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Battle Creek

Battle Creek

Not all cops are buddies.

20156.91 Season13 EpisodesCanceled

Overview

In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detective. As they solve crimes together, their polar opposite methods only slightly outweigh their disdain for each other.

Created by Bryan Singer
Produced by Jason Taylor, Erin Gunn, Esta Spalding
NetworksCBS

Top Cast

Josh Duhamel

Josh Duhamel

Special Agent Milton Chamberlain

Dean Winters

Dean Winters

Detective Russ Agnew

Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer

Commander Guziewicz

Kal Penn

Kal Penn

Detective Fontanelle

Aubrey Dollar

Aubrey Dollar

Holly Dale

Edward Fordham, Jr.

Edward Fordham, Jr.

Detective Aaron Funkhauser

Themes & Keywords

michiganfbipolice detectivemurder investigationbuddy cop

About Battle Creek

Battle Creek is a comedy, drama series that first aired in 2015 exploring themes of michigan, fbi, police detective, murder investigation, buddy cop. Created by Bryan Singer, it stars Josh Duhamel, Dean Winters, Janet McTeer. In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detective. As they solve crimes together, their polar opposite methods only slightly outweigh their disdain for each other.

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