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 has been a very good show — both drama and comedy. We’re sorry to see it go, but since we aren’t in the 18–49 age group, I’m sure no one cares!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show. Don’t cancel it. Give it another chance. Pretty please with sugar on top?
LOVE this show. Please give it another chance. Seinfeld had awful ratings at first, too, remember???
Liked the show. Anything with Dean Winters is great!
Great show sorry to see it go.
Again another good show that has bit the dust. Thanks so much CBS………………..you guys really suck!
FINALLY a tv show worth watching and they canceled it. Hopefully Yahoo or another streaming site will pick it up. PLEASE!!!
This is the best show on this year. Maybe you should try a different time slot or different day, instead of just cancelling it. Every actor is very good. It has a great storyline. The interaction between the 2 main characters is refreshing, their interaction made it more real.
Disappointing, to say the least
Battle Creek was a great show that our family enjoyed & looked forward to every week. So sad that if there isn’t enough blood/guts/gore or if actors are incapable of banter end up replacing those who actually entertain, the networks are disinterested in continuing a series.
I love the show and the cast. Finally something worthwhile to watch. Please renew it!!!
Battle Creek definitely should have been renewed. The cast and writing is excellent. A crappy time slot did it no favours. This is the only new show I found worthy to watch and I sincerely hope another station picks it up or it goes digital. Things are heating up in Battle Creek and I’m afraid the finale is going to be exceptional and CBS has left us with nothing to look forward to, thank you very much.
One of the few shows this year I loved. Oh well. It’s back to reading books again.
I really liked Battle Creek. I’m so sorry it was canceled. Any chance to reconsider?
If it isn’t reality TV or cookie cutter formula TV, it gets cancelled. This is the first series I have gotten interested in for 10 years. I don’t enjoy TV much any more. I finally find something that is quality and bam!, the Kardashian age strikes again. Back to watching movies om NetFlicks. Sad…..