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?
Please review the Season 12, including Derek! he is absolutely necessary part. Ratings jump up and down. CMinds is still a very likable show, and please give Shemar a raise, well deserved actor.
bring criminal minds back next season it,s really a great show it,s the only show i watch on cbs so please renew it . it,s a no brainer bring it back
please renew this fabulous show for season 12 and many more seasons to come.Bring back Paget Brewster as Emily Prentiss.If Shemar Moore does not return,Replace him with either Forrest Whittaker or Jennifer Love Hewitt
Love Criminal Minds! Please bring back for many more seasons, including Shemar Moore!
great show.please renew for season 12.bring back Emily and Derek
Please don’t end the show and please please bring morgan ( shaman morgan) back.
Love this show
I love this show and would hate to see it end, I hope they renew for another season.
Still one of the best show on television, hope continue to b part of the line-up that CBS provide !
OH Please do not cancel Criminal Minds. This is my all time favorite show and I just love the cast. Let’s leave some things the same so much else is changing in our lives. I would much rather watch this cast than the new spin off. If Shamar is not there it will will not be the same.
Please don’t cancel Criminal Minds! I don’t know what I would do on Wed nights without it! It has been a staple of my sisters and I, we text each other while it is on! I think you need to get Jennifer Love Hewitt back, she was the first one that could fill Prentiss’s shoes. That may be why some of the rating are down some, just saying. I don’t think those ratings are all that accurate anyway. KEEP THE SHOW ON! WE LOVE IT!!!#
I love Criminal Minds and have been watching it for years with the original cast. Please renew it for the 12th season. Thank you.
Criminal Minds with the original cast-Shemore Moore, Matthew Gubler, A.J. Cook etc. is my favorite TV show. I will not watch any spinoff. Please renew it for the 12th season.
Thank Aisha for the decline. Huge mistake. Not watching till she’s gone. Not the same quality.
Criminal Minds has been my favorite show since it began. I can’t begin to think of the wasted hours of time and money spent on irrelevant reality shows, ect., when a program such as this with a cast of brilliant actors would even be thought of as being canceled!?