Sure, Stargate Universe only dropped 2 percent from the previous week, but that won't stop the haters from hating early, and often!
Friday cable finals via Travis Yanan:
Bulls vs Celtics (8:02pm, 151 minutes)
- 1.541 million viewers
- 1.1/2 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49
Mavericks vs Lakers (10:33pm, 158 minutes)
- 2.132 million viewers
- 1.5/3 HH
- 1.0/4 A18-49
College Football (7:58pm, 209 minutes)
- 2.538 million viewers
- 1.7/3 HH
- 0.7/3 A18-49
Stargate Universe
- 1.974 million viewers
- 1.3/2 HH
- 0.8/2 A18-49
Sanctuary
- 1.606 million viewers
- 1.1/2 HH
- 0.5/2 A18-49
Crash (10pm, 58 minutes)
- 0.157 million viewers
- 0.1/0 HH
- 0.1/0 A18-49
Monk
- 4.687 million viewers
- 2.9/5 HH
- 1.0/3 A18-49
White Collar
- 5.075 million viewers
- 3.1/6 HH
- 1.2/4 A18-49
I got the third closest score in the White Collar contest. So close!! If those other people aren’t from America or cheated then I win, ohh I hope so…
Robert! SGA Vultures!? You’re terrible. LOL
Yay for White Collar. The second ep kept the light fun touch of the first ep and we got to see the actress from MiddleMan.
Great ratings for White Collar, can see this moving to 9pm when Psych returns in January.
Crash on Starz get very low ratings, I bet they are hoping Spartacus takes off.
I really want SGU to get better. It’s kinda boring and I don’t see much chemistry between the characters.
I keep missing White Collar, when is it on USA.
Duh, on Fridays!
I’ll have to check the time. Is it repeated during the week?
a few times. I think it’s on tonight after WWE RAW. You can see USA’s schedule at usanetwork.com
LOL, SGA vultures, lol. It’s going to take a lot more of a drop off to even get them into the air. SGU is still doing very well. Sanctuary is pulling in around what SGA was doing for their final season. Maybe they should of had SGA lead into SGU. That would of likely been a huge success. SG-1/SGA/BSG anyone?
How low does a series need to get to scratch? Those Crash ratings are horrible?
Hey, do any of the TVBTN PTB know how many households Starz is in? Is it even close to SHO?
Starz and Showtime are in roughly the same number of households.
wow…crash is doing awful. That’s just unbelievable, i don’t care how many homes it’s in. A 0.1? That’s a joke!
Also I kind of figured SyFy’s friday shows were doing better…didn’t SGU beat Dollhouse at first? Now it’s tying with it. Sanctuary is doing pretty poorly, but cable nets do have really low standards.
SGU has dropped %18 in total viewers since its’ 3rd episode high. But SGA dropped more after its’ premier. And SGA ran 5 seasons.
So OK, not great but OK.
why on Earth don’t they move SGU to a weeknight? non Friday?
CRASH’s ratings is the lowest I’ve ever seen since I started monitoring US TV ratings
SGU is still holding onto the demo, and that is what counts, correct? Not that they are probably happy that it has lost audience, because that can start to affect the demo, and it is probably rather odd that it didn’t.
If the SG creators have killed the “golden goose” for themselves, MGM,and Syfy, they only have themselves to blame. It was probably a tactical error to not let SGA finish. At the time they said they were pulling the show, not because it was doing bad, but that wanted to take it out while it was still doing well. They planned to make SGA straight-to-dvd eps, but so far that hasn’t happened, and the scuttlebutt is that some of the actors have said they won’t do any further work on it, since they didn’t like the way the show was handled in its demise. This was long before one of the creators basically dissed all of the previous cast members by saying that doing SGU allowed them to get the “caliber” of actor like Robert Carlyle. The creators/studio heads thought that they would put out dvds and make some dough, and have the third series fall into place as the heir apparent of the franchise, but it hasn’t turned out that way-at least so far.
I believe that Syfy will give it a second season, but if it doesn’t establish itself by then, I doubt very seriously that it will follow in the footsteps of the previous SG series in terms of longevity.
Crash’s numbers are low, but I’ve seen lower: in the summer of 2007, Showtime aired a show called Meadowlands, which reached all of 100,000 viewers and earned a 0.0 in adults 18-49 every time I looked at its ratings. I mostly remember the ratings for it because at the same time, critics were starting to write lots of “Showtime’s got all the buzz that HBO used to have” articles.
Starz ratings don’t usually get reported, do they? I don’t remember ever reading any numbers for Crash season 1, or Party Down, or any of their shows.
I’m interested in the renewal chances of Sanctuary. The show isn’t that cheap for a cable show, costing 1.6mil per ep (season 1 figures.) On the other hand, the show is successful in both the UK and Canada, and since the Canadian channel is a production partner with the show it has an incentive to keep it going.
I was expecting a bump up for sgu since they don’t have Dollhouse to compete with it on Fridays.
Wasn’t Sanctuary’s big selling points that it was an expanded web show with a small budget? I’m surprised it costs that much to make.
As for White Collar, I’m disappointed that Marsha Thompson-Nessa from Las Vegas, didn’t make it past the pilot. I liked her alot, but I guess you can’t have your male lead smitten with an ambiguously lesbian FBI(?) operative.
Regarding SGU, is still a work in progress. It feels like they’re trying to hard to emulate Galactica, and I really don’t want to think about a now old show while watching a new one. It’s really an odd fusion of Lost, BSG and Star Trek Voyager, with dark lighting, shaky cams, and conflicts that are forced-hard, rather than growing organically from the story.
I don’t hate it, but I haven’t fallen in love with it either.
@AniMatsuri
“I was expecting a bump up for sgu since they don’t have Dollhouse to compete with it on Fridays.”
Yet, a House rerun does over 60% better in that Dollhouse timeslot. It is hard to compete with competition like House.
And as we can see…SGU held it’s main demo’s. I think it did quite well…and it sure is not doing SGA numbers.
The show is rocky as the premise is different for most SG watchers, but for those of us patient enough to see where it goes, we will be rewarded.
@ lainey says: Quote “If the SG creators have killed the “golden goose” for themselves, MGM,and Syfy, they only have themselves to blame.”
I agree with you 100% but they will say its all the fans fault for not watching LOL.
Quote “It was probably a tactical error to not let SGA finish. At the time they said they were pulling the show, not because it was doing bad, but that wanted to take it out while it was still doing well. They planned to make SGA straight-to-dvd eps, but so far that hasn’t happened, and the scuttlebutt is that some of the actors have said they won’t do any further work on it, since they didn’t like the way the show was handled in its demise.”
And I can’t say I blame the actors one bit for the way they where treated and then to completly ignore them after the show was done was an even bigger slap in the face. As for taking it out while it was doing great and do DVDs that was a lie they knew they where not going to do dvds they just wanted to string along the fans.