On Thursday evening, Sat.1 aired the episode "Words from the Grave" - mummified corpses are discovered during renovations in a house. A case for the BAU, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit that investigates across the United States - their case is the TV series Criminal Minds. A market share of 8.2 percent in the target group of 14- to 49-year-olds was certainly not a dream value, but at least pretty much in the station average.
"Criminal Minds" has been running in the program of the German private broadcaster since 2006, since 2012 the series has its regular place on Sat.1 on Thursday evening. For a long time, the market shares in the target group were double-digit. The episodes of the 14th season are currently being aired - but now an end to the investigation is in sight.
As the US industry service "Variety" reports, the US broadcaster CBS, in whose program "Criminal Minds" has been broadcast since 2005, has commissioned a ten-episode 15th season - but at the same time announced that this is the last season the series will be.
Even in the US "Criminal Minds" no longer reaches the number of spectators at weddings (in 2014/15 it was in the season average over 14 million, last barely 10). In addition, the actor Thomas Gibson was fired in 2016 after a fierce quarrel with a producer. Recently, there were allegations against the longtime chief of the camera crew, which should have become sexually assaulted crewmembers.