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Gone: Stargate Universe, Supernatural

Sci fi in Australia takes another hit. Standby for Monday night movies.

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SupernaturalBoy, that didn’t take long….

TEN has dropped Stargate Universe and Supernatural from Monday nights.

Both shows are now out of schedule, giving the new sci fi just three weeks on air before being pulled.

On Monday night Stargate Universe took 487,000 viewers, leaving Supernatural just 394,000 and more importantly a lowly evening share of just 16% for the night.

They will be replaced by Monday night movies:
Jan 4: The Siege (1998)
Jan 11: Double Jeopardy (1999)
Jan 18: Speed (1994)

TEN is probably working out where to reschedule unaired episodes of both shows…. keep you posted on this one.

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  1. Like a heroin addict having habit modification via methadone I get excited by a free to air channel promising to broadcast a pay TV programme ( in this case Universe) only to have it taken away, forcing people back to the unseemly dark world of the bit torrent…….oh well to bad watched the whole series now.
    This knee jerk dropping bulls**t has got to stop I want to hear from some of these Phantom recipients of these rating boxes if we are to believe that Stargate Universe took 487,000 viewers how do they get that figure if 90 percent of every one who reads this site has never even met someone who has ever had one.

  2. Stargate Universe dropped after only three episodes? Well there’s a surprise. Not. I could not believe what utter garbage the show is. Sorry for the Supernatural fans I know it has a following but Universe was just so awful I’m surprised it hasn’t been cancelled yet altogether.

  4. Well, yet another reason not to watch Channel Ten, or any of the main commercial channels really. Fortunately I have a source of SPN, but this sucks major rocks. Major fail, Ten, major fail.

  5. Ten is no better than nine. The only channel that treats viewers respectfully is seven if a show isn’t going well instead of canning it, they just move it to a later time slot.

    What needs to happn is all people with ratings boxes should go on strike! They should turn off the boxes for summer, so that it truely can be a non ratings period.

  6. I know they would do this. I gave up on 10 last year when they scrwed us over with Season 4. I followed a friend and just waited for it to be released on dvd in the US then bought it, incl postage for a cheap $50.

    This year I decide to do the same, no watching on TV just buy the dvd when it’s out. However I got a nice surprise Chrismas morning when a firend included the firrt 10 eps on dvd. woo hoo.

    So bye-bye Ch 10, I know you’d stuff it up .

    PS. I also didn’t watch Startgate U, as I knew you’d do the same to that.

  7. Just remember this one fact, about 1000 people on behalf of the suits & bean counters(The most powerful people in the country) determine what the rest of the country watches.

    Just wait and see how long “V” will last on the Nine network If or when they decide to show it.

    Place your bets people.

    I would give it 2 to 3 weeks before it’s gets boned or moved to GO!….

  8. Being a regular visitor to this site for the past year and a half, i believe some of the the posters here have more of a clue than the ‘real’ programmer’s.

  9. This is one of the stupidest things Ten has ever done, and that’s saying something. Supernatural Rocks! Of course their viewing numbers might be up if they fast-tracked it instead of waiting so long. Big mistake.

  10. Nooooooooooo!!!! I couldn’t believe they swapped the Supernatural time, but this, pulling it off! I had so much faith in Ten to play this correctly, now to do this! Of course there was going to be low numbers last week, it is the silly season

  11. Sorry if i missed it but is there an actual purpose to constantly repeating the same movies (and not a smart arse answer like “to p*** off sci-fi fancs). I mean, is it cheaper/more cost effective for the station to show Love Actually the 15th time than the first run episodes of supernatural, stargate if they already own the broadcast rights to both? If Ten were paying to make the show then i could see why it would be cancelled with those numbers. Or is ad revenue that touchy that it goes up if an old (but not a classic) movie is shown over previously unaired episodes? I like Supernatural and got to see it by other means, and as soon as Ten started being coy about when the current season would air knew i’d made the right choice. Since Supernatural has developed a more ongoing style of storytelling compared to earlier seasons i hold out little hope for it ever recovering more viewers – it’s not rocket science but still would be a little tough for brand new viewers to get into it with chopping and changing.

  12. It’d be great if TEN launches another channel to capitalise on the decent ratings GO! and Seven Two get.

    They can then screen shows that have loyal followings but just don’t seem to rate well on the main channel like;-

    Supernatural, Smallville, Monk, Will and Grace, The Office (US), Medium, Dexter Nurse Jackie, Flight of the conchords, Number, LAw and Order
    and many others

    It’s a shame that TEN sometimes screen a show at a regular hour and then dump it at midnight and then 1am or even 2am like they did with Nurse Jackie
    and Dexter.

    Dexter and Monk recently broke ratings records in the US with their final and finale shows respectively.

    These are quality shows that deserve to be shown on freeto air and not exclusively for the payTV customers.

  14. Apologies to the people who liked Stargate Universe … but I didn’t.
    The only one of this series I liked was Stargate: SG1
    All the others just lack something SG1 had.
    It doesn’t surprise me that Channel 10 is taking it off.
    I could only watch about 20 minutes before I turned it off.

  15. Great, we were at least giving SGU a go, there’s just not enough sci-fi and quality drama on the commercials.

    I’ve been flirting with dropping Austar hoping that the multi-channels might pick up some of the slack, but of course I was being overly optimistic, their scheduling just can’t be trusted.

  16. Well guys not only did SGU get dumped on Channel 10,

    but it also was dumped during the Christmas, break Scyfy didn’t broadcast the Christmas marathon.
    gateworld.net/news/2009/12/syfy-cancels-sgu-christmas-day-marathon/

  17. truly?…three movies that have been on thousands of times? TEN has lost the plot Big Time….I could do a better job in the programming department than the monkeys they have there now.

  18. Ten is turning onto a bot of a nine. I would understand dropping the shows if it was ratings season, but it’s not! They should have kept the shows and listened to all those bloggers.

  19. Any wonder why 10 falls behind in the ratings all the time can’t keep the shows going for a full season.
    Even if SGU is a bit slow will still give it a go and see if it improves, and that is typical for Supernatural on and off whenever they feel like it, have to find something else to do monday nights now

  20. I don’t know what I can write that hasn’t been written before, I love Supernatural and am totally disgusted with the way Channel 10 has shown it and the fans, so much Disrespect. I’ve also been on the Channel 10 forums and I can tell you that they don’t listen to the fans over there either, what the heck is wrong with them??? I’m sure they think that Supernatural only attracts younger viewers but I have been to some crowded Supernatural conventions and the wide range of ages of the fans is staggering, from approx 8 year olds to people in their 60’s and 70’s. Channel 10 do not realise what they have and continue to not listen to their viewers, that just doesn’t make sense to me, how can you run a business and not listen to your customers? I sure do hope that this is just a minor schedule change and that they do not cancel Supernatural.

  21. As I said almost at the beginning of this thread – why are we talking about how much it rates when both shows are shown during the ‘Non-ratings period’??

    The term should be just that – to establish shows during a time when ratings aren’t important in order to develop a loyal audience.

    I find it bizarre that shows are taken off during this period when rating points aren’t supposed to matter.

    ‘Non-ratings period’ used to mean just that 20/30 years ago – not now it seems……

  22. @ Andrew B The shows you listed are all sitcoms, in general, sitcoms can be played in any order, repeats do very well, and skew much younger. The problem with SGU and Supernatural is, they are both heavily serialized, or at least Supernatural season 5 is, thus you can’t have air a season 1 episode and expect people not to start raging like crazy. Look at the highest paid actors and actresses in Hollywood, TV wise for the past 10 years, here’s a few salaries:
    Jerry Seinfeld: Offered a rumoured 5m per episode to air Seinfeld for a 10th season, he declined.
    Ray Romano: 1.8m per episode of Raymond. Kelsey Grammar: 1.6m per episode of Fraiser. Helen Hunt and Paul reiser: 1m per episode of Mad About You. Friends stars: 1m each per episode of Friends. Charlie Sheen 800k+ per episode of 2.5 men

    In retrospect: Keifer Sutherland : approx 550k per episode of 24. Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargity: 425k per episode of SVU. Noah Wyle: 400k per episode of ER back when he was the lead character. Laurence Fishburne: approx 320k per episode of CSI

    There’s a reason networks pay through the nose to keep their best sitcoms on air, they repeat ridiculously well, skew young, which advertisers love, and are spectacular in syndication. Let me put it this way, Jerry Seinfeld probably gets less than 1% of what GO! pays to air a repeat of Seinfeld, the guy still pulls in 60m a year from repeats all over the world, the only person who gets more is Oprah, and she doesn’t really count…It’s just unfortunate that The Mentalist is competition for SGU, which will ultimately effect Supernatural ratings, but they aren’t going to move Supernatural because it’s been on Monday forever. Perhaps they should try and move another hit show they have, like White Collar or Lie To Me, try and take down The Mentalist, that’s what ABC in America did, they moved Grey’s opposite CSI, and now Grey’s beats CSI in the 18-49 demo, (first runs only though)

    @ Andrew B’s other comment: City Homicide and Mentalist are procedurals, they have no multi-episode storylines thus you can never feel lost in the storyline and Survivor gets a crapton of promotion for some reason. FlashForward on the other hand dropped like a pin after the premiere, because once you’ve missed one or two episodes, you’re better off not watching it.

  24. I believe the main reason why Supernatural viewer numbers have dropped is because Channel Ten is so slow in airing them! People either download them or watch them it youtube. It such a shame since it has been great but with such a big time gap people can’t just wait for Ten!

  25. @ Dave: yet Seven and Nine still do reasonable figures at those earlier times with later shows dropping off. Only the Mentalist and City Homicide repeats defy that trend. Survivor on NIne 750ish, Superstars of dance just below 700k, movies generally worse. ACA, TT and 7pm shows higher.

    Niche shows will never do that well, certainly never 1 mil+ but to me, the figures are not actually that bad when compared to everything else on Ten and how other shows are performing, and they (Ten) should not have made any quick decisions based on results during the Christmas – New Year week.

    Interesting in the US it only did 3 mil – that means pro rata 500k is a great result, especially since 100k or so have already watched SGU on Pay TV here.

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