Earlier this season, CBS renewed newbie shows Scorpion, Madam Secretary, and NCIS: New Orleans for another season each. The network’s other new drama, Stalker, was glaringly missing from that list of early renewals. Is it doomed? Will Stalker be renewed for a second season or will it be cancelled instead?
A cop thriller, Stalker follows the work of the LAPD’s Threat Assessment Unit, a team that investigates incidents of stalking. The TV show stars Dylan McDermott, Maggie Q, Victor Rasuk, and Mariana Klaveno.
The series debuted in October to a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 9.07 million viewers. It wasn’t exactly an impressive start for the new series and the ratings dropped 10-14% in week two. That wasn’t too bad of a decline and CBS ended up giving Stalker some time (a “full season” order) to prove itself.
Unfortunately, the ratings have been dwindling downward for most of the season. Last week’s episode hit a new low with a 1.2 rating in the demo and 6.74 million viewers. CBS has no shortage of successful crime/legal series and numbers like those are too low for CBS. The network could bring it back for a second season but that seems highly unlikely.
Last week’s installment was Stalker’s 17th episode and CBS supposedly only ordered 20 of them for the season. It’s unclear if or when the remaining trio of episodes will be shown. Saturday night airings seem like a natural move at this point.
New series CSI: Cyber — starring recent Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette — takes over the Wednesdays at 10pm timeslot next week. It’s a natural fit for lead-in Criminal Minds since both revolve around FBI units.
But, what do you think? Should CBS cancel Stalker or renew it for another season? Would you change the show to try to attract a larger audience?
4/1 update: Stalker returns on May 4th. Details here.
I also very much look forward to this show on Wednesdays. Please give it a second season.
Keep Stalker, it is an awesome show.
Stalker is imho one of best shows on tv. CSI Cyber does not even make sense. How can
you do so much damage with a computer. I CBS missed their mark concerning Stalker.
Look at Seinfeld it started slow them made a huge growth and gained a cult following.
Please please please do not cancel stalker. I love this show do not like cyber CSI.
I love Stalker-especially because it’s not easy to predict the end of each episode as so many others are. Please don’t axe it!
Please keep!! So much better than cyber CSI!! Stalker is the best show!!
I love stalker . Hope it won’t get cancel. The best show on CBS is criminalminds, stalker scorpion and Csi cyber…. Please keep these shows!! Stalker is great makes people think and pay attention to their surroundings
This is my favorite show!
Please keep Stalker! There are far too many reality shows. Cancel some of them and keep good shows like Stalker!!!!
Bring it back!!!! I want to see what happens NEXT!!!! I watch criminal minds then stalker I prepare my Wednesday nights for this!!!!
We loved the Show ..Please bring it back on.
This show was one of the best written suspense shows. Characters were very likable and audiences couldn’t wait to follow each week. Moving to Saturday won’t improve ratings. Don’t get why CBS would drop a great novel show for yet another CSI show.
i tried to watch “Nikita” because i like maggie Q. , but the show really couldn’t catch my interest. when i started watching The Stalker late in the season, i started looking forward to each episode. Not only did maggie play a more “accessible ” and “real” character. (more vulnerable and believable) but the script and story line really got me interested in the plot and how it would unfold and resolve at the end. i will probably look for the earlier shows in the season and watch them. The least that the producers can do is show us how… Read more »
Please do not cancel this show I love is show
Don’t cancel!!! Love Maggie Q. and Dylan McDermott. Great show!!!