Stargate Atlantis's Season 4 ratings for "Adrift"

[wraithfodder]

Hmm, hard to figure out.

USA Today posted:  Showtime's Dexter (1 million viewers) and Brotherhood (371,000) and Sci Fi's Ghost Hunters (2 million) and Stargate: Atlantis (1.7 million) started new seasons. TBS' House of Payne (3.3 million) and VH1's Rock of Love (a big 5.4 million) ended theirs (except for Rock's reunion Sunday, 8 ET/PT).

Gateworld reported 1.2 for "Adrift," but doesn't know what those ratings are (live, etc.).

Comments

[margec01.livejournal.com]

I belive how it works is 1.2 is the "share" or the "rating." And the 1.7 is the millions of households. I remember in the "old" days, they would talk about SG-1 being watched by over 2 million households, but I don't believe their ratings were ever quite that high.

You know, they are disappointed, but *I* think those ratings are exceptionally good, considering that they are going up against first-run episodes on the major networks. This is something that no Stargate has ever had to do on a regular basis before. If they had started in the summer, up against nothing, I'm sure they'd have done much better. I don't know if this is a case of Sci-Fi setting them up for failure, or if Sci-Fi actually wanted to really compete against the networks.

I know myself I had to have three recording devices going last week, what with Numbers and now Tom Selleck coming to Vegas. Vegas is a stupid show, and NOTHING like the real Vegas, but Tom Selleck! Needless to say, if I were a Nielsen person, I'd be watching SGA LIVE on BOTH feeds, but I'm not, so I recorded everything.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I like VEGAS cuz it's pure fluff adn stupidity, Josh Duhamel is cute to look at, and yeah, Tom Selleck! It pulled in the ratings in the 9-11pm slot so it's not Numb3rs that's a problem, but Vegas, I suppose, but Skiffy pulls in different demographics, one hopes.

If I were a Nielsen person, FRIENDS would never have gotten past season one ;)