Fans of Stargate Universe really seemed to enjoy this week’s offering, “Common Descent” — but, of course, enthusiasm doesn’t translate into ratings.
The seventeenth episode of SGU‘s final season earned an estimated 861,000 viewers (Live + Same Day) for Syfy Channel on Monday night, down 16 percent from the previous week. The episode earned a paltry 0.3 rating in the Adults 18 to 49 demographic.
That drop may be partially explained by the loss of SGU‘s lead-in series, Being Human, which aired its well-rated season finale last week. Stargate moved up to the 9 p.m. time slot this week, and now has a repeat of the previous week’s episode as its 8 p.m. lead-in.
The time change also means different competition over on the big networks. The final half-hour of a 90-minute Dancing With the Stars gave ABC an easy victory at 9 p.m., with over 22 million viewers. Cougar Town followed at 9:30 with almost 7.9 million viewers.
CBS aired a repeat of Two and a Half Men and a new episode of Mike & Molly in the 9 o’clock hour, with 7.4 million and 10 million viewers, respectively.
FOX picked up 6.4 million with The Chicago Code, and NBC’s certain-to-be-cancelled sci-fi series The Event earned 3.85 million.
Don’t miss the final three episodes of Stargate Universe! Episode 18, “Epilogue,” airs next Monday at 9/8c on Syfy.
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that's CRAZY one of the best episodes yet only 861k views this episode deserved at least 2million seriously dam I wish it hadn't been cancelled they should have just stopped with season 1 now that it's gotten good I Really am upset it's getting cancelled
God! you are killing me ppl
Eh, it's not like ratings matter anymore. We know now they'll never conclude the story anyway. :(
oh come on!!!! that was the best episode practically...there trying so hard People seriously man up and F#@king watch the damn show!!
they also had the NHL and NBA playoff games on at the same time and pawn stars.
Not surprise they move the show to a different time slow, put up against even greater competition. Whole announce to the world that the series ends on a gigantic cliff, what did they think would happen.
Gateworld should really stop posting these vastly inaccurate numbers. They don't take into account world wide viewers (Me in Japan), DVR, iTunes, and Hulu. Then there are the huge fans like me who cannot get the show any other way besides iTunes (legally). This whole situation is f***** up, and it's a damn shame SGU had to die because of it. In the next few years the online model will go mainstream, but it will be too late for SGU. Autonomous needs to get on this and take down NBC/Universal :)
With all due respect, Lee, the numbers are not inaccurate because they're not pretending to measure SGU's total worldwide (or even U.S.!) audience. They are a statistical estimation of how many people in the U.S. watched the Syfy Channel broadcast at 9/8c Eastern and Pacific time (or DVR'ed it and watched it by 3 a.m.).
You don't count for Syfy Channel's Nielsen ratings. That doesn't mean you aren't a part of the show's worldwide audience. Don't worry, MGM knows that.
I know (hope) we will get closure for SGU in some form, be it novel or graphic novel, but will the franchise live on in those formats in official cannon? Meaning the plots and stories advance and not at the end of the book it's as if nothing ever happened. The SGA Legacy series is different...is that official cannon now? Brad Wright and the rest of the team need to clarify this.
@Lee_Machine: To be very brutal - for the continuation of the series/franchise, you matter very little. The online numbers matter very little. Only the US live+SD and C3 numbers matter.
SyFy isn't the CW where all their shows are made "in-house", so they get revenue from abroad and thus the netlet can afford lower US ratings (there was a whole article about the wonder of the CW's continuous survival). SyFy's US based and the shows they air don't belong to them, they don't care about viewers abroad because they don't bring them any money. No other network/cable was interested in the series. And the show's way too expensive to land on MGM's tiny cable.