''Battle Creek'' is an American

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

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 Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which enc ...

. CBS announced on May 8, 2015, after only 9 episodes had aired, that ''Battle Creek'' would end after 13 episodes.

Cast

Main

* Josh Duhamel as 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 Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, academic lecturer, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration. As an actor, he is known for his role portrayi ...

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 Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known as Spence Olchin in the sitcom '' The King of Queens'' (1998–2007) and for narrating the sitcom '' The Goldbergs'' (2013–present) as ...

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 Dan Bakkedahl (born November 18, 1969) is an American actor and improvisational comedian. He is best known for starring as Tim Hughes on the CBS sitcom ''Life in Pieces'', as Congressman Roger Furlong on the HBO series ''Veep'', and as Steve Nuge ...

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 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 ten years prior. Despite the name, establishing shots and location shots were not shot in

. However most of the scenes in the opening credits were filmed in Battle Creek. The main actors visited Battle Creek, Michigan, in the summer of 2014 to get a feel of the location, people, and especially the police department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, all of which it guaranteed to air. It 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

Season 1 (2015)

References

External links

Official website
* {{IMDb title, 3215364 2010s American comedy-drama television series 2010s American crime drama television series 2010s American police comedy television series 2015 American television series debuts 2015 American television series endings CBS original programming English-language television shows Television series created by Vince Gilligan Television series by CBS Studios Television series by Sony Pictures Television Television shows set in Michigan