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Will medical science continue to advance at Bunker Hill Hospital? Has the Pure Genius TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on CBS? The television vulture is watching for the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is a dedicated place to track the status of Pure Genius season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What’s This TV Show About?
Airing on the CBS television network, Pure Genius is a high-tech medical drama. At Bunker Hill Hospital, Silicon Valley tech titan, James Bell (Augustus Prew), pairs brilliant medical minds with technology gurus and sidesteps bureaucracy in the interest of saving lives — including his own. Bell enlists an exceptional, yet controversial veteran surgeon, Dr. Walter Wallace (Dermot Mulroney) to help him revolutionize health care. As Chief of Staff, Dr. Wallace oversees a trail-blazing team including the candid Dr. Zoe Brockett (Odette Annable); the idealistic and overly literal neurosurgeon, Dr. Talaikha Channarayapatra (Reshma Shetty); former gangbanger Dr. Malik Verlaine (Aaron Jennings); intense neurologist Dr. Scott Strauss (Ward Horton); and tech genius Angie Cheng (Brenda Song).
Season One Ratings
The first season of Pure Genius averaged a 0.86 rating in the 18-49 demographic and drawing an average of 5.34 million viewers. Find out how Pure Genius stacks up against the other CBS TV shows.
On May 15, 2017, it was revealed that Pure Genius has been cancelled so there won’t be a second season. Could it be revived someday? Stay tuned for updates.
Telly’s Take
While CBS has not officially cancelled Pure Genius, this medical drama’s prognosis is grim. In November of 2016, after just four installments had aired, the network passed on ordering the back nine episodes of Pure Genius, season one. The only CBS TV show it outperforms in the demo is Elementary. Right now, it looks like the Pure Genius (likely series) finale will air on January 26th. Barring a miracle, CBS will cancel Pure Genius. I have started circling this one and am all but certain there will be no season two.
5/15/17 update: CBS has cancelled Pure Genius after one season. Details here.
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What do you think? Were you hoping that CBS would renew their Pure Genius TV show for a second season? Are you upset that CBS has cancelled Pure Genius, instead?
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Pure Genius is The Best Show on T. V.!!! DON’T CANCEL IT!!! What about All The Great Shows that Back Then, that The Networks Kept Running Until They became The Classics that we have today??? I think it is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD what the networks do today, that Doesn’t Even Give A Show A Chance!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!! I Don’t Watch a lot of t. v. Because it is about 95% TRASH!!! Then A GREAT Show Like PURE Genius comes on with Brilliant Minds that Created it for the 10% of the population that Actually have the Brain Capacity to Appreciate… Read more »
I’ve become addicted to Pure Genius, and would better understand the mentality of the American TV viewer if shows like this that could nourish our minds unlike the fully-scripted “reality shows”, of which there are too many to mention, could flourish!
Please don’t cancel this show. I love it. This is a great show….
I love this show.
Please do not cancel. !!!
Renew !!!!!
Really enjoyed this show. It was intelligent and thoughtful and interesting connection to science, and tied to compassion and striving for ideals and great story telling. Please bring it back
Please don’t cancel this show. It is a wonderful high quality show and we love it.
Please renew pure genius, every time a really good show comes on they cancel. Like Second Chance, Red Band Society, Off The Map and so on. They seem to keep a lot of stupid shows I really love this show its one that will make you laugh and cry in one show.
I would really like to see Pure Genius come back. Like some other top shows, it may have started slow, but at the end of the season I wanted more. It’s a unique show and needs more than just one season to see where it will go. The potential is so there for it.
I loved pure Genius, It would be nice if that was the way all Hositpals work It would be a shame to cancel this show as it could be a catalyst for some foward thinking.
I love Pure Genius.
I can’t believe it’s actually on a list to cancel.
Great idea, great acting, great team.
What more can they want?
We don’t need more silly shows.
I love to laugh , but what TV puts out is for a child mentality, not adults.
Pure Genius is pure genius.
Please give us a full 13 episodes this
fall 2017 /2018. Season two.
A full season is typically 20-22 episodes.
I want to see more of this show. It is so different from the other medical shows I watch. Please, please bring it back.
Please renew, it’s the one show I look forward to. An original script, instead of a remake of some old show. Hate all these remake shows. I loved the originals and hate the remakes. It’s nice to have a new storyline for a change. Please give it a chance for another season.
Please bring back Pure Genius! I love the show and how it shows advances in medicine. Love the technology and brain storming. Great show
I personally think that it was on at wrong time. A lot of viewers are in bed by then if they work! It is a very good show and different. It bothers me that it has to go because something good comes on at 10:00 and that makes the decision of how it is rated. It makes my heart break that I finally found a show I enjoyed and it went down after 1 season. Pure Genius is a good show. Please give it a chance.