CBS has had mixed success with their new crime dramas this season. NCIS: New Orleans has been renewed for a second season while Stalker has been dropped from the schedule and may likely be cancelled. What will happen to Battle Creek? Stay tuned.
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 ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/8 update: CBS has cancelled the Battle Creek series midway through its first season.
Final season averages: 0.75 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.12 million total viewers.
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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like the Battle Creek TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Why aren’t they even giving Battlecreek a chance. We think it is such a different
Quirky series it is worth taking another look at it. The serious/ comedy pairing is
Just excellent with a motley crew of characters that make it more than interesting..
This one needs another peek! They aren’t giving it a chance.
This is a great show better than most on air today. Let’s get rid of crap like reality shows and leave the well written good screen chemistry of this cast to stay on the air and continue to entertain us. Let’s give it a chance to compete and move to a better time slot…… Late on Sunday evening when people are getting ready for work the next day doesn’t allow for a big enough draw. Great show good characters……
Battle Creek is a very good show. Please give it another season.
Please DO NOT cancel Battle Creek! My husband and I enjoy watching this show together. It has heartwarming characters, takes place in a small town and it’s very entertaining.
Please do not cancel Battle Creek! It’s a great show with heartwarming characters.
My husband and I enjoy watching this show together.
My husband and I loved this show. The writing got better with each episode and the characters seem to be pretty well rounded. But we are outside of the “beloved” demographics of 18-49, so it doesn’t matter what we watch according to the networks. It’s too bad too, especially being as there was an episode about this directly on Boston Legal years ago. We are the only age group that actually watches tv anymore without interacting with our phones. Oh and we are the only one paying attention to those ads that are running and paying for their networks. Shame… Read more »
Sign the Change.Org petition to save the show.
https://www.change.org/p/cbs-savebattlecreek
Battle Creek should not be canceled. It did start off slow slow but has improved to one of the great shows on TV. The Sunday nite time slot is the kiss of death to any show and is usually reserved for shows that have been on for a while with a so so rating. This time slot gives the network the OK to cut them because viewing drops. It drops because sports runs over causing the good wife to run over. So you don’t get to see the one show you want to see. All of my rambling to say… Read more »
Seriously… take all the cool shows off the air ( Rake…Battle Creek ) ’cause God knows we need another reality show with a bunch of idiots littering up a pristine island in the middle of nowhere and we need blubbering idiotic women fighting over a guy , or lecherous, loser guys fighting over a woman, or fighting housewives with WAY TOO MUCH time and money on their hands, or plastic surgeons fighting with patients with body dysmorphic disorder, or realtors fighting over obnoxious spoiled clients, or judges deciding who they think can sing and then tossing them into obscurity…SO FRICKIN’SAD!!!!!!!… Read more »
Please do not cancel. I really enjoy this show!!!!
Battle Creek is an excellent show with a great cast! I’m so sick of big stations getting people hooked and invested in shows and then cutting them without giving them a proper chance or trying hard to figure out a way to get the show to thrive! Please work with this show like I said it is an excellent show and the cast is great. Don’t give up so quickly! Please!!!
I like the show very much. It is another example of a network not recognizing a great show. I hope someone smarter picks it up.
Keep making this show please. How do you know lots of folks aren’t watching over-the-air and missed in ratings?
Please dont cancel battle creek or stalker
Based on CBS’s Demo 18-49 certainly doesn’t cover us people over 49 who finds the Battle Creek series a very good program to watch… I hope CBS will give it another season…. My wife and I really enjoy it…
PLEASE don’t cancel this show!!! It’s the best new show on tv!!!