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.
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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.
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.
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.)