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.
OUAT has lost it’s way and needs to end.
This show should be done. It has turned into the Hook and Emma show. Captain Swan has ruined OUAT. Break them up and tell a real story instaed of pandering to a group of teenage girls.
I really think they should pull for one more season to at least bring back the integrity they lost with the boring repittive writing. Like show some more story with Jasmine and Aladdin saving Agraba and a way to correlate it with the current story with the evil queen. maybe kill some important characters too. Make something spectacular happen with the Evil Queen besides turning her into a snake lolol just saying tho, Hyde was such a badass character. everyone wished to see him and the Queen
But I love once upon a time
OUAT has gone through some boring periods in its history & Ive waited it out because I like the characters so much, BUT…I am having such a hard time getting through this seasons. SO boring! I have 3 left on my DVR & I cant bring myself to watch them . Maybe over Christmas, but I dont know…
I can’t stand it anymore, cancel it.
Cancel it…I hate what it’s become
Leave it running..I still love it
OUAT used to be my favourite show but not anymore it needs to be cancelled ASAP.
Because you no longer like it a show should be cancelled? How about you don’t watch it instead?
If you don’t like someone’s comment why read it or reply to it, why not just ignore it instead? There are plenty of people in these comments who don’t like the show anymore and want to see it cancelled and I don’t blame them but why single out me and try to start an argument?
Once is still probably my favorite show but I can see some off the repetitive storylines and bad writing in areas. But I think it’s still better then a lot of other crap that’s on tv. I really think the show should and deserves a 7th season to finish out everyone’s stories and give everyone there happy endings
Once Upon a Time used to be my favorite show, but season 4 happened and it all crashed and burned. I genuinely thought that the show had taken on a new company or writers because everything was so terrible. All they do now is try and throw in as many new characters as possible and use the same storyline repeatedly. The show is basically about Hook and Emma now, and Emma’s “I’m a villain” act was terrible. I hate to say it, but this show needs to end. The odds of the writers reviving the show to anything remotely like… Read more »
I used to love ONCE but it’s turned into a nightmare and is unrecognizable as the show it used to be please cancel it this year.
Well I used to like it a lot and even thought it is a little bit repetitive I wouldn’t like it if it was cancelled
This show is so awful and depressing now and the plots are so repetitive it’s like a broken record, OUAT should be cancelled.
This show is amazing and it has so many more surreal complex places it could go. Do not cancel it