Stargate‘s ratings hold steady for Atlantis crossover

Tuesday - April 5, 2011 | by Darren Sumner

The much-awaited Stargate Atlantis / Stargate Universe crossover event may have wowed long-time fans of Stargate, but it didn’t pull in any more viewers. SGU held steady in the ratings with Monday’s premiere of “Seizure” on Syfy Channel.

Universe drew an estimated 823,000 viewers (Live + Same Day), down 6 percent from last week. The Adults 18 to 49 demographic also lost a tenth of a point.

Being Human, on the other hand, rose in viewers in the 9 p.m. hour, widening the gap between Syfy’s Monday night originals with 1.442 million viewers. This is an uptick of 11 percent. This means that Stargate lost a whopping 43 percent from its lead-in.

The NCAA Basketball Championship Game won the night on the broadcast networks, bringing in over 20 million viewers to CBS during the primetime period. Castle drew 11.45 million on ABC, and 7.75 million tuned in to Harry’s Law on NBC.

On USA, WWE Raw earned 5.78 million viewers against SGU in the 10 p.m. hour.

The episode was great, it sucks that the views droped but it's not a big surprise with a basketball game on at the same time.

[DeryniLord]

Hmm, actually the biggest two issues with the show's last 10 episodes is the fact that the show is now on at 10PM, not 8 or 9PM like SG-1, SGA, or even previous episodes of SGU itself. The other issue is that SyFy is not promoting the show at all, the episodes get little advertising and its not helping to let people know when the show is on, or even what the new episodes are about. In the past SciFi did alot to promote each episode of SG-1 and later SGA... this just hasn't been the case with SGU.