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Returning: Stargate Universe

The Sci Fi Channel is set to fastrack new episodes of SGU in April.

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Stargate: Universe is returning to the Sci Fi Channel in April.

Australian audiences will once again see new episodes just one week after the US, when it returns after a break in production.

SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Faced with meeting the most basic needs of food, water and air, the group must unlock the secrets of the ship’s Stargate to survive. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.

In the opening of the second part of the Season, Col. Everett Young (Louis Ferreira) prepares to file a report to Earth regarding the recent untimely deaths on board the Destiny by using the communication stones. But upon initiating the device, his consciousness is diverted into an unknown being. Worried about the repercussions of the connection, Young puts the communication stones temporarily off limits. Soon after the malfunction, an alien vessel appears in Destiny’s path and demands surrender. The standoff doesn’t last long. The alien vessel launches an attack and captures Chloe (Elyse Levesque). Realising this is more than a coincidence, Col. Young must use the stones again to get aboard the ship and try to rescue Chloe. He quickly realises, however, that Chloe isn’t the only prisoner aboard the ship.

It returns Friday April 9th at 8.30pm.

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  1. It looks like we’re finally going to get something resembling an interesting story from this series, because the first half of the season certainly didn’t live up to its predecessors

  3. I like many of the SciFi shows such as Fringe, Stargate, Caprica etc and also shows such as Dexter and True Blood. In the US they generally appear on cable stations plus sometimes network TV and exist because the US is such a huge market, They generally have viewership of around 2-3million in the US and this is enough to sustain multiple seasons.

    Any show on 7, 9 or 10 airing between 7.30 and 10.30 needs a minimum 800 thousand 5 city viewership to survive. To achieve this viewership the show therefore needs to be 2-3 times more popular in Australia then it is in the US relative to population. Why do programmers continue to think that by some miracle shows like this will work in primetime in Australia?

    Why don’t they show some common sense and broadcast them at 10.30pm, 11pm or even later within 24-48 hours of their US broadcast. People can then either watch them at that time or record the show. If they can’t do that put it on their 2nd channel they got for free from the government or let a Foxtel channel broadcast the show.

  5. And out of those 3 or 4 eps (pretty sure it was 3), 2 of them started an hour before the printed guides reported it would, including the first one. Most people who wanted to watch it but who don’t follow sites like TV Tonight, would have missed it and given up. Geniuses over at Channel Ten!

  6. @vinny, yes ten did remove it but they could of atleast waited for the time-sift rating to come in(7 days) but they didnt seeing they pulled the show the first week that time-sift rating were going to be in, but anyways good to see sci-fi fasttrack it

  7. Yes vinny they air like 3 or 4 eps before removing it because it didn’t ‘gel’ with the audiance or some crap like that. It proves the summer non ratings period is a load of crap, they also removed Supernatural.

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