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 love the show. It should definitel have at lleast a Final Season, it will be refreshing to see Patrick and Teresa as a couple
The comments about the football schedule ******** it all up are very valid. I had to record 3 shows to get a FULL episode of Mentalist. Bad enuf you have it on a bad time period – basically the graveyard shift on Sunday, but then throw up barricades to even seeing it. It’s all about the money , for sure, but what about the audience as well. For the next season, move it back to week nites and run all the reruns from the week that you may or may not care about. Why pay good money for a show… Read more »
I have watched “The Mentalist” since it first aired and love it! Glad I can tape the show
when ball games run too long. Loved last night’s show1
Love The Mentalist. I watch it through Amazon on a season pass. Don’t mind paying for every episode, it’s good enough to watch time and time again. Am so excited it will be continuing for a 7th season.
Love the Mentalist. They need to put it in different time slot, not on Sunday nite when you have football etc, messing up the times that the shows come on.
I love The Mentalist! It is a great show. I definitely think it should be renewed!
I love this show but the move after football is awful. I love football but if you want to kill a show this is where you put it. I DVR my shows so football screws up the dvr. I tape the show after to help out and then it goes longer than that so I start missing episodes and it gets to the point where you stop watching because you’ve missed too much. They would just put it back during the week and then sports won’t interfere with it. Love football but hate that it screws up a show that… Read more »
I love this show and would really hate to see it cancelled!! I really tire of
the family shows getting the axe. What is wrong with an interesting
show you can watch as a family?
great show! simon baker and cast together, excellent interplay.
With the time The Mentalist is on, a lower number of viewers should be expected. They should be considering how well it is doing despite that time slot.
Great show! Please renew!
I absolutely love this show. I think Patrick Jane’s character is both steamingly sexy and a great joy to watch. Both my Mother and I have watched this show since day 1. I get such a kick out of watching how Patrick always knows more than everyone else in the room, and how my 70 yr old Mother calls me after every episode to discuss it and always comments on how sexy even SHE thinks Patrick Jane is! Lol Honestly I watch a lot of shows and this is one that I think just keeps getting better w/time as the… Read more »
The show must be renewed, it is the best they ever made….
I love this show. It is in a terrible time-slot. top of that, the CBS on-demand website messes the video up with delayed adverts making the viewing of an episode seem disjointed. If you are from Europe, you can’t see the video at all and you need to have an address in the USA, Canada or Australia to comment on the CBS page.
But then I suppose CBS is only interested in viewers in the USA, especially the 18-49 age group. Sad, but true.
Great show, however, why Sunday night????the timing was better before CBS changed it.