Robert and Michelle King found success with their last CBS series, The Good Wife. Now, they’re trying something different with BrainDead. How will it perform in the ratings? Cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.
On BrainDead, Laurel Healy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has returned home to Washington, DC to work for her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino) on Capitol Hill. She is caught in the midst of two huge problems: the government has stopped working due to budgetary disagreements, and mysterious bugs are eating the brains of a growing number of members of Congress and Hill staffers. The rest of the cast includes Aaron Tveit, Tony Shalhoub, Nikki M. James, Johnny Ray Gill, Charlie Semine, and Jan Maxwell.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
10/18 update: CBS has cancelled BrainDead after one season. Details here.
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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like the BrainDead TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Love the show.
Great show so I’m sure they will cancel it. They usually do the good show and keep pushing out the cheap to make reality crap shows. Maybe they should figure out new ways to do ratings. A lot of people don’t watch shows when aired they record to watch later or stream it.
Braindead MUST be renewed. It’s great entertainment!
I love Brain Dead! I hope it gets renewed!
extremely entertaining and FUN suspense all the actors are on their game NOT enough promotion
i love the program it paints a perfect picture of how our government is being ran. The bickering and inability to meet in the middle to make it work. The bantering between Ghertt and Loral is great.. and how certain people who dont belong to certain parties get sucked in and labeled. In any case i actually look forward to this show every week unlike anything currently on tv. i would be sad if the show wasnt renewed and i had to send some bugs your way to see things from my point of view.
This show heats up, takes off and makes for serious entertaining television. The satire of politics is a riot. Pino is excellent showing another side of the man.
This show is great, perfect cast of characters with a good mix of personality. Such an awesome plot too. Lol, almost makes you wonder… what is happening to peoples brains these days.
The July 31 episode was great, funny and satirical. I’ll never be able to listen to the Partridge Family song ‘I think I love you’ the same way again.
My wife and I LOVE this show.
It is the ONLY thing on TV right now that we won’t miss.
PLEASE RENEW…
…or we’re sending the bugs after you
Braindead, great show! Don’t always agree with the political party slams, but that’s politics. This show isn’t afraid of showing the seedy side to politics (mostly not very far from the truth). Please keep this show, it’s so much fun!
PLEASE Renew!! this show is so great!!!!
It took me about 3 episodes to really get into BrainDead, but well worth it. I no longer search out political blogs for comic relief! Please renew!
Amazed at the negative responses here to a clever piece of original satire seldom achieved on network tv these days. It is simply a FUN look at contemporary American politics and a unique crossover with a sci-fi premise that has me chuckling every episode. If anyone with any sort of power to renew this show is reading this, don’t throw away the most refreshing comedy show seen in a long, long time. The cast is perfect and the writing commendable. WELL DONE!
I absolutely agree with you. The show is refreshing and great satire. I’m disappointed that there hasn’t been more advertising of the show, especially when the day was changed. I hunted for it with TV guide. I watch it and simultaneously record it on my DVR. I wonder if I was counted since the DVR was recording it. If not, then that is a flaws in the system.
It definitely needs to be renewed. It’s one of the few shows that I look forward to watching..
“BrainDead” takes a unique and clever approach to the political genra. It’s refreshing and great fun. Please renew.