Caprica wrapped up the first half of its first season on Friday night with a 0.5 rating with adults 18-49 (tied for a series high). Though the 18-49 numbers were among its strongest, the total average viewers was not among its top performance with 1.103 million.
Now Caprica goes on break. Stargate Universe returns this coming Friday and it will be interesting (for geeks like me) to compare the ratings for the two shows. Here are the first half of season one ratings for Caprica.
| Date | Episode | 18-49 Rating | Viewers (millions) |
| 22-Jan-10 | Pilot | 0.4 | 1.602 |
| 29-Jan-10 | Rebirth | 0.5 | 1.411 |
| 5-Feb-10 | Reins of a Waterfall | 0.4 | 1.128 |
| 19-Feb-10 | Gravedancing | 0.4 | 0.976 |
| 26-Feb-10 | There Is Another Sky | 0.4 | 1.127 |
| 5-Mar-10 | Know They Enemy | 0.5 | 1.155 |
| 12-Mar-10 | The Imperfections of Memory | 0.4 | 1.071 |
| 19-Mar-10 | Ghosts in the Machine | 0.4 | 1.229 |
| 26-Mar-10 | End of Line | 0.5 | 1.103 |
Aren't the actors' contracts going to expire before the show comes back? It looks unlikely the show will ever get more than 0.5.
I had to look back to remember the ratings for SGU (http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/26/stargate-u…).
SGU did do better than Caprica but it also launched during a high period for SyFy. Warehouse 13 and Eureka had just bowed out which gave SGU the opportunity to advertise itself during the highest rated episodes (last few) of SyFy's hottest shows. This time it doesn't have that (Ghost Hunters is successful but I don't think there's much cross over audience there)
Subtract the people who won't know it's back from the already meager audience and I don't think you'll get a pretty ratings picture.
SGU is going to topple Caprica's numbers. SGA was still pulling in good numbers like 2.1 Million to be exact. Stargate has and will always be the flagship show for SyFy.
0.6 isn't great, but man I would be happy that entire week if it ever did get it. Just that week, though because it'll fall down to a .4 again, obviously.
I'd also like some excuse chart – with Dollhouse, we could easily figure out what the issue was with that particular week: Watchmen coming out, Star Trek coming out, The Sun coming out… It was simple. With this, its like… much more boring. Nothing is really affecting the ratings, except Spartacus?
I hope they haven't made the season 1 finale yet so they can conclude this show. The ratings are bad and the show is awful
I still don't know why anyone at SyFy thought this show was a good idea.
Who in their right mind looks at BSG and decides that what the public is dying to see is a prequel series? Nobody watched the original why on earth would they be interested in the origins of it? It seems like the single alienating concept ever.
I have a feeling that SGU is going to pull a lot worse numbers than it did in first part of the season… But then again, I do hate the show (because of what they've done with the franchise), so I'm kinda biased.
As for Caprica, a show that's getting 0.5 (and barely passes 1m) on a good day is getting canceled for sure.
Nobody watched BSG? Eh whatever, in any event I can tell you exactly why this show was made and why BSG was so successful. DVD sales were, and will be for Caprica as well, huge. I think if the show can just hold these ratings in the fall it will be back for a 2nd season.
DVD sales excuse only halfway through the first season… Man, that can't be a good sign.
Who said we didn't? BSG still had much higher ratings than Caprica.
Caprica is no Battlestar Galactica. Caprica is boring. If it were to end after the second half of this first season, I would not be disappointed.
Well, I guess it all depends on how happy Syfy is with that 18-49 number because the show sure seems stuck at about 1.2 overall viewers. I think it will finish out it's season. Syfy spent a lot of money on the show but I don't think the numbers can justify a second season of a rather expensive show, not these numbers anyway.
I just don't know about SGU. I think it's numbers may be lower but it's also a rather expensive series for Syfy. Now MGM was picking up some of the cost but isn't MGM up for sale and in serious financial trouble? Will the new owner of MGM be on the hook to put money into SGU and if not, do the numbers justify Syfy trying to pay for the show on its own? I don't know having no idea how the deal is structured. I can't believe they're pairing it up with Merlin though, odd.
There's no doubt that DVD sales are part of what kept bringing BSG back for four seasons. It certainly didn't have huge numbers of live viewers. Whether “Caprica” will sell in the same numbers remains very much in doubt. Is “Caprica” a show fans want to watch over and over again, the way they did BSG? Also, BSG had prominent TV critics calling it the best show on television, or putting it in the top five. Does “Caprica” have anything like that kind buzz and enthusiasm?
I was talking about BSG's DVD sales in reply to Alex who said no one watched BSG.
Not at the moment unfortunately. I love the show but I can see how other would not like it. Same with SG:U. I like that show a lot, much better then the campy drama of the other SG series.
This Show Deserves Better Ratings….Great Job Caprica!!!
** PEOPLE–> RATINGS DO NOT EQUAL QUALITY **
If they Did Caprica Would CRUSH ANY STARGATE And BSG Would Have Been the #1 or #2 Show on TV
Indeed ratings do not necessarily indicate quality. But that you like it more than other shows doesn't indicate quality either. Lots of quality shows that are hardly watched are critically adored, win Emmy's, etc. Caprica doesn't appear to be shaping up to be one of those shows though.
** SUPERBRAIN–> OPINIONS DO NOT EQUAL FACTS **
If they did Virtuality would have been produced as a series instead of tepid Caprica.
– See how that works?
One of the producers of Stargate Universe has promised aliens and spacebattles when the show returns – but if its the same dreary teen angst a lot of the time I wonder if that will be enough.
Of course they have already been given a second season, so perhaps they don't care that much.
In fairness, it doesn't matter how the producers of SGU feel because they'd already finished filming Season 1 by the mid-season break. So even if they wanted to change direction they couldn't.
As for Caprica's future I'd make one more point beyond DVD sales and that's critical acclaim. It helps to have someone like Matt Roush reminding all those TV Guide readers that SyFy still exists and that the show quality isn't terrible. Half the network's goal right now is to build up the “SyFy” brand. Even if people don't tune in you want to try to buildup some mindshare. BSG and to a lesser extent Caprica have done that