What Would You Do?: Season 18 Ratings

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The What Would You Do? series has traditionally been a good utility player for ABC, often filling in holiday or summer slots in the network’s schedule. This time around, ABC is giving the series a Fall launch. How will the show perform with more competition? Will What Would You Do? be cancelled or renewed for season 19? Stay tuned.

A hidden camera documentary series, the What Would You Do? TV show is hosted by John Quiñones, with Sara Haines joining him as a correspondent. Segments explore how people react to strangers in uncomfortable circumstances. With hidden cameras at the ready, actors play out various scenarios in front of unwitting bystanders. The TV series delves into when people feel they must intervene or why they choose to mind their own business. Quiñones and the correspondents report about how the bystanders made their decisions.

Nielsen Ratings
The Nielsen ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances of survival. This chart is updated as new ratings data becomes available.

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For comparisons: Season 17 of What Would You Do? on ABC averaged a 0.27 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.47 million viewers.

Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.

What do you think? Do you like the What Would You Do? TV series on ABC? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a 19th season?