![]() ![]() Here’s a final look at some of the hits and misses of 2020–2021, followed by our complete list of the 100 most-watched shows of the season, according to both adults 18-49 and total viewers, using the most recent live+7 ratings (which include seven days’ worth of DVR and video on-demand usage). Even in a world where broadcasters are practicing much more patience than they used to before axing a series, sometimes it’s best to cut your losses and throw a complete miss back out to sea. Take a look at this year’s list and you’ll have a better idea why some of this year’s network offerings, even the ones that just premiered, were hastily canceled. They may not tell the ultimate story, but they give us an initial idea of whether audiences might be willing to sample the show down the road - or if said show is DOA. Just like they call journalism the “first draft of history,” so goes the first round of ratings. Some of the shows on this list have tremendous viewership in the aftermarket, while others are just duds.īut without any other legitimate or universally agreed-upon yardstick, this is still the best way to measure some sort of success or failure in linear TV. People just don’t watch TV this way anymore. The networks can still do good things, and every once in a while can open a show like “Equalizer” or “ The Masked Singer” - but the downward ratings trend of live, or even live-plus-time-shifted viewers, is never going to rebound. More on that in a moment.) Compiling this chart every May is like an annual reminder of one’s own mortality, let alone the TV business’ frailty. Really, we could use that “best days behind them” line for just about all of broadcast and cable (except perhaps that “90 Day Fiancé” franchise. And although one-time ratings behemoths “American Idol” and “The Walking Dead” still roam among us, those shows’ best days are long behind them. Every time another TV phenomenon ends its run - think “Game of Thrones” or “The Big Bang Theory” - nothing that large takes its place.
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