It appears that Battle Creek has lost the ratings war. The low-rated Sunday night police series has been cancelled by CBS.
Battle Creek revolves around two mismatched law enforcement officers — Detective Russ Agnew (Dean Winters) and FBI Special Agent Milton Chamberlain (Josh Duhamel) — who have polar opposite views of the world and end up being partners. The rest of the cast includes Janet McTeer, Kal Penn, Aubrey Dollar, and Edward Fordham Jr.
The show debuted on March 1st to a disappointing 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.92 million viewers. The numbers got even worse in later weeks and has fallen to lows of a 0.7 demo rating and fewer than six million viewers.
Those numbers aren’t good enough for CBS to order a second season so they’ve now cancelled it.
There are four unaired episodes remaining and the last installment is currently scheduled to air on May 24th.
What do you think? Do you like the Battle Creek TV show? Do you think that it should have been cancelled or renewed for season two?
Just watched the first season of Battle Creek and loved it. It had great relationships between the two main male characters plus great romantic interest with a “perfect” mystery man I was excited about getting to know. Nothing seemed forced and with great chemistry. Even the writing was amazing! Compared to some of the other shows that are out there which sensationalize and dramatizes everything. This was a small-time city with regular type crime for that city. Don’t know why the FBI is there but I’m sure it would have found out why, if it wasn’t cancelled. Finally a decent… Read more »
Battle Creek was exceptionally enjoyable to watch and I am extremely disappointed in CBS. I really do not think I can bear to watch another dreary CSI show. They made a big mistake. One season was not enough to get the word out. Not many of the shows CBS offers were more interesting than this one. It is a sad day. Maybe Netflix can take it over and offer more seasons.
With the cancellations of Battle Creek and Brain Dead, and others, I think I’m finally done with CBS. Why commit to watching and looking forward to watching a new series only to have it pulled before anyone gets to hear about how good it is? A single season wasn’t enough to create a buzz about these good shows and I’m tired of wasting the time. Why does CBS keep jumping the gun? Oh well.
I loved this show! They take away the good shows and leave the garbage on.
Love this show. So disappointed.
I need season 2.
Battlecreek is GREAT love it
Please don’t cancel this great show!! Great humor and storylines. Dean and Josh have great comedic chemistry…not to mention they’re great on the eyes. I looked forward to watching this on Netflix every night. Don’t like or subscribe to cable TV. Netflix streaming is the best way to see shows like this! Make more shows!
Renew the show! Watched it on Netflix and thought it was well written and acted. The two principles played off each other extremely good. It’s difficult to find shows with great plot lines and cast. BRING IT BACK!!!!!!
NovBattle Creek should not have been canceled. I just watched Season 1 on Netflix and loved it.
It was a wonderful show, I’ve started watching after season 1 has finished and it didn’t took one day to finish them all. It got my attention more than other series on air at the moment, and some series have 5 or more seasons. Great characters, great storyline and it had positivity in it though it was a crime mysteries that they were solving. Some misunderstanding definitely has happened. Just finished the last episode and was shocked to hear that season 2 was cancelled..
I watched it on Netflix, and others and myself gave it high marks. 5 stars from me! Awesome sbow!!!!! In the land of Netflix where time slots don’t matter, and many people purely watch Netflix because we won’t be a slave to times, waiting week by week for each episode; we can get a real sense of a show,..and this show is just too amazing for dated cable ! Rock the Netflix venue and bring out more seasons!
This show was very well put together, great story line that could have gone on for a while. There are 100 shows that should be dropped but this was not one of those.
GREAT SHOW!!
Netflix, please pick it up! I watched some episodes several times on Netflix.
Definitely should have kept this show going. Very disappointed it was cancelled. Not many shows that have the great cast. Bring it back!
I love Battle Creek on Netflix, should be a second season !