Sanctuary turns in best Monday ratings yet

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• yay, go up ratings!! :D

  (but still return to the 'safer' friday timeslot :p)

• wait, so Sanctuary Season 4 will on;y be 13 episodes?

• @wraithkelso - yes Sanctuary season 4 will only 13 episodes like season 1 and season 2 were.

• Consider the terrible quality of episodes in this extended season of 20 episodes, maybe a tighter schedule is the better option. If Sanctuary can give viewers less of the crap that came after The Hangover and before Normandy that's a good thing.

• Was it up against any major network shows or are we firmly in summer season?

• How is 656,000 a sustainable rating for this show but if SGU gets 1,000,000 viewers its unsustainable levels? Yeah that makes sense SYFY! There network is complete garbage the shows there coming up with Alphas might as well be called Heroes meets Wanted because from the 20 second preview those are the two things they ripped off! Imagine Greater? Why don't you come up with something original what happened to shows like Farscape? Im glad I haven't tuned into that garbage channel since the SGU finale the last great thing to air on there! Can't wait till there POS network is shut down because no one watches it! Unless SYFY saves SGU which isn't going to happen im done with there network! Ill support actors from Stargate by downloading movies like Red Faction Origins instead of watching them on SYFY. Can't wait till the SYFY channel is no more that'll be a great day! Long live Stargate Universe!!!

• House M.D. ended its current run the previous week. Not sure about anything else, cuz I don't really watch anything else. I imagine a lot of viewers from that spilled over onto other networks. I'm glad Sanctuary got a well deserved ratings boost, but less glad SyFy-Lis got more network viewers.

• @Starscapesg1 This is how (in the words of Brian J Smith):
  "The economics fell through and the ratings sucked big time. You can point fingers and you can blame whoever you want, but the ratings were not there. Stargate Universe was one of the most expensive TV series to shoot on television, period. There are shows out there that get 20 million viewers a night that shoot for a fraction of what it cost for us to make a single episode of our show. It makes no sense to be spending that kind of money on a show."
  See the ratings thread on the forum for the link.

• Unlike the last time the ratings went up, this is more than a tiny uptick, this is an considerable increase. I was hoping for any increase at all, anything, because I didn't want to see them get worse, I did not, they got considerably better. :)

  Make no mistake, I WANT it back on Fri more than anything, and nothing will change my mind. :p

• "How is 656,000 a sustainable rating for this show but if SGU gets 1,000,000 viewers its unsustainable levels?"

  You're right. 656,000 isn't sustainable. But you have to remember that "Sanctuary" was renewed for another season back in the winter, before the second half of the season was aired (and also before the show moved from Fridays to Mondays, which caused the ratings to fall by half). When "Sanctuary" got renewed it was pulling in about 50% more viewers than when "SGU" got canceled. Given those numbers, it's not unreasonable to think that "Sanctuary" had a better chance for renewal.