Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2015-17, 3 Seasons Totaling 39 Episodes
Network: CBS
Starring: James Wolk, Nora Arnezeder, Nonso Anozie, Billy Burke
Series Website: www.cbs.com/shows/zoo/
Description: ZOO is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans sweeping the planet. James Wolk will play Jackson Oz, a young, renegade American zoologist who spends his days running safaris in the wilds of Africa when he begins noticing the strange behavior of the animals. As the assaults become more cunning, coordinated and ferocious, he is thrust into the race to unlock the mystery of the pandemic before there’s no place left for people to hide. CBS.com
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Why Was It Cancelled? This show’s ratings were down notably in its third season and it seemed certainly to be headed to cancellation which CBS confirmed with an October cancellation announcement. However, that network’s other Summer series Salvation, which had approximately the same ratings average, received a renewal nod. Both shows have streaming deals (Netflix for Zoo and Amazon for Salvation) that make them profitable for CBS on the front end, so it seems like both should have received renewals. Zoo is more expensive to produce, though, so perhaps that factored into the decision. But I expect that the show’s fans will be lobbying streaming partner Netflix to give it at least a fourth season if not more.
2016-17 Season Ratings Results:
| Air Date | Airings | Live+SD Rtg | StD Avg | Tot Vwrs (M) | Live+7 Rtg | Status |
| 6/29/17 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.0 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 7/6/17 | 2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 2.8 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 7/13/17 | 3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 0.9 | Cancellation Likely |
| 7/20/17 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | Cancellation Likely |
| 7/27/17 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 8/3/17 | 6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 0.7 | Cancellation Likely |
| 8/10/17 | 7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 0.8 | Cancellation Likely |
| 8/17/17 | 8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 0.9 | Cancellation Likely |
| 8/24/17 | 9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 2.4 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 8/31/17 | 10 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 0.7 | Cancellation Likely |
| 9/7/17 | 11 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 9/14/17 | 12 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.6 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
| 9/21/17 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.8 | n/a | Cancellation Likely |
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2015-16 Season Ratings Results:
| Air Date | Airings | Live+SD Rtg | StD Avg | Tot Vwrs (M) | Live+7 Rtg | Cancel Alert |
| 6/28/16 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 5.1 | n/a | Low |
| 7/5/16 | 2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 5.0 | 1.2 | Low |
| 7/12/16 | 3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 4.5 | 1.1 | Low |
| 7/19/16 | 4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 4.1 | n/a | Moderate |
| 7/26/16 | 5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 4.0 | n/a | Moderate |
| 8/2/16 | 6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 4.4 | n/a | Moderate |
| 8/9/16 | 7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 3.6 | n/a | Renewed |
| 8/16/16 | 8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 4.0 | n/a | Renewed |
| 8/23/16 | 9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 4.8 | n/a | Renewed |
| 8/30/16 | 10 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 4.7 | n/a | Renewed |
| 9/6/16 | 11 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 4.2 | n/a | Renewed |
2014-15 Season Ratings Results:
| Week | Airings | Live+SD Rtg | StD Avg | Tot Vwrs (MM) | Live+7 Rtg | Cancel Alert |
| 6/30/15 | 1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 8.2 | 1.8 | Low |
| 7/7/15 | 2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 7.7 | 1.8 | Low |
| 7/14/15 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 6.6 | 1.7 | Low |
| 7/21/15 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 6.7 | 1.7 | Low |
| 7/28/15 | 5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 7.1 | 1.8 | Low |
| 8/4/15 | 6 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 6.0 | 1.6 | Low |
| 8/11/15 | 7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 6.7 | 1.8 | Low |
| 8/18/15 | 8 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 5.9 | 1.5 | Low |
| 8/25/15 | 9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 1.7 | Low |
| 9/1/15 | 10 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 6.0 | 1.6 | Moderate |
| 9/8/15 | 11 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 1.4 | Moderate |
| 9/15/15 | 12 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 4.8 | n/a | Moderate |
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This was my favorite summer show. I’m waiting for Chloe to come back – without a Season 4 that can never happen.
You can’t just leave us hanging!!! We spent all this time watching 3 seasons and because the rating wasn’t high enough for your pocket book you cancel it. Why start a season go that far and cancel? This sucks!!! Not happy with you CBS at all.
Don’t stop the zoo series. I know a lot of people just beginning to watch.
Our family enjoyed Zoo. We just finished watching the last episode of Season 3, The Barrier on Netflix. We are disappointed that it has been cancelled. We were looking forward to a Season 4!
I love Zoo!! It’s one of the three network series I watch on what’s otherwise dreadful tv. I purchased the first three seasons and will happily buy season four
I need this show back on….. cbs please don’t cancel the show….
I love this show and I think after watching it from the very first episode it is absolutely brilliant, different, unexpected, and unlike a lot of rubbish that is put on. If you want to finish the show fine but at least give the people who have watched it an ending, give it one more season and an outcome. To leave it like this is most unfair to the public who have stuck with it and watched all the episodes, or don’t we matter????? ………….
I started out really liking this show, but it has gone so far afield it has become ridiculous in what is now happening. I hope they wrap it up and give it a merciful death.
Love this show buts it’s too dark to watch
I need this show back on!
It returns this Summer for its second season. Look for it to premiere sometime in early July.
I absolutely love this this show. The cast is amazing as is the quality I am definitely going to tell everyone to watch next summer.
It’s October 1st, any word yet on a Zoo renewal? I sure hope they don’t leave us hanging!
Nothing yet and they are taking their time making a decision. We expect to hear something any day now.
cbs please dont cancel this show
I love this show!!!!