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GaussHog
GaussHog
13 years ago

What they ARE putting on Fridays makes me lol hard, but this might actually be good for SGU. Here’s hoping more viewers tune in live on Tuesday.

majorsal
majorsal
13 years ago

i’m a fan of sanctuary, and i’m very concerned. BUT, this might be a good thing for it (and sgu and caprica), so…

the other popular shows of tues night, i don’t watch. :p

Stryse
Stryse
13 years ago

I’m cautiously optimistic about it. Although SciFi Fridays having been a staple of existence for the duration of this century, I’ll have to retrain people on what night of the week to leave me alone. :)

Billz
Billz
13 years ago

I still fail to see the reason why SyFy show WWE, especially since WWE isn’t sci-fi at all. It’s just mediocre ‘play fighting’ by adults who don’t have real careers.

Okay, so maybe a move to Tuesday will do SGU some good, but it should be for a legitimate reason, like reserving Fridays for cr*p SyFy produced TV movies, or less american sci-fi, like Red Dwarf or something like that.

skittles
skittles
13 years ago

SyFy hasn’t a clue about what it’s doing. Fans complained about the presence of wrestling…so it added MORE wrestling.

skittles
skittles
13 years ago

Brilliant job, SyFy. Bravo.

Jason96706
Jason96706
13 years ago

In the age of DVR’s it does make sense to move it away from Friday. I think they should of picked Monday though. Going up against American Idol is bad idea IMO.

darkthunder
darkthunder
13 years ago

Another thing to consider about the move to Tuesdays…

FOX: American Idol
CBS: NCIS / NCIS LA

Being that both American Idol and NCIS draw around 20 million viewers each every week, it’s VERY hard to get viewers on that day. I for one will most likely be recording SGU, so I can watch NCIS/NCISLA.

Gatesolider91
Gatesolider91
13 years ago

I just find it weird because there getting rid of WWE NXT on tuesday’s to move the Syfy shows to tuesday because there getting another WWE show. Why not just put Smackdown in the NXT slot is news to me but they are the network. But SYFY’s rationale has always been that WWE fits into the “imagine greater” slogan. And add to that the fact that Vince Mcmahon and Dick Ebersol (Head of NBC, SYFY’s parent company) are best buddies plays a role. Still I beleive that they should have some loyalty to their programming but I guess that’s why… Read more »

memnarch
memnarch
13 years ago

Good job on the time slot change, failure in the replacement. Wrestling does not belong on their channel.

zack
zack
13 years ago

Insanity has hit the programmers or management or both at SYFY. No, not because they are moving those series to Tuesday (though after having established Friday night as the SCI-FI (not SYFY) night of the week, you would think that would remain as a real statement), rather because of the totally irritating, stupid annoying addition of, who cares a fig about fake wrestling, not me, WWE on Friday night. What is any wrestling or boxing doing on the Scifi channel, now called SYFY, at all. I have to pay Comcast around $30 extra per month just to have the SYFY… Read more »

DarkElfa
DarkElfa
13 years ago

Most likely they are hoping to capture the Tuesday night audience that watches Lost after that show sees its finally.

gkarris
gkarris
13 years ago

Great job – SeeFee!
I being moved over for Wrestling is better than being cancelled and being replaced by a “re-imagined” Flash Gordon (*rolls eyes*)

wganubis
wganubis
13 years ago

TV Schedules are meaningless to me, I DVR my shows and watch at my leasure. The networks need to realize thats what alot of people are doing now.

junebug
junebug
13 years ago

People still watch ‘Lost’???

Only show I like on tuesdays was ‘Lie to Me’, and it’s not back yet… so … oh well. No biggie for me.

kevinoneton
kevinoneton
13 years ago

Well since Lost is ending :( SGU wont have to compete with it. I might still have to compete with V that is if it gets picked up for a 2nd season.

NightHawk777
NightHawk777
13 years ago

I’m gonna have to DVR Sanctuary now. That was the only show that I made an effort to watch live. But I work late most weekdays, so DVR it is.

Col. Newman
Col. Newman
13 years ago

O yes we must make space for “wrestling”

BigPaul01
BigPaul01
13 years ago

Next they will go from tuesday to wednesday and put Oprah and Emeril live on tuesdays…

Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur
13 years ago

SyFy honestly sucks on *any* and all decisions for programming on that network. A trained monkey could possibly make more effective decisions. I work second shift, and I have Fridays off it’s the one thing I like looking forward to on Friday nights. Honestly, Syfy makes just completely makes terrible decisions all the dang time since as far as I can remember. Ugh.

zack
zack
13 years ago

I suppose being moved because of Wrestling is better than cancellation and replacement by a re-imagined FG, but…remember, just last year they had something far worse – that completely unfunny embarrassing Outer Space Astronauts. So, you’re absolutely correct, it could be much worse. They could make that series the “centerpiece” of Tuesday nights.

katikatnik
katikatnik
13 years ago

About USA’s shows – not true that the move to Weds. was a great success for In Plain Sight: 3.2 mil. and 0.8 demo this week and still a drop from last week’s ratings. So far, the move to Tues. and Weds. worked well for White Collar, so-so for Psych and barely at all for L&O:CI and In Plain Sight. Tues. would have worked for SyFy during summer. But throughout the regular season? I think that the shows will either drop or stay level. Let’s face it, ratings prove that SGU’s fans DVR the show anyway. I don’t see them… Read more »

jcarnac
jcarnac
13 years ago

Im a huge Stargate and WWE fan and in the UK we have Smackdown on a Friday and SGU on a Tuesday. They both get great ratings on these days. So i think its a good thing for SGU that its moving to a Tuesday. It might get better raitings in the US to

javalord32
javalord32
13 years ago

wwe on syfy is wrong it just doesnt belong there

lastofthelight
lastofthelight
13 years ago

Part of the problem is that the Sci-Fi executives…wait for it…hate science fiction. They see it as geeky and niche, and have been trying to move away from it for over a decade. They see it as a detriment to their brand and profitability.

They won’t actually stop acting like m***** until the fans organize a collective letter writing campaign or something similar.

nobycane
nobycane
13 years ago

OMG – SyFy is really fraked up. As much as I despise SyFy these days, and the only I tune into the channel is for SGU now…. these new exec’s have really ruined the essence of the channel and potential programming.
All I can say now is…if SGU is really moving to TUESDAYS…..then SGU will not survive season 2!!!!

nobycane
nobycane
13 years ago

Oh, I forgot to mention…this for me personally, is a huge conflict in programming… Tuesdays is the night I watch NCIS, NCIS LA & The Good Wife… I honestly predict that ratings will drop a lot. I hate to say it…but SyFy just killed SGU.

Scott Watson
13 years ago

Not being from America myself I’m not sure if this is a good move or not. I hope that its a good decision.

Just out of curiosity is Friday still considered to be a ‘Death Slot’ or does that only apply to some of the other networks?

LORD MONK
LORD MONK
13 years ago

WWE on friday nights. And no one is getting fired. SCIFI Fridays has been in the works for ever and now they drop the WWE on it and pit SGU up against Idol and SCI. Like I said, and no one is getting fired. My queston is, when did the head of the Stargate Worlds start calling the shots at SciFi?

humble2004
humble2004
13 years ago

What are they going to do with Merlin? Season 2 was just got picked up by Syfy. It has only aired like 2 episodes?

katikatnik
katikatnik
13 years ago

: It’s a death slot in general. And especially these days. A move to Friday on the big networks usually means “cancellation ahead” warning.

CBS’ rating dropped below 2 in the demo ratings. Dollhouse on Fox dropped below 1 in the demo – sometimes even CW’s Smallville did better.

But it’s true that sanks to that, there’s smaller competition. I don’t think that SGU or Sanctuary or Caprica will be able to hold their own against demo juggernauts like AI…

QuinnMallory
QuinnMallory
13 years ago

Sure, SGU will now face better competition in its time slot on Tuesday but I think it’s overall live viewership should also go up as more people watch TV on Tuesday as opposed to Friday.

On the other hand, what are we SciFi nerds supposed to do now on Friday nights?

sgfan
13 years ago

IMO die hard fans will watch it on any night of the week. I know I will. I guess we won’t find out if this will expand their viewers or hurt them until we see some real numbers. They could always move it back to Friday if it’s a disaster.

Mentat
Mentat
13 years ago

I already sacrifice PBS Frontline for NCIS on Tuesday let alone the Discovery and History hot time slots. But then who watches live TV anymore anyway? I always miss part of NCIS and have to shop for it elsewhere.

There are times I think this series was modeled on The Producers.

comp734
comp734
13 years ago

i think change is good and fans will follow the show to new nights. if the change can increase viewers and bring on a season 3 pickup then great! i think a lot of the constructive feedback will be put into season 3 and hope the schedule changes help with this ratings strategy.

sweetred194
sweetred194
13 years ago

NOOOO, I watch NCIS/NCISLA on Tuesday, they are really good shows. Now I have to choose between watching live and watching Hulu for the other two shows. I can care less for Caprica, didn’t really like it. What does Wrestling have to do with Science Fiction? Someone please explain that one to me. At least now I have no reason to watch Syfy on Friday nights now. Way to go Syfy you really don’t have a clue what is going on in the world of Television! Whatever

candylyn
candylyn
13 years ago

This is possibly the best idea the Syfy Channel has had in years; more people are home during the week so viewership should go up. However its too little too late for me. There is nothing on that network that interests me anymore. For a channel with the tagline of “Imagine Greater”, I feel they are not. Wrestling, ghost hunting and soap operas are not science fiction. I am a sci-fi/action/adventure fan and that’s what I want. On Fridays, I would watch SGU and then Spartacus; I am constantly amazed by the difference. Yes, there are insane levels of blood… Read more »

PikaPika
PikaPika
13 years ago

Playing with the schedule to maximize numbers, I can see that. Wrestling on Siffie, I can…HUH? Okay, I’m old, but I’m not *that* old. That’s just wrong. Bad enough Weather Channel now shows movies, for crying out loud! We definitely need to band together and do something before it’s too late. Individual griping isn’t getting us anywhere.

So…how do we go about doing this? Siffie doesn’t exactly welcome comments.

Cloudrdr
Cloudrdr
13 years ago

OK. Well “rasslin'” sucks but it appears to be a neccessary evil in TV. I remember watching “Wrestling Live From the Olympic Auditorium” in Los Angeles in the mid-1950’s along with my Father. It is among my earliest memories (that and RollerRink). But there it is. It makes money on TV. This fact right there is such that it will allow SyFy at least a bit more lattitude in tolerating great Sci-Fi shows like SGU and Sanctuary having somewhat smaller ratings when they air. For those of us with DVR (I am guessing in excess of 90%) this means nothing… Read more »

Scott Watson
13 years ago

I apologise for being off-topic here “There will be a Stargate franchise reboot in a few years, so I will be back for that” I’m just wondering why do some people assume that’s definitely going to happen? there’s no guarantee.

save Scifi
save Scifi
13 years ago

Most likely everyone will watch live the much better shows on the big networks and DVR or Hula SGU and the others causing the ratings to drop farther, or maybe DVR the later reruns on Syfy, these weak shows can never compete with the much better written shows on the broadcast networks, and maybe Mr Wright will have his show compete with “V”. This would be a good time for another network to do a Scifi Friday, bring some Science Fiction back to Friday nights. It is interestingn that WWE’s Friday night show draws a completely different audience than the… Read more »

Cube
Cube
13 years ago

Dumb move friday was the day i relax before the weekend and watch tv.

Just another reason for me to watch less of stargate universe than I already do.

kanadra
kanadra
13 years ago

since when did “wrestling” become si fi??? what are you folks thinking??? I have begun to watch less and less since you took stargate Atlantis off the air

kanadra
kanadra
13 years ago

by the way i watch ncis on tues.

is it you
is it you
13 years ago

My bookcase contains more science fiction then so called “Sigh-Fry” channel (I hated their name change!). For me, Monday’s are The Big Bang Theory, Tuesdays are Nova and Deadliest Catch. Wednesdays there’s Mythbusters. Fridays used to be Sci-Fi and Saturdays are family and/or party night. Sundays are Discovery and History channel night. I have Media center…I DVR to watch late at night, if I like a show, I record it to disk for my library. Thursday nights are for reading. I have a backlog of books to read. I know where I’ll be spending more Friday nights from now on…sci-fi… Read more »