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.
Love love love the stalker, best program on TV it’s absolutely fab, please make another series
Please keep it! It’s my favor show on tv!!!
Absolutely love Stalker!!! My favorite show!! Can’t wait for May 4th
Please bring back stalker. I love that show.
Love Stalker……please bring it back for another season…awesome show
Love stalker…..bring it back for sure.
I really liked Stalker and believe it deserves another session to develop the characters and let for the channel to pay attention to ratings other than the 18-49 demographic. US who are watching who aren’t in that age group count too.
I really like the show “Stalker”. I hope it does not get cancelled.
Stalker should continue. I literally LOVE this show.
i love Stalker please do not cancel not a lot of shows worth watching but absolutely love this
Yayyyyy! It’s back on. I DVR’D it and can’t wait to see what’s up with Beth, now that she’s in the clutches of Ray the psycho. Finally somebody at CBS got a clue and listened to the people who really count, your fans.
Stalker is a great show. We look forward to watching it every week.
Please bring STALKER back. My mom and I just love the show. We both enjoyed the thrill of the show. We know of a lot of fans in both our circles that want it back.Let us fans have it back on the screen. Thank you Stalker fan.
Stalker should be continued. Good show. We waited every Wednesday night to see it.
My wife and both like this program better than CSI Cyber. Let’s keep this show!
I love Starker…… I can believe that they might cancel this show. I have been stark when I was younger at my job and it is the only show on tv that really represents how terrifying this can be. I hope then renew.