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?
We love the show. Wish it could be picked up by another network.
This show had a good start and improved greatly mid-way through. I think a CBS exec hit eject on this show too soon. Most new shows get much better the second season–this one did so within a few shows! Please give this one a second chance.
This was a well-written, an extremely well acted show with complex and interesting characters. The plots were not the formulaic crime show variety. It is a travesty that the show is not renewed. CBS could have moved it to a different time slot, promoted it a little more or just given it more time to gain traction. With all the mindless cookie-cutter plot shows this was a breath of fresh air.
My husband and I really enjoyed this show. It was a great cast and the back and forth between Josh and Dean was fun. We hope it will come back!!
I was terribly disappointed when Battle Cree was canceled….it had become one of my favorites. I hope it can find another home on another channel.
What a great show.? I expected nothing and found an enjoyable well written show. I liked the characters and like others disappointed the show was cancelled. I am sure a different time slot and better promotion would have kept the show going. I guess it needed to be NCIS Battle Creek to survive.
Love this show..hate that it’s cancelled
Grand Rapids a great show. I seen all the shows. Please bring it back.
I think Battle Creek is terrific – smart and funny. I do not believe that CBS has cancelled such a great show without giving it a chance to find its audience.
It should not be cancelled! It is a great show!
Very disappointed that Battle Creek was cancelled. It was extremely well done and I looked forward to it every week. Feeling sad.
we truly enjoyed the show very disappointed not returning.
Can’t believe this show has been cancelled. We PVR’d it so have only now finished watching the series. We really enjoyed it and were looking forward already to the next season. The casting and the story line were believable and the humour was genuine not forced. Someone really dropped the ball letting this show go. So sad.
Loved the show. Bring it back. Please!!!
I think Battle Creek was well-written and entertaining. It had some real dialogue and real and flawed characters with real emotion.
Why was Milt “demoted” to Battle Creek? It was well worth watching to find out.
I’m disappointed this series hasn’t been renewed.