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.
This show is awesome!! Please, please, please renew it!!
Please don’t cancel the show. It’s my favorite show this season.
Great show, one of the best, it’s a keeper!
Stalker helped me through a very difficult time by educating me about the behaviors of stalkers.
I made watching Stalker a priority each week!! I don’t want to end!! It’s an awesome show in my opinion, and an amazing cast in my opinion!!
Please don’t let it go!
Stalker is the best show on CBS.
Don’t CANCEL!!! My husband and I love to watch this show together! We love the cast and you can feel the love between them. It’s one show we DVR and can’t wait to follow week to week.
Good show. Renew it .
I agree with everyone else here: don’t cancel this show! I am really enjoying Stalker and look forward to it every week. It’s a very well written show with a great cast with some of my favorite actors. I’ll really be disappointed if CBS doesn’t give this show a chance to improve even more in a second season. It gets better every week and I think a second season could be beyond amazing!
CBS Wednesday is my favorite night with Criminal Minds and Stalker! Please don’t cancel.
My mother , grandmother and I have our ” ladies night” every Wednesday specially for stalker. We’re huge fans and was very disappointed to see it was not on tonight. PLEASE DONT CANCEL!! I and my family enjoy this show very much. I must no what happens next. You can’t just end it like this. If I do not see what happens I will make sure on my grave stone it says ” what happened to Beth ?”
Omg they can’t do this what happened to Beth?!!!!! I have to know Please CBS don’t cancel this show it’s one of my favorite shows please keep it going! !!!
Don’t cancel! We love this show!!!
this is the only show i have ever watched from the pilot episode onwards. there is low viewership because there is no other show like it and people don’t always take too kindly or welcome any new venture into foreign lands so easy. i guarantee that if they give it a second season this show will pick up. by season 3, it may even spawn other tv shows in a similar vein. please don’t cancel it and give it another chance.
Don’t cancel!!!!! Please give it one more season
I love this show don’t cancel it I will be so sad!!:(