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.
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.
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.