Sanctuary‘s ratings are on the rebound since the conclusion of the big networks’ 2010-2011 broadcast season three weeks ago. After bouncing back 39 percent in its first episode of the summer season (story), the fantasy series starring Stargate‘s Amanda Tapping is up another big leap this week.
“Out of the Blue,” the penultimate episode of Season Three, drew 1.201 million viewers (Live + Same Day) and a 0.4 rating in the Adults 18-49 demo, according to TVBytheNumbers. That’s a gain of 31 percent and almost 300,000 viewers from the previous week, and the show’s highest rating for a Monday night episode yet.
But it’s still below the show’s Friday night average. Sanctuary‘s tough time during the spring broadcast season — and its big improvement after the Monday night competition went away — further proves our theory that Mondays (and Tuesdays) just aren’t friendly to Syfy Channel dramas during the network broadcast season.
Sanctuary concludes its third season this Monday at 10/9c on Syfy.
| EPISODE (air date) | VIEWERS (million) | CHANGE |
| Pax Romana (Apr. 15) | 1.217 | |
| Hangover (Apr. 22) | 1.424 | + 17% |
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| One Night (Apr. 25) | 0.868 | – 39% |
| Metamorphosis (May 2) | 0.838 | – 3% |
| Wingman (May 9) | 0.756 | – 10% |
| Awakening (May 16) | 0.815 | + 8% |
| Normandy (May 23) | 0.656 | – 20% |
| Carentan (June 6) | 0.915 | + 39% |
| Out of the Blue (June 13) | 1.201 | + 31% |
This further proves that not only are mondays and tuesdays bad for genre shows, but Fall/Spring are bad too!
this rating is definitely better! :D
but i’d still prefer it back on fridays, b/c the lower ratings will come right back when the huge network shows do. live + 7 days show the viewers are there, they’re just dvr’ing to watch later, but that doesn’t really matter to the $ ppl.
yaand if sgu didnt have to go up against networks their ratings wouldve been good too duh
It does show so far that it’s not only the night of the week that the programmes are shown, but the competition they’re up against.
Anything, and I mean anything SciFi puts up against established shows such as NCIS (or whatever it is that’s shown, I’m a UKer) is going to lose no matter how good it is.
It’s just a shame that the bleedin’ obvious isn’t getting through and great shows are being cancelled one after another in pursuit of viewers.
In the words of another show, it’s happened before, it’ll happen again.
F-YOU SYFY!!
ahhhh, that feels better.
If only it read “Without network competition, Stargate Universe’s ratings recover”
I totally agree with your well stated reasons for that point. AND, it is all the more obvious when one adds that beyond moving Sanctuary to Monday nights after it had just returned from its winter break and had been on Friday just one time (or was it twice) before they moved it so unceremoniously to Mondays, with hardly any notice at all – beyond doing that incredible bit of poor programming, after SGU had its season finale (and undeservedly also apparently series finale – more on that again below), the programming department at SYFY allowed Sanctuary to air at… Read more »
I agree with Majorsal. The title of this article is “Without network competition, Sanctuary‘s ratings recover” and it’s exactly that, it recovers without competition. It had competition on Fri, and it did even better, I still think that W13 and Eureka could be getting an easy/free ride in the summer when they air the rest of their seasons. If Syfy feels their shows do better on Summer, why didn’t Sanctuary air when Summer is here like the other shows? I either want to see in S4: 1. The show goes back to it’s old time next season. 2. If it… Read more »
There are times that I wonder if SyFy is really serious about its shows. They have take every series that they have left that are worth watching and thrown them on the worst night for ratings. Their best ratings night is now dominated by Smackdown and right now American Ninja Warrior is on. WTF??
Yea we already knew that the summer schedule is better for the syfy shows. So why didnt syfy keep stargate on the summer schedule? If it was we would still have our stargate !!
Syfy channel sucks!!!
FYI-BBCA is airing alot of star trek and most recently BSG from the beginning.Hopefully they will pick up reruns of stargate as i refuse to watch anything on syfy.
As I have stated ad nauseum, it is the competition that kills shows. The only reason Sanctuary drew in better numbers on Friday night is because Friday is kind to Sci-Fi shows, mostly because of the old Sci-Fi Friday lineup of SG1, SGA, and BSG because the fans planned their week around watching that 3-hour block.
people still watch syfy? :D lols fail channel.
“People still watch syfy?”
Yeah, believe it or not. In fact, a third of all the shows I watch are on Syfy: “Sanctuary”, “Eureka”, “Warehouse 13”, and “Haven”.
It took Caprica one season, and SGU two seasons to lose viewers fast, and I THINK (correct me if I’m wrong) they were on Fri at some point. Sanctuary has proved that it works on Fri, and now it’s proving it can do good on on a Mon is the summer, so Syfy must see that those 2 things work. SGU didn’t work on Fri, Tues or Mon. I don’t know much about Caprica, so I can’t say much. I can see Sanctuary doing good on Fri, which it has for the last 3 years, and it seems to be… Read more »
I wish I was a Warehouse 13 fan, with the non-competition it has in the summer, that show will run forever.
Why did they cancel SGU ? After so many years living with the Stargate franchise I can’t live without it. They should have moved it to another day (or in summer). I won’t watch any SyFy’s show any more, I refuse !!
It is also possible that the Storys get better again…
I no longer watch the channel, and if I could dump it from DirecTV to send a message I would…
Sadly, the only show I would watch on Syfy now is Stargate reruns, maybe Sanctuary, and any sci-fi movies. Anything else it’s like what the hell is this?! I mean how is Hollywood Treasure sci-fi, or American Ninja Warrior?! I’m like what the hell?! Even the Quantum Kitchen was border line “alright it uses science to cook that’s pretty cool I guess.” When they changed the name from SciFi Channel to SyFy, you knew it was going to be the end of it…
@xbladedragonx you missed the memo that SyFy is trying to cater to a wider audience than just sci-fi. This happened about two years ago.
SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS WHEN SGU SHOULD HAVE BEEN AIRING.
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@Rocky89: SGU did air on Friday during season 1, however, it was never a summer show, which is where Stargate has excelled in the past. If you look at SG1 and SGA, the first half of seasons 1-3 aired mid-July to September with the second half having different start dates ranging from March/April to mid-June and January-March in the US. Season 4 started the Fall/Spring stuff and is when we started having ratings problems and season 5 didn’t really have the typical 3-4 month hiatus (which to me seemed stupid anyway — especially since the mid-season break was LONGER than… Read more »
That’s cool. I like Sanctuary but what does that really say about the shows ratings? It’s all reruns now. There is not anything better on to watch. And what’s the point, finale coming up this week, then it’s done till October where ratings will suffer again.
And the only reason I watch it is b/c I like Amanda Tapping and the occasional SG actors that are on. The stories, not so much. Out grew monsters in my 20’s
all of syfy channels shows should air in the summer. stop the *insanity* of trying to compete with the big guys!!
(i’m not talking about their reality shows, cooking shows, scifi stars rehab, wrestling, etc, but SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY)
I don’t think they should air all of their shows during the summer, but the ones they air during the fall have to be big hitters and heavily advertised, so they can adequately compete. Syfy doesn’t have the recognition of FX, TBS, TNT, or USA yet. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they put Sanctuary where they did in the Spring to test the waters and see what is really happening by having it in really 3 different situations during the same time. After SGU, then Alone, then after the networks end main programming.
Join Save Sanctuary because SyFail is going to Cancel them next.
I enjoyed Sanctuary, but as other have said, I’ve stopped watching SyFy. That channel has some serious issues and I’d prefer not to be caught in the middle of another “This show is awesome and they’re cancelling it” again. :(
@ zainea13- They already tested those waters using sgu, why put another good show through the ringer.They have no idea how to run a network, sanctury will be dropped after next season unless its put on the summer schedule where it would pull in great numbers.
Just as we have always said, Mondays,and Tuesdays are not for shows such as Stargate and Sanctuary. Simply because the competition on such nights is just too much.
Sanctuary’s ratings spike in the absence of such competition only proves to me that not only the Day it airs, but the season, fall-Spring, is a bad time.
Summer on Friday nights is the way to go.
You people don’t seem to get it – they are TRYING to axe Sanctuary. They want to move away from Scifi entirely. They had no choice but to renew it last season because the numbers were really good- thats why they moved it to mondays, so the numbers would fall and it could be axed.
Ekras, agree with you on that !
@Ekras, you don’t get it, SyFy had nothing to do with Sanctuary, it was SPACE who renewed Sanctuary and who fits most of the billing. Also, if they truly didn’t want any sci-fi why do they keep Eureka and Warehouse 13 on? And don’t say its because they’re not sci-fi because most people consider them to be sci-fi, including myself.