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As has become the norm, the “One Chicago” shows continue to perform well for NBC in the ratings. Despite airing late on Wednesday nights, Chicago PD is still one of the network’s most-watched scripted dramas. Will this trend continue? Will Chicago PD be cancelled or renewed for season 13? Stay tuned.
A police procedural drama series, the Chicago PD TV show stars Jason Beghe, Patrick John Flueger, Marina Squerciati, LaRoyce Hawkins, Amy Morton, and Benjamin Levy Aguilar. This TV show follows the personal and professional lives of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department’s elite Intelligence Unit. They combat the city’s most heinous offenses including organized crime, drug trafficking, and high-profile murders. Detective Sgt. Hank Voight (Beghe) is at the center of the department’s war on crime and he’ll do anything to bring criminals to justice. The series also features crossovers with Chicago Med and Chicago Fire.
Nielsen Ratings
The Nielsen ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances of survival. This chart is updated as new ratings data becomes available.
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For comparisons: Season 11 of Chicago PD on NBC averaged a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 5.15 million viewers.
Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
Your Ratings (aka Viewer Votes)
Here’s your chance to rate episodes of Chicago PD yourself. You can see how this show compares to others here.
Chicago PD has been renewed for a 13th season, which will debut (TBD). Stay tuned for further updates.
What do you think? Do you like the Chicago PD TV series on NBC? Are you glad it has been renewed for a 13th season?
Undoubtedly the worst episode of CPD I’ve ever seen.
All aspects of this chapter are very poor – bad writing, pedestrian plot, bad acting, shaky camera work, terrible car chase scenes, inferior background music not synched appropriately, and, the writers ridiculous insistence to continue promoting Toya Turner’s character, Cook, who is quite obviously a terrible choice for the role. Sadly, all this depicts the desperate near death scenario CPD is drowning in now.
But, since they made this episode apparently to showcase the Cook character, a few questions to consider. Why would the writers select someone whose acting skills so are sub par, and pale in comparison to Hailey or even any of the smaller roles portrayed excellently like Nadia or Petrovic and others on and on over the years?
How is it that the daughter of one of Chicago’s most sophisticated families talks with a ghetto slur and a southern accent, or, how is it that
someone who possesses no believable experience is magically allowed to become part of Chicago’s Most Elite Team, or, how is this person
suddenly adept at using sophisticated computer techniques to track perps, or, how is it possible that she is able to go under cover
with Rusek ( who, by the way, is taking orders from her, ha ! ) with no previous experience, or how is she given the incredible honor of sitting in the interrogation room which Voight always reserved for himself or the most professional person on the case,
( In a previous episode when no team member can get this very tough and hateful guy to talk, Cook interrogates him and after spitting out “oh how woke'” to her face, for some inexplicable reason, he breaks down and spills all to her!!
Absolute horse**** But wait,,, it gets even worse,,, because, none of that is quite as fake as
Cook beating up that guy in an underwater fight scene, which asks us to somehow forget that we’ve already witnessed her inability
to run or even walk! ….Unbelievable! )
Or, how is it possible, speaking of interrogations, that after Voight finishes drilling a suspect, Cook grabs him on the way out to tell him he was being inappropriate! ( Are you frickin kidding me! How many times has Voight exploded like a bomb when Alvin, Antonio, Halstead, Hailey or others even tiptoed near him with confrontation? Now it seems, with this newbie’s attitude, he just walks away! Really!! It’s embarrassing…
With so many tremendous moments in CPD’s past it’s honestly painful to watch this kind of nonsense and a big let down for all true CPD fans.
I’ve pleaded with the writers to kill Cook off as there are many others in CPD’s storyline who would be more appropriate, but it seems I’m crying to
deaf ears.
So who is behind this idiocy? Just imagine Alvin or any other of the great stars who were on the show brandishing that kind of attitude? Are theseproducers completely lost? Is all this ghetto slurred enunciation worth it?
Are the writers who delivered years of incredible CPD still at the helm or have they resigned? And, exactly why are the ‘powers that be ‘allowing
this barrage of bad writing to torpedo the show? Perhaps the splurge of pathetically inflated hype all over the internet crying ” we are family” is a sign that a new socially aligned soap opera crew has taken over? ( We do remember the song )
With that said, CPD has never stooped to this level of fakery before. The racing heartbeat and breathtaking dynamics which helped the show become so iconic no longer exist and are replaced with predictable, formulaic and undistinguished episodes. Yes, Hailey took CPD’s last breath away when she left, but Burgess, Rusek, Atwater, Torres and Hank Voight ( although older and somewhat temperedl ) are excellent and can resurrect, provided they are not impeded with poor scripts, poor production, and a cast member thrust upon them who belongs somewhere else. Not trying to be mean, but sometimes things just don’t work out…
So, to the producers who created this iconic show in the first place – please, please, please re-direct your writers, get rid of the dead weight in your cast and find someone who is dynamic and possesses a charisma which your audience
won’t be able to avoid. Standing inline with the rest of the fake muck airing all over network TV would be a very sad end for CPD.
Chicago pd used to be great. But this last season, they went full DEi. Full focus on new diversity female. Too much camera time, whole show focused on her, and you already knew she would find jiller she would find kids, she got ransom money from her rich family….etc, etc, etc. hope it bombs.