Robert and Michelle King found success with their last CBS series, The Good Wife. Now, they’re trying something different with BrainDead. How will it perform in the ratings? Cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.
On BrainDead, Laurel Healy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has returned home to Washington, DC to work for her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino) on Capitol Hill. She is caught in the midst of two huge problems: the government has stopped working due to budgetary disagreements, and mysterious bugs are eating the brains of a growing number of members of Congress and Hill staffers. The rest of the cast includes Aaron Tveit, Tony Shalhoub, Nikki M. James, Johnny Ray Gill, Charlie Semine, and Jan Maxwell.
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.
10/18 update: CBS has cancelled BrainDead after one season. Details here.
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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 BrainDead TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
I just discovered this show last week and binged the first 8 episodes. It’s really refreshing and different! I hope it gets renewed, but that doesn’t seem likely unfortunately.
It’s a little bit goofy but IMHO it is supposed to be. I actually find it refreshingly entertaining and different. YES, I want to see a 2nd season.
DEFINITELY renew!! Give it time to catch on! I’m an avid ABC viewer yet haven’t even heard of the series until it was already 8 episodes in. This show is phenomenal and I would be very disappointed if it didn’t make it past Season 1.
One of the funniest shows on TV — a biting, satirical,
cutting-to-the-bone riff on the state of American politics today. I
sincerely hope it is either renewed or picked up by Amazon for a Season 2!
Great Show I love it, its exciting and different !! My new fave Renew!!!
I think this is a great show.I think it should last at least five seasons.
Please do renew this show. Give it a chance. Don’t dump it just because it’s different from everything else on TV.
Do you realize how good this show could have been with the material they had from this election? This show is what happens when bad writing and actors that should stick to procedural television kill a good idea.
Love this show. Bright, witty, funny, best thing on network TV right now.
This is the only show we have looked forward to all summer. It is witty, satirical, and wonderfully silly. Please renew!
A 0.44 and dropping. Say goodbye to CRAP! CBS doesn’t want to be known as network who renews shows with ratings like this.
What a TERRIFIC show! This show, all ACTUAL NEW episodes of 60 Minutes, and the CBS Sunday Morning Show are all I watch on the Big Four. After 20+ years of Dish Network at this rural location with yearly escalations of worthless programming for ever-rising prices, CBS has got me again thinking that it’s time to shut this crap down. Had Netflix for years and getting the wonderful Amazon Prime array of showings (that come with my need for Amazon shipments with free two day shipping)… these I’ll keep! I’ll just get Sling or PlayStation Vue to fulfill my viewing… Read more »
If you want them to keep the show, go to http://audienceservices.cbs.com/feedback/feedback.htm and let them know, the more people that write the better! I love this show and don’t want to see it canceled.
BRAINDEAD will be cancelled and this sht have 2 seasons and maybe 3 http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/sexdrugsrockroll-season-two-ratings/
It doesn’t help the ratings when they move the show to cbs worse time slot they have. Everything that goes to this time slot gets cancelled. Shows usually start late on Sunday from some sporting event that runs over, so if you dvr the show you miss half of it.