Rainn Wilson had a long run on NBC’s The Office but his own TV series Backstrom has been cut short. FOX has cancelled the series after one season of 13 episodes.
On Backstrom, an offensive, irascible yet brilliant detective (Wilson) is brought back from exile to run Portland Police Bureau’s Special Crimes Unit. The rest of the cast includes Genevieve Angelson, Dennis Haysbert, Kristoffer Polaha, Page Kennedy, Beatrice Rosen, and Thomas Dekker.
The show debuted in late January to a decent 1.95 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.98 million viewers. Unfortunately, the numbers took a big dive in episode two with the ratings falling more that 30%. They fell almost as much again in week three. After a brief rebound, the numbers kept sinking lower and lower.
The 13th and (now) final episode drew a 0.7 in the demo with 2.8 million viewers. The ratings were just too low to justify a second season.
What do you think? Did you like the Backstrom TV show on FOX? Why do you think it didn’t catch on? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
just idiotic, I love this show.
I love Backstrom! I can’t believe that FOX is taking it off the air! UGH! Bring it back for one more season!! My family LOVES this show!!
What was FOX thinking???? Backstrom is one of the finest shows around – but when they pit it against Scandal and Blacklist – that is crazy give this what it deserves a good chance in a better timeslot – Backstrom was artfully written with believable characters – it could very well become a longstanding classic if given a proper chance – FOX sucks and Backstrom deserves better – we deserve better
Bring Backstrom back!
Finally a show that did not make me believe that there’s still a future for copshows (the only other being Brooklyn nine nine… and that’s not even a real copshow). please people… start taking European viewers, like myself, into account… we count for at least another 100 % of your current demografic.
Bring it back. Come on. Great show. Great dialogue. Great characters.
Bring it back please. Pretty please. With sugar on top.
That is just ridiculous — do us “over 49” viewers count for nothing? I will keep that in mind when, quite frankly, I believe we watch more TV.
Bad decision. Bring Backstrom back.
I love this show and so very upset that it got canceled
Rainn Wilson is brilliant as Backstrom! Please give us another season, the show certainly is intelligent and frankly I’m tired of TV for 20 somethings and reality shows. We are 52 &59, and loved it from the first episode and grew to love each character as they developed. Please give it time to catch on, FOX you played dirty pool putting it up against to heavy hitters. AND it’s the only time our 16 yr old will join us to watch “live” TV PLEASE don’t take our family night “glue” away and BRING IT BACK !!!!
This was a very entertaining program. FOX is making a mistake by cancelling after just this one season. It was witty, gutsy and so over the top! What was there not to like???
Should have been given a chance. If you let the characters grow and the audience cares you will eventually get the ratings back up. Backstrom was only one of two show I watched on FOX, so who knows if it was promoted. I can’t recall ever seeing a promo outside of the network. Backstrom is a great cop show and I was really interested in it’s story. I also like the location it was set in. FOX sucks so bad.
We love backstrom, it was very nice to see this bad guy slowly showing his good side. I also loved Valentine, Niedermayer and the pastor cop.
It was interesting, do you remember the episode with the GIG BBIB, it was sooo nice!!
Yeah netflix, please take it from the not so foxy fox
Come on Netflix or Hulu pick up Backstrom. Let’s start a campaign to get this show back on somewhere. Ala Veronica Mars… This is too good of a show to have Fox replace it with garbage like: Are you smarter than a 5th grader ( obviously not if you are watching a show that asks the question) Backstrom is good quirky fun TV.. FOX sux to build up a show and then not give it time to grow. I know it’s ratings were not good with 18-24 year olds but there are a lot more of us watching tv. The… Read more »
Backstrom deserves another season. It’s itelligent witt is sorely missing on TV. I’ll admit that I wasn’t sure I liked it when I watched the first two shows but now it’s one of my families favorites. Bring it back!
I love backstrom. Please bring it back. You know it was a great show and it deserves to be renewed!!!!!