The team members on the Pure Genius TV show work together to save lives. It’s a noble cause but will their stories attract enough viewers to bring big ratings? Will this new CBS TV series be cut down in its prime (cancelled) or, will it be renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
Pure Genius follows top medical professionals as they team up with cutting-edge tech experts and try to push the boundaries of modern medicine to save lives. Doctor Walter Wallace (Dermot Mulroney) is a disgraced but brilliant surgeon who is recruited by a young Silicon Valley tech billionaire, James Bell (Augustus Prew). Wallace learns that Bell is harboring a secret and he begins to question just what the young founder is really trying to achieve. Others on the team are played by Odette Annable, Reshma Shetty, Aaron Jennings, Ward Horton, and Brenda Song.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival.
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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like the Pure Genius TV show on CBS? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for season two?
5/15/17 update: CBS has cancelled Pure Genius after one season. Details here.
Wonderful show. Please keep it on the air! All the characters are great! I don’t watch much tv but this one has me enthralled.
Love the show…please renew. It’s hard to believe a network would renew corny, predictable sitcoms and not renew this original show that tries to push the tech/medical envelope. Characters are great, and it would be a shame not to see their stories play out. RENEW, RENEW, RENEW!!!
Totally agree
PLEASE KEEP PURE GENIUS! It is an excellent show! It is my favorite on tv! It’s very inspiring! Please renew for another season!
Please bring Pure Genius back for season 2 it is an incredible show feel good show. The show tugs at your heart and always manages to get me choked up. My family and I love it!!!!!!!
Keep PURE GENIUS! Our family watches every week! We love this show! Fantastic family entertainment!
KEEP PURE GENIUS!!! This show is feel good, hopeful and innovative. Does it seem a bit “far fetched” at times? Yes.. If you think about it, what we saw as unrealistic, in the last 50 years… Now much of it is a reality .. So believe, be hopeful and think “outside the box”. Who knows what the next 50 years will show us, new inventions and ideas. So let us dream, see positive results and just enjoy! Augustus Prew is fantastic as the socially awkward, genius with a huge heart…
Please Keep this show on the air! My whole family loves it, it’s one of the only things I can get my kids to do with my husband and I as a family anymore. It’s a GREAT show, like a cross between House and Scorpion. I would hate to see it go, renew it another season!
Please renew this for another season! Our family loves it, even our 14 year old granddaughter who lives with us, who is normally glued to her computer, will always get excited when we watch Pure Genius. It funny and emotional, and tells a great story. We would be sad to see it go, it’s like a brilliant mix between Scorpion, me and my Granddaughter’s FAVORITE, and House. Scorpion had a rough start, but its just finished its 3rd season! We vote YES!
I love this show. I love the creativity and the hope it provides. It is a great show that makes you feel inspired and hopeful. Please do not cancel.
My wife and I love this show. We watch a significant amount of Television and find this show to be one of our favorites. We loved the Goid Wife and are fans of Madam Secretary as well. The Pure Genius stories are intriguing and the characters easy to like and well-developed. We hope you can find a way to keep it.
I absolutely love this show. It is an original idea, not some remake of a movie or old series or another scatterbrained reality tripe…something rare in Hollywood! The characters are engaging and the premise and idea of what is to come in medicine! Please keep it on … the show is pure genius!!!!!!!!
Love this show! Please renew!
Yes, we love this show but only started watching based on word mouth from a friend,
And we agree this is a GREAT show with intriguing episodes and compassionate characters.
Why can’t CBS move to a different slot instead of carrying out the execution of a very good show.
It would get beter ratings if moved to the 9:00 time slot. This is a GREAT show that makes the impossible – possible. It gives one hope. We need more shows like Pure Genius.
It’s a special show. The chemistry because the characters is building and I see a lot of potential in it. Grimm and Scorpion had tough beginnings. Grimm made it to 6 seasons.