Joe Flanigan guest stars in the August 4 episode of Warehouse 13.
It’s stood for more than five years, but the ratings record set by the series premiere of Stargate Atlantis has fallen.
Syfy Channel’s hit new procedural series Warehouse 13 has been setting new records almost on a weekly basis, as good watercooler buzz continues to increase the Tuesday show’s viewership. When the DVR-delayed “Live + 7 Days” numbers are accounted for, the show’s sixth episode earned a 3.2 household rating and drew 4.4 million viewers. That makes it the most watched regular series telecast in Syfy’s 17-year history.
Atlantis premiered on July 16, 2004, with “Rising” earning a 3.2 rating and an estimated 4.2 million viewers. It was a monster rating for the cable network at the time … and still today. Syfy says that Warehouse‘s sixth episode was #1 cable program on August 11 in prime time among total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demographic.
The previous week’s episode guest starred Atlantis‘s Joe Flanigan (“John Sheppard”), and actually also beat “Rising” in total viewers (though the Nielsen ratings number was a 3.0).
The new show is up significantly from the 3.5 million (2.5 rating) who watched the series premiere.
Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.
The series co-stars Saul Rubinek, who played the earnest reporter Emmett Bregman in the landmark Stargate SG-1 episode “Heroes.” It has already been renewed for a second season.
Warehouse 13 airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. E/P on Syfy.
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I just bust a gut laughing. Wonder what demographic this group is? 1 to 12 yr old. Good for everyone who enjoys it but I still think they stole the idea from "Friday the 13th, The Series" and it was better. Do an article on Eureka. Eureka is a show that has so much possibility if they would just bump up the intelligence a little.
If this is the type of show(light,fluffy and humorous) that brings in the big numbers for Syfy these days, I wonder how SGU will fare?
Atlantis was riding the coat tails of SG-1. If it werent for the popularity of SG-1 Atlantis would have had dismal ratings for its first episode.
Wearhouse 13 on the other hand has no coat tails to ride on and beat Atlantis by two tenths of a million. I think its safe to say which show is made up of the better stuff.
Just watch as that number is beaten down when the SGU PREMIERE blows that record out of the water!
I haven't watched Warehouse 13 in a few weeks, but last time I saw it, the characters were weak and somewhat poorly written. The show had potential, just from its premise, but it didn't really have a great hook to the stories. Sorry, wganubis, but I don't think that ratings are a great basis for "which show is made up of better stuff."
Uh Darren you can't beat someone's record when it is in a different category ;)
The 3.2 Atlantis scored was for live, so what was Warehouse 13's live numbers??
Funny, I started watching Warehouse 13 out of exercise anticipating Joe Flaningan's appearance and at first the show caught me but in my opinion it deteriorates with every new episode, becoming more and more boring, and I actually stopped caring as soon as I got my share of JF in ep.5. IMO, they could do much more exciting adventures with such an idea.
Then again it's probably because the characters are so schematic and with comical flavor - hard to take them seriously, therefore to care for them, and that's an indispensable hook for me in a show.
I also started Defying Gravity because of so high praises but got fed up with the pilot alone - felt like Sex In The Space, if you catch my meaning =)) Not to mention that Laura Harris's myopic squint irritates me to no end (due to my excessive physical empathy).
Guess I'm getting old: I have already seen the perfect sci-fi show, and its name is - forgive my sacrilege - Farscape :)
@RoX: While of course DVRs existed in 2004, they weren't prolific enough that Nielsen measured delayed viewing.
The comparison is a bit apples-to-oranges (or maybe Granny Smith apples to Golden Delicious), but based on the officially reported ratings it is a fair comparison.
The only fair comparison is Live to Live figures, anything else will gain you a fail in statistical analysis.
I agree with RoX. You can't beat someone's record when you gather the numbers using a completely different analysis that's predestined to have bigger numbers from the get-go. "Live+7" will be ALWAYS bigger than "Live". Every idiot knows that.