Stargate Universe premiere draws over 2 million
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Saturday - October 3, 2009 |
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Overnight ratings are in already for “Air” Parts 1 and 2, the series premiere of Stargate Universe! While lower than we had hoped, Syfy is touting the preliminary viewership numbers as the biggest premiere for the Stargate franchise in four years (since the debut of Atlantis’s second season).
The two-hour premiere averaged more than 2.35 million viewers, making for a 1.7 average household rating.
1.32 million adults ages 25 to 54 tuned in, and 1.12 million adults 18 to 49. In that second demographic, that’s the best performance for a Friday night series premiere since the debut of Battlestar Galactica in January, 2005, Syfy said.
The show also beat FOX’s Dollhouse at 9 p.m. A new episode of that show drew 2.1 million viewers.
The initial ratings data includes those who watched the show live, or DVR-delayed within 3 hours of broadcast. Complete “Live + 7 days” data — accounting for those who recorded the episode on DVR and watched later in the week — will be available in about three weeks.
New episodes of Stargate Universe continue next Friday at 9 p.m. on Syfy!
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uhm… that’s it?
Too many freaking commercials during the premiere SyFy! Freaking ey!
With that said: I re-watched the premiere on Hulu and it flowed sooooooooo much better without the constant interruptions.
AscendedTauri | October 3 @ 4:22 pmCongratulations “Stargate: Universe”!!! Great start!!!
Alan | October 3 @ 4:43 pmYay… !
Anubis10545 | October 3 @ 4:46 pm@AscendedTauri
Agreed. Watched the free iTunes download and that helped. A LOT. Still gonna watch it on Fridays, though.
icarus812 | October 3 @ 5:06 pmThat’s it? All the hoopla and it gets barely a few hundred thousands more than SGA’s regular ep? For a ~series~ premiere, especially that heavily advertised, it’s underwhelming and there’s no way to spin it.
katikatnik | October 3 @ 5:22 pmLow ratings for a low-rate network. SyFy destroys everything it touches eventually. Ron Moore saw that and pulled BSG before it could happen. Then SyFy commissioned Battlestargate Universica to finally put an end to Stargate for good.
This show was a well-acted but otherwise thinly veiled cheap shot at replicating Battlestar Galactica complete with unnecessary gratuitous sex scene. Bad form all around.
zackwbrandon | October 3 @ 5:33 pmThat’s not really a good rating, especially for a series premiere. I thought it was great, but I guess it didn’t attract as many people I thought.
Also, I think Darren should have held off on the numbers till more numbers were added in. Last I heard, they weren’t done with that.
I’m a bit disappointed and the numbers will change drastically once the rest of the numbers are added in.
Orion Coran | October 3 @ 5:37 pm@Orion Coran: This came to us today in a Syfy press release. We’re just passing it along.
Darren Sumner | October 3 @ 5:46 pmDoes it matter how many people watched the show the first time? It only tells us lots of people tuned in to see if it was any good. I liked it but the numbers won’t matter much until we see how many come back to see the next few episodes right?
It’s kind of like how they say a movie is good when it makes a ton of money in the firs week in theaters. How many people who saw it actually enjoyed what they saw?
Fridgefiend | October 3 @ 5:51 pm@Darren: Alright. Last time I read stuff was earlier today so I wasn’t sure if that Syfy press release came out or not.
Orion Coran | October 3 @ 5:58 pm@Darren: Also, I just wanted to say I hope I didn’t come off as being rude and if I did, it wasn’t my intention to. While I am a bit upset, I jumped the gun before reading the article a bit more as well as around the net a bit more. :)
Orion Coran | October 3 @ 6:16 pmI think the reason they make a big deal about who watched it the first time is because they have to sit through the commercials. Revenue from commercials is what keeps the show going, and advertisers want to advertise on shows that have a lot of people that watch. People who DVR skip commercials, and hulu broadcasts dont have as many commercials.
FormulaJRay | October 3 @ 6:18 pmwow – not such a great number for a premiere…
chevronista | October 3 @ 6:41 pmWay to go guys, you dump one show for another that gets only slightly better ratings. And the series premiere at that. Wait until next week.
Imitation Tofu | October 3 @ 7:12 pmBest premiere in 4 years and beat out a show on one of the 4 big networks, sounds good to me. Especially considering Stargate has been around a long time.
ZombieSniper | October 3 @ 7:21 pmguys i know you think this was the best yet but if you look at the rating from the season premiere of stargate SG-1 it was way higher than this one i am not sayin that this was not good but not as good a SG-1
chaser532 | October 3 @ 7:57 pmSo SGA got cancelled for a show that only received marginally better ratings, even with the big budget and big names. So maybe the previous Stargate shows weren’t all that stale and all they needed was a bit of good writing. What have the producers actually achieved here. The SGU premier only did slightly better than the 5th year ratings of SGA. So much for appealing to a wider audience. If the Premier gets such disappointing ratings I can only imagine what the ratings will be like at the end of the season.
blackhawlk | October 3 @ 8:13 pmStargate Atlantis was WAY better than this boring waste of time. I predict one season of SGU.
Stormin | October 3 @ 9:26 pmhttp://www.aintitcool.com/node/42600
Ain’t it cool news has the break down of the shows on the major networks, SGU was only beaten by one show(Medium 1.8), granted this is still very low for a series premier, at least its not just SGU that has lower than expected ratings.
fonzsolo | October 3 @ 10:34 pmWow! I haven’t been around for awhile. A whole lot of people seem to be carrying some excess why’d-they-cancel-SGA-for-SGU baggage into this. SGA and SG-1 are gone. The SG producers have created a modern show for a modern viewership. I think they did a commendable job. Not the best show ever, but certainly as good as any SGA or SG-1 and yet, more modern and accessible. Bravo, Brad and Rob for staying with the times! And doing it with style!
jmixont | October 3 @ 11:03 pmI’m not sure how much they have spent making and advertising this new series, but you’d think they’d want better numbers than this to justify its replacing a dependable workhorse like SGA.
Sylvia | October 3 @ 11:13 pmThe return on investment can’t be that terrific; if they say that the ratings for SGA were not enough to continue that show, the demo’s (younger skew) for this one had better be great!
that’s it… goodbye stargate franchise…
Jack_Bauer | October 3 @ 11:29 pmconcur with Jack Bauer. I think SGU will kill the franchise on T.V. The only hope is resurrection through SG-1/SGA movies.
SGU, to me, is just writer mental master***tion. Just dudes that got bored and want to psyco-analyze a bunch of seriously flawed human beings… I hated BSG… and this is just a copy. It’s too bad they didn’t follow the writing style of SG1 and SGA.
I guarantee ratings will be below 1.0 before end of season.
mrx | October 4 @ 12:58 amBTW: jmixont — you crack me up dude/dudette. “Modern style” — you mean lowering your IQ so that you can watch f**ed up characters with whom you’d want to have nothing to do with in real life? Sitting there psyco-analyzing people who wallow in their own crap? Without any fiber of honor or qualities that you admire in man-kind? I thought those were the great things about SGA/SG-1? Forget SGA-SG1? SO why not just start a totally new show instead of building on the old franchise of so many years?
This is like glorified Jerry Springer… let’s see who has what mental problem, who’s going to kill who, who’s going to f**k who… nice… we need more of that… while they’re at it, they should throw in some religious crap in there too… so we’ll have an ultra-left/ultra-right show with tons of mental crap… no action, no good lessons, etc.
Of what I remember, Abyss, Children of the Gods, and a few other similar episodes were the highest rated of SGA/SG1 franchise… This was not just a departure, but the absolute and complete opposite in its story-telling fiber.
mrx | October 4 @ 1:04 am