Mid-Season Finale = Ratings Low
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stargate_schadenfreude"After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, against the “Monk” series finale which broke records for a one hour cable scripted show, viewing for “Stargate Universe” dropped dramatically for the fall finale, from 1.891 million live+SD viewers on November 20, to 1.340 million on December 4.
Full (yet brief) article at TV By The Numbers
That's apparently a .9HH rating. Now, Monk's finale had record-breaking numbers in excess of 9million people so that could have been a factor. White Collar also hit a series high with 5.5million viewers. Down in the comments, someone posted that the numbers for Sanctuary were nearly identical to SGU's, but I don't know the source for those Sanctuary numbers.
Full (yet brief) article at TV By The Numbers
That's apparently a .9HH rating. Now, Monk's finale had record-breaking numbers in excess of 9million people so that could have been a factor. White Collar also hit a series high with 5.5million viewers. Down in the comments, someone posted that the numbers for Sanctuary were nearly identical to SGU's, but I don't know the source for those Sanctuary numbers.
I point! I laugh! I mock!
I live for the hope of seeing "Syfy" can the second half of the season and write this off as the aggressively, arrogantly, abysmally stupid business decision it was.
[spoilers ahead!]
Rush would stay fucking DEAD AND MAROONED, because otherwise you just KNOW he'll repair that fucking ship and be back...
Well, at least that would be sci-fi-ish.
*EG* I LOLed when Young headbutted Rush and left him to rot. At least that got a reaction from me other than EW or meh.
Oh, and bad, bad timing, poor, poor planning to take a week off before the finale. Yes, that week had to be skipped, but the schedule could have been adjusted somewhere else.