Midseason Ratings Report Card: The CW's Most- And Least-Watched Shows
Now that your broadcast-TV favorites are on holiday break, TVLine is looking at how each network's shows are stacking up thus far in the 2024-25 TV season. We kicked off with ABC and CBS, and today turn our attention to The CW.
Listed below is the average TOTAL AUDIENCE for each CW series (including delayed Live+7 playback). Alongside that is the DEMO RATING (Adults 18-49) for each program, as well as any noteworthy PERFORMANCE NOTES.
Each program's RANK represents how it is faring in total audience compared to other shows on The CW.
| THE CW (FALL 2024) | TOTAL VIEWERS | DEMO RATING | PERFORMANCE NOTES | |
| 1 | NASCAR Xfinity | 1.01 million | 0.10 | Only had two fall airings; new season kicks off Feb. 15 |
| 2 | Superman & Lois | 767,000 | 0.12 | Audience -32% vs. Season 3 |
| 3 | WWE NXT | 753,000 | 0.20 | Viewership appears on par with most recent USA Network numbers |
| 4 | Sullivan's Crossing | 673,000 | 0.08 | Audience down just 9% vs. Season 1 on CW |
| 5 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | 560,000 | 0.08 | Audience up about 14% vs. Season 20 |
| 6 | The Chosen | 490,000 | 0.03 | Audience steady vs. Season 3 |
| 7 | PAC 12 Football | 478,000 | 0.10 | |
| 8 | CW Network Movie | 427,000 | 0.10 | |
| 9 | Trivial Pursuit | 408,000 | 0.06 | |
| 10 | Scrabble | 385,000 | 0.05 | |
| 11 | Totally Funny Animals | 384,000 | 0.04 | |
| 12 | Penn & Teller: Fool Us | 366,000 | INC* | |
| 13 | Totally Funny Kids | 358,000 | 0.04 | |
| 14 | Joan | 309,000 | 0.04 | The fall's least-watched new drama; moved to Fridays after 1 Wednesday airing |
| 15 | Bob Hearts Abishola (reruns) | 297,000 | INC* | |
| 16 | The Conners (reruns) | 264,000 | 0.10 | |
| 17 | Inside the NFL | 260,000 | INC* | Audience down 22% vs. last season |
| 18 | Children Ruin Everything | 252,000 | 0.04 | Audience down 12% vs. last season |
| 19 | The Wranglers | 195,000 | 0.03 | Least-watched, lowest-rated broadcast program; moved to CWTV.com after 3 airings |
THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Say what you will about Nexstar's strategy, its pivot to sports offerings appears to have paid off, with NASCAR and wrestling delivering two of its largest audiences. The well-watched (everything's relative, people!) Superman & Lois will absolutely be missed. Of the netlet's acquired series and co-pros, Sullivan's Crossing has proven to be very CW-friendly, and was recently picked up for Season 3. Now that Whose Line's full inventory has been exhausted (the improv staple's future is very unclear), that's one more scheduling hole to be filled. As such, the new seasons of All American (which last averaged 960,000 viewers), Wild Cards (to be paired on Wednesdays with Leighton Meester's Good Cop/Bad Cop) and Penn & Teller: Fool Us, arriving in late-January/February, surely will be welcome.
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