First ARROW, Now THE FLASH? The CW Series Received All Time Lowest Ratings Last Week

First ARROW, Now THE FLASH? The CW Series Received All Time Lowest Ratings Last Week

Everyone's favorite Scarlet Speedster may not be in any immediate danger, but with decreasing viewer numbers like the ones the show received last week, how long can Barry stay ahead of the chopping block?

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By LiteraryJoe - Mar 22, 2019 02:03 AM EST
Filed Under: The Flash
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It was recently announced that Arrow would be coming to an end. The show is like the first Iron Man film to The Marvel Cinematic Universe, in that it inspired so many other stories to be told for other characters.

As such, it was expected that Oliver Queen had to leave at some point, but it seems like the announcement may have bothered fans as sister show The Flash was seemingly affected and received its all time lowest amount of viewers yet. The episode titled "Failure Is An Orphan" was true to its name, only bringing in a .5 rating in the demographic of viewers The CW looking for, which is 18-49.

It is important to note that The Flash has already been renewed for season 6, and CW isn't a huge stickler for ratings, so the show isn't leaving us anytime soon. Also, with the upcoming Crisis On Infinite Earths event that the shows are planning to utilize for the next crossover, it is quite possible that Barry could step in to be the new tentpole character in the... Flash-verse? 

We just hope Legends of Tomorrow is also safe. What do you think will happen? Be sure to watch The Flash this week to figure out what's up with Godspeed, and so, you know, it won't get cancelled.



The fifth season of The Flash follows Barry Allen, a crime scene investigator with superhuman speed who fights criminals, including others who have also gained superhuman abilities, as he deals with the consequences of his future daughter's time traveling.

The Flash airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST on the CW.
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TheTick91
TheTick91 - 3/22/2019, 4:12 AM
Please do cancel Legends of Tomorrow. It has the quality of Batman & Robin.
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 3/22/2019, 5:02 AM
I’ve been done with Arrowverse for a while now. I stopped watching Arrow in Season 4 the whole Damien Dark thing just never went anywhere interesting and then when they defeated him only to get his powers back in the next episode I bounced right before the season finale bc I realized I was only watching to stay current. Flash strangely I also only made it part way into season 4, it just made some really dumb and cheesy choices and I didn’t care for it anymore. Ralph is one of the most annoying and campy characters in any of the shows, and they just made some character choices that made no sense and kind of ruined things ( We are the Flash.... really?) which sucks bc other than Daredevil the flash was at one point my favorite comic book show. Legends I made it 4 episodes before I realized I didn’t care about literally any of the characters, Supergirl is just awful on every level, and I never even made it to Black Lightning. I doubt the CW will just let this universe die as it is their backbone right now but I wouldn’t be surprised if this show ends and get replaced in the next few seasons
Solarkalel85
Solarkalel85 - 3/22/2019, 6:26 AM
Takes people a long time to catch on when it comes to tv series like these
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 3/22/2019, 6:26 AM
They should really make the choice to end them all together in a final epic limited series. Sadly the CW arnt going to cut that many shows in one go.
marcoseus
marcoseus - 3/22/2019, 6:38 AM
Once I watched Titans and Doom Patrol, I knew this shows would suffer.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/22/2019, 7:33 AM
I don’t understand why you brought up 5x16's ratings when it was an episode for last week. The fact of the matter is that the highest rating episode was “Memorabilia” with 2.04 of audience, then for the next four episodes in a row it went down but the last one from this past Tuesday's “Time Bomb” improved from being at 1.55 to 1.64.

This 3 weeks break certainly will affect the show unless they don’t find a way to promote the final episodes well enough but Flash at this point isn’t anywhere close to being canceled. Arrow in terms of ratings sadly began to have it's lowest audience numbers around S6 with under one million in two occasions and just one in the last couple of weeks.

So again, odd you bring up last week's ratings and not this week's.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 3/22/2019, 12:08 PM
@NinnesMBC - Great question!

While it is good that the ratings went back up in the next episode, the point is that the ratings for Failure Is An Orphan are the absolute lowest this series has received since it's birth, and it happened right after the announcement of Arrow's cancellation.

The article does go on to mention that the show is likely not to be cancelled soon due to the already announced season six and plans for Crisis.

I totally get where you're coming from though!
Kucakingkai1991
Kucakingkai1991 - 3/22/2019, 7:39 AM
AT3374
AT3374 - 3/22/2019, 8:23 AM
Time for Nora to go back to the future as well . Way too many episodes of her messing with the timeline and trying to fix things etc etc . For me most of these shows are starting to be a slug to sit through but I’m glad others are still enjoying these series .
Hatsas01
Hatsas01 - 3/22/2019, 8:26 AM
Its the headgear. They need to go back to the old design for the headgear.
thedangle1
thedangle1 - 3/22/2019, 8:39 AM
First season, awesome. Second, meh. Third, lost it. Fourth, didn't even get past the first episode. This show, like Arrow, became a comedy fest, or at least a one-liner fest. The writing got worse, some of the acting so much so, and they're running out of ideas, even thought they have a plethora of story lines from the comics they could use. It all has to do with CW, they don't have the budget for better special effects or writers. Think it's time they took the Netflix route and cancel all of these shows.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/22/2019, 8:48 AM
Well yeah, this season is [frick]ing terrible so far (though I haven't seen any episodes after the crossover). The show in general has been weak since season 2. I'd gladly take a season 9 of Arrow over another season of Flash.
itzayaboy
itzayaboy - 3/22/2019, 9:17 AM
I'm just waiting for Superman and Batman to come. It will happen. Batwoman can only take place in Gotham for so long without including Batman. People will get annoyed fast that he is not in it.
hazapez
hazapez - 3/22/2019, 9:48 AM
@zachman2013 - superman is here. batman will never be. the batwoman pilot still has to air tho. maybe that could replace arrow, now that i think about it.
ogrodafloresta
ogrodafloresta - 3/22/2019, 9:33 AM
The episode was great - this week's was also great, but this season is lukewarm at best.

But I blame the new costume.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 3/22/2019, 9:49 AM
Havent watched since S4.... cant get back into it, just nothing seems interesting enough
fadersdream
fadersdream - 3/22/2019, 10:00 AM
Every season has gotten worse.

While I would like to see a series regain its former glory, this isn't the dark days of the 80's and 90's where we had to tolerate low quality because it was all we could get.

I would LOVE Flash to improve, but if it can't then let something take its place that is hungry and fresh and is fighting for a place on my television.

A show like "the Flash" should not coast along.
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 3/22/2019, 10:48 AM
Too much forced female focused bandwagon jumping can do that, just like it has done to some other franchises in entertainment industry.
LordHarryLatts
LordHarryLatts - 3/22/2019, 10:51 AM
They need to kill off half the cast and allow Barry to be a CSI again. Too much easter time on other nonworthy characters.
ReverseFlasher
ReverseFlasher - 3/22/2019, 11:08 AM
I agree with the crowd saying they shoulda fixed that new costume, looks dumb and corny whenevers hes on screen now.
Himura
Himura - 3/22/2019, 11:33 AM
This is the most variety of users ive seen on a flash article in awhile. Some of you really have nothing better to do than hate.
bigdannymac
bigdannymac - 3/22/2019, 12:17 PM
Why is it that the majority of people commenting are the ones who "stopped watching years ago"?

For a show you quit on .. y'all sure love to follow articles on it and hate on it as much as humanly possible

I still watch it with my son every week. We enjoy it. It's not perfect but it's far from trash.

In a day and age where ratings is king and quality shows get cancelled left and right .. I'm happy to see CW keeping these shows alive for the loyal group who have and will continually tune in

For those who quit on Arrow .. that's too bad .. they've bounced back in a really great way.
thobie1
thobie1 - 3/22/2019, 1:22 PM
@bigdannymac - I watch it with my family too. It's one of the only shows that works for 8-18 year olds. I agree - room for improvement, but still enjoyable, and I'm interested to see where it goes this season.
KalElOdinson
KalElOdinson - 3/22/2019, 3:32 PM
There are far too many mid season breaks. You don't even know when a new episode is on anymore. RIGHT NOW all the CW shows are on hiatus from this week till mid April. All the breaks are ridiculous and you end losing interest.
SabreToof
SabreToof - 3/22/2019, 5:36 PM
Speaking of Legends of Tomorrow, I miss the quality of the series from season 1 when they made a lot more connections to the DC Comics universe. Now it's like any other generic Syfy channel series focusing on the supernatural in the real world with next to no connection to the DC Comics universe. Just looking at the Atom alone, there is so much that could be used from his mythology such as his time with a microscopic alien tribe in South America called the Morlaidhans or his pet myna with prosthetic wings. There is so much good material they are not using.
iDrumZ
iDrumZ - 3/22/2019, 8:43 PM
TBH the show’s issue has always been the big bad and how long the draw out the struggle. Season 1/2 were solid in this regard with Reverse Flash and Zoom. However by season three you were tired of speedsters being the enemy plus the Savitar plot was a bit dry.

I honestly think the cast is bored, I think the writers are bored, and unfortunately it still makes them money so they keep doing it. They really should cancel the show at the end of next year and end it.

TV shows just need to know when to quit
TheArlington
TheArlington - 3/23/2019, 7:58 AM
It’s because they are all super corny and emotional
Kozmik
Kozmik - 3/24/2019, 5:22 PM
Which is interesting because the ratings threshold for the CW–as opposed to ABC, CBS & NBC–is low. This is likely why Supergirl was able to transfer from CBS–due to low ratings–to the CW.
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