Last season, despite a move to Sunday nights and a big drop in the ratings, CBS renewed The Mentalist for a sixth season. Will the ratings continue to fall? Will CBS bring the show back for a seventh year? Stay tuned!
On The Mentalist, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) continues to help the CBI solve cases while he seeks to bring his family’s killer to justice. Also starring in the show are Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman, Amanda Righetti, Emily Swallow, and Rockmond Dunbar.
The higher a show’s ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better its chances for survival. New ratings data will be added as it becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/10 update: The Mentalist has been renewed for a seventh (and likely final) season on CBS.
5/19 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context here.
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Last year comparison: The fifth season of The Mentalist averaged a 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 9.5 million total viewers.
Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you still like The Mentalist TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a seventh season?
I have all 5 seasons on DVD. seasons 1&2 were the best seasons 3,4&5, are less interesting season 6 with the FBI setting is dry & pathetic based on the quality of the previous seasons. It appears the writers are running out of inspiration, ideas, or desire to match the quality of the first 5 seasons. I just got all 5 seasons of Castle and thought I would only watch them once. I am just completing season 4 and see no similar decline from the first two seasons. I may have a new favorite show. Granted I have not rewatched… Read more »
Why are renewals only based on an American viewers? There are shows out there getting renewed with only a couple of million viewers like Lost Girl and the Mentalist averages 9.2 million – I mean there are only 23 million people in Australia so I think that’s a pretty high score!! Please renew this excellent show.
please renew the mentalist please!begging you already!
why eould they think of cancelling the mentalist? i love the mentalist it feeds my mind.. and i cannot think of any other show like that. why dont you cancel the ncis there’s a lot of shows like that in the air and the mentalist is only one.im only watching through the internet coz im from asia.
they need to renew the mentalist for seventh season. they had to.
In my view The Mentalist should be renewed for a 7th season, because this series is soooo great.
The show is written well but it’s the actors and actresses that make the show so much fun to watch. Simon Baker is a very likeable guy who’s character has great chemistry with the others. This is a show that deserves a seventh season.
Great show and it deserves a seventh season.
The show must be renewed it is better than ever!!!
My husband and I love the Mentalist. We watch or record every week. The problem comes in when its ALWAYS delayed and our recording is cut off at the last 10-20 min. Then it becomes a real hassle to see the last 10 min w/o being tortured by never ending commercials online or be required to watch the whole thing (commercials included) on demand. I would lay odds that a lot of others have experienced the same problem.
I would like to see it renewed. It is better than ever.
CBS is sorely trying my loyalty here. Messing with The Mentalist really ticks me off. Waiting forEVer thru the not-so-Amazing Race to get to The Good Wife and then finally The Mentalist often very late on a Sunday night…and then all the other specials pre-empting . Yet they wonder where the ratings went? Give The Good Wife and The Mentalist a break and put them on a weekday night at 9 and 10. Wouldn’t mind the goofy but one-liner funny 2 Broke Girls at 8:30 beforehand. And Intelligence….boy did CBS sucker-punch them. A night of family foolish comedy audiences rolls… Read more »
Renew. The ratings are better than some of the others shows that are staying on
The Mentalist cancelled? SAY IT ISN’T SO! If CBS wants to kill a show by moving it to Sunday, move NCIS: LA there to die. Whatever crap they replace it with can’t be half as good. If CBS is really that dumb, please some other network pick it up.
Since the end of the Red John thread and the move to Austin, the series is better than ever! No series can survive the crazy Sunday night CBS shenanigans of schedule changes. Give it a chance to attract a new audience by putting it on at a stable night and time. There’s a paucity of decent, thought-provoking programs on non cable channels. Keep Patrick Jane!
Very true. How can any real rating of the show be done by the network when the show is always preempted by a football game or basketball all season long? Put it back on Tuesdays at 9pm and get rid of NCIS Los Angeles.