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?
This is a bummer!!! This was a LOL show for my husband & I! We LOVED it, please bring it back!!!
Bring it back. Loved that show!!
This is a mistake. Most people I know just started watching and they love this show.
I thought the show was one of best new shows on tv. Give Vince Gilligan more time
Great show, needs to have a second season!
Call it a drama, a dramedy, or call it what I do: addictive.
This is such a good show – it’s rare to find something dark and funny, with such a well-assembled cast. Some of the rubbish that’s been renewed does not give me hope for the human race if that’s what everyone is watching.
Well, once again those running the fates of our tv shows (meaning the executives) have missed the mark. Battle Creek is a wonderfully, interesting and quirky show. I have loved watching it! It’s been very easy to enjoy the weekly foibles of this very talented cast of characters. All I can say is thanks CBS – here I only thought that ABC ditched fabulous shows after just one season. Now you’ve proven that CBS can also fail to recognize a winner of a show too. Battle Creek is a show that I would have certainly signed on with as a… Read more »
CBS, I and my son, 45 years old, loved this great show . You and the other 2 networks, ABC and NBC, have put so much trashy (reality shows and loser “New shows) in prime time, our entire hardl family watch only news programs on your network. Battle Creek was the most entertaining new show that any station introduced this season. Putting this fine show late Sunday night with little or no advertising was criminal.
I’m so discussed with network tv. I find a series I really like, i.e. “Stalker” and “Battlecreek”, get hooked on them, only to have them cancelled after only one season. Why even bother watching any new series? I’m done with it. I’ll spend my free time reading!
I was really sad to hear this. This was one of the few cop shows i truly enjoyed.
I love this show, it’s comedy gold, come on CBS stop cancelling all these shows, if people are still watching, then continue, unless it drops really low, but what I can see is you’ve still got a lot of viewers for this. Thanks CBS once again for cancelling another show I love.
This is actually a pretty good buddy cop show. Very different from most of the same old same old on CBS of NCIS, CSI, & Hawaii Five-O, all of which are very interchangeable. Battle Creek has a solid cast, and great chemistry between the leads, as well as Dean Winters & Aubrey Dollar, but the team Captain played by Janet McTeer. The writing is smart, savvy, and different from most formula cop shows. CBS killed any chance the show had to find an audience. They put it at 10pm Sundays, after The Good Wife, one of their lowest-rated dramas, as… Read more »
Too bad I think the show was well written and well cast. Enough story and humor for a decent show. Not everyone wants to watch reality tv. Reality tv is shallow and requires zero entertainment.
Hopefully enough people will write in and they’ll rethink their choice to cancel Battlecreek.
Why are they cancelling this show?!?!?!!!! I love Battle Creek!!!! CBS wouldn’t know a good show if it kicked them in the ars! This really sucks…..big time!!!!!