Powered by the debut of Alphas and the returns of Eureka and Warehouse 13, Syfy had its biggest Monday in a decade this week. That’s good news for the future of Eureka (which is already green lit for season five) and Warehouse 13.
Here’s details from Syfy.
Sparked by Alphas – the most watched Syfy series debut since 2009 – the channel’s powerful new Monday night scripted programming block of Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Alphas each delivered more than two million total viewers from 8-11:30PM (ET/PT) on July 11.
This marked Syfy’s highest Monday time period audience for scripted series in over 10 years.
At 10PM Alphas found 2.5 million total viewers, 1.2 million Adults 18-49 and 1.3 million Adults 25-54 along with a 1.84 HH rating, the top-rated series premiere since Warehouse 13 debuted in July 2009, the same night Syfy launched its new brand evolution.
From 9-10PM, the season three premiere of Warehouse 13 snagged, bagged and tagged 2.3 million total viewers, 1.0 million Adults 18-49 and 1.2 million Adults 25-54 with a 1.74 HH rating.
Eureka‘s season 4.5 return kicked off the night at 8PM by grabbing 2.0 million total viewers, 893,000 Adults 18-49 and 987,000 Adults 25-54, while averaging a 1.5 HH rating.
Boosted by the premieres of Alphas, Warehouse 13 and Eureka, Syfy.com delivered its best day in video streams (378K) since 11/1/2009; uniques (376K) since 10/31/10; page views (1.4 million) since 3/18/11, and visits (373K) since 1/17/11.
Syfy’s Summer Premiere Week continues on Wednesday, July 13, with the third season of Ghost Hunters International at 9PM, followed by the premiere of Legend Quest at 10PM. On Friday, July 15, Haven returns for its second season at 10PM.
Alphas is actually pretty good. I think they have a good rhythm to the series and I like the characters. It’ll be interesting to see what the point of the show is though. Again, a good start but not a lot of plot depth other than the POSSIBLE major antagonist group.
I’ll keep watching.
I watched Eureka and Warehouse 13 but switched to MTV for Teen Wolf. Tried to watch Alphas the next day when they re-ran it on Syfy but didn’t find it interesting at all.
Maybe this will give Slyfy a push towards more SciFi and less wrestling and (so called) unscripted shows.
@jtarheel: I like starting my day off with a laugh. Thank you.
The sad news here is that the best show of the 3 had the lowest ratings- Look Out Eureka!!!!
Maybe the heads of Sy-Fy will realize that there is an audience out there always hungry for QUALITY science fiction and will tune into their channel to watch it (as evidenced by Monday night viewings).