Last night, NBC aired the finale of Crossing Lines. The season ended on a cliffhanger that has viewers itching for season two. Will the show be renewed, or will it be cancelled instead?
Crossing Lines follows a former NYPD officer who’s become addicted to morphine and ends up working as a trash collector for a carnival in the Netherlands. The International Criminal Court recognizes his worth and recruits him to help investigate crimes that cross international borders.
The show stars William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine, Gabriella Pession, Tom Wlaschiha, Moon Dailly, Richard Flood, and Donald Sutherland.
The police procedural series debuted June 23rd to a disappointing 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.38 million viewers. The first hour ranked a distant third in its timeslot, easily beaten by a rerun of FOX’s Family Guy and the debut of Whodunnit? on ABC.
Though viewership is lower in the summer months, the peaock network could not be happy with these numbers. The later weeks saw them get even worse. Over the course of the season, Crossing Lines has fallen as low as a 0.5 demo rating and 2.51 million viewers.
If NBC were producing the Crossing Lines, there’d be no way that they would make a second season. There’s just not enough ad money to pay for the production.
Thankfully for fans, NBC doesn’t produce the show. Crossing Lines was jointly commissioned by TF1 in France and by Sony for their AXN channels.
NBC merely licenses the series so it costs them much less. Based on the ratings, it’s still extremely unlikely that the peacock network will air a second season.
However, there’s hope that another season will be produced by Sony and TF1. If that happens, another US channel could pick it up or, at the very least, episodes could be released on DVD. We’ll post any updates as they become available.
But, what do you think? Would you like to see a second season of Crossing Lines or should it be cancelled instead? Why didn’t more people watch? If NBC doesn’t want season two, which channel would be a better fit?
Loved this show. Donald Sutherland was amazing as usual. It was good to see him back on TV.
This is a great show, please renew for a second season.
My husband and I absolutely love Crossing Lines. We would buy the DVDs if that was the only way to get answers to the cliffhangers. The show wasn’t properly promoted, plus it came out in the summer. If it were released in the fall, I believe it would have had better ratings.
This is a great show! It actually plays like a theatrical release and I think people don’t watch because they didn’t promote it. It probably would do better on cable in the summer. They seem to show most of the good scripted TV.
I hope we get to see season 2 crossing lines is a great show
Bring it back, great show, great acting & storylines.
The only other show I watch that airs on NBC is Grimm so I really hope one of these networks will renew it. I love this show!!!
I loved the show, the acting was very edgy and entertaining and kept me interested. Hopefully it will continue in the Fall
I love the show. It’s well written and the characters are likable. The season finale and all the twists have got me wanting more. The issue with the ratings is that the general public watch brain dead shows like situation comedies. Something that stimulates the mind doesn’t have chance. Please bring it back for the mind intelligent public .
Please bring it back on another night. It has all the features that The Killing lacked and leaving we who were followers hanging is a shame.
Let see another season of this international crime show instead of another rediculous reality show
AWESOME SHOW!!! OF COURSE INTELLIGENT SHOWS STRUGGLE YET AGAIN…….. BRING IT BACK!!
What a great show. I hope they renew!!!
This is an EXCELLENT program! Well acted/great cast. The actors meld together as a unit and the premise is believable and not the “same old storylines”.
PLEASE RENEW IT! Remember many people are using their PVR’s to watch these programs at a convenient time for them [when they’re NOT WORKING]. The Neilson ratings just don’t work anymore! So tired of NBC cancelling great programs and punishing us because we use our PVR’s. We’re left with crap reality tv.
SAVE CROSSING LINES!!!
good show, smart, not run of the mill story lines.Brains, babes and guns! put it on Friday.