Man with a Plan Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Sunday, October 25, 1970
Man with a Plan Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Man with a Plan did what it was supposed to do, which was to hold on to Kevin Can Wait's audience decently. While it may not have had that high premiere Kevin had, its spring ratings were decent given the lead-in and it...

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Sunday, October 25, 1970
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
The first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had historically low ratings, but also awards love and apparently is a solid streaming player. This season, albeit low rated, was incredibly steady in A18-49. While its fan base...

The Vampire Diaries Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Sunday, October 25, 1970
The Vampire Diaries Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
The Vampire Diaries was a staple show for The CW for years. While it didn't finish quite as well as it started, for a Friday night on The CW, the final season of The Vampire Diaries didn't do all that bad. Those 0.3s in...

Caught on Camera Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Sunday, October 25, 1970
Caught on Camera Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Caught on Camera's ratings were abysmally low, but then again it didn't seem like it was meant to last permanently either. At the very least, it seemed that Dateline was doing better airing after it than after something...

2 Broke Girls Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
2 Broke Girls Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
2 Broke Girls did a decent job at holding down the 9:30pm time slot in the spring compared to The Odd Couple, but there really was no compelling reason for CBS to renew it over the shows on earlier in the night, which...

Supergirl Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Supergirl Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Supergirl fell a ton from last season, though that's to be expected given it moved to The CW. I do wish it held up better from its first few episodes though; it showed that it is capable of pulling in top-tier ratings...

Frequency Ratings--Season 1 (2016)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Frequency Ratings--Season 1 (2016)
Frequency was a flop, so much so that The CW basically admitted it verbally. Contrary to what The CW typically does, this one didn't even make it through the season. Given it was based on a movie and aired after Arrow,...

Arrow Ratings--Season 5 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Arrow Ratings--Season 5 (2016-17)
Superhero fatigue may be setting in for Arrow, as the show that started it all shed a third of its Live + Same Day audience in A18-49 this season. It's still doing impressive in M18-34, almost tying the A18-49 demographic,...

Supernatural Ratings--Season 12 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Supernatural Ratings--Season 12 (2016-17)
Supernatural is a show that was around before The CW was, and it still holds up better than most other shows on the network over a decade after it premiered. Given it moved to Thursday at 8pm, the 0.5s towards the end...

Chicago Fire--Season 5 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Chicago Fire--Season 5 (2016-17)
Chicago Fire is still the strongest Chicago show. It didn't hurt that it got to air after This Is Us in the fall, but even though retention out of it looked weak, by now it's clear that Fire is very lead-in independent....

The Real O'Neals Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
The Real O'Neals Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
The Real O'Neals didn't exactly do great in its first season, but still was renewed due to ABC's intent on having a two-hour comedy block on Tuesdays. Its first data point this season--a 1.2 A18-49 demo rating out of a...

Fresh Off The Boat Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
Fresh Off The Boat Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Poor Fresh Off The Boat has been sticking around but not much more over the past two seasons. Its first season was a somewhat surprising success story, but it's faltered since with heavy competition. Despite the data points...

American Housewife Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
American Housewife Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
American Housewife did what it could against heavy competition. It usually didn't drop all that much from its lead-in, if at all. Next season it will be getting a much-deserved tryout behind Modern Family. The only concern...

The Middle Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Wednesday, October 14, 1970
The Middle Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
The Middle held remarkably steady on Wednesdays and rose in relative ratings significantly in all but one season. That being said, it wasn't itself on its move to Tuesday, hitting numerous new series lows and a 3-year...

No Tomorrow Ratings--Season 1

The Ratings Junkie Monday, October 05, 1970
No Tomorrow Ratings--Season 1
No Tomorrow got to air behind The Flash and completely blew it. Even if you argue that it's lead-in independent, it's doing numbers that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend does on a Friday. The CW doesn't often cancel shows in their...

The Flash Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)

The Ratings Junkie Monday, October 05, 1970
The Flash Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
The Flash is the one show on The CW that is really competitive with the shows on the other networks, now at 86% of the Big 4 A18-49 league average. In fact, it even beat FOX in the time slot. Superhero fatigue does seem...