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.
Renew it
Pure genius is one of my favorite shows! I really hope the don’t cancel it!
Lynn
Please don’t cancel Pure Genius. It is a great show with a terrific cast. One season is not enough time for a show to catch on.
I absolutely LOVE Pure Genius. With so many violent shows on tv, it was a welcome diversion. Please bring it back.
Please do not cancel Pure Genius!!! It is an awesome show!
please please dont cancel this show! it was a ‘feel good’ show and i truly felt good after watching this show with all the crap on tv now this was such an awesome diversion
Please do not cancel this show!!! This is the only show that everyone in my family watches and we absolutely love it. It’s wonderful seeing my 12 year old daughter so interested in this show. Our whole family will be so upset if this show does not return in the fall!!
This has been a great program to watch.it is something new besides all the blood and violence a lot of other programs have. It is inspiring to see people think and come up with solutions. Please do not cancel.
Don’t cancel this show!!! It’s the only show I watch religiously
Please don’t cancel this show!! Me and my husband watch this faithfully every week. We love this show! It shows the possible future of medicine. We have fallen for the characters and think they deserve a round two.
Renew this show! Please consider the intelligent viewers in America who long for this and similar shows instead of the dumbed-down drivel we won’t watch.
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Please don’t cancel pure genius it is a show that just makes you happy.
Please please please bring on series 2, 3 and more of PURE GENIUS … best all round medical drama ever !!! Even beats my long ago addiction to Dr kildare – and Augustus Prew is brilliant and heartbreakingly funny as James Bell – not to mention sexy !!! Please don’t axe this hopeful and great programme. I am totally addicted to it -are box sets going to be available?
I love this show. Please give it another chance. It is really a great show, my husband just found out about the cancellation and he too, is really upset. Please cancel any of the reality shows and keep the ones like this that keep us thinking and learning.
Please renew this series I love this show! I’ve watched every single episode. Love the characters and the storylines . Can’t believe it hasn’t been picked up for another season. Especially with all the crap on that still keeps being renewed. Seems like a lot of people liked this show, so I can’t figure out why the ratings are low . So I really hope they figure out that people do like watching this show. And give us more !!!!!!!