No ratings help for SGU’s return

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• That's it then. No chance for revival or a season 3 and beyond.

  Sci-Fi should've kept Stargate as a "summer show" as it used to be, or atleast leave it on Fridays. Less competition during the summer, and on Fridays. But nooo... let's put SGU on the busiest night(s) of the week.

  Shame really, since I thought this weeks episode was rather good. Thou I'm fairly certain the continued drop in viewers, may have something to do with the show ALREADY being cancelled.

• I still don't see how 1 million people is low ratings. With each episode costing about 2-3 million to make that's only around $2 per-person watching. Then there is the DVD sales, and the world wide distribution sales.

  Stargate needs to go 100% on-line distribution...all SciFi show's for that matter since they don't bring in the millions of mindless masses.

• Also who the hell wants to live your life around what time a show is on? Either Tivo, or download is the only way to go. I "cut the cord" over 4 years ago.

• Yea its a shame the viewers werent there i thought it was a really good episode. i dont understand why sgu has to spend 2 to 3 million an episode. The special effects are really sick (better then most big budget movies) but they dont have any stand out stars on the show. Cut the overhead down to 1 to 1.5 mil an episode and 1 million viewers wont be that bad. The show would turn a profit when u throw in dvd sales and online purchases. Its like living above your means, if your a 1 to 1.5 million viewer show then budget your money accordingly.

• drawing in 1mil views a night isn't bad. also sgu came on twice on monday, i will be honest in that i did watch monday night raw, but recorded sgu the first time it went on. i later watched the second showing on 11/10c. 1mil viewers is fine for a sci fi show since obviously not many people watch it. so syfy should just face the facts and not expect 5mil all the time. seriously 2mil other people probably couldnt see it or much rather have watched something else, but recorded it so they could have watched it later. this is just ridiculous, if they dont have many viewers to put it on the air then fine! how about making it a webshow where 1mil is amazing, and where most people watch it anyways. It will also be cheaper

• You people seem to keep forgetting that Syfy does not profit from DVD sales and nor would they necessarily from pay per viewing and download services. Distribution and DVD sales benefit MGM.

  I still can't believe that only 1 million tuned in last night after all the buzz. It's super frustrating to know that in this age of uber connectivity and bi-direction device(DVR, SATdish) data exchange, that the individual live viewing count is still a calculated total estimate. How on earth do fans save a show when we are not truly part of the count. Very disappointing numbers, considering the intersection of all the main and sub plots in the SGU story in last nights episode was too great to miss. Looking forward to 9 more episodes, and still hoping for more to come.

• By the might of Thor! Clearly the folks at Syfy are just doing everything they can to kill Stargate. Pretty sad after such a long, profitable run for the franchise!

  I do blame Syfy mostly for moving it to very active nights of television... I know I'll opt to watch new episodes of Castle before SGU, and I actually ENJOY SGU. Not to mention the competition of Monday Night RAW (which is very active because of Wrestlemania right now).

  That said, it's taken 1.5 seasons to get the plot going, which is precisely why "V" is failing on ABC as well. People loved BSG for the drama but it had a clear plot and destination to reach, and we could have loved V and SGU if the plot came more rapidly. Clearly the PTB need to work on this for future endeavors.

• @asindro
  yeah it is dissapointing i was at least expecting 2mil. of all the save sgu groups and campaigns made you think some type of impact would have been done. though 1 mil isn't that bad, its dissapointing. stargate holds its name up with star trek, and star wars(imo) for god sake

• @GoodThings2Life
  +1 on everything! I am guessing that is why Sky One is holding showing is the back 10 until at least May, probably along with Fringe and Lie To Me, after Bones/House wrap up their seasons. If I could pay for it online I would (but live in Ireland so no services). Will just wait and DVR when they do start, and I DVR because Mon-Fri I usually do not have time to sit and watch. It was a good idea, SG's Voy, but they should have kept it at a sprint before 'settling' in, not the other way around.

• Well let's see here:

  1. news of cancellation
  2. ridiculously long hiatus
  3. only 10 episodes anyway
  4. yet ANOTHER poorly advertised time-move

  Are we seriously surprised the ratings didn't uptick. I mean, it's not like anyone but hardcore fans had any real reason to come back to SGU.

  "Before we show the last 10 episodes after our 4 month long hiatus, we'd like to announce that we're canceling the show (*whispered* and we're moving SGU to monday nights at 10. That's almost a polar opposite from it's home on friday nights)."

  Yeah. Sounds like something I'd want to come back to if I were a casual viewer.