The brave officers of The Chicago Code fight for what’s right in their fair city. Unfortunately, that battle doesn’t attract enough viewers to keep their TV show on the air. FOX has cancelled the cop show after one season.
Created by The Shield’s Shawn Ryan, The Chicago Code revolves around the officers of the Chicago Police Department. Veteran detective Jarek Wysocki (Jason Clarke) leads a special unit that fights against crime and corruption in the windy city. Others in the cast include Jennifer Beals, Matt Lauria, Devin Kelley, Todd Williams, Billy Lush, and Delroy Lindo.
The series debuted to an okay 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 9.43 million total viewers. In week two, it dropped 17% in the demo and the ratings kept dropping in subsequent weeks.
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On May 2nd, The Chicago Code hit a series low with a meager 1.6 in the demo and 5.59 million viewers. Last Monday’s episode bumped up to a 1.7 rating but that’s still far from a good number.
Looking at FOX season averages, the cop TV series is the second lowest-rated drama still on the air (after Fringe on Friday nights).
FOX has now decided to cancel The Chicago Code after one season and 13 episodes. The remaining two unaired episodes will air on the next two Mondays, May 12th and May 23rd.
Ryan reacted on Twitter by writing, “Fox suits loved the show, but have a business to run.”
What do you think? Are you sorry there won’t be a second season? Why do you think this TV series didn’t catch on?
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I watched tonight’s episode between my fingers. They can’t cancel this show!
PLEASE KEEP THIS SHOW!!! THIS IS THE BEST COP DRAMA SINCE LAW AN ORDER!!! WHY KEEP FRINGE BU?t GET RID OF THIS GREAT SHOW!!!! MORONS
As usual, any show that demonstrates and appreciable level of intelligence doesn’t meet the approval of the mediocre masses. Too bad, it was one of my favorites. I’ll miss those sponsor commercials too!!!!
um this was an awesome show. they definitely should NOT be getting rid of it. I can think of quite a few other shows that should go first.
Help! What can we do to protest? This show was great and a refreshing change from CSIs, wrap it up in 60 minutes genre. I couldn’t watch the show at its scheduled air time but caught up on Hulu. Any ideas to get this back on the air? FOX – big mistake. You have a great show, great actors, story, music, action. You did not do as much promo as you should have with this show to build the masses. There are an increasing number of viewers fed up with the faux reality shows that clog the airwaves and as… Read more »
Should keep this show for at least another season
Highly disappointed with this decision. As other people have said, it wasn’t advertised very well before, and once it started I didn’t see any advertisements for it. I really think that part of the problem in ratings too is that they had it up against the second hour of Dancing With the Stars. I watched DWTS from 7-8 and then switched over to Chicago Code instead of watching the rest of DWTS. I imagine a lot of people who would have watched it ended up staying on ABC rather than switching mid-program.
No no no!!!!!!!!! Please don’t cancel
I can’t believe they are cancelling I love Chicago code I hope another network picks it up it is a great show… Promote Promote theb show
I just can not believe this show was cancelled. It was the best out there. I loved it right from the start and did not miss an episode. I looked forward to it weekly. Good gracious why do shows not be given a chance? This reminded me of how Mash almost got the boot and leaving it time to develop proved that sometimes Rome does not Get built in a Day. Nor does a show get ratings immediatly. Takes some time for folks to find a new show. I know that I could not catch them all and so may… Read more »
This is the best damn show that FOX has on air, it is disappointing to see that they did not believe in it enough to bring it back for at least one more season. I watched this show on Hulu all the time, did that affect their ratings? If so execs should looked into how many people watched the show on Hulu as well, maybe then they wouldn’t of canceled the series.
Keep Chicago Code on the air! It is a great show, good acting, suspense, and good music too! I watch it every week! Please don’t cancel this show.
why get rid of an awesome show. keep this one around. i think it would be stupid to cancel this one.
keep this one on. its a great show.
This is disappointing! There aren’t many good cop shows on and this one was one of the best! Great cast, great storylines, great acting! Why is everything on TV being dominated by reality shows?!?!?! They suck!! I don’t care what happens to Joe Schmoe in his real life! BRING BACK THE CHICAGO CODE!!!