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.
No! Don’t cancel Stalker! Great show, great actors, always on the edge of our seat with this show. Love it! Much better than CSI Cyber.
Are you kidding?? My husband and I totally love this program, couldn’t believe it wasn’t on last week or this week!!!! (Another CSI, I’m burned out on them, I quit watching.) “Stalker” is a fresh new show, with great actors, it made our Wednesday night viewing. Please bring it back. 🙁
Love this show! Don’t cancel it! There are so many Ncis and CSI shows out there. Stalker is a new look at a different part of crime. It is sort of like criminal minds and everyone loves that show! Cancelling this show would be a mistake!
Keep it!!!!! B
No don’t cancel its a great unpredictable show.
Stalker is an awesome show, maybe rating didnt do good because of the time slot it was a little late. Please bring it back !!!!!!
Please reconsider going forward with this show. Have not had a show keep me at the edge of my seat in a long time. Love the cast and the theme.
Don’t cancel, it’s an awesome show that isn’t so predictable as all of the others
I love this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please please please please keep this show!!!
this is an amazing show! All but one of the cast members are really good in their parts! PLEASE PLEASE DONT CANCEL ITS GREAT!!!!
Please do not cancell Stalker, I enjoy the series, if ratings are down change up the weekly dates on airing times…just please continue with another season, thank you!!!
Love this show! Please don’t cancel.
This is one of my favorite show on television. Please don’t cancel it.
I just went to see it tonight (10 p.m. on a Wednesday), and it’s not on.
There’s enough junk on t.v. When you get a quality program on such as The Stalker, why can’t you just leave it alone?
Don’t do this to me! I love this show! Everything in it is amazing! If they can make PLL into a ton of seasons then they can do it with this show too. It could be like criminal minds except they solve stalker cases. Come on CBS don’t let me down.
Don’t take it off! You can’t! It’s one of the best shows out there. Replace it with something else if anything. Keep it on Wednesdays it’s perfect right after criminal minds. I love it! Don’t take it off!