{"id":11929,"date":"2010-12-16T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T20:59:23","slug":"syfy-will-end-sgu-after-two-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/syfy-will-end-sgu-after-two-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Syfy Will End SGU After Two Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via his Twitter<\/a>, Craig Engler of Syfy Network has announced that Stargate Universe<\/a><\/em> will end after two seasons. Combining his tweets:<\/p>\n

Announcement today: Syfy will end its original action-adventure series Stargate Universe when the show returns with the final 10 episodes of its second season in the Spring of 2011. The Stargate franchise — consisting of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe — has aired on Syfy since 2002. Syfy has a slate of new scripted projects lined up for 2011 including the series premiere of Being Human on January 17, the recently green lit one-hour drama series Alphas and the much anticipated Battlestar prequel pilot movie, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. Warehouse 13, Eureka & Haven will also return w\/new seasons next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While no reason was given, it’s reasonable to speculate that low U.S. Nielsen broadcast ratings for the show are the cause for the cancellation. The Live+Same Day viewership for the show has stabilized at around 1 million viewers per episode (ratings chart<\/a>), which is about half of what\u00a0 Stargate Atlantis<\/em><\/a> averaged during its final season (SGA S5 ratings<\/a>) and is lower than Syfy’s other original series currently airing. @Syfy has said repeatedly that, while other methods of viewing, such as Hulu and iTunes, do help, Nielsen broadcast ratings in the U.S. are still the primary metric for advertising revenue. Advertising revenue is in turn what pays for Syfy’s share of production costs.<\/p>\n

We want to express our condolences to the cast, crew, production, and fans of Stargate for this end of the series and perhaps the franchise. To those who make their living working on the show, we wish you well in finding new endeavors very soon.<\/p>\n

Remember, the final ten episodes of SGU Season 2 will air in the Spring of 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via his Twitter, Craig Engler of Syfy Network has announced that Stargate Universe will end after two seasons. Combining his tweets: Announcement today: Syfy will end its original action-adventure series Stargate Universe when the show returns with the final 10 episodes of its second season in the Spring of 2011. The Stargate franchise — consisting … Continue reading “Syfy Will End SGU After Two Seasons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press","category-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11932,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}