Rainn Wilson enjoyed a long run on the NBC sitcom The Office. How will FOX’s Backstrom perform in the ratings? Will it be cancelled or will it be renewed for a second season?
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 higher a show’s ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better its chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically the following morning, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/8 update: FOX has cancelled Backstrom after one short season.
Final season averages: 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.99 million total viewers.
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These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
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There are too many stupid,pc tv shows that are kept on for the liberals out there. Please leave Backstrom on!! There are fabulous characters on the show and great plot lines! FOX…don’t Cancel!!!
Please don’t cancel. Give it some time. Maybe place it in another time slot. It is on the same time as the popular Scandal and sitcoms.
Backstrom is one of my favourite new shows. I really hope it gets picked up for a second season but I fear that will not. The show is a bit different and not very P.C. that is one of the reasons I love it and hopefully enough others do too.
Dump it – it’s garbage.
Rainn Wilson is excellent. He stays in character -as a complex human being- which would be a nearly impossible assignment for many actors. The character Backstrom is verbally irritating, sometimes excruciatingly so, but he is able to express affecting emotion (see latest episode). Bottom line, Backstrom is offended by violent crime against anyone, and he understands his job is to determine the person(s) responsible for such crimes, regardless whose feathers he ruffles along the way. His intuitive thinking, brilliance, and growing personal insight deserves atleast another season. Again, brilliant acting, as Rainn Wilson dissolves seamlessly into the character of Elliott… Read more »
Backstroke is one of the new shows that is actually fresh. Good characters decent plot And offbeat humor. DON’T CANCEL!!!
I love this show!!! I have to set all the shows I like to record so I can watch them when I get home. I am tired of every show that I get into, ends up being canceled. Then I don’t even know until around when the next season should be. I’m waiting and waiting for the show to start back up and then I finally search for it online when it doesn’t and it says it’s been canceled. Wtf!!! I’m telling ya if this show gets canceled I’ll be done watching fox altogether. They canceled Witches of East End… Read more »
Love backstroke. Please renew it.
Please please don’t cancel this show its one of four shows I MAKE sure I watch
LOVE..LOVE..LOVE THE SHOW!!!
Best show on TV! Please keep Backstrom on the air!
This is a great show!! Love watching it…hope they don’t cancel!! I can only imagine what garbage they will replace it with. Rainn Wilson is GREAT in this series.
Great Show, huge cast Just Beginning to gel and know the Characters. Bones and House Took time too
I really love watching backstrom but, because I don’t tune in when it comes on in not counted by Neilsen ratings? I TiVo because I work which I’m sure allot of people do. I’m sick of reality TV taking over television, we still believe in family TV time and the two shows we’ve enjoyed this year are backstrom and forever. Both are considering cancellation. I’m very frustrated that I have no voice and only Nielsen rating is counted
I really love this show!! I love the vulgarity, the rawness!! Everything has been so PC and reality tv driven this show is exactly what has been missing!!