Being Human (Syfy)
The series premiere of the new U.S. version of Being Human posted strong numbers for Syfy Channel on Monday night. The show about a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing a Boston home drew nearly 2 million viewers in the 9 p.m. time slot, and 3.8 million over all three, back-to-back broadcasts.
Being Human‘s premiere earned a 1.6 average household rating and 1.961 million total viewers (just over 1 million in the important demographic of adults 18 to 49) at 9 p.m. That’s the channel’s most watched scripted winter series launch since 2005 (Battlestar Galactica).
Syfy is particularly excited that 58 percent of those 1 million adults 18 to 49 were women — the highest percentage of female viewers ever for a telecast of a Syfy original scripted series.
It’s also the network’s first foray into Monday nights with an original drama, which so far is shaping up much better than the Tuesday fiasco that ended in the cancellation of Stargate Universe and Caprica in the fall.
Being Human is a remake of a popular BBC series, which starts its third season on January 23 in the United Kingdom. The new U.S. version stars Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, and Sam Huntington. It airs Mondays at 9 p.m. (8 Central) on Syfy.
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How is this Stargate news?
BTW SyFy is dead to us...unless they bring back SGU...but I'll still have grudge :P
Yes, how is this SG news? I understand Sanctuary and Caprica cuz it's paired with SGU but this? Is this the SyFy news now?
SyFy doesn't care what programing they bring in now, because they don't need 'scifi' fans anymore. This show is obviously pilfered from the BBC to try and attract fans of Twilight. The upcoming cooking show is for more women, and smackdown of course was merely to transfer their auidence over to SyFy; this and other changes were most likely ordered at the NBC level.
Why couldn't they have aired SGU on Monday nights instead of Tuesdays? I bet it would have done better.
"a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing a Boston home"
Seriously? Hasn't the vampire/werewolf thing been beaten to death already, why are people still attempting to cash in on that? THis sounds incredibly lame. If its even a single percentage point similar to twilight, then I would prefer to wax my legs every morning than watch this.
Yeah, 3.8 million... see what happens when you properly advertise a show? I heard radio ads, it was all over the internet, and tv. Even in the magazines. That is how you advertise a show. Not just the occasional commercial on your own network.
I think Gateworld is starting to post more general sci fi news since the cancellation of SGU. And I think it relates peripherally, anyway. The fact that SGU had such an incredibly low female viewership as contrasted to BH perhaps is one reason why the show did not succeed in the ratings. BH is the direction that Syfy wants to go, more evenly distributed viewership amongst the sexes.
I guess when you properly advertise a show and place it on a night that isn't an automatic death sentence, a TV show actually has a chance.
I've heard about Being Human from all kinds of media. Print, web, Television, etc etc. What kind of ads did SGU get? Next to nothing.
"It’s also the network’s first foray into Monday nights"
Huh...How about that? SciFi actually knows it has to avoid Tuesday nights now. Too bad they canceled SGU instead of MOVING IT OFF OF TUESDAY. I mean come on! They moved it off Friday, I'm sure they could have moved it again.
No, SciFi has already lost this customer. I won't be watching Being Human. At least not on SciFi.
SGU's first season was adverstised heavily and had more people tune in to their first ep (that 3.8 million figure is for all 3 airings combined). It just lost a lot of viewers over the course of its' run. Being Human may or may not continue to hold these numbers, it remains to be seen if people just tuned in to see the premier and won't be back in weeks to come.
Another thing, how can this show be called a remake if its couterpart on the BBC is still running. What this is is just blatant and desperate plagarism on the part of SyFy to not only maintain a fantasy aspect, but to attempt to appeal to Twilight fans by saying "Looky what we've got, vampires and wearwolves!"