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 loved the show! It was a great series for Sunday( which is a tough audience). Give it a chance!
This sucks, great show, along with Elementary being goneand cbs brings evel on next year, bad choice cbs
My husband and I both loved Instinct and Elementary. It seems lately, unless it’s scifi or vampires etc. they don’t give the shows a chance to increase their ratings. DO NOT CANCEL!!!!
What is wrong with you people at CBS? You are your own worst enemy. You cancel great show’s without giving them a chance to drvelop a following.
Instinct is beautifully written and beautifully acted. It’s one of the most well done shows on T.V and you CANCELED, UNBELIEVABLE
Please CBS rethink the cancellation and give it another chance.
If CBS doesn’t want it, PLEASE, PLEASE well some other network like NETFLIX please pick
it up. PLEASE.
Absolutely loved this show and am very disappointed that CBS decided to cancel a very sharp, witty and engaging show. Sad that CBS pulls the plug too early on shows instead of allowing the show to develop a following. Think of MASH, CBS !!
I would definitely watch a 3rd season. Loved the characters . They were real and lots of fun. I’ll be sorry to say good-bye to them forever.
This is a fun show. It is well written and acted. Really loved the fact that the main character is a gay man and actually played by a gay man. It was an extremely positive portrayal of a gay couple and their pursuit of adopting a child. This would be a great show for a reboot on Netflix or any other streaming service. There is a lot of material worth exploring with Cummings past, present and future.
I will truly miss this show. It was one of TV shows I looked forward to watching.
I just watched the last two episodes of Elementary & then heard this. It seems well written & well acted procedural’s with non-traditional lead characters still struggle to gain enough viewers to make the ratings cut. Both these shows should have been in the fall season line-ups instead of summers vast emptiness. I will miss Dylan & Lizzie & the excellent word play. Please help find another great show for Alan Cumming, he is so talented & versatile.
Wow!! Can’t believe its canceled, another good show canceled to put another trash. I definitely would have watched not only season 3 but many more. Hope you change your mind.
I loved the show..no wonder we all are going to streaming you keep cancelling all the really good shows!
I loved watching Instinct. It is one of the best shows on TV. Please reconsider cancelling the series. I want to see Rinehart and Andy have their baby and I want to see Lizzie and Julian back together. Every time I get involved with a great show it gets cancelled. Lets at least have a season 3.
I loved the 1st season of Instinct but I thought it was canceled. Perhaps if season 2 was promoted better more people would have watched it and it would not be canceled again. I will definitely catch up on season 2 now.
I enjoyed the show. I guess it’s more reality TV, which is in my opinion the least realistic thing on television
Reality tv is cheap to make—that’s why there is so much of it!
I love the show and every time I like a show on CBS they cancel it ! Why?
I loved the show esp. Alan