Josh Holloway enjoyed a long run on Lost but unfortunately he hasn’t been as lucky with Intelligence. The CBS TV show has now been cancelled after one season of 13 episodes.
On Intelligence, Gabriel Vaughn (Holloway) is a high-tech intelligence operative who’s been enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain. It allows him to be connected directly into the global information grid. Other castmembers include Marg Helgenberger, Meghan Ory, Michael Rady, John Billingsley, P. J. Byrne, Tomas Arana, Lance Reddick, and Peter Coyote.
After the failure of Hostages, the network was hoping for Intelligence to be a ratings hit to fill their Mondays at 10pm timeslot. It wasn’t to be. Despite some impressive star talent and special effects, the show couldn’t draw enough viewers.
The network debuted it after NCIS on a Tuesday night and the show drew decent numbers but, once it moved to its regular Monday night slot, the ratings tanked. The season of 13 episodes averaged a 1.3 demo rating with 6.85 million viewer, making it one of the lowest-rated shows on the network.
That wasn’t good enough to mandate a second season renewal so Intelligence has been cancelled. The final episode aired on March 31st.
What do you think? Did you like this Josh Holloway series? Should it have been cancelled or renewed for a second season? Why do you think it didn’t catch on?
Huge mistake to cancel. It was one of the better shows. CBS who made this decision. You should have kept this and gotten rid of all your reality shows. They all stink.
This was one of the best shows on TV and there’s not many! In this era of TV it’s all about the numbers and not the quality of the show. This show was well cast and the stories are very smart again not something you see much on network TV. Hopefully the production company will get picked up else where. FOX, NBC, HBO the could make it a bit more sexy! Good Luck to you all! I know it’s a tough Biz!
I loved it
I love the show. I am writing this only because I was looking to find out where CBS moved the show this TIME. I do watch it on DVR or ondemand. Not may shows out their that I can watch with my 14 yr old son, that He liked. Moving it to Monday was not good, hear of mnf Monday night football, or Blacklist? THanks anyway
I wish it was back , but not on Monday Night. Football is on, or Blacklist. My son and I took time out just for this show.
Keep it!!
Ridiculous – they put it up against the Blacklist, seriously, did they think it could pull over Spader fans? It did well on the original night, Tuesdays – heck far as I’m concerned, it would’ve done well ANYWHERE as long as it wasn’t against Spader’s Blacklist or, due to all the droves of people loving the Voice, these two shows are not things you can compete with – i totally gave up broadcast TV until Intelligence aired along with Blacklist and Person of Interest (less so on POI – Intelligence was a far better program) So now, the one NOT… Read more »
do not cancel it will pick up ended on a good cliff hanger .give it a chance with another series
I’ve been looking for this show in the fall line-up. I cannot believe it is cancelled! WHY?????? It was a great show! Great cast, great actors, great plots. I’m so disappointed. Every time I get into a new program it’s cancelled. Why introduce new shows if you just fall back on the old shows? Very disappointed with this network.
I agree! I can’t believe this show was canceled. Great plot, great actors and performances. I would have bet money on Intelligence going for at least 6-8 seasons. Very disappointing to say the least. That said, it’s par for CBS.
Joseph I so agree that it is ‘par for CBS.’ I’ve been complaining about CBS for years now. Ever since they started not ever giving good shows a chance. Intelligence was finally a different type of show. I’m sick of all the stupid shows they keep on. Whenever they get a really good show, they don’t even give it a chance. I was upset when Hawaii Five 0 was moved to Friday night because a lot of people go out on Fridays. I thought Monday nights was a great start to the week. Thanks goodness for DVR’s. Now people can… Read more »
To bad it was cancelled. I also believe that like Killer Women that this show was not given a chance. It should have been run a second season to see if ratings improved. I know there are shows I do not watch and my sister will say oh you have to watch this and I do and I like the show.
It was a great plot and storyline! The cast was awesome! Huge mistake in canceling the show. The technology highlight was believable. Somehow, viewers should be given details of how close the technology is to reality or maybe we already are.
I get tired of the business decisions made by companies like CBS. Countless great show have been cancelled due to them not hitting the figures expected when people need time to discover these shows and the shows need time to establish themselves and grow/evolve and fine tune into a great product. Its very short sighted of these number crunching twits not to let these pieces of work grow into something bigger and better. These fools have ruined modern TV and no longer are there classics like there were back in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Its all throw away TV… Read more »
Great comment! I couldn’t put it any better. With all of my comments here, long comments, I was unable to put what I wanted to say as succinctly as you did. Thank you. Now, do any of those number crunching twits read our comments? Probably not. Please, someone direct me to a place where we know the ‘powers that be’ at CBS will read about our disappointment and anger that they never gave Intelligence its chance. Anyone?
You guys shouldn’t have canceled intelligence it was the best show ever!! Please renew it! That would be the best thing ever!!!
Omg, watched the whole series back to back, very good and very imaginative series.. for goodness sake don’t cancel.. their are viewers that love these kinds of programmes.. amazing series!
We loved this series. Was looking forward to this next one. Don’t cancel.