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Battle Creek is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on CBS on March 1, 2015, as a weekly show broadcast on each Sunday. Starring Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters, the show followed the mismatched partnership of a police detective and FBI agent in Battle Creek, Michigan. The series received generally favorable reviews. CBS announced on May 8, 2015, after only 9 episodes had aired, that Battle Creek would end after 13 episodes.
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Cast
Main
Josh Duhamel as FBI Special Agent Milton 'Milt' Chamberlain
Dean Winters as Detective Russell 'Russ' Agnew
Aubrey Dollar as Office Manager Holly Dale
Edward "Grapevine" Fordham Jr. as Detective Aaron 'Funk' Funkhauser
Kal Penn as Detective Fontanelle 'Font' White
Janet McTeer as Commander Kim 'Guz' Guziewicz
Recurring
Liza Lapira as Detective Erin 'E' Jacocks
Damon Herriman as Detective Niblet
Meredith Eaton as Meredith Oberling, BCPD's medical examiner
Guests
Patton Oswalt as Battle Creek's unorthodox mayor, Scooter Hardy (in "Cereal Killer")
Peter Jacobson as Darrel Hardy, the mayor's brother and chief of staff (in "Cereal Killer")
Candice Bergen as Constance Agnew, a convicted con artist and Russ' mother (in "Mama's Boy")
Dan Bakkedahl as Barclay Spades (in "Gingerbread Man")
Robert Sean Leonard as Brock (in "Sympathy for the Devil")
Joey Haro as Roger (in "Sympathy for the Devil")
Development and production
In September 2013, Sony Pictures Television announced that it had struck a deal with CBS to produce a new television series created by Vince Gilligan titled Battle Creek, based on a script written by Gilligan in 2003. Despite the title of the show, establishing shots and location shots were not of Battle Creek, Michigan, though most of the scenes in the opening credits were. The main actors visited Battle Creek in the summer of 2014 to get a sense of the location, people, and especially the police department.
CBS ordered thirteen episodes, all of which it guaranteed to air. The show premiered on CBS on March 1, 2015. On May 8, 2015, the network announced that Battle Creek would not be renewed for a second season. The series ended on May 24, 2015.
Episodes
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Battle Creek has an approval rating of 96% based on 47 critics' reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Battle Creek doesn't reinvent the wheel as a police procedural, but it distinguishes itself with biting humor and a darker tone than most network shows." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.