A day before the network’s official upfront presentation for advertisers, CBS has cancelled Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. The spin-off will end after just one season.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior follows a highly-trained team of agents who operate within the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). They use unique and hard-hitting tactics to bring down some of the country’s most dangerous felons. The TV series stars Forest Whitaker, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Kelly, Beau Garrett, Matt Ryan, and Kirsten Vangsness.
While spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles got off to an immediate great start back in 2009, the same can’t be said for CBS’ latest spin-off, Suspect Behavior. In February, it debuted to a 3.3 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 13.06 million viewers. That was a solid start but then the second episode dropped 27% to a 2.4 rating and 9.8 million. By the fourth episode, it had fallen to a 2.2 demo rating.
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The ratings have gone up and down a bit over the course of the season but has gone as low as a 2.1 in the demo a couple times. It currently averages a 2.4 rating and 9.84 million viewers, more than a whole point below its lead-in and parent series, Criminal Minds. Those numbers put it squarely on the bubble for renewal.
There was talk about bringing Suspect Behavior back for another round, possibly after doing a revamp, but the network’s decided against it. They likely have other procedurals waiting in the wings that believe can do better so CBS has cancelled Suspect Behavior after one season.
A baker’s dozen of episodes have been produced and so far, 11 of them have aired. The remaining two are expected to run tomorrow and next Wednesday night, May 25th, as previously scheduled.
The series finale is called “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and finds the team tracking a serial killer who randomly shoots people in crowded areas.
What do you think? Are you sorry that Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior won’t be back for a second season? Why do you think this one didn’t catch on?
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Too bad! I was enjoying CMSB very much. Whitaker’s performances are spectacular, and just now when we start to know a little bit about the private lives of the BAU members (to understand better their behaviors), the show was cancelled. I don’t think the starting points of the stories were lame. I just think that are many crazy people in the world, and we see everyday on the news disturbed people making terrible things moved by shallow and empty reasons.
I absolutely agree! And they r just doing that is because some of they producers r morons who have no personality. ( just the ones who canceled the show)
Most of the major criminal procedurals are finished for the year. If CBS would let it run through the summer, it would undoubtedly pick up numbers from the folks tired of summer re-runs- that’s exactly :what happened with Flashpoint and it is still a viable show. I think that CM:SB had/has potential. I wish that network would realize that it needs to believe in and support its shows instead of wavering with each ebb and flow of the viewer tide. On a side note, they may have thought about casting a few more ‘quirky’ character combos to start with. They… Read more »
I loved Criminal Minds but I have to agree that the cast just didn’t click for me. I think it might have survived with different actors.
Major mistake. But maybe CSI will do better on Wednesdays.
This sux! It wasn’t as good as the original but still good. Forest and Janeane are both great on screen and now their gone. Very disappointing. The storylines were always great and this is just a shame. Still, fox has pissed me off much more.
I could never get the cast. Like Mike said there didn’t seem to be any chemistry with the cast members.
As much as I LOVE “Criminal Minds” and wanted the spinoff “Suspect Behavior” to succeed, I could never get into it. The main reason is because of the CASTING. I couldn’t connect with the characters, they didn’t seem to click well together, Forest Whitaker is a fine actor and director and all, but his voice is not easy on the ears for this kind of role. The other characters seemed just blah. The loose canon character was interesting to a point, and Janeane Garafalo was ok–but I didn’t get much chemistry between her and Forest Whitaker. The storylines were fine,… Read more »
I am so disappointed and angry CBS did not renew Criminal: Suspect Behavior. This is a unusually intelligent and nuanced show and superior to its parent show Criminal Minds (CM). Forest Whitaker depicted team leader Sam Cooper very well and I thought this character was more pro-active and much more nuanced than his CM counterrpart Aaron Hotchner. Losing such a great show is a major loss and disappointment. This season the networks have tossed great shows such as Detroit 1-8-7, Lone Star, Terriers, Chicago Code, Lie to Me, No Ordinary Family, Undercovers, and of course CM: Suspect Behavior. The latter… Read more »
when is the season finale for suspect behavior?
Karyn O’Dell » 5/25.
I enjoyed Suspect Behavior and really enjoyed the work of Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker. As with all of the new shows (spinoffs included), the good ones are being cancelled for mindless comedies and reality shows. Soon, we will have no choice but to watch cable TV (but wasn’t that the plan anyway?)!!
The one and only reason I did not watch Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is because I just got sick and tired of spin offs. I didn’t mind when CSI got two spinoffs and I was kind of okay with NCIS getting one (I didn’t watch it but I was okay with it) but when I heard about Criminal Minds getting one I said to myself “enough already”. I am so glad to see it gone.
I was turned off by it in the first episode. Wasn’t one of the team a previous inmate, who was incarcerated for beating up a pedophile or something? It just felt so silly having him be the “loose cannon”. Whittaker also seemed to be phoning it in.
Well I guess Kathy Bates (Harry’s Law) and Timothy Hutton (Leverage) are the only Oscar-winners with successful TV shows right now.
I remember seeing 1 episode in which a man became a serial killer
after being stood up at his wedding. The stories for the original
Criminal Minds are starting to get pretty weak too. It is definitely
not a strong enough show in terms of writing for a spin-off.
“man became a serial killer
after being stood up at his wedding.” wow, if that’s the standard of writing stories on this show no wonder it got canned!!
Couldn’t be happier. I hated the spin-off.
was looking foward to criminal minds suspect behavior as one, of my favorite shows was criminal minds ,but when i saw that J GAROFALO WAS IN IT iwould not watch it nomatter how good the rating were. arnt there any patriatic female stars looking to act. SHE IS A JOKE AND SHOULD HIRE ON TO MSNBC.
I am with you h.
Didja notice that as soon as the guns came out, Garofalo was nowhere to be seen. It made me wonder if she refused to be in a scene with a gun. Hard to be FBI and be against guns.
Rob Roy – She shot someone in one of the episodes, so not sure what you mean.