Last season, ABC’s Agents of SHIELD was a fixture in the Top 25 based on the ratings in the 18-49 demographic from the overnights. This season, though, with the show’s ratings slump it had yet to make an appearance in that chart. But when last week’s numbers were tallied, it managed to eke its way in to the Number 24 slot. Of course that is partially because the December lull has already hit and several shows have also gone on hiatus, thus reducing the competition. But the other side is that Agents of SHIELD has seen an upswing in its numbers just recently, so that helped its scrape its way onto the charts. Unfortunately, after this week’s Fall finale–which was down slightly but still better than where the show has been–AoS goes on a three and a half month hiatus which will likely kill any of the momentum it was building. But that’s Network shenanigans for you. Also of interest, The CW’s struggling The 100 managed to climb to the Number 5 slot on the General Sentiment charts that track social network activity for the broadcast network shows. That was after it took a break over the Thanksgiving week, and it shows that the fans have remained active on the social nets. The ratings for The 100 have improved slightly the last couple of airings, so maybe they are getting the word out about the show. Also, new entry The Librarians from TNT made it to the Number 3 slot on the cable Top 25 based on total viewers, beating out American Horror Story for the week, and also debuted at the Number 11 slot on the General Sentiment chart for the cable networks, where it lagged behind AHS
Here is the full look at chart activity for genre shows for the week of December 1st thru 7th:
| Nielsen Twitter Rankings | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| American Horror Story | FX | 7 | n/a | Up | ||
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Ratings 18-49 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| Once Upon A Time | ABC | 17 | 16 | Down | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| Agents of SHIELD | ABC | 24 | n/a | Up | 1.8 | n/a |
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| Person of Interest (R) | CBS | 25 | 17 | Down | 7.1 | 9.0 |
| Cable Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| The Librarians | TNT | 3 | n/a | Up | 5.4 | n/a |
| American Horror Story | FX | 16 | n/a | Up | 3.3 | n/a |
| General Sentiment – Broadcast Networks Top 25 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| The Flash | CS | 3 | 10 | Up | ||
| Once Upon A Time | ABC | 4 | 5 | Up | ||
| The 100 | CW | 5 | n/a | Up | ||
| Sleepy Hollow | FOX | 6 | 12 | Up | ||
| Vampire Diares | CW | 7 | n/a | Up | ||
| Agents of SHIELD | ABC | 9 | n/a | Up | ||
| Arrow | CW | 11 | n/a | Up | ||
| Supernatural | CW | 13 | 8 | Down | ||
| Constantine | NBC | 19 | 14 | Down | ||
| General Sentiment – Cable Channels Top 25 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| American Horror Story | FX | 4 | n/a | Up | ||
| The Librarians | TNT | 11 | n/a | Up | ||
| Z Nation | Syfy | 22 | n/a | Up | ||
Nielsen Twitter Ratings ranked based on the Unique Audience – The total number of distinct Twitter accounts accruing at least one impression of one or more different Tweets ascribed to a TV episode. More info at this link.
General Sentiment tracks activity across the social networks for shows airing new episodes in Prime Time (start times between 8:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST Monday – Saturday and 7:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST on Sunday). This data collected on seven (7) major broadcast networks and 43 cable television networks. More info at this link.
