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.
Please bring back stalker. Great thriller and cast.
Love this show! Great cast and real life situations. Please do NOT cancel!
Stalker should be renewed. My boyfriend and I love this show.
I totally am in to stalker , it is great , please carry on and let season two go ahead. I agree with jim , should not be stopped .
CBS do not try to take down the show or else I won’t watch your channel anymore. Is the only show I look forward each week.
Stalker is a great show! It needs to be advertised more. I have mentioned the show to lots of people and they had never heard of it. Please give it another season and advertise it!!
This is an awesome show, my whole family watches it and if we can’t be home to watch it live we PVR it. I’m dying to know what happens in Episode 18….please do not cancel. Great Cast too.
I absolutely love stalker!!!!! Please don’t cancel it!!!
I just want to say I think they should renew the Stalker series. I am so tired of the shows I like & start to get interest in getting canceled because someone on the board decides to do something different. I have been watching the series since it began & I think it would be a shame to cancel this one just like my other favorite that was canceled before it even got the chance to take off. The show I’m speaking of was Believe, they canceled it before the series was even finished.
I feel ya
I love this show. Please keep it on and I think it is perfect in every way. The cast is great, the premise is very timely and it is entertaining and makes one more cautious .
I love this show it has me on edge every week it’s one of my favorites
Pleeeeeeeease renew stalker!!!!
Please being stalker back, everyone I know loves this show and I will stop watching this channel if they dont bring it back!!! Its the best show my and husband and Ihave seen in along time!!!
I agree. I’d probably boycott channel 4. They’d be stupid to drop this show to replace it with reality tv because that’s what we really need.
I Love Stalker. It is so suspenseful without having to get to graphic. The characters have great chemistry.
This is probably one of the best shows on TV. We forward to watching each week. It diffinatly should not be cancelled.
Please keep it, I really like it!!!!