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?
Love this show! It’s one our whole house watches. Love Alan Cummings and Bojana Novakovic. Seems like every show we start to watch and love gets cancelled! Only to be replaced by another bachelor or “talent” show or worse yet something like Love Island- are they kidding?! Hopefully whoever is responsible for this comes to their senses or another network picks up the show. We’ll miss you Dylan and Lizzie
I am so disappointed the show has been canceled I couldn’t wait for recess season two to begin and have loved every moment so far perhaps Netflix would pick it up the show is interesting full of laughs and drama I will continue to even re-watch episodes and seasons I feel the loss of viewers was because there were so long between season one and season two and then it was in the summer please don’t cancel the show.
I am so disappointed that the show is canceled absolutely one of my favorite shows perhaps Netflix will pick it up? It is so well done interesting and the actors are incredible
What a way to start my Monday! I LOVED this show!
So sad to see the end of this great show. I guess CBS just wants crampy reality shows. Not well written and acted drama.
So Sad to see this show go. It was innovative and the chemistry between all the actors was great. Good Luck to all cast members. I guess CBS just wants campy stupid reality shows.
I’ll miss “Instinct” very much. I love all the main characters and always enjoy actor Alan Cumming, so I’m very sorry he’s going (pun intended).
Hate to see it go i loved the show. every time a good show comes on they cancell it and put trash shows on( big brother, island love, crap) another good show is gone!
My thoughts exactly! They keep adding these STUPID, STUPID reality shows, but cancelling all the good drama shows. So so so sad!
I agree every time a new good show airs within 2 to 3 seasons it is cancelled, while all those stupid reality shows continue to bog down all the networks with their garbage. Just goes to show what this world is coming to. I will miss Mr. Cummings “sometimes” over the top musings. I have waited all year for the show to come back only to be cancelled as it is finding it’s footing. Thanks for a good show, great characters, and a thoroughly entertaining weekly fix for me.
How sad that a fun, intelligent show depicting a group of professionals with different personal lives is cancelled. We enjoy it and will miss the cast and storyline immensely.
Well, I guess you can blame me for instinct cancelation. Every show I like gets cancelled.
I feel the same….lol
Shame that Instinct is gone. Great different type show.
It seems to always happen a good and different show comes out and it gets canceled . I always looked forward to Instinct and now it’s gone. The network started posting this right when it started. It seems they were never given a chance.
I am so very disappointed that Instinct has been cancelled. It deserves a third season, it is one of the
few new shows I watch during the summer.
Can’t stand all the reality shows, they are a total waste. Why does CBS always cancel the good
shows ?!?!
I am really pissed off! This show did not deserve to be cancelled, all the actors are great, story lines are fantastic just like all of James Patterson’s books. Maybe Netflix can give it another chance! One can only hope!!!
I love this show!!! I really looked forward to this show’s second season. I really agree with the person before me who said that there was way to much time after first season to air second season. The first season’s viewers got lost in the mire of reality shows. Really !! I’m going to miss this fun mystery show. I would love it if Netflix or Amazon would pick up this series. Thank heavens for the British shows on Amazon. Americans shows seems to be going to the lowest common denominator. Scheesh.