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?
It should have been renewed
Someone posted the following information and I figured I would pass it along to anyone who is interested…LET’S SAVE BATTLE CREEK! CBS has yet to confirm the cancellation of Battle Creek but the fans are trying to get a #SaveBattleCreek movement going by starting a petition, which can be signed here: https://t.co/yqxQyjjmZI A feedback form can be sent to CBS as well through their audience services link. Please select Battle Creek in the drop down menu under ‘choose a category’ at this link: http://audienceservices.cbs.com/feedback/feedback.htm) and let CBS know why you think the show deserves a second season. We would love… Read more »
We are really disappointed at this cancellation after such a short ‘Season’. We hope that CSI will return to this Sunday time slot but surely with all the really stupid! non-thinking shows that take up space on CBS, Battle Creek could take one of those slots…..
Battle creek is a good series, it should not be cancelled. Characters are interesting and fun.
Best show ever! Please dont’t cancel such an exciting and well acted series. Always
looked forward to it.
I hope this TV show is reenstated
Cancelling Battle Creek makes me wonder what tv execs think. Itvwas a wonderful, fresh well acted show. However it was on Sunday night during the spring. Would any show do better. Promotions for the show were weak also. Dont blame the show or the writers for it failure, look instead at how the show was managed.
Battle creek was is a great show with great actor! Bring it back for a second season in a different time slot!
Great show, I enjoyed it from top to bottom – I hope another channel picks it up!
Completely unhappy with this cancellation. This is one of my favorite shows and with better advertising would have been a huge hit. Thanks a lot cbs
We loved Battle Creek. upset that it is cancelled
Battle creek is one of the best shows on tv
Would really love a second season
This refers back to the mdstudio post that heads the comment feed I keep receiving: I do appreciate the gentler (grammatically passive tense) version to learn bad news; so my response truly is not to shoot the messenger. However, the more direct (active tense) version still keeps coming to mind as follows. The md studio text is in quotes, my translation is in asterisks. Oh, that this would somehow reach CBS! “It appears that Battle Creek has lost the ratings war” translates to *CBS doesn’t know how to promote a prime time series that engages viewer intelligence.* “The low-rated (*put… Read more »
Someone posted the following information and I figured I would pass it along to anyone who is interested…LET’S SAVE BATTLE CREEK! CBS has yet to confirm the cancellation of Battle Creek but the fans are trying to get a #SaveBattleCreek movement going by starting a petition, which can be signed here: https://t.co/yqxQyjjmZI A feedback form can be sent to CBS as well through their audience services link. Please select Battle Creek in the drop down menu under ‘choose a category’ at this link: http://audienceservices.cbs.com/feedback/feedback.htm) and let CBS know why you think the show deserves a second season. We would love… Read more »
I am so disappointed that Battle Creek has been canceled. Well written, super cast! Loved the 2 night and day detectives. What can we do to have this show renewed? Sunday is a tough TV night – maybe change the day. Bring it Back, Please!!
I loved the show and found the two actors with unparalleled personalities giving a riveting show every week. Should have not been cancelled but given another opportunity