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Stargate Universe Ratings Improve From Premiere
Sci-Fi TV News, Stargate: Universe TV Series — By endymi0n on October 13, 2009
Well, SGU is certainly being discussed around these parts. It seems that despite the early mixed reaction, Sci-Fi kids are tuning in to the tale of the fateful trip through a Stargate less traveled.
Bucking the usual trend of ratings dropping after the premiere episode, SGU ratings are up for last weeks episode that featured some of our fearless castaways trekking around in the sand, getting all dramatic. Viewership is up 4% overall but in the critical 18-49 year old group, SGU is up 22%. In the 25-54 group, which seems to strangely overlap, eyeballs are up 13%. In total, about 2.5 million people were watching that cross in the sand. DVR data is not in yet and of course, the show being on a Friday, I imagine a ton of folks recorded it. This is the best ratings any Stargate program has received since 2005. Well I’m pleased. I eagerly await this Fridays episode. Will the cheese continue? Thanks Scifiwire.
Written by endymi0n
Just a guy in passionate pursuit of all things FI. Got news? endy (at) scificool.com
about 4 months ago
People where hoping that it would improve. If an other network would like to make some money they need to put out a Scifi show at the same time this show plays and nobody would watch this crap anymore.
about 3 weeks ago
I agree. This is not a science fiction show at all. Its a soap opera set in space.When it comes back in April, it will have too much competition and that other crap show Caprica will be in Friday for a while. Now I know why Sci Fi channel changed it’s name to SyFy. Because its not about science fiction anymore.
about 4 months ago
Personally, it’s a very refreshing show. Atlantis played out way too quickly and still leaves a lot of questions for those who followed the show.
SG-U is a bit edgier and has some great characters developing.
I hope it continues to improve and can’t wait for the next episodes.
about 3 months ago
The episodes are not closed captioned on Hulu.com until several days or a week later after they’re first aired. Viewership among those dependent on the closed captions, at lest among those who only watch it on Hulu.com (like me), will be delayed by the same amount of time. So viewership will rise later among this population than it does for everyone else. This affects the 4% number mentioned above in the article – does the 4% number take into account this additional information? (There are more than 2 million deaf people and 20 million hard of hearing folks in the U.S.)
about 2 months ago
You can’t call this show edgey. The only thing edgy about it me sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for something to happen.
about 1 month ago
I just downloaded the whole series on itunes and watched it through twice. I think it’s excellent and definitely has a lot of scope for season 2. The stella special effects are beautiful and a big improvement from the old SG’s. Nice to see planets that are actually a bit hostile for a change rather than the green fields and parks from SGA.
Definitely worth a look but don’t expect the usual light-hearted SG comedy and likable characters, this is much darker.
about 3 weeks ago
What is a stella effect? If you meen Stella as in a soap opera character on some daytime soap, I agree! But STELLAR effects are what was in Stargate Continuum or Stargate Atlantis. In this soap they are cheesy. This is not a science fiction show.
about 1 month ago
Dark seems to be on fashion lately; yet, darker gets old quicker. It strikes me as an “Alien meets Star Trek Voyager” kinda thing, which in turn makes me say… been there, seen that.
Sorry, but I have to go the way od the fans…. GS-1 and SGA FTW.
about 1 week ago
Well i can defenitly say that SGU is the worst stargate, how can it’s ratings be going up! If they want to watch SGU then watch galatica for crying out load. Atlantis and SGU are the best there should have been at least one more season of SGA to tie up some lose ends.