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.
Once is no longer the show it used to be and it never will be that show again, the premise has completely changed, the writing is sloppy and full of plot holes and the character development is non existent, cancel it.
Cancel, cancel, cancel, this show is not what it used to be, it’s horrible and depressing, it has long past its sell by date and to keep it going any longer than season 6 would be pointless.
Please renew for season 7. This is a good show, I love it.
bring it back i love this show pleas renew this show i found it on netflix and cohld not stp watchimg it pls bring it back
No I don’t like it, not anymore the writing is atrocious and lazy and the show itself is depressing, cancel it
This is the best tv show I have ever watched in my life. I am absolutely obsessed! It is beyond amazing. OUAT is my life!!!!!!! Please, Please, Please renew this show. It is too great to cancel.
It would be so great if it kept going. Less intense plots ( season 6 is quite hard to follow) will gather more viewers but other than that its an absolutely fabulous show. I’ve loved it.
OUAT is limping along this year and it isn’t going to get any better ABC should just cancel it and cut their losses.
Cancel it, its on its last legs anyway and what happened to my favourite characters on the show is absolutely soul destroying.
Give it one more season and it will be it’s last.
Ok. One more mini-wrap the thing up season
Renew renew renew!!! I love all the characters!! And the show!!
Cancel it.
Far too depressing for a show thats supposed to be about hope and happy endings, cancel it.
Repetitive and boring, same storylines over and over again for every character nothing fresh or new, ONCE needs to be canceled.