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?
What a fun show with a great cast. Just the right mix of crime show and human interest. The characters were easy to like and the relationships are developing nicely. We have looked forward to this program every week! Great programming!
This show is such a good one! I got hooked! Love the relationship between Milt and Russ. Things were getting so good and we were just starting to get to know the characters and fall in love with them. Bring the show back!!!!
Please bring back Battle Creek!!
grest series should be renewed its diffrent Characters make it a refreshing change from all the cookie cutter shows. Please reconsider
I really liked it. It was intelligent humour with a mixture of other believable emotions. It wasn’t gory and didn’t have gratuitous violence or sex every two minutes so of course didn’t appeal to the masses. Perhaps if they’d worked the word kardashian into the title it might have had a chance.
LOVE Battle Creek!! Disappointed it is cancelled. 🙁
Loved Battle Creek! So sad it won’t be returning.
I’m tired of cancelled shows …they have adult cartoons and vampire stupid shopws finally battle creek and you cancel ikt …mad as hell…loved the shows
I think the writing for Battle Creek is FAR superior to NCIS New Orleans, which CBS has chosen to keep for another season. Either move the writers to NCIS New Orleans, or sell Battle Creek to another network so that we can see if it is found by more viewers. It’s top quality TV!
Give the show a chance. Now in mid-season the show is really coming together. There is some really good character development happening. Finally of show worth watchig
Please don’t cancel this show. The characters were just getting interesting.
Please bring back Battle Creek! It was a refreshing cop show. Others are too deep, bloody, intense. Just began to develop when you ended it
Cannot fathom why a show as interesting and original as this would be cancelled. Give it a real chance.
We’ve been taping the series and just started finally to watch them now that most shows have finished their season. We got hooked …. Have been on a Battle-Creek-a-thon. Dang if it doesnt get cancelled! The competition drops away, people start watching this “excellent show” discovering that it IS an excellent show! at a time where their is little to watch and they’re starving for a good show. Then the T.V. execs, in all their mighty wisdom throw out the baby with the bath water! T.V. Execs are idiots!
Love this series. Please bring it back!