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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. Hmm, and we wonder why there are bit torrent sites. it is because the penny pinching accountants and their execs that run this so called ‘entertainment’ run with cr@p!
    Seriously (not ten!) your public is over the reality show phenomenon…BB is buried, Geeks dating stunners, farmers that need wives, Aust has (no) talent, Aust Idiot…damn well over it.
    I thought my tv viewing had expanded from only watching Top Gear at 7:30 on a Monday to having a second show to watch for the week. Then when it just starts to get into it some moron in a leather chair and paid way too much money decides that they may not be able to get advertisers (that they over charge to peddle their wares) to cough up even more money for a primo timeslot.
    TV is not about entertainment any more but more trying to line TV execs and $hareholders pockets.
    Well back to SBS on a Monday night for me and will have to ‘acquire’ my much needed fix.

  3. I love Supernatural. I have watched it from the start and i know heaps of other people who watch it too. I dont know where they get their stupid ratings stats from!! There is no way I am watching anything on Channel 10 unless they put it back on!!

  5. Thats just stupid SGU was a bit slow to begin with but its a cool show and supernatural was deadly wtf are they thinking.. i can understand y they cut SGU (caus ppl scared of something new) but supernatural… they must have rocks in they head.

  6. Done…………D-O-N-E! I own all 4 seasons of supernatural & keep eagerly awaiting a monday night were i can sit & watch supernatural & alas i get another movie that has been screened for the 14th time in 12 months. Now if i didn’t work through the day i would gladly sit at home & watch channel 10 with it’s high quality programming (*cough*) of Dr.Phil, Oprah, Ready Steady Cook (OMFG),Judge Judy, Huey’s Cooking Adventures & the Bold & The Beautiful…(i left out dharma & greg cause if i didn’t own them on DVD i’d actually watch it)….All of this jam packed programming in between two 1 hour bulletins of news both of which seem to end ad finitum with a dog on a surfboard. I didn’t watch stargate but give things a freakin’ go for christ’s sake (sorry Cas). Screen it in a ratings period to at least give it a chance. Useless pee-ons. Even if they do change Supernatural & SG do a different time slot they don’t advertise so no-one will ever know…….Psst do you want to hear a secret…….Channel 10’s evening programming… now don’t you go tellin’ anyone…oh that’s right you can’t

  7. Rubbish. I can’t believe channel 10 dumped it. How do they expect to make up ratings with old rubbish movies that people can buy at JB for less than $4.95.
    It seems like a dumb move.
    People make a good point about the holiday period and ratings.
    Looks like I will be watching elsewhere.

  8. Ten have just updated their guide for the 18th Jan.
    *Flash*

    SGU on 830pm on ten down in Tassy

    Not the end of the two parter, but a start none the less ?
    Perhaps someone listening ? It wasn’t there yesterday, at least in yahoo’s tv guide anyway ?

  9. channel ten sux always messing with programs . 2 great shows , you cant put shows on then pull them , grow some balls and run with the decision you made when you put the shows on in the first place nothing worse then getting into a show then the di***heads who live in disney land decide nah thats not working !

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

    No, I reckon TEN is probably working out what might happen if they actually promoted a new show and let an audience build up rather than just dump it on air before Christmas and wonder why it didn’t have an immediate short-term impact.

    Was SGU a bit too grown-up for their target market of dopey teenagers who want to feel important by sending SMS messages?

  12. Such a shame that Supernatural was dropped – and it is no consolation that it may be back later in the year, as Australia is hosting five actors from the show for a convention in May, and most of these are very important characters in Season 5. So if those of us attending the convention want to be up to date on what is happening (so the actors don’t have to say “Oh! You are only up to That episode – well I better not say too much and spoil it), we will have to look elsewhere for episodes.
    Thanks a bunch channel ten.

  13. @David Knox: Let us know how the followup with TEN goes… don’t forget to mention SGU 🙂 I was really hooked! I really don’t want to have to download the episodes.

  14. Please, please, please put startgate universe back on!!!! This is so silly. Ok so you may want a higer rating show in that spot if your a tv exec, fine, just put it on later in a less valuable time frame. I don’t care and I think many other sci-fi fans won’t care ether we just want to see it, so we will ether stay up late or record it. I came from UK 2 years ago and am stuggling with how little sci-fi there is on tv compaired to England, please don’t get rid of the best addition in a long time.

  15. Alright, so the execs reckon it’s not getting a viewing. No probs. Axe it. But do it properly. Not right in the middle of a to-be-continued. Stupid execs have no idea that this kind of behaviour flows into other programming. How many people will prefer to watch 7two or Go!, keeping an eye out for new programming, rather than TEN?

    Maybe SG Universe needed a prompt at the end of the show requesting everyone to spend 55c on a text to vote for their favourite character on the program. That seems to be the only shows that TEN seem to want to carry.

  16. I saw the big black hole that was the Stargate Universe timeslot and couldn’t believe my eyes. I hoped vainly that they’d just done their usual trick of reprogramming it to midnight on a Thursday but this blog tells me otherwise. Damn I was really getting into it. It was a fabulous personality based show – not just sci fi whizbang – which made it believable and compelling viewing. Channel Ten have done it to me again. They lull me into trusting them and then Wham in the guts.

  18. I am sick of channels getting rid of shows before giving them a chance. Seriously SGU and Supernatural could’ve got more ratings over time. The ratings in America were huge for SGU, surely that’s a good enough guideline for 10 to keep it going? I can name at least 11 people I know of who love the shows and some who have gotten into it due to hiring the DVD’s. They all do not have the ratings boxes. I actually could probably think of more people who have watched the show in the past who have loved it and don’t watch much tv anymore because the networks have terrible reality shows, dedicated to cooking, dancing and singing. I personally like to escape that, by watching Sci Fi.

  19. I’m writing to the programme director just to let him/her know that i won’t be watching their stupid channel ever again. Now with the tech available I can get any show that Ten may screen that I like elsewhere so u don’t have to rely on them ever again. It’s not the first time they’ve done this sort of thing and I’m sick of it.

  20. Why TEN why????

    Three episodes?!?

    I have alot of very colourful and inventive things i would like to say to whoever made the decision to can SGU & Supernatural (well mostly SGU). SG hasn’t been in a decent time slot since i was a kid! Give the show a chance to gain some new fans!!! And replacing SGU with the old action movies? Give me a break.

  21. I’m pretty sure the only way tv station can get ratings is from ratings boxes? One thing that’s gets me is that no one I know owns a ratings box, only a curtain type of people get them, so only those people are giving there opinion.

    I could be wrong (very likely) but I though people kicked up a stink about privacy and tv stations couldn’t get ratings from everyone?

    Most sci-fi gets poor ratings and gets pushed to 12 at night, and dancing, cooking and singing popular crap gets prime time. Are the ratings riged or am I wrong 🙂

  22. I’ve been a big fan of stargate from the first movie through SG1, Atlantis, AOT and continuum. When I heard stargate universe was being shown on TV I couldn’t wait to start watching it every monday night (even though I rarely watch TV). No matter what anyone says I believe stargate is and always has been quality entertainment with elements in each show that are original and can appeal to a broad audience. It’s Never like watching more of the same thing. put it back on at midnight on wednesday, monday morning at 2 am, I don’t care when. Just don’t get us interested and then drop it like a hot potato coz then I’ll have to wait for it on DVD 🙁

  23. I’m glad I’m not the only once furious at Supernatural being taken off air. The show is obviously very popular, as I would imagine because the show is great fun to watch not to mention very easy on the eyes. I too have watched this show from the beginning and I was really getting into the current season and then what do you know…it’s taken off air…thank you sooooo much channel 10! ‘Batlestar Sceptica’ too true…it’s all about how much money they can make out us addicted fans. Dear Channel 10 I hope everyone turns elsewhere to watch all your shows and you go bust.

  24. I have been an avid Supernatural fan from its inception and have atleast 3 people in my close contact network who are the same and we are completely fed up with the attitude of the programming for the show. Last years season was stuffed around and now this year we dont get more than 3 episodes shown. What is going on. This is obviously still a very popular show still and as another person commented if its out of ratings season what the hell does it matter whether it is getting high viewer ratings or not?????? I am one of those who is at the point of giving ten the flick, good shows or not, after all they obviously dont care about viewer interest just what shows bring in the money.Lets hope the people who have made an effort to let their views be known will finally be listened to !!!!!!!!!

  25. If people complian to acma and other media authority about channel 10 arrongance of dumping shows like supernatural, the ywill act on 10, infact channel 10 could lose lots of right to broadcasting shows in Australia’

    Looks like channel 10 could be he first free to air victim to be taken off air

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