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Stargate Universe Ratings: The Story Unfolds

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:07:39 +0000

When Stargate Universe (SGU) premiered on October 2nd of 2009, it brought in 2.3 million viewers. This included both parts 1 and 2 of the premiere. Part 3 of the premiere episode titled “Air” hit the peak of the ratings ride with just over 2.4 million viewers.

After that, the numbers declined slowly but surely until they bottomed out on November 6th with the episode “Earth” at a paltry 1.6 million viewers.

I believe this decline is a result of the franchise fans slowly but surely giving up on the show because it wasn’t the light-humored and quipping series they were all expecting.

We’ve seen the scathing remarks in various articles here on Screen Rant, where everyone is getting a “hate on” for Stargate Universe. In some of your opinions ...

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Is There Really A Jericho Movie In Development?

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:25:32 +0000

Every time someone who starred in Jericho makes a public appearance, it’s inevitable that they get asked if they’re up for more Jericho, and in particular, a Jericho movie.

Sure, we’d love to see an actual project that is given its full due. After canceling the 2006 season show, CBS relented to a second season from fan pressure but barely gave it the attention it was due – It popped out a whole 7 episodes and was canceled again. Sometimes, a show may be a major fan favorite, but the impassioned fans are not as numerous as they need to be.

Some time ago, rumors started floating around that there might be a Jericho movie in the works.

In January of ’09, executive producer Jon Turteltaub said they were “developing” a ...

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Weekly TV Wrap Up – March 12th, 2009

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:39:34 +0000

So what’s happening this week with some of our favorite television shows? I’ll fill you in on the vaporizing ratings for Dollhouse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and others. I touch on some Supernatural & NCIS casting news and a season ending story development. I then sprinkle some CSI:NY bits and round it out with some Lily cast updates.

Let’s check it out.

Ratings Notes

A sad ratings note: The completely non-advertising supported set of repeats of Jericho on The CW scored a 0 in ratings. A zero. Of course they are Nielsen families, so that means none of them made any sense of it the first time around and they don’t want to deal with it a 2nd time.

Though it hasn’t been officially announced, inside sources are saying Heroes will be renewed for another 18-20 episodes next season.

Knight Rider, on the ...

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A Jericho Movie? Don’t Hold Your Breath

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:12:40 +0000

With the new year, comes some new hope. A few days ago, IF Magazine broke an interesting story saying that a Jericho movie is in the works for theatrical release. But can we believe that?

In the article they talk about Executive producer/Director Jon Turteltaub being pretty jazzed that repeats of the first season are playing on The CW. He feels that if Jericho can hit it big on The CW, there’s a chance it could come back to broadcast TV with new episodes. He did emphasize the phrase “remarkable success,” which means that despite the loyal core of fans, there need to be a lot more viewers willing to fawn all over themselves about Season 1 repeats.

But at the moment the bigger news is the potential development of a Jericho feature ...

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Jericho Rescued by Comcast? – But at What Cost…

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:40:58 +0000

Not only does Comcast bring you all your favorite television programming over the cable-ways, they also make deals that could possibly save some of your favorite programming for additional life on the airways.

Much like the DirecTV / NBC deal that’s resurrecting Friday Night Lights (FNL) for a third season, Comcast and CBS are in talks to bring Jericho back to viewers. This particular tidbit is provided by anonymous “insiders” and it makes for an interesting tidbit, but I’m not sure we can hold our breath on this one yet. It’s too early to tell if these new business models are really going to pay off.

As an example of “these new business models”, let me touch on the Friday Night Lights scenario. Apparently NBC got enough mini-footballs in the mail from FNL fans to ...

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Jericho Comes To A Close

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:50:11 +0000

“How does it feel to make history?”

That was the final line in the series finale of Jericho last night on CBS – and it got me to wondering; but more on that later.

The last episode came, and went, with ratings that were par for the show over the last few weeks with an approximated 6 million viewers, putting CBS fourth amongst the big networks for the evening. I’m guessing another nut campaign is ‘nut’ going to do the trick again, but nice try.

In this abbreviated run of 22 episodes packed into just 7, information flowed fast and hard – and sometimes that’s the way I like it, cutting to the chase.

There are a few spoilers ahead, so if you’re one of many millions who the networks aren’t counting for viewer ratings, but who are going to download from iTunes or ...

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Jericho Is Done

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:39:23 +0000

All us fans of Jericho had better savor the upcoming episode on Tuesday night because it’ll be the last. Jericho has been canceled – again.

Despite the media coverage and thousands of fans who threw their support behind the show, ratings for the series in it’s abbreviated second season just weren’t enough to keep the show afloat. Although if you look at the show’s viewership across a variety of channels is doing pretty well, the advertising money is all about how many people tune in to watch on television only.

Sure, there’s always the threadbare possibility that Jericho could be picked up by a cable network, but it’s anyone’s guess and up to the good graces of some forward-looking network exec whether it will happen.

Although not visual effects heavy in a sci-fi sort of way, I imagine the series ...

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Jericho Is Losing The Nielsen Fight

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:42:32 +0000

Jericho ended it’s first season on a very frustrating note:

The ultimate cliffhanger.

It was “ultimate” because CBS decided to drop the series and had no intention of airing a resolution to the finale. It would be an understatement to say that this annoyed fans of the show, who were inspired and organized enough to orchestrate the comeback for the series.

Though the cliffhanger has been resolved, the 2nd season Nielsen numbers for Jericho aren’t looking so rosy; this season’s episodes are averaging just under 7 million viewers, which is too low a number for any studio to be happy about.

This second season was dedicated to the fans and the sad part is that even though fans were urged to get as many folks as possible watching the show, CBS forgot to mention that they should get ...

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Do Networks Ignore Sci Fi Fans?

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:04:56 +0000

Have you ever wondered why some TV shows are canceled due to supposedly low ratings when it seems like they have a strong following? Sometimes there are obvious reasons – like when CBS scheduled Jericho up against Fox’s American Idol, or Journeyman possibly being a victim of bad timing with the writers’ strike and too many reality show hitting the networks.

One of the systems that has the biggest impact on what we get to watch on television is called the Nielsen Ratings. It was founded by Arthur Nielsen in 1923 and through statistical sampling measurements, extrapolates what audiences are watching across the country. This information is important to advertisers who pay dearly for much coveted time slots in which they know the audience is watching.

Neilsen Ratings measure what programs selected “families” actually sit down to ...

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Jericho Season 2 Premiere Discussion

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:35:43 +0000

Unfortunately I can’t do a proper review of the Season 2 premiere of Jericho because my DirecTV box picked that hour to reboot itself. I missed about 15 minutes of the episode.

My general reaction is that I’m glad it’s back, and it dove right into the story, almost too quickly. Overall you can tell that they’re trying to pack 22 episodes of content into just seven. It’s almost like the anti-Lost: like they’re trying to pack too much story into each episode.

Still I’m looking forward to seeing where they take the show and hope that the ratings are better than they were last season.

If you watched the show for the first time or are a fan from Season One, go ahead and leave your thoughts below!

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Jericho Season 2: 100 Percent Dedicated To The Fans

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:15:36 +0000

Jon Turtletaub.

If you are trying to figure out where you’ve heard that name before, possibly it’s because you remember him as being the director of the 1996 hit Phenomenon. No? Maybe you know him from having produced and directed both National Treasure movies with Nicolas Cage? Oh, wait… maybe you know him from being the executive producer of the surprise fan favorite CBS TV series: Jericho.

Recently Jon Turtletaub had a few words to say about the return of Jericho to CBS for its second season following the fan-driven onslaught of nuts to the studio via the U.S. Postal system (I knew that system would finally come in handy one day).

He posted to the Jericho production blog about being impressed with the fan campaign, and taking his cue when ...

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Jericho Season 2 News And Premiere Date

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:43:18 +0000

As everyone may well know, CBS’ post-apocalyptic drama Jericho is coming back for a 2nd season after viewers launched a spirited campaign to save the show, which included sending thousands of pounds of nuts to CBS executives. The passion of the effort seemed to work (or the executives ran out of room to store the nuts) because they decided to bring the show back for an abbreviated 2nd season in a 7 episode run.

Jericho stars Skeet Ulrich and revolves around the survivors of a nationwide nuclear attack, focusing on the residents of a Kansas town named Jericho. The show debuted in September 2006 and did ok, but not great ratings-wise – but when it was pitted against American Idol the numbers killed it for the exec’s.

The fortunate part of the upcoming second season is that Jericho is ...

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Jericho Returns February 12th

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:25:21 +0000

It’s finally been announced: The abbreviated second season of Jericho will return on Tuesday, February 12th at 10PM. Not the greatest timeslot in the world, but as things currently stand it will be up against The Bachelor, Cane and Law & Order: SVU. It could be worse… it could have been up against American Idol like it was last season. If that wasn’t the dumbest programming decision ever, then I don’t know.

There are a scant seven episodes that will make up season two, and I understand that the arc has been written in such a way as to give a satisfying conclusion to the fans if it isn’t renewed.

Source: SciFiWire

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Jericho 7 Episode Ping Pong Continues

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:38:30 +0000

The “will they wrap the story at seven episodes or not” debate regarding Jericho‘s return is starting to give me a headache.

Considering the outcry from fans over ending the first season with a cliffhanger and then having the show cancelled, when the show was given a seven episode reprieve the word was that the writers would script the story as an arc that would conclude at the end of the seventh episode. The idea was that the ratings might not be strong enough to sustain the show beyond this, and it would be pretty stupid to aggravate the fans with yet another unresolved cliffhanger.

Now the latest word from from actor Lennie James (who plays the mysterious Robert Hawkins on the show) is that:

“Right now, we do not have a plan to wrap it up at the end of ...

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Next Season Pace Of Jericho = Opposite Of Lost

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:42:24 +0000

According to CBS, the shortened second season of Jericho will compress an entire 22 season storyline into just seven episodes.

This latest news indicates that they’re still assuming the worst, and that the show will not go beyond seven episodes when it returns to the air. I’m happy to hear this because it would be the greatest of ironies if they were to get cocky and build another cliffhanger into the seventh episode only to have things end the same way again.

Another reason I think this is very cool is that we’ll get plot development at a lightning pace – everything that happens should contribute to the forward motion of the story. This is a HUGE contrast to ABC’s Lost, where it seems that each plot point takes three times as long as ...

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Jericho’s Second Chance

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:47:23 +0000

Jericho‘s pilot episode was re-broadcast last Friday night and had the best prime time ratings of the evening. If you haven’t heard, Jericho is a TV series set in a post-nuclear-attack-ridden U.S.A. Last season it followed the lives of citizens in a small Kansas town named… Jericho.

Although the show was slow to start, it ended up being a very good series (at least I thought so) but due to an overly long hiatus between the Fall and Spring season plus the fact that when it returned it was scheduled against American Idol, the ratings were sluggish and the show was canceled.

What’s the big deal, you may ask?

The big deal is that CBS ended the season with a monster cliffhanger, and that was going to that. No resolution, no further episodes, no nothing at all.

Well there was an uproar, ...

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Screen Rant Weekly Podcast – June 14, 2007

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:32:00 +0000

Just a grab bag of stuff from the last week and half including my server crash, thoughts on Fantastic Four 2 being rated PG, Jericho‘s return, Lost‘s ending, why I’m worried about the recently announced Captain America movie, and more!

BTW, maybe I could ask for suggestions from those of you who are regular readers/listeners for a new name for my podcast? “Screen Rant Weekly Podcast” just seems a little… boring, ya know?

P.S. I apologize for the poor quality of the audio today… I think I need to invest in a new microphone. :-\

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Jericho To Return Sooner, But…. Another Cliffhanger?

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:52:17 +0000

According to Jericho executive producer Stephen Chbosky, the show may be returning sooner than 2008. It’s not written in stone, but Jericho could be returning as soon as October.

According to Chbosky (don’t ask me how to pronounce that) there is a much smaller budget for the remaining seven episodes, which will impact both casting and location shooting. It will take some creativity to work within the confines of the smaller budget. They do however have a number of main characters signed up to return: Skeet Ulrich (Jake Green), Lennie James (Robert Hawkins), Brad Beyer (Stanley) and Alicia Coppola (Mimi) are coming back and there’s a good chance that Pamela Reed (Gail Green) will be returning as well.

So knowing that they have a definite seven episodes to work with, and the fact that one of the main reasons the ...

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Will CBS Give Jericho Fans Closure?

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:03:29 +0000

It looks like the huge groundswell of support from fans of CBS’ Jericho may have actually done something.

[Update: Yes, it IS official. 7 new episodes (7? wierd number...) coming next mid-season.]

Before you fans of the show get all crazy-happy, please remember that this is NOT official NOR confirmed… Over at TVGuide.com one of their columnists is saying that a limited, 8 episode run of Jericho may very well happen next season.

Following a deluge of emails, letters, phone calls and last but not least: almost 20 tons of nuts (it’s an inside joke related to the final episode) being sent to CBS corporate, it seems that fans may get at the very least closure for the story. There have been reports of interest from other networks on picking ...

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Screen Rant Weekly Podcast – May 26, 2007

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:22:53 +0000

Hey folks! Another weekly summary for you including news on the “Save Jericho” campaign, the reveal of Heath Ledger as The Joker from The Dark Knight, Iron Man news and the season finales of Lost and Heroes.

I hope you enjoy the smooth listening sounds of the audio version of Screen Rant.

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