“Space” earned a 1.2 average household rating on April 2, according to Syfy Channel, representing 1.5 million viewers in the United States. This is “Live + Same Day,” and does not account for DVR-delayed viewing (numbers for which should be available in a few weeks).
This is up 9 percent from “Justice” (1.34 million) which saw a series low when it aired against the series finale of Monk on December 2 (story). In that case, we suspected that the “Live + Same Day” ratings were deflated by the fact that the USA Network’s detective series set an all-time record for basic cable original drama.
The first half of SGU’s freshman season averaged 1.989 million viewers on Friday nights (1.949 if the 2-hour premiere is calculated as a single telecast). See the episode-by-episode breakdown here. Hopefully DVR numbers will be published and show us whether SGU lost more of its live audience to time-shifting — or if many just didn’t come back after giving the new series a 10-episode try-out.
SGU‘s new lead-out series Merlin held on to 1.3 million viewers in the 10 p.m. slot, earning a 1.0 rating for its second season premiere (and its first season original to Syfy).
All-new episodes of Stargate Universe continue this Friday at 9 p.m. (8 Central) with “Divided.”
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The long hiatus probably had a negative effect on the ratings for Space. Also, Space has been well recieved by most people, so I suspect that the ratings will go up for Divided.
Below season average? I can't say I'm surprised.
I don't live in the US so wont know the answer to this: how well advertised was SGU's return? The hiatus was to long to be honest and some casual viewers may not of known it was back.
But like EvilSpaceAlien said 'Space' seems to of been really well received, probably more so than any other episode thus far so 'Divided' ratings should be a bit higher. Would like to thank Gateworld though for not trying to spin the ratings.
EvilSpaceAlien: I agree, people will probably watch Space online or the reruns on Syfy this week and tune in on Friday.
All TV watching was down this past Friday night. It was Good Friday, for one thing.
It was pretty well advertised here. Lots of trailers showing aliens, space battles, etc. From all the hype and build-up to this episode, I was expecting more.
I'm actually a bit surprised that the ratings were so low. It was a bit more what I think a lot of long-term Stargate fans were hoping for. I fear that between the initial shift which hasn't been all well-received and the long hiatus, a lot of damage may have been done.
Since, as noted above, it was Easter weekend, evidently viewership was down across the board.
See how the Live +7 and next week's episode does.
A few things to blame:
1) Long hiatus
2)It's still on Friday, for some reason.
3)It was on "good" Friday.
All this time and SciFi/SyFy still hasn't learned its lesson
Ditto to cynical1. I can think of two reasons for the lower ratings. First, the mid-season break was way too long. If I wasn't as big of a fan of Stargate as I am, then I would have forgotten about it because there was way too much time in between halves of the season. Casual viewers could have just lost interest. Also, they premiered this during Good Friday when many people have church services in the evening. Premiering it during Easter weekend was not the best move. Both of these make me wonder what Sci-fi (oops, SyFy) was thinking. With all that said I loved Space and thought it was a very well done episode of Stargate.