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Stargate’s ratings hold steady for Atlantis crossover

The much-awaited Stargate Atlantis / Stargate Universe crossover event may have wowed long-time fans of Stargate, but it didn’t pull in any more viewers.  SGU held steady in the ratings with Monday’s premiere of “Seizure” on Syfy Channel.

Universe drew an estimated 823,000 viewers (Live + Same Day), down 6 percent from last week.  The Adults 18 to 49 demographic also lost a tenth of a point.

Being Human, on the other hand, rose in viewers in the 9 p.m. hour, widening the gap between Syfy’s Monday night originals with 1.442 million viewers.  This is an uptick of 11 percent.  This means that Stargate lost a whopping 43 percent from its lead-in.

The NCAA Basketball Championship Game won the night on the broadcast networks, bringing in over 20 million viewers to CBS during the primetime period. Castle drew 11.45 million on ABC, and 7.75 million tuned in to Harry’s Law on NBC.

On USA, WWE Raw earned 5.78 million viewers against SGU in the 10 p.m. hour.

New episodes of Stargate Universe continue next Monday at 10/9c on Syfy!  Learn more about “The Hunt” in GateWorld’s episode guide.

Darren

Darren created GateWorld in 1999 and is the site's managing editor. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three spin-off Stargate fans.

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  • I was hoping for a ratings spike for this ep, but guess the fans who looked forward to seeing McKay don't really make a difference in the ratings game. :(

    I've been reading around the net, this ep is not receiving the positive reviews I would have anticipated. Sad.

  • ^^^^I didn't like the milkyway part of it. I wanted to see something phenomenal, but instead I got a boring SG1 rehash. The Amanda/Rush G/Eli bit was different, and interesting. But the milky way clandestine boring **** **** killed the episode.

  • I want to save the show, but guys, you're on the other side of the Universe, and we're still dealing with story ideas that got addressed in SG1 and Atlantis. God, you're on the other side of the universe---think THIRDSPACE Babylon 5, or the God Hand Babylon 5 legend of the rangers, or Lexx the end of the light universe and the beginning of the dark universe. Startrek search for god---Startrek Voyager, Fluid space.

  • Nah, I didn't enjoy the episode at all. There was no real purpose in it, we didn't gain anything from it at all. I think it'd of been far better if they'd gotten rid of the stones completely. Ah well, what's done is done.
    Can't see any conclusion gonna happen in the form of a movie or whatever with these ratings, not to sound all 'doom and gloom' :P

  • @colin15watt MGM knows that Stargate Universe has a worldwide fan base not just who watches it on syfy. So I think that will go into they're calculations on wether a direct to dvd movie would make money not the ratings.

  • Held steady? Down 6 percent from last week? That puts it at 1 percent above the week before's franchise low.

  • Ratings this season will have no effect what so ever on the movies. So lets all keep that in mind. However ratings, will go a long way if another network decided to pick this show up. Its also very obvious that syfy put sgu on the worst time slot imaginable to make their decision to cancel the show right. The facts are right up in this article. It would also make more sense to put a rerun show(terminator scc)on this time slot and SGU on thursday's instead. Syfy said it themselves...their not looking to renew terminator.

  • Seizure was a great episode, it doesnt suprise me tho that half the viewers of being human tuned out for SGU. Seriously if your a being human fan u probably have horrible taste in tv and wouldt like a quality show like SGU

  • I thought this was a great episode. Yes, it had two pretty much completely separate storylines, and given the content of the plot, the Langara half really should've been granted the full attention of the episode.

    But it was serious, had all the risks and whatnot of Universe, had a flavor of humor due to the awesome that is Hewlett, and had the political stuff from SG-1 which was always an interesting touch as well. This was like a little half-an-episode tidbit of what the show could've been if the heads of the franchise didn't obsess about going SO far different than any previous Stargate.

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