Finale strikes early

CBS has cancelled show Instinct after two seasons. Series creator Michael Rauch announced the cancellation recently on Twitter, writing, “I’m very sad to relay the news that @instinctcbs won’t be renewed for a third season. We will double up this Sunday and our series finale will be on August 25.” Rauch also thanked series stars Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic for “making Dylan and Lizzie something more than I could have ever hoped.”

Based on James Patterson’s Murder Games, Instinct featured Cumming as CBS’ first gay protagonist, a psychology professor and author who begins profiling murderers in New York City after a serial killer uses his own book as inspiration for killings. Episodes nine and ten of season two will air this Sunday.