The first ratings numbers are in for “The Greater Good,” the game-changing seventh episode of Stargate Universe‘s new second season. The episode gave SGU a slight boost in viewership, with an estimated 1.074 million viewers tuning in to learn about the true nature of Destiny‘s mission, according to a reliable GateWorld Forum source.
That’s an improvement of 11 percent over last week, when the show faced the midterm election coverage in the U.S. and the ratings powerhouse Dancing With the Stars.
This week Dancing drew 16.96 million viewers to ABC, ahead of NCIS: Los Angeles‘ 15.62 million on CBS. 6.75 million people tuned in for NBC’s 2-hour The Biggest Loser from 8 to 10 p.m. And FOX picked up 5.77 million and 2.83 million for its sitcoms Raising Hope and Running Wilde (respectively) in the 9 p.m. hour.
On Friday last week, Sanctuary — Syfy’s only other original scripted drama currently airing — brought in 1.257 million viewers. That’s down 15 percent from the previous week.
Sanctuary also appears to be drawing strongly from the under-18 demographic that tunes in for WWE Smackdown: it’s household rating this week (0.8 HH) was double its rating in the all-important 18 to 49 demographic (0.4 HH).
SGU‘s ratings were a 0.7 HH and 0.4 HH in the demo this week. (Note that this is not on the same scale as Syfy’s coverage ratings, which we have reported for SG-1 and Atlantis in the past.)
Next week we’re heading into the final three episodes of SGU‘s fall season! Grab your popcorn and don’t miss the manhunt in “Malice,” written and directed by Robert C. Cooper and filmed on location in New Mexico. The episode airs next Tuesday at 9 p.m. (8 Central) on Syfy Channel.
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Well, it's less than I hoped for, but much more that I expected. Also it's proof that last weeks down was due of elections, not people avoiding SGU in masse.
So now task is to hold this number and increase it for next three episodes. If it is done, then I think there are chances to get S3. Let's cross fingers and pray.
p.s. btw, avoiding all spoilers, Rush anger in next week's episode is something to see - Carlyle at his best. We will have two superior actors playing true revenge game. Must see.
Ah, but we're playing stats again. The numbers were so low that a small increase yields a high percentage. Barely edging over a million there's no election to blame and this was preceded by some guerilla marketing, a major convention, and "please watch my show" pleading as well. This isn't a big spike for what was hailed as the "discover the bridge and mission" episode these past few weeks.
Unless someone wants to blame the ratings on the superior conjunction of Saturn last night, a cable outage in Indianapolis, or Obama's Indonesia trip I think this show is in dire straits.
It's an uphill battle. On other sites I visit I hear a lot of negative comments towards SGU. I think the first season made a bad first impression with a lot of folks and it's really hard to break that once it's out there. I think season 2 is a big improvement but I can't see this show really pulling in much better numbers. Hopefully we'll get enough for a 3rd season.
Mentat: registering just under 1.1 is not a "barerly edging over a million" in my humble opinion.
The best thing they could do for the show at this point is to toss the damn communication stones out the airlock. I'm not saying that'll save the show, but it sure would make it a lot less frustrating to watch.
And it sure ain't 1.6 or even 2.6. Or the 1.6+ 1.6 that was to happen in some peoples minds.
Oh, I hope the numbers will rise for Sanctuary.
To Pecisk: what proof is elections ?
usealy more people watch if there is something to watch , like this week episode was one of the best in this season and 2 last episodes got less ratings cause they were to boring to most of the people to just watch it
this sgu was ment for younger oudiance but the outcome was to drama and to big brother like that is to boring for younger oudiance ... they should make more episode like this was and less of the pointless drama fillers
in sg1 and sga the filler episodes were good to but most of the show was with optimism with happy toughts and good guys won in the end of a day
¿@Lopo30 Es inglesa su lengua materna, o son español? Sólo preguntar.
Darren, I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers from, but Sancturay's ratings haven't changed due to wrestling. If you look at this post, http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?77407-Sanctuary-Season-3-Ratings-Discussion-thread&p=11987939&viewfull=1#post11987939 you can see that season 2 and season 3's 18-49 ratings are pretty consistent.