It will soon be “case closed” permanently for the Instinct TV show on CBS. The network has cancelled the Sunday night series so there won’t be a third season for Reinart and Needham.
A crime thriller, based on the James Patterson novel, Murder Games, Instinct stars Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Daniel Ings, Naveen Andrews, and Sharon Leal. The drama centers on Dr. Dylan Reinhart (Cumming), a former CIA operative who is lured out of his peaceful retirement as a university professor and author, to help NYPD detective Lizzie Needham (Novakovic) catch a serial killer. Dylan’s old CIA colleague, Julian Cousins (Andrews), lends a hand, along with Lizzie’s C.O., Lt. Jasmine Gooden (Leal). Season two kicked off with Dylan reinstated as NYPD consultant, where he can both impress and irritate Lizzie. Meanwhile, Dylan’s husband, Andy (Ings), pursues adoption as a way for the couple to finally become parents.
Airing on Sunday nights, the second season of Instinct is currently averaging a 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.39 million viewers. Compared to season one, that’s down by 50% and 49%, respectively. Instinct is nearly the lowest-rated TV shows of the summer CBS TV shows.
A pair of Instinct episodes will air tomorrow night on CBS and the series finale will run next Sunday, August 25th.
Series creator Michael Rauch revealed the show’s cancellation and Cumming and Novak shared their thoughts.
WELL THIS SUCKS BALLS. But when one door closes another… actually fuck that. This sucks balls. Love to all our fans and the most incredible cast and crew. Thank you all for an incredible two years. @Michael_Rauch @Alancumming @CBSTweet @CBSTVStudios @TVdub https://t.co/80QDAJvbTy
— Bojana Novakovic (@bojnovak) August 16, 2019
What do you think? Did you enjoy the Instinct TV show on CBS? Would you have watched a third season of this series?
I would love if Hulu or Netflix picked up this show. It was so good and refreshing, sure will miss Alan’s character most he nailed Dylan 🙁
Please bring instinct back it is about time they have finally brought out that gay people actually have relationships and are very intelligent as well as loving people. We fit into all parts of society and it was nice to see that acknowledged.
Instinct was a favorite! I cannot believe you would cancel it and yet keep something so ridiculous a survivor on! We are so sick and tired of stupid reality shows! With Instinct canceled I will be watching cbs even less now.
I was so looking forward to season 3 and I went looking to find out when it was going to start. Well, I see someone made a very poor choice and cancelled the show! This was a really great show, no IS a great show. The storylines were interesting, cunning, with just the right amount of humor. You wove personal relationships into the stories giving the stories more depth. This show was definitely more intelligent than Hawaii 50 or Magnum PI. None of that stupid gratuitous violence where the fight scenes make up half the show. PLEASE bring it back!!!
You should have done a better marketing job on selling this show to the public. Change the night it was on and time slot. Have it before or after a show that was doing well to grab their audience.
Why doesn’t Nielsen ever look at those OVER 49!? My wife and I loved the show and all the story lines and cast! But, of course you just had to put it on Sunday when football screwed up the “roster”. Really great shows get cancelled and the crappy one stay on! Sick of ALL OF ABC, CBS, NBC, just for this kind of program destruction!
My husband and I loved this show. We thought it was witty, insightful, fun, and thoughtful. It seems most intelligent shows get canceled. I rarely watch sit-coms or other police procedurals because they all seem the same. Instinct was fresh and different. Too bad the TV powers that be aren’t the same.
Instinct was the only drama series I watched. It was intelligent, well acted and surprise! inclusive, showing a gay couple not played for laughs. My whole family are devastated. We would have watch parties from 24 years old to 78 years old. Losing this show is the reason people are leaving cable. When CBS, NBS, ABC are losing viewers it is because their shows have become boys behaving badly, b..ches behaving badly and too many shows aimed at shows trying to emulate violent video games. Oh well, Netflix calls. Sincerely Patricia Snider.
I am so so bummed. It is so hard to find a great show that is fun, light, smart, great acting, fun characters, and entertaining. I am so bummed. Just when the characters get more juicy and comfortable networks cut it off at the knees. So tired of this. I am disappointed. I would watch many seasons of this show. There are so many pointless less worthy of being aired and they make it – I can’t believe it. I just recommended this show to three new people. Ugh.
Wonderful show and different! I’m sorry it’s cancelled. CBS has often cancelled great shows. Also, it gave me something new to watch in the summer season.
The leave very Stupid shows on tne air, moms, will & grace, kardashians,, making it, sheldon,list goes on
AND YOU CANCEL THIS ONE, Now whos stupid