The cancellation shadow is looming large over Stargate Universe‘s live ratings. An estimated 928,000 viewers in the U.S. (Live + Same Day) tuned in for “Twin Destinies” on Monday night.
This is a drop of 10 percent from last week’s mid-season premiere, and SGU‘s third trip south of the 1 million line (chart). It is also the series’ lowest to date — not a great surprise, considering that Syfy cancelled the show back in December.
The show did hold on in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, with a 0.5 household rating.
Being Human — which Syfy just picked up for a second season — earned 1.372 million viewers at 9 p.m. Despite the good lead-in, Stargate lost more than 32 percent of that audience.
On the broadcast networks at 10 p.m., with NBC’s Harry’s Law drawing around 10.2 million viewers. Almost 7.5 million caught a repeat of Hawaii Five-0 on CBS, and ABC won the hour with 13.96 million for the special The Bachelor: After the Final Rose.
Over on USA, 5.87 million were watching WWE Raw during the 10 p.m. hour.
As noted by the usually excuse-wary TVbytheNumbers, Monday night shows were expected to see slight declines this week due to the arrival of Daylight Savings in the U.S. — since casual viewers in particular were more likely to stay out later.
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Not a surprise, with an extremely long break and the fact that the series was canceled and everyone knows that the show will air on a cliffhanger, despite what SyFy is trying to tell us in the ads isn't helping.
That being said, the comparison between he most recent ratings of Being Human and SGU is almost like comparing SGU's ratings in the fall to Caprica's ratings. I honestly wish I knew what to do to get more people to watch live. I think the problem is that people feel that "I'm just one person, my viewership doesn't count" thus they don't watch it - at least those who continue to watch the series via other means despite its cancellation.
It would have been smart for SyFy to just run through the entire season like they did with Atlantis instead of these stupid breaks. I choose to watch two shows live because I want to see them continue: Fringe and Stargate Universe - that's all I have time for these days sadly.
And for the record, I'm sick of Nielsenn ratings. Really sick because they're just really depressing these days. Everybody I know who watches SGU (and my mom and I are the only people I know who watch live) really like it and say that its been great since it returned, and its a shame Twin Destinies didn't get better numbers because it was a great ep.
*sigh* meanwhile, people flock in droves to popcorn fare and vampire/werewolf crap that is flooding the networks right now. I can't wait for this fad to die off (and it is a fad).
One of, If not the best Episode yet. I was wondering how they were going to get ahold of another shuttle. The only thing that bugs me is how Telford ended up back on earth..It's almost as if it was added as afterthought to get rid of the duplicate Rush, but still keep Telford. He went back on his own Timeline, which would have, and did prevent Telford from going to earth in the first place!
In the past Stargate has been pretty accurate in these matters, Exept for Episode 1 season 4 of Atlantis when The Apollo was able to talk in real time to the Midway space station in Real time. Being as how each gate in the bridge has to accept incoming matter/Transmissions, and then shut down and dial the next gate in the bridge. They could have sent a Data burst, but that's it.
this was trully a great episode, but its just sad to see the ratings drop this low. Its just up against other good shows on a bad timeslot!!! I'm wondering if their adding the ratings from the second showing that plays on monday's because thats when a lot of people are watching it then too
Really, really sad. I'll never understand how they could kill such an amazing franchise, and a show that was just beginning to unfold its true and glorious potential. As for the Telford matter, I think the timeline shift must have occured while he was mid-travel, similarly to what occured in Continuum. So even though the timeline was altered, he was unaffected. But well, time travel eps are always a bit funky when it comes to logic... Tropers already know all about the "Timey-Wimey Ball" =)
This was my favorite episode so far, syfy really shouldn't have moved stargate to a new night in the first place. As it is, hopefully the DVD, iTunes, and, and other sales of not only SGU, but of the franchise at large stay strong so that there can be a future for the franchise.
Did you guys see that Netflix is getting into the producing original TV show business? Maybe that is where Stargate could go? Not any time soon I suppose...
SciFi in general would do betterff o with an online only model.
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As much as I love the SG series, I am not surprised about the number of viewers (on the Nielsenn ratings). In fact, I DVR'd it and watched it just last night. Watching it live (whether or not your are a Nielsenn ratings viewer) will not do any good or matter for that fact. Plus, the SGU s.2 will be on DVD over the summer anyways. In addition, being on at 10pm EST is not really worth staying up for these days - thank god for DVR.
i dont see how the ratings are so low. deliverance and twin destinies were soooo good.
I see a pattern.. the better the episodes get, the lower the ratings go. Paradox.