Ratings for the Premier - Is this the end of SGU?

[Kpnuts]

I always said it would be cancelled after two years, looks to be heading that way.

Everyone's blaming the change to a tuesday night, how about blaming the fact that the series is an awful, bleak, boring mess of a show, with the most unlikeable cast on tv?

Stargate started dying the instant the Ori were brought in, if not a year or two before that. Is anyone honestly surprised it's come to this?

 

[Brent]

Saw this posted on Gateworld:

Wednesday for Syfy

Ghost Hunters (9pm, 62 minutes)
- 2.082 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49

Ghost Hunters is doing better than SGU right now.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Saw this posted on Gateworld:

Wednesday for Syfy

Ghost Hunters (9pm, 62 minutes)
- 2.082 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49

Ghost Hunters is doing better than SGU right now.

Didn't Ghost Hunters do better than SGU last year as well? And SGA the year before?

 

[JWD75]

I feel bad for some of the actors like Robert Carlyle and Ming-Na, great actors who are better than this show right now, hate to see them be associated with this drowning ship, there was so much potential too.

I agree. Robert Carlyle especially deserves better.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Carlyle is awesome. He deserves a better show than this.

 

[bullethead]

Carlyle is awesome. He deserves a better show than this.

He should've gotten on to BSG while it was still on. They would've given him something really worthy of his talent.

 

[Snaploud]

Everyone's blaming the change to a tuesday night, how about blaming the fact that the series is an awful, bleak, boring mess of a show, with the most unlikeable cast on tv?

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[SG-17]

Putting it up against new Fall shows on Tuesdays is just plain idiotic. Fridays is a much safer night to compete against. There's a lot of competition on the 5 networks' Tuesday line up for SGU to compete against.

Indeed. Plus there were probably many people who didn't realize that the show had moved to Tuesdays to begin with.

 

[TemporalFlux]

It looks like a lot of people simply didn't know about the change in airdate. Fridays are something of a traditional airdate for sci-fi channel, isn't it?

Since March 1999. However, Sci-Fi Channel's first serious stab at original dramatic programming in June 1998 was Sliders and Welcome to Paradox, and those aired on Monday nights. Sliders premiered to its 2.4 on a Monday night.

Even up through episode 8 of season four ("The Alternateville Horror"), Sliders was still pulling in a 2.0; but its momentum was killed by going on hiatus for 6 months so that Sci-Fi Channel could artificially force it's original programming block to Friday nights (which began with Sliders, Farscape, First Wave and Poltergeist the Legacy). The Friday block didn't really regain the Monday night success until three years later when new episodes of Stargate SG-1 were added to the line-up in 2002 (and the season six premiere, "Redemption", only earned a 1.8 if I remember correctly).

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Syfy should be used as a case study on how to run a cable network into the ground.

 

[FreezeC77]

Syfy should be used as a case study on how to run a cable network into the ground.

and yet the people who run the channel keep getting promoted.

I guess it's NBC trying to disprove the Peter Principle by promoting people beyond levels that they appear incompetent at.

 

[Jax]

Ghost Hunters (9pm, 62 minutes)
- 2.082 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49

Ghost Hunters is doing better than SGU right now.

Ghost Hunters has two things going for it...

* Its brain dead crap that attracts casual viewers

* It does not suffer from 13 years and 3 shows of fatigue.

Stargate Atlantis should of had one more final season + A 3rd and final DVD movie to wrap up the SG-1 characters and then rest the franchise for a few years. Then try out SG-Universe with new writers/producers, the new BSG style is a fresh move for the franchise but the change was so sudden after what came before it has put off so many SG fans.

MGM/SY-FY sadly live in the world of being total muppets = promotions

 

[The Habs Fan]

Strangely, in Canada SGU's premiere last Friday got higher ratings than the finale last year. Usually both countries' ratings mirror each other, but not this time.

 

[The Wormhole]

Strangely, in Canada SGU's premiere last Friday got higher ratings than the finale last year. Usually both countries' ratings mirror each other, but not this time.

That is strange, since Space aired the episode three days after SyFy. I guess Canadians really don't believe in downloading?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Strangely, in Canada SGU's premiere last Friday got higher ratings than the finale last year. Usually both countries' ratings mirror each other, but not this time.

That is strange, since Space aired the episode three days after SyFy. I guess Canadians really don't believe in downloading?

Is it really necessary to download something that will air in three days?

 

[MilleniumLance]

Strangely, in Canada SGU's premiere last Friday got higher ratings than the finale last year. Usually both countries' ratings mirror each other, but not this time.

That is strange, since Space aired the episode three days after SyFy. I guess Canadians really don't believe in downloading?

Is it really necessary to download something that will air in three days?

whats the difference betwwen downloading the ep cause you worked that night and using a DVR or Tivo for later viewing, cause i use the first option

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, downloading usually means you'd have to watch the episode on your computer instead of your TV. I personally can't stand watching things on my computer. Plus, we're talking about downloading something 3 days before it's scheduled to air in your country. Not exactly the same as just recording it on its airdate and watching it later.

 

[PsychoPere]

There's also the fact that DVR viewing numbers are increasingly considered by networks in addition to Nielsen ratings, whereas downloading an episode is only going to be looked at as the illegal distribution that it is. If you download, you hurt the show; if you DVR, you help the show.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

That is strange, since Space aired the episode three days after SyFy. I guess Canadians really don't believe in downloading?

Is it really necessary to download something that will air in three days?

whats the difference betwwen downloading the ep cause you worked that night and using a DVR or Tivo for later viewing, cause i use the first option

How is that the same thing as downloading it because you don't want to wait for it to air? Besides, there's a legal option to watch the episode online that I would agree is no different than watching it on a DVR.

 

[Xerxus]

Tuesday October 5.

Stargate Universe (9pm)
- 1.070 million viewers
- 0.7/1 HH
- 0.5/1 A18-49

Caprica
- 0.889 million viewers
- 0.6/1 HH
- 0.4/1 A18-49

Source

Tuesday nights are not good.

Edit:

WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (premiere) (SYFY; 8:00-10:00pm)
- 2.524 million viewers [#8 of all primetime cable]
- 1.5 HH [#8]
- 0.8 A18-49 [#2]
- 0.9 M18-34 [#1]
- 1.0 M18-49 [#1]
- 1.2 M25-54 [#1]

I believe that's also down from last year's premiere which had 3.2 million viewers.