It looks like the Zoo has been closed. CBS has decided to cancel their low-rated Zoo TV show after three summer seasons.
A CBS drama thriller based on the James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge novel, Zoo, stars James Wolk as zoologist Jackson Oz. The cast also includes Kristen Connolly, Nonso Anozie, Billy Burke, Alyssa Diaz, Josh Salatin, and Gracie Dzienny. After noticing animals behaving strangely during the African safaris he conducts, Oz and his team work to figure out the reason behind it. Meanwhile, the animals assaults become more cunning, coordinated, and ferocious.
The series never drew a big audience for the network but it managed to hold on for three seasons. The first season averaged a 1.06 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.40 million viewers. The second season dropped by more than 30%, averaging a 0.74 in the demo with 4.45 million. This past summer, the third season saw even bigger declines and averaged a 0.51 in the demo and 2.65 million.
Zoo was produced in-house by CBS Television Studios. It was profitable thanks to a deal with Netflix to stream the show once its seasons finished airing. Because of the deal, the series was profitable before an episode had even aired. Salvation, which was recently renewed for a second season, is part of a similar deal with Amazon.
What do you think? Did you like the Zoo TV show? Do you think that CBS should have cancelled it or, renewed it for a fourth season instead?
I’m very sad that zoo was cancelled. My husband and I really enjoyed the show and we were looking forward to season 4. Is there anything fans can do to change the decision.
There’s a petition.
Great show! and as usual once you get hooked on something good it gets the axe!
Please bring this back! We love this show. It’s one of the few shows my whole family can watch. We love it.
Estou muito triste, queria que tivesse a próxima temporada, eu gosto muito,mas, infelizmente assim como Dark Matter ela foi cancelada 🙁
I am so incredibly upset! I rarely watch television anymore and this is exactly why. I fall in love with a series and it’s gone. Every network seems to do this and I am really considering not watching any more series at all and just sticking to movies. We cancelled cable a couple years ago and just buy each episode of whatever t.v series we like. Zoo was the only one we found worth it.. ugh. In the last 5 years there has been 4 shows I watched.. NBC’s Revolution, The Cape and Game of Silence and now CBS Zoo.… Read more »
So pissed they cancelled it!!
Boring…just like the one that guy was in where the power went off. The writing was awful.
I really want to watch the next season of zoo, i record it on my tv box and watch it. Im incredibly disappointed to see it no longer being screened i dont find it fair for those of us who are really hooked on this series.
Say it isnt so…I love this show!!
Me and my husband are well pissed we loved watching zoo it was a great program so sad now always get rid of great programs
I really enjoyed the first season, but the writers got off track and went into some bizarre directions that I didn’t find the at all believable. There’s more to ratings than those in the coveted 18-49 demographic.
This is my favorite show.. Doesn’t the viewers have any say at all??? Plus they leave us hanging… why not cancel some of the other stupid ones.. I am really mad about his.. why ask our opinions if you don’t care about us!!
I am beyond PISSED off that y’all have cancelled yet another great show!! What the heck!! Why do y’all feel the need to do that?!?!!?!?!?! I’m ready to stop watching anything anymore!!!!!!’n
This is my favorite show, and I am sooooooo mad that they are cancelling this!! I love the actors so much. Just when you finally are understanding who they really are and their past…people decide to cancel the show!! I am mad!!! :((((
This is my favorite show, and I am sooooooo mad that they are cancelling this!! I love the actors so much. Just when you finally are understanding who they really are and their past…people decide to cancel the show!! I am mad!!! :((((