Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4775130-20150922222850/@comment-24674051-20150924144334

Another thing to consider is how the ratings stack up with other shows in the same time slot, or on the same night. Being on Sunday evening Prime time (in what used to the be the old Wonderful World of Disney timeslot), Once's ratings are actually fairing rather well against the competition. It's hard to go up against things like Sunday Night Football, Awards Shows, etc. And Sunday night is notorious for it's plethora of special programming on all of the network stations. That's one of the reasons, in fact, that the network execs chose to go with a split season format.

So while the ratings, by themselves, look somewhat anemic, taken in context of Sunday night, Once holds its own quite well. Part of the reason that Wonderland suffered such a horrible fate is that it was stacked up against Thurday Night Prime Time shows, and that is a much different audience. And had it even pulled the same ratings as the Main Show (and it was really not that far off, as I recall), it would have died, because those ratings on Thursday just don't cut it.