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?
Hopefully CBS will reconsider. The cast is obviously getting more comfortable with their roles, and each other. This is key to fans feeling a connection. Please reconsider.
Hopefully CBS will rethink this decision and allow Battle Creek to develop an audiance. Please give it time to get a foothold with fans. The chemistry between cast members is obviously getting stronger, a key to fans getting invested in the stories.
KEEP BATTLE CREEK ON, ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON CBS, CHANGE THE TIME OR DAY OR SOMETHING TO KEEP IT ON.
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I was getting into this show. I wish it had a bit earlier time slot. Please reconsider this cancellation. Give it a chance and let the stories develop.
I am so bummed! I look forward to watching Battle Creek and will definitely miss it. I don’t think CBS tried hard enough with this show. I haven’t seen any promos for it. Battle Creek is both funny and touching and deserves to be continued.
Wish they would keep Battle Creek. It took a coupke of episodes before I got hooked but now I am! Hope some other network pucks it up.
CBS needs a better marketing strategy as this show is brilliant. Keep it!
Battle Creek is so smart. The dialogue is witty. CBS needs to up its marketing strategy to promote the show. No one I know has heard of it- that is CBS’s bad. Try another night . Don’t give it up. It’s better than 95% of current shows 0n TV.
I love this show. It was fun to have comic relief after all the intense Law&Order, CSI, Criminal Mind type shows. Bad move CBS.
Battle Creek was the reason that I started watching CBS again after a 15-year hiatus…
F’ng shame, man… it needs a new channel and a new time slot (Sundays at 10PM, really?)
How do you follow Game of Thrones? Am I right?
Battle creek is a great show. Do not cancel.
I’m very disappointed that CBS is cancelling Battle Creek. I love this show!!!! I love how CBS cancels great television shows, bring them back!!! Hopefully Netflix or TNT or TBS brings them back for a 2nd season.
The new shows cbs has comin for the fall are all bad. the network is really going downhillone of the best shows I had on was Battle Creek. And they’re going to cancel that. I’m not going to watch CBSto next year
I really enjoy Battle Creek. Maybe CBS should try a different time slot or something? I am really going to miss it. How do the ratings get compiled? No one has ever asked me or anyone I know what we watch!
That is the problem with ratings. Who actually knows anyone who is a Neilsen member? Many of us watch but the network has no idea.