The future of Flashpoint on CBS is still up in the air but Canadian viewers definitely have more episodes of the cop drama in their future.
Flashpoint is produced in Canada and CBS has licensed episodes since 2008 and used the show mostly as an off-season utility player. Last summer, CBS aired most of the episodes from season three but still had six installments left on the shelf. In January, the decision was made to license seven more episodes, combine them with the leftover six and run them as season four. They began airing in early May.
That left 11 episodes of the cop drama that weren’t being licensed by CBS. They are on track to be aired in Canada this summer.
CTV has now ordered a fifth season of 18 episodes. Flashpoint is the most-watched Canadian drama and has averaged more than 1.5 million viewers (an impressive number by Canadian TV standards). The new order will bring the series’ episode total to 80 installments, making it the longest-running original scripted series currently on Canadian television.
There’s been no word on whether CBS will license any more episodes or not but the ratings certainly haven’t been impressive. Thus far this season, Flashpoint’s been averaging just a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.42 million total viewers. Per the early numbers, last night’s installment tied a repeat of Shark Tank in the demo.
On the other hand, the show doesn’t cost the network as much as producing their own scripted dramas.
Once the new episodes are filmed and completed, there will be 29 episodes that CBS hasn’t licensed. We’ll have to wait to see when or if American audiences will get a chance to see them.
What do you think? Are you glad to hear Flashpoint has been renewed? Should CBS license more episodes?
Image courtesy CTV.
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i love this show and i wish that cbs would continue running this show
One of my favorite shows. I’d rather watch something like this than all the crappy reality shows they have on.
I Love this Show! Keep it on the air…
YES!! Most definitely want to see CBS continue to offer Flashpoint. It is a great drama without a bunch of sex, language and gore.
This is one of the best shows my husband & I ever watched together. The stories, the action, and especially the characters and emotional impact…..incomparable! If ratings were down, it’s probably because it’s so difficult to keep track of this, and other programs, which keep moving around the TV schedule and stick reruns in between new episodes. IT’S MADDENING!!
Yes bring it back, my husband and I enjoy watching it!
I love this show…I can’t understand why the ratings are not higher in the USA…it is such a great show…keep it on…
My whole family loves Flashpoint! Please don’t take it off the air!
We love this show. I have been checking everywhere to find out if it will be on this summer. (2012).
My husband and I have watched these episodes and also bought the first 3 seasons. We look forward to future episodes and plan to buy the dvds.
I have watch this show from the beginning and I love don’t take it off the air.
Yes, please keep it going.
yes bring it back
The macho-techno cop thing would turn me off in short order, but this is just plain well-written, and well-acted too. Bring us more please.
Heck ya, bring on new episodes of Flashpoint.
We love that show, don”t just keep it hanging.
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