Alaina played T.J. Johansen on SGU. From "Hope"
Though Stargate Universe was cancelled by Syfy Channel back in December, we’re still watching the ratings numbers for the final 10 episodes. While “Hope” did stop the erosion in viewership, it didn’t offer anything to cheer about.
The fourth episode to air since the mid-season return drew an estimated 876,000 viewers on Monday night (Live + Same Day) — an improvement of 7 percent from last week’s series low.
While many viewers have clearly dropped the show from their live viewing habits since the cancellation announcement, the situation is made worse by the fact that SGU is paired with another original drama and is losing nearly one-third of its lead-in audience.
Being Human earned 1.299 million viewers in the 9 p.m. time slot, up almost 9 percent from the previous week.
On the main broadcast networks, ABC’s Castle drew 12.56 million viewers with a new episode. NBC picked up 8.54 million viewers with Harry’s Law, and 5.95 million found a repeat of Hawaii Five-0 on CBS.
WWE Raw also grabbed 6.23 million in the 10 p.m. hour on the USA Network.
Syfy hasn’t announced any data on the DVR viewership for the new episodes of Universe (and we don’t expect them to), so fans are left to speculate over whether viewers are shifting away from live viewing — or are waiting for the show to finish so they can catch up on the last episodes on their own time — or have dropped Stargate altogether.
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Nope, fans that read the ratings thread aren't left to wonder about the DVR viewing, it's holding about the same so SGU is losing viewers. It's also dropped under the Syfy weekly primetime viewer average for reruns 2 out of 3 weeks since it's return. Not a pretty picture.
Not surprised, are average Stargate fans even aware that the show is back? If I didn't follow Gateworld I'd still be wondering if/when SGU was coming back.
...going off of that, how many people think SyFy did what they did with Caprica after it was canceled and just pulled the episodes? I know I half-expected them to do that the way they've been treating the series.
These are the Live + 7 ratings from the Ratings Thread RoX was speaking of:
Epsiode aired March 7
SGU--
HH: 0.9 (up from .6 Live + SD)
A18-49: .5 (up from .35)
Total Viewers: 1.5 million (up from 1.0 million)
great episode
I have [proudly] cut the cord (cable/sat-free since December) so I was using Hulu to watch Stargate:Universe. They used to have episodes up 24 hours after the TV premiere. Now, since 2 weeks ago, SyFy changed its online policy for SGU, and now we have to wait 30 days before we see the new episodes! What a shame.
Paying money for terrible Tv shows, i feel sorry for the Americans.
I will not be supporting any director or producer by watching their future films or Tv series who where involved in this murder of SG-1 SGA, SGU was made for no one except the big ego's of the (boys) in charge.
I'm sick of these nothing but DRAMA episodes where's the action SCI FI
its just so sad, because they had such a great Base storyline, im so dissapointed.
Rox, Sylvia: maybe I'm wrong, but 1.5 was the number before hiatus, so I think it is quite simple that people don't watch it live anymore, and significant chunk of fans have dropped SyFy alltogether and watch it from iTunes and Hulu. It seems that MGM recognizes it have proposal for SGU fans with free episodes and reduced price tags in iTunes.
Josheph Mallozzi also claimed loud and clear that decision about movies (session is not option anymore) will be made without live ratings context.
Who cares?! I mean seriously, what difference does it make reporting the ratings? The shows canceled, what is the point of these posts at this point?