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TV Grim Reaper’s predictions are for scripted broadcast primetime show renewals for the 2017-18 season or cancellations by the end of the 2016-17 season. (The table below includes ratings from Sept. 19, 2016 – Dec. 11, 2016)
| ABC | ABC 18-49 avg: 1.30 | |
| Program | Status | % ABC avg, 18-49 Avg |
| Conviction | canceled | 56%, 0.72 |
| Secrets And Lies | 😥 😥 | 58%, 0.76 |
| Quantico | 😥 😥 | 59%, 0.76 |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 😐 😐 😐 | 65%, 0.84 |
| Dr. Ken (F) | 😐 😐 😐 | 66%, 0.85 |
| Notorious | canceled | 67%, 0.87 |
| The Real O’Neals | 😥 😥 | 75%, 0.97 |
| Once Upon A Time | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 81%, 1.05 |
| Last Man Standing (F) | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 86%, 1.11 |
| How To Get Away With Murder | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 96%, 1.24 |
| Fresh Off The Boat | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 98%, 1.27 |
| Designated Survivor | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 113%, 1.47 |
| The Middle |  | 120%, 1.55 |
| American Housewife | | 123%, 1.59 |
| black-ish | | 129%, 1.67 |
| Speechless | | 131%, 1.70 |
| The Goldbergs | | 141%, 1.83 |
| Grey’s Anatomy | | 169%, 2.19 |
| Modern Family | | 178%, 2.31 |
| CBS | CBS 18-49 avg: 1.42 | |
| Program | Status | % CBS avg, 18-49 Avg |
| Elementary | 😥 😥 | 48%, 0.69 |
| Pure Genius | canceled | 63%, 0.90 |
| Madam Secretary | | 69%, 0.98 |
| Code Black | 😐 😐 😐 | 69%, 0.98 |
| The Odd Couple | 😥 😥 | 70%, 1.00 |
| MacGyver (F) | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 81%, 1.15 |
| Blue Bloods (F) | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 86%, 1.22 |
| Scorpion | | 87%, 1.24 |
| Hawaii Five-0 (F) | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 87%, 1.24 |
| NCIS: New Orleans | | 90%, 1.28 |
| Life in Pieces | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 91%, 1.30 |
| Man With A Plan | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 95%, 1.35 |
| Mom | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 96%, 1.37 |
| 2 Broke Girls | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 101%, 1.44 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 104%, 1.48 |
| Great Indoors | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 105%, 1.50 |
| Criminal Minds | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 105%, 1.50 |
| Bull | | 117%, 1.66 |
| NCIS | renewed | 132%, 1.88 |
| Kevin Can Wait | | 134%, 1.91 |
| The Big Bang Theory | | 238%, 3.39 |
| CW | CW 18-49 avg: 0.58 | |
| Program | Status | % CW avg, 18-49 Avg |
| Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (F) | 😐 😐 😐 | 35%, 0.20 |
| Frequency | 😥 😥 | 52%, 0.30 |
| No Tomorrow | 😥 😥 | 54%, 0.31 |
| The Vampire Diaries (F) | canceled | 64%, 0.37 |
| Jane The Virgin | | 67%, 0.39 |
| Supernatural | | 112%, 0.65 |
| DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow | | 121%, 0.70 |
| Arrow | | 129%, 0.74 |
| Supergirl | | 147%, 0.85 |
| The Flash | | 200%, 1.16 |
| Reign (F) | canceled | |
| Fox | Fox 18-49 avg: 1.26 | |
| Program | Status | % Fox avg, 18-49 Avg |
| Scream Queens | 😳 | 51%, 0.64 |
| The Exorcist (F) | 😥 😥 | 54%, 0.68 |
| Rosewood | 😥 😥 | 61%, 0.77 |
| Pitch | 😥 😥 | 67%, 0.85 |
| New Girl | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 74%, 0.93 |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 77%, 0.97 |
| The Last Man On Earth | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 79%, 1.00 |
| Lucifer | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 84%, 1.06 |
| Gotham | | 89%, 1.13 |
| Bob’s Burgers | renewed | 92%, 1.17 |
| Son of Zorn | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 102%, 1.29 |
| Family Guy | | 114%, 1.44 |
| Lethal Weapon | | 141%, 1.78 |
| The Simpsons | renewed | 163%, 2.06 |
| Empire | | 260%, 3.28 |
| Bones | canceled | |
| NBC | NBC 18-49 avg: 1.49 | |
| Program | Status | % NBC avg, 18-49 Avg |
| The Blacklist | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 78%, 1.16 |
| Blindspot | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 79%, 1.18 |
| The Good Place | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 84%, 1.24 |
| Superstore | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 85%, 1.26 |
| Timeless | 😥 😥 | 88%, 1.31 |
| Chicago Med | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 90%, 1.34 |
| Chicago P.D. | 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 | 93%, 1.39 |
| Law & Order: SVU | | 101%, 1.50 |
| Chicago Fire | | 109%, 1.61 |
| This Is Us | | 175%, 2.60 |
| Grimm (F) | canceled |
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Pitch is likely to be canceled. Its ten episode rookie season ended last week with it at less than 70% of the Fox scripted ratings average. That makes a season two unlikely.
Reign has been canceled. Season four (beginning February 10) will be its last.
Note: Predictions early in a show’s run are likely to change quickly with ratings results. Stay tuned.
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The reaper’s running prediction tally this season: 4-0-0
- Right: Notorious, The Simpsons, Conviction, Pure Genius
- Wrong:
- Draw (renewed or canceled while a toss up):
Reign, canceled before the reaper had a prediction for it, is not included in the tally above.
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Notes:
18-49 Avg. is the average Live+Same Day adults 18-49 rating for in season original episodes of the show it its regular timeslot.
Network 18-49 average is the average Live+Same Day adults 18-49 rating for all original episodes of all scripted shows on the network. Each network’s ratings average is not time weighted (ie. hour long shows are not weighted twice what 30 minute shows are).
% Network Average (aka, relative rating): The 18-49 avg of the show/its own network avg.
(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average relative ratings.
How good have TV Grim Reaper’s predictions been in past seasons? See his past prediction record here.