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.
Please do NOT cancel this show. It’s so refreshing to have a smart medical show which combines a touch of science fiction with heart. I agree that a time slot change would be beneficial.
This is an excellent show which shows medicine the way it SHOULD be, were this a perfect world. CBS has done a poor job of promoting this, due to it’s HEAVY promotion of Michael “Bull” Weatherly. Give PG the Tuesday night @ 9 pm time slot and the same ad budget and watch it take off.
This show is GREAT…..One of your better new shows on TV
Bring the show back……It is actually one of your few new shows worth watching.
It’s like red band society all over again! This is an amazing show! The show is on during football of course the show is going to have low ratings! Bring the show back!!
Pure Genius, Love the show‼️ Renew it‼️ Tonight’s show was awesome and the story behind the stories is starting to come together. I would love to see where it goes.
One of the best new shows this year. Unfortunately they put it on a night and time slot opposite NFL Football. Possibly a different time slot will improve ratings dramatically.
I am devastated that this show might be cancelled! I love the stories, the characters, and the science and technology. It gives me hope for the future of medicine and hope that a show like this could inspire both future and current medical providers to look at patients and their care in a more personal and humane manner.
Renew, it’s Pure Genius! Please promote this show; do a better job!
Don’t cancel Pure Genius. My family loves it. It is our favorite show.
Listen, I don’t watch TV with exception to NBA Basketball and NFL games. I watch this on another media through download methods. Therefore, I am not included in these ambiguous statistics. This is a very good series based on science, technology, and humanity. It should be continued. As such, this is another TV series positioned to fail in its designed timeslot. What is the answer? Timeslots as these affected by Holiday family get togethers compounded by the airing of sports should be posted as Mini-Series. If rating are high, than use imagination to insight possibilities. This is a very good… Read more »
Listen; I avoid TV unless its sports, specifically NBA Basketball & NFL. I watch this refreshing TV series through other media means as selective downloads. This means I watch this and am not included in these ambiguous stats. This is a great show based on science, technology, and humanity that has been placed to fail by its designed timeslot. Another series dropped with no chance of success. What is the answer? Make these as Mini-Series and take it from there with imagination; i.e.; if you care about ratings ….
This is a great show! So sad to hear that it’s being canceled- please reconsider and don’t cancel! I think the fall/Thursday nights are such a hard time to put a show on and get the word out about how great it is- football games, Halloween and fall events, etc. These wonderful shows should be allowed a chance to succeed before being completely written off. This show has so much to offer and I love the cutting edge and alternative medical practices being discussed and shown. Even my 9 year old daughter is mesmerized and fascinated by it all. We… Read more »
PURE GENIUS is just that – it’s like Star Trek meets MEDICINE. I remember an episode of the original, now cult classic, Star Trek in which Scotty beamed up the crew to the 20th century. The Dr., called Bones, remarked when he saw a medical procedure, “How barbaric! In the future, we’ll just blah-dee-blah-dee-da.” Well, PURE GENIUS is the blah-dee-dah that Bones envisioned. It’s also like the vision of the “Chan-Zuckerberg” initiative to apply engineering, technology and medicine to solve the problems of illness for little Max Zuckerberg’s future. This show is the end embodiment of that vision that is… Read more »
keep this show….it is amazing has so much to offer