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Pathogen ratings. Its the End!

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The fourth Episode of Stargate Universe‘s second season made for the franchise’s first trip south of the 1 million mark for live viewing. “Pathogen” drew an estimated 974,000 viewers yesterday, according to sources at PIFeedback.com. This is a drop of over 20 percent from the previous week’s season high.
Caprica didn’t fare any better, following up at 10 p.m. with 718,000 viewers. Like SGU, it’s a series-low for the Battlestar Galactica spin-off.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/10/stargates-live-ratings-drop-below-1-million/
 
So Let's track it over the course of 4 episodes:

Intervention 1x01
- 1.175 million viewers
- 0.5 in 18-49

Aftermath 1x02
- 1.070 million viewers
- 0.7/1 HH
- 0.5/1 A18-49

Awakening 1x03
- 1.222 million viewers
- 0.8/1 HH
- 0.5/1 A18-49

Pathogen 1x04
- 974,000 viewers
 
I think that might be the first time the Stargate franchise has dipped beneath the one million mark since Atlantis' fourth-season alarm, "Doppelganger".
 
What surprises me is that Awakening was a pretty good ep so far for this season, had a lot of people watching, relatively speaking, but they didn't come back this week! I'm not sure what that means.
 
Meanwhile, Syfy’s Sanctuary proved last week that there is still science fiction (and ratings) to be had on Friday nights. The season premiere drew 1.787 million viewers (1.3 household rating) on October 15, 17 percent higher than last season’s average. That episode followed Syfy’s new 2-hour block of WWE Smackdown (2.876 million viewers).
 
They made a huge mistake moving to Tuesday. It should have been SGU/Caprica/Sanctuary back-to-back on Friday night.
 
When your key demographic is nerds, you have to air your shows when nerds are guaranteed to be home. That means Friday night! :p
 
The good news for Stargate is that most of the U.S. viewers are still there, but are catching up on DVR or online later in the week. Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi reports on his blog that the new DVR numbers (Live + 7 Days) for the Season Premire , “Intervention,” show a 78 percent jump from the live, 9 p.m. viewing number and around 40 percent from the “Live + Same Day” (which is what we report here).
That means that around 1.65 million people are still watching SGU on syfy Channel — just not on Tuesdays.


That was then though, wonder what they are for the last few weeks.
 
Lol, watching it on other days, i.e. NOT Tuesday. So maybe Tuesday was a BAD day to put SGU on heh. Maybe SCIFI should put SGU on a day that people actually watch it?
 
Stargate Universe
- 0.974 million viewers
- 0.7/1 HH
- 0.4/1 A18-49

Caprica
- 0.718 million viewers
- 0.5/1 HH
- 0.3/1 A18-49
 
most of the U.S. viewers are still there, but are catching up on DVR or online later in the week. Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi reports on his blog that the new DVR numbers (Live + 7 Days) for the season premiere, “Intervention,” show a 78 percent jump from the live, 9 p.m. viewing number and around 40 percent from the “Live + Same Day.

That means that around 1.65 million people are still watching SGU on Syfy Channel — just not on Tuesdays.
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Simply fact if SYFY doesn't move the show then SGU is dead and the franchise with it.

MOVE THE FUCKER FFS :scream:
 
It's sad that Caprica is probably going to be cancelled.

It's also sad that Robert Carlyle won't be getting a steady paycheck from the SGU gig.

Everything else is peachy keen! What a terrible show SGU is.
 
It's not the worse I've seen, its not the best either. It needs some kick to it, get things going, and move it back to Fridays.
 
With the DVR shifted ratings taken into account, should they hold this week as previously, I'd say that SGU is doing good considering how much Stargate's own fanbase bites the hand that feeds it.

I'd been hoping that the change in tone of SGU might actually draw new viewers in though, which I suppose remains to be seen. I think a built-in flaw of science fiction franchises is that the fans tend to be dedicated to a very particular vision - whatever was the exact form the franchise took when said fan first fell in love with it. Nerds tend to be myopic and a bit obsessive. (Or more than a bit, depending.) Quality concerns aside, I always felt one reason Star Trek went downhill was because each successive series automatically lost a chunk of viewers /before/ it had a chance to drive them away with just plain bad episodes... because each new show wasn't precisely the same as the last show.

With Stargate, it's particularly bad because SG-1 is even more iconic for fans than any particular "crew" is in Trek; Trek always emphasized its expansive universe. SG-1 was a character drama about a single group of four people taking on the universe. Whether they'd admit it or not, I wonder if most Stargate fans will never be happy with anything other than SG-1.
 
Well there was a baseball game on at the same time.

Also.
The good news for Stargate is that most of the U.S. viewers are still there, but are catching up on DVR or online later in the week. Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi reports on his blog that the new DVR numbers (Live + 7 Days) for the season premiere, “Intervention,” show a 78 percent jump from the live, 9 p.m. viewing number and around 40 percent from the “Live + Same Day” (which is what we report here).
 
Both of these shows are dead in the water unless SyFy makes a big move in the next week or two. The DVR numbers are encouraging, but with ratings this low they're probably not going to save either show. Mallozzi is trying to spin this pretty hard, though.
 
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