The holiday doldrums hit ABC hard last week as The Good Doctor had one of its lowest rated episodes to date. ABC also premiered two new shows, The Great Christmas Light Fight and TheGreat American Baking Show. Both are short, six week series geared to fill the holiday gap as scripted programs take the holiday weeks off. Holiday specials, Shrek The Halls and The Toy Story Time Forgot had respectable numbers. The same cannot be said for several scripted shows, even with the holiday lows networks expect this time of year. Fans of Once Upon A Time and Agents of SHIELD should savor what's left of the season as neither of these shows will get another season. Designated Survivor is probably done as well.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
Modern Family | 1.7 | 5.8 | Renewed |
The Good Doctor | 1.6 | 9.0 | |
The Goldbergs | 1.5 | 5.4 | Renewed |
The Middle | 1.2 | 5.8 | Final Season |
American Housewife | 1.2 | 4.5 | |
Speechless | 1.1 | 4.3 | |
The Great Christmas Light Fight (premiere) | 1.0 | 5.2 | |
America's Funniest Home Videos | 1.0 | 4.6 | |
Shrek The Halls | 1.0 | 4.5 | |
Black-ish | 1.0 | 4.0 | |
Fresh Off The Boat | 0.9 | 3.8 | |
Shark Tank | 0.9 | 3.7 | |
Toy Story That Time Forgot | 0.9 | 3.7 | |
The Great American Baking Show (premiere) | 0.8 | 3.8 | |
Shark Tank (rerun) | 0.8 | 3.3 | |
America's Funniest Home Videos (rerun) | 0.7 | 4.4 | |
Designated Survivor | 0.7 | 3.9 | |
The Mayor | 0.7 | 1.9 | |
Saturday Movie: Mary Poppins | 0.6 | 3.1 | |
Kevin (Probably) Saves The World | 0.6 | 2.6 | |
Once Upon A Time | 0.5 | 2.5 | |
20/20 | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
Agents of SHIELD | 0.5 | 1.9 |
The holiday doldrums apparently spared CBS last week as The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon both had solid numbers again. Hawaii Five-0, SEAL Team and several others saw an increase from last week's ratings as well. Holiday specials, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman were repeated last week and both had a big drop in numbers from their initial outings for this year.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
The Big Bang Theory | 2.8 | 14.4 | Renewed |
Young Sheldon | 2.2 | 12.5 | |
Survivor | 1.8 | 9.0 | |
The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special | 1.5 | 15.4 | |
Mom | 1.4 | 8.8 | |
60 Minutes | 1.2 | 11.5 | |
The Big Bang Theory (rerun) | 1.2 | 7.8 | |
Hawaii Five-0 | 1.1 | 8.9 | |
SEAL Team | 1.1 | 6.9 | |
Life In Pieces | 1.1 | 6.5 | |
Man With A Plan | 1.1 | 6.4 | |
Blue Bloods | 1.0 | 9.3 | |
NCIS (rerun) | 0.9 | 8.4 | |
MacGyver | 0.9 | 7.2 | |
SWAT | 0.9 | 6.3 | |
Superior Donuts | 0.9 | 5.5 | |
Criminal Minds | 0.9 | 5.3 | |
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer | 0.9 | 4.1 | |
Frosty The Snowman | 0.9 | 3.7 | |
9JKL | 0.8 | 4.6 | |
SEAL Team (rerun) | 0.7 | 6.1 | |
NCIS: Los Angeles | 0.6 | 6.0 | |
Bull (rerun) | 0.6 | 4.7 | |
SWAT (rerun) | 0.6 | 3.7 | |
48 Hours | 0.6 | 2.6 |
NBC is going to miss NFL Football, and those envious numbers once the season is done at the end of the month. Will & Grace and Superstore reminded fans they were still out there with the first new episode in a month. Will & Grace did well, Superstore was only okay, landing right at the network average. Both episodes of The Voice posted nearly identical numbers last week. Blindspot equaled last week's numbers.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
Sunday Night Football | 6.4 | 19.7 | |
Thursday Night Football | 4.2 | 14.6 | |
Football Night In America (Sunday) | 2.6 | 8.3 | |
The Voice (Tuesday) | 1.8 | 10.0 | |
The Voice (Monday) | 1.8 | 9.9 | |
Will & Grace | 1.8 | 7.2 | Renewed |
Football Night In America (Thursday) | 1.7 | 6.6 | |
Law & Order: SVU | 1.3 | 6.2 | |
Chicago Med | 1.2 | 6.6 | |
Chicago PD | 1.2 | 6.5 | |
Superstore | 1.1 | 4.4 | |
Dateline: Friday | 1.0 | 4.9 | |
The Wall | 0.9 | 4.4 | |
A Very Pentatonix Christmas (rerun) | 0.8 | 4.8 | |
Blindspot | 0.7 | 3.5 | |
Dateline: Saturday | 0.7 | 3.4 | |
Vintage SNL | 0.7 | 2.9 | |
Will & Grace (rerun) | 0.4 | 2.0 | |
Superstore (rerun) | 0.4 | 1.9 |
FOX had a quiet week last week. The network was gifted with an NFL overrun that boosted the Sunday night numbers. Lethal Weapon and Ghosted were steady. The Orville wrapped up its first season at the same number as last week. Gotham and The Gifted dipped slightly.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
NFL Overrun | 4.5 | 14.9 | |
The OT | 3.3 | 10.2 | |
Empire | 1.8 | 5.7 | |
The Simpsons | 1.7 | 4.3 | Renewed |
Star | 1.2 | 4.0 | |
Family Guy | 1.1 | 2.6 | |
Lethal Weapon | 1.0 | 4.5 | |
Ghosted | 1.0 | 2.6 | |
The Orville (finale) | 0.9 | 3.5 | Renewed |
Lucifer | 0.9 | 3.4 | |
Hell's Kitchen | 0.8 | 3.0 | Renewed |
The Gifted | 0.8 | 2.8 | |
Gotham | 0.8 | 2.5 | |
The Mick | 0.8 | 2.4 | |
The Last Man On Earth | 0.8 | 1.9 | |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 0.7 | 1.9 | |
The Exorcist | 0.4 | 1.2 | |
Lethal Weapon (rerun) | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
The Gifted (rerun) | 0.2 | 1.1 |
The CW saw a few interesting changes after the superhero crossover last week. The Flash slipped a couple of tenths from its usual numbers, Legends of Tomorrow rose a tenth, but Arrow dropped a tenth from its usual ratings. Supernatural regained its usual number two spot. Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend returned from a month off to their regular lows.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
The Flash | 0.8 | 2.2 | |
Supernatural | 0.6 | 1.7 | |
Legends of Tomorrow | 0.6 | 1.6 | |
Supergirl | 0.5 | 1.8 | |
Riverdale | 0.5 | 1.5 | |
Arrow | 0.4 | 1.3 | |
Jane The Virgin | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
Valor | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
Dynasty | 0.2 | 0.6 |
Next week will be the last Ratings Roundup report for 2017. It will be back January 8, 2018 with hopefully good news on new premiering shows as well as returning old favorites.
Written by LadyShelley on Dec 11, 2017
Of the DC shows, Arrow is my favorite and honestly thought that last season was going to be the last for it, mainly because it was the last season of going through his five years away with the flashbacks and all. This one is pretty good too, so I guess fans will see how long it lasts.
From the standpoint it's the oldest of the DC series', then yes Arrow could be the first to go. Don't base that off of just last week, though. The series has been a consistent 0.5 for the season, it's in no danger of cancellation for this year at least. :)
The rumor on Agents of SHIELD at the end of last year was that ABC wanted to cancel it and Disney nixed the idea as they still had tie-in plans with the MCU universe. Not sure how true that is/was, but I hope they got everything done they wanted because there is no way ABC is gonna renew it with the numbers its put up so far.
I am getting the vibe that Arrow might be the first of the DC shows that is going to end and I sadly agree that this will be the last season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., hopefully it will get a decent ending.