with! Honestly i’d rather have pretty little liars cancelled… a lot of the viewers range in age categories too for example my little sister (11) watches it. I watch it (16) my mom watches it (47) brother (22) watches it and my grandparents watch it etc…
And just because people can’t spare the time to watch it on live TV does NOT mean they just don’t watch it on their own time. If they’d count the ratings from more sources I’m sure OUAT wouldn’t even be in this situation right now. Please save OUAT, it’s just too valuable to cancel on a pathetic account of “people not keeping updated because there’s just so much to catch up on” and so on. 5 seasons are on Netflix. C’mon. It’s time to consider the larger portion of viewers: loyal fans.
agreed because i have many sports and very busy with school so i record the shows or watch it on hulu to stay caught up
The show is too beautiful to be cancelled. New viewers could just catch up if they want to be updated instead of giving the producers reasons to cancel it for the rest of us dedicated fans.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!! IF THEY CANCELLED THIS SHOW MY LIFE WOULD BE OVERRRRR!!! THEY HAVE TO AT LEAST MAKE A 7th SEASON(at least) BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST SHOW ON EARTH!!!
Im am a 100% oncer
Love you my pretties
Mwaaaahhh
What is happening on to the characters on this show sickens me it’s time to end OUAT.
This show has turned to crap and is getting worse with every new episode, cancel it fast!
The Big Bang Theory gets a 10th season. The Simpsons gets a 30th. ABC, c’mon now, don’t be ridiculous. OUAT is a fantastic show, and I, personally think that it’s only becoming better and better. If it can’t, and probably won’t go on forever, at least make a 7th season.
I can’t stand what the writers have done to this show anymore, it needs to be cancelled, it clearly bothers some people that there are those of us who aren’t happy with the show but guess what, tough. The writers have driven this show and every character on it into the ground,and many people are unhappy with it and don’t like it anymore, we’re allowed to have our say as well, it’s time to end OUAT.
I dont get you, many people love this show, I love this show , and i’ve watched it since its first aired and i will continue watching it till its very last episode. I don’t understand why you guys are so against season 7 . If you don’t want to watch this show anymore than just stop , but why do you need to try and stop this show? why is it bothering you so much that there are people who actuly love this show and want’s it to keep airing?
The article specifically asks, “Do you like OUAT? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed?” It’s not an attack on people who still like it, it’s just other people’s opinions. I watched and loved S1 and 2, ambivalent about S3, habit-watched S4, and watched clips/read recaps for S5 on, because I keep telling myself I’ll watch again when it gets better, but it doesn’t. Even when the story started tanking (S3 and on) the characters kept me coming back, but now they’ve even destroyed that. The characters are so OOC I don’t even recognize them anymore, and the… Read more »
Exactly!
Mate, I thing the fact is The point is that, if you´re follow it from the first moment, the premise of the series was different than it is today, the depth of the characters and the stories that intertwined, made it unique. Not especially since season 7 began to decline.. if not already 2 years ago for me. They changed the outline of the series. The characters are already devoid of depth, take quick actions and little credible (the actors are excellent). The script is repetitive and I could give you some more reasons because I understand that the true… Read more »