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?
So disappointed this show has been cancelled. It has intelligent characterizations and great humor. CBS should have given it another season to really catch on. Great final episode. Really leaves me wanting more. I hope some other station picks it up.
I love this show!! I cannot believe it’s being cancelled. I decided to start watching it because Josh Duhamel is a cutie but ended up developing an extreme crush on Dean Winters.
Oh please, bring it back.
I thought it started slow; but it picked up as the actors started embodying and getting comfortable with their roles. CBS was too quick in pulling the trigger; it was starting to get fun and I was looking forward to a second season…. But then this is the same company beating the dead CSI horse with CSI:Cyber. Obviously they are not interested in developing anything new and waiting for it to mature.
I am very disappointed that this show was cancelled! I LOVE this show and the cast! This show was fun, funny, interesting… I can’t believe they didn’t renew it! Won’t be watching ANYTHING on CBS anymore!
CBS doesn’t need to worry about the numbers. The people have spoken and I believe they are being ridiculously stupid to cancel this wonderful show.
My husband and I personally liked it.
great show. dumb move by CBS
FINALLY there was a new cop show that wasn’t all serious and you cancel it??? Interesting characters and interaction, seems they were just developing when they got the axe. It was refreshing to see a cop show that wasn’t all business, more real-life. Maybe you should try it in a different time slot. This was an entertaining show, unlike worthless shows like The Bachelor/Bachelorette, Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother, Amazing Race, overload of CSI’s, and too many “talent” shows. We are very disappointed in your decision. Hope you will reconsider.
What a shame. My husband and I are so tired of the big 4 networks cancelling the interesting, well written shows after just a few episodes. They don’t even give these shows a chance to build a following. Love the entire cast. This show got better with every episode. We are really hoping another network picks it up. We will definitely watch it.
Really liked the program and think it should not of been cancelled. I think they should bring it back, the comic humor was great. If another network picks it up, I will definitely watch it.
My wife and I loved this show. The characters and story lines were great and were a lot of fun to watch. This was our favorite show. We are extremely disappointed to see this show dropped.
My husband and I think Battle Creek is a terrfic show. Loved all thecast members,it’s funnyparts and its serious parts. Please give it another chance.
I absolutely loved this show so much. I really wish it was not cancelled and would do a season two. It was well written and I really enjoyed how the two main characters were very different and at the end ended up understanding each other. You could see their partnership grow and each episode was interesting with some humor here and there. Please bring this show back for a season 2, do the world a favor and let battle creek come back.
This is great show! Good writing and quirky characters. Love the dry sense of humor in Russ Agnew! You gotta love Milt Chamberlin’s name alone!!!
Bring it back!!!!
Paddy Neal
I hope there are executives somewhere smarter than those at CBS who will snatch up Battle Creek A great mix of drama and comedy, well written, plus two VERY cute leading men – it deserved a better time slot and marketing campaign. Really CBS, leaving awful comedies like Two Broke Girls on the air and ditching a smart, funny show???