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How long will Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Joan Watson fight crime in the Big Apple? Has the Elementary TV show been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season on CBS? The television vulture is watching for all TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the dedicated place to track the status of Elementary season six. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What’s This TV Show About?
Airing on the CBS television network, Elementary follows detective Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu). This modern-day adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective stories features some new spins on the classic crime-solving duo. Instead of assisting Scotland Yard, they crack New York City’s toughest cases. A former surgeon who lost a patient, as well as her license to practice, Watson began as Sherlock’s sober companion. Eventually, their relationship evolved into an investigative partnership. Also starring are Aidan Quinn as Captain Thomas Gregson and Jon Michael Hill as Detective Marcus Bell.
Season Five Ratings
Currently, the fifth season of Elementary is averaging a 0.65 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.86 million viewers. Compared to season four, that’s down by 33% and down by 15%, respectively. Learn how Elementary stacks up against the other CBS TV shows.
On May 13, 2017, Elementary was renewed for a sixth season which will debut on April 30, 2018. Stay tuned for further updates.
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Telly’s Take
I deduce this may be the final season of Elementary. In the 2016-17 television season, this mystery drama is one of the least-watched CBS TV shows. Sure, it has a tough timeslot but, those ratings are truly terrible for a CBS show. By the end of the current fifth season, the detective series should total about 120 episodes. That’s plenty of episodes for syndication and the network needs to make room for new dramas next year. Therefore it’s… elementary. CBS has more reasons to cancel Elementary, than to renew it for season six. Consequently, I’ve left my perch and am circling in anticipation of a lovely feast. For fans of the show, I hope that I’m wrong.
5/13 update: Elementary has been renewed for season six on CBS. Details here. Rejoice in my hunger.
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What do you think? Were you surprised the Elementary TV show was renewed for a sixth season? How would you feel, had CBS cancelled this TV show, instead?
As someone who works on Elementary as an NYPD in the precinct I hope to god its not cancelled or Ill be out of a good steady job!
I hope they do not cancel
Elementary. I enjoy the show watch it with my husband. I find annoyance when it is football season and the time it comes on is not 10:00 PM.
I also find annoyance with poor writing on some of the episodes. Lately however, we give two thumbs up.
The only reason I watch anything on CBS is because I watch Elementary… I like this show a great deal, would hate to see it cancelled… I have noticed some other shows on CBS that have peeked my attention (because I see previews while watching Elementary …. If the show is cancelled I probably will no longer be interested in watching CBS…. Apparently they are not interested in “a show that requires thinking along with the story”….
Elementary might have a shot – if CBS would air it with any weekly consistency. Because of the inconsistencies with this show – and a few others I like, Ive stopped watching on the scheduled day and time, and watch online streams of the show so I dont have to kepp up with the networks’ chaotic broadcast schedules. Whatever happened to reliable weekly time slots from Premiers to Sweeps?!
I would like to have this program renewed and returned to its original time slot. I am sure The problem with ratings is because they moved it!
Please renew. It’s my favorite program.
I agree with the other comments made here. As a viewer in the UK who does not watch the likes of NCIS and other facile series that don’t require an attention span of over 30 milliseconds, I find like the other supporters of the show that it at least requires the viewer to think and follow interesting plot lines that the writers have produced. I also feel that the characters are more than two dimensional. If it had a bit more promotional effort put behind it, this might improve the rating figures. At the moment though it looks like whoever… Read more »
I will permentally boycott all of the sponsor products and agressicly encourage others to do the same
RENEW. RENEW
Love the show Elementary… however whole story line with Shinwell is ridiculous, unnecessary, boring and quite frankly I fast forward through scenes that include him! Time to make some changes!!
Definitely renew it. I just started watching Elementary about a month ago and started catching up on Hulu. I like the way the writers created their characters, Sherlock and Watson balance each other well. All the actors on the show are great.
I didn’t start watching it when it first started, thinking it was just another series about Sherlock Holmes. The idea of making Watson a woman seemed ridiculous to me it, but now after binge-watching it think the writers and of course the actors are doing a great job.
I can never understand when a network takes a great show with good ratings out of its time slot/day and moves it to a terrible time slot/day. Are they sabotaging the show for their own devious reasons? Do the actors make more money than the ones on their mindless sitcoms and zombie shows? I would hate to see Elementary cancelled because some exec wanted to see what would happen if they threw it into a crap place against football. Really guys what are you thinking??
I would love to have it stay on and putting it on time slots to compete with other shows when it actually airs they set it up to fail
Save elementary! Best tv show on right now. Put it back on Thursday at9
A reason the show had low ratings, is because during the football season the show frequently aired late due to late football game delaying CBS programming Sunday nights. I think it was a mistake to move it to Sunday night. It should have stayed on Thursday night. Unfortunately, as a result, this show has a good chance of being cancelled
Another reason that people might not be watching is that the idiots at CBS take it off for 2 or 3 weeks at a time. One never knows when the show will air.
I get the sense that CBS wants to kill the show. They can put it into syndication after 5 seasons, and that’s where the money is for these cretins.
It would be a shame to lose such an original show with such interesting and original characters.
Elementary is a great show but the day and time slot are killing it. Try Saturday
night at 9:00 p.m. Ransom seems to be holding it’s own on Saturday night. Storylines are great and Sherlock & Watson never disappoint. The return of Kitty is a nice touch. Have her on recurring episodes mixes things up a bit. Sherlock appeared dumbfounded, quite unusual for his character
Elementary is one of the best series on TV…fantastic actors, witty plots…in all, a winsome program that delights every week!