Like many of the other long-running procedural dramas on CBS, the ratings for Criminal Minds keep slowly sinking each season. Will this be the year that the show is cancelled or will it be renewed for a 12th season instead? Stay tuned.
Criminal Minds continues to follow the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) out of Quantico, Virginia. This season’s cast is Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, and Thomas Gibson.
The higher a show’s ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better its chances for survival. New ratings data will be added as it becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/6 update: CBS has renewed Criminal Minds for a 12th season. Details here.
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Last year comparison: The 10th season of Criminal Minds averaged a 2.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 10.31 million total viewers.
Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you still like the Criminal Minds TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a 12th season?
Criminal minds I love the show my whole family loves it everybody I know loves it even though Thomas Gibson is off the air I love the new cast and it is a great do not cancel it and it must be renewed for another season
The firing of Thomas Gibson was a HUGE mistake! He was the “constant”, the cement that held the show together. His calm and collected personality was exhibited so well it is obvious he is not someone easily excited or aggressive. So to fire him, then try to sell it as his fault really makes the producers look like stupid, spoiled little children throwing some kind of tantrum. We are not that easily fooled!! They shot themselves in the foot because the show just in not as good without Thomas Gibson and they need to beg his forgiveness (and ours) and… Read more »
I can not watch this show even though I have been a fan from the first show. The firing of THOMAS GIBSON was over kill—who are you trying to keep happy? Now you replace him with a dull actor. Was it because you had to fill a quota instead of trying to replace with a “GOOD ACTOR” no matter what the race or gender. The ratings speak for them selves.
Maybe the firing of Thomas Gibson is a way for a cancellation without any contraverse. We know the network likes to fire the stars and cancel good shows, CBS is known for doing this. Good luck to Gibson and looking forward to Adam Rodriguez joining cast.
Keep it coming!!!
please doin’t cancel this great show
please doin’t take off criminal minds its one of the best shows on tv my famialy has watched since day one
We have watched the show religiously since its inception. We even watch the re-runs on ION! Please renew the series!
I have watched Criminal Minds since it first aired, I don’t miss an episode. It has to be renewed, it’s bad enough we’re losing our team members, we can’t lose our show. Please renew
Renew it please for heavensake! D: I would be bloody lost :C its pretty boring over here in Britain, so please, for my sanity, renew it!
PLEASE RENEW!! The 11th season’s finale had all of us at the edge of our seat and left us reallly impatient to see what happens next!! I’m dying to know what will happen, please have some mercy and renew so that we can have some answers!!!
Please renew. I have watched this show from the beginning in 2005. It is the second greatest show of all time in my opinion. Dallas is the greatest show of all time.
Anyway please renew. We need more shows like Criminal Minds. The actors and actresses are phenomenal. The stories are spot on. Again please renew.
Excellent. Show, excellent. Cast – RENEW!
Please renew. There not many shows that are good to watch. This is one of the few that is good. Please renew. We need to keep the good shows on.