It used to be a big deal when a movie star starred in a TV show. Now, they get cancelled just as quickly as any other series. How will Halle Berry and Extant do on CBS? Will it be renewed for season two or will it be cancelled after one short season? Stay tuned.
On Extant, astronaut Molly Woods (Berry) returns to Earth after a year-long solo mission in outer space. Her reunion with her family is thrown into turmoil when it’s learned that she’s pregnant. Others in the cast include Goran Visnjic, Pierce Gagnon, Hiroyuki Sanada, Camryn Manheim, Grace Gummer, and Michael O’Neill.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
10/9 update: Extant has been renewed for a second season CBS.
Final season averages: 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.15 million total viewers.
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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like the Extant TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or be renewed for a second season?
I love the show extant. I am not one who believes in aliens and such but the show is very entertaining and it makes no sense to cancel a good show and leave these cheap shows like big brothers, which I loath. I don’t know about others but I don’t enjoy shows where betrayal of trust is the main engredient.
Please leave extant alone for the sci-fi lovers. It is worth at least another season to see where it leads.
This and Whispers are two great shows that the whole family can watch. I would think 6 Million viewers should be enough for at least one more season. Great acting and script.
A peculiar thing is evidenced by the evidence, basically, which is, the total number of viewers from season 1 to season 2 has gone down, while at the same time the actual quality ratings of the episodes has gone way up. I almost wonder if they need to produce something like a single hour condensed view of season 1, for people who haven’t been onboard already to see and follow the entire basic storyline in one hour’s watching, because I did watch on and off during season 1, and there is a great deal of essential character and storyline development,… Read more »
I love Extant very much! I do hope this can continue for another year or two!
Whats wrong with you people at CBS, put the bloody season 2 on, its Spielberg for Gods sake !!!
Please please please renew Extant for a second season!!! This show is amazing and I want to see what’s going to happens next!
I thought the show was amazing!!! I hope it returns for a second season.. I loved the first season and want to see what happens when she returns to earth for the second time..
Please read this whole comment. This is amazing show! Every Saturday my family and I always watch Extant and we love it! If people don’t like it then then they don’t have to watch it!
Please don’t cancel! I just found this show on amazon instant video and it’s awesome! Definently up there and on par with the best tv shows right now like walking dead and the Americans. Please renew for season 2 I would watch and my friends will watch I need to know what happens! Thanks!
I don’t watch TV — just occasional movies and I really enjoyed EXTANT. Hope it stays. I haven’t turned on the TV in 2 weeks.
Keep the show.
This is the theater of big ideas and the writers do not shy away from deeper than usual discussions and observations. I wonder if CBS is evaluating its life on Amazon, where I found it. It was one of the enticements of purchasing Amazon prime – along with Falling Skies. Do all these post-air viewers via other methods hold any weight with the Powers That Be?
I LOVE EXTANT
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL IT
I didn’t think it was very good either. Most people here who mention how ‘great’ the show is, for some reason feel compelled to compare it to ‘reality tv’ and have to mention how bad everything else is on tv. Is that why this show is good? Because everything else is so bad? Because by the end of the year only half the original viewers stayed. I don’t care how cute you all think Ethan is..CONTINUAL weekly drops in viewership has got to mean something. It means no season two and another epic fail for Spielberg on tv. sorry, the… Read more »
Basic plot element lifted directly from Tarkovsky’s “Solyaris” which is a fantastic film, by the way. Very good concept and writing and pretty good acting. Best new series anywhere on TV with the exception of “The Knick” – also excellent and wonderfully original.