CBS officially limits Limitless to one season
In the end, they just wouldn’t give them that pill. CBS has officially canceled Limitless, confirming suspicions that had been building ever since the series went unmentioned during the network’s spate of renewals and pick-ups a few weeks ago. The show—which starred Jake McDorman as a pill-popping super genius under the watchful eye of both the FBI and occasionally Bradley Cooper—ran for 22 episodes. CBS was shopping the series around to Netflix or Amazon as hosts for a potential second season, but those deals have apparently fallen through, according to a tweet today from showrunner Craig Sweeny: