The shipmates on Dark Matter continue to learn about their true identities and they are complicated, to say the least. Will viewers want to stick around to get all of the answers? How will this Canadian show perform in the ratings? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a third season? Stay tuned.
On Dark Matter, the crew of a derelict spaceship is awakened from stasis with no memories of who they are or how they got on board. Facing threats at every turn, they have to work together to survive a voyage charged with vengeance, betrayal and hidden secrets. The show’s cast includes Marc Bendavid, Melissa O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr, Jodelle Ferland, Roger Cross, Zoie Palmer, Melanie Liburd, and Shaun Sipos.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
9/1 update: Dark Matter has been renewed for a third season. Details here.
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For comparisons: The first season of Dark Matter on Syfy averaged a 0.24 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.01 million viewers.
What do you think? Do you like the Dark Matter TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a third season?
Episode – She’s One Of Them Now. The Raza crew is so totally becoming Cylons. They have the numbers, copy pods, a jump engine, a “hybrid” that is the ship…By the way, their own pods? Totally OP. They can literally create armies for assaults! Whenever there is an engineering problem? They can totally get a bunch of Five’s to do the work. Since the Blink Drive thingy seemed to have malfunctioned did they just go to a parallel universe? The Android and Three. I like how they’re building this up. Three has little to no interest in the Android in… Read more »
Dark Matter – S02E07 “She’s One Of Them Now” Another great episode. I thought it missed an opportunity for race-against-time tension at the end, but overall it was great. The character growth of Five is wonderful to watch. Very curious what happened with the blink drive. I wonder if Doc is as dead as One. Anyone else still only 98% sure we have seen the last of One? That Nyx – Devon scene was brilliant. I hope we get more of these intense conversations.
Despite the above, I think season 2 is much stronger than its predecessor based on character emotions and plot movement. They have a few story lines to explore, though I’m surprised that the Seers showed up again so quickly, making them the likely antagonist. Genuinely surprised this episode ended the way it did, though I feel there may be too many characters fighting for interesting stories. I’m starting to get that nervous feeling I get when I love a show so much I know it will hurt if it gets cancelled. Darn you Dark Matter! Either stop being so good… Read more »
everyone should tell every single person you know to watch dark matter and killjoys when they first come on. post it, tweet it, do whatever you have to do. these ratings need to go up.
I loved SG1, like SGA for David Hewitt mostly, and SGU was not good in the first season but was much better in the 2nd when it got cancelled. I liked the lighter tone of the Dark Matter series for the most part and the chemistry was phenomenal in all of their iterations. Own them all and watch them all over and over and over when I work out in the gym.
1) Killjoys is produced by Toronto’s Temple Street Productions and Dark Matter is produced by Toronto’s Prodigy Pictures. 2) Both are from Canada.(Made in Canada) The viewership propelled Space to most-watched-channel status in Canada. 3) Is broadcast in 87 countries, including the U.S.A. 4) I doubt, that the U.S. ratings, decides whether the series will be renewed or not.
Another person who doesn’t know how this business works. Many series are produced in Canada but paid for by US networks, and they decide their fate. The US audience is ten times the Canadian audience. The advertisers from the US pay the lions share of revenue sponsoring the production of the series. If their audience isn’t watching, they stop sponsoring, if that happens it gets cancelled. Funding from over seas is decidedly much smaller, as their net work affiliates all take a percentage. It helps of course, but unfortunately executives at SyFy look at this as nothing more than a… Read more »
“Season 2, Ep.06 – We Should Have Seen This Coming” It took 19 episodes, but last Friday, we finally got a space battle in Dark Matter, something that I had personally complained to Joe multiple times over the course of the past year. Also, some would argue against me on this, but in my opinion, last Friday’s episode was the best one of the whole series so far, with the Borg-like storyline involving the Seers and their whole “collective consciousness” idea. Also, the episode on Friday August 19th (S2, Ep.08) revolves around the crew being sent to a parallel universe,… Read more »
They’ll need more than a space battle to save the series. BSG had tons of space battles and they still lost their fan base in season three by removing likable traits for all the characters and tainting them, as they called it. Science fiction fans want to cheer for the characters and any series has to have a cross section of likable characters, good and bad. Regardless of the reasons the show killed off “One”, it lost a portion of the fan base. Space battles won’t replace that, it requires a likable character for the fans who want to cheer… Read more »
Don’t cancel, they improving and better!!!!
For me the TV show Dark Matter pure art.Is art completely different than any other artifact or commodity construed by humans? If so, then it shouldn’t be treated commercially as every other product. If not, despite its special qualities, art can easily be treated commercially as any other commercial artifact. The difference between these sides can not be reconciled intellectually. So, when people look to the commercial argument about the arts, they’ll be bound to trouble. The beauty of that which reminds us of our common humanity and raises above our individual meanness is worth more than money could ever… Read more »
Dark Matter has gotten even better in the 2nd season then in the enjoyable 1st season. The has little twists and turns with decent enough acting most of the time. Five does the best job of portraying believe-ability which grounds the show a little. The rest of the cast toes a good enough job I don’t complain as the show is happening.
Dark matter is improving a lot and hopefully it will get extended to see where mystery goes.
Four provided Milo with the knife to kill himself, then apparently neglected to tell Nyx what fate her brother likely chose. And it’s really annoying how she seems to be better than the original crew….when she only came in season 2. Also when the crew said they would drop her off and her brother she argued against it …how selfish can someone get? She’s willling to risk everyone else’s life aslong as her brother and her are protected.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Bring on season 3!!
Best science fiction show ! The acting is good, the story so deep and the general appearance of the universe is just amazing.
Dark Matter – S02E06 “We Should Have Seen This Coming” A good episode for building the season suspense.Nyx is going to be the one to betray them. I’m starting to wonder how Nyx managed to get herself locked up.She could kick the entire GA’s collective asses single handedly.Did she purposefully get herself thrown in jail to meet the crew?(She was in same group as Two, Three, and Four when they were incarcerated. That can’t be a coincidence.) If Two wants medical attention her choices are Devon, the Android, or… Dwarf Star. (I guess nanites can’t fix Parkinson’s.)
Oh wow, definitely my favorite episode so far, love the Seers. They remind me of the Asurans from SGA. thought it was pretty great too. I’m amazed at how invested I am in Nyx now. Her, 4, and Milo were all fantastic to watch in this ep.
Good ep, interesting with the Seers. In general all the characters are really starting to grow. I think I can safely say this is the best thing so far after Firefly/SG1-A-U/BSG went off. Hope this gets 10 seasons!
I hope SYFY realizes what a piece of garbage they’ve become and cancel it once it averages below a 0.12 for the season, which it is on its way doing. I enjoy watching the ratings continue to tank.
Just don’t watch it if you hate it that much.
Your life must be really ****** if you got nothing better to do then watching a show you hate and trying to spoil it for those who enjoy it.
How in the world does Worthymagic’s comment spoil the series for you??? If you believe he/she is totally wrong, why should you whine about their comment? If you love the series, why does their opinion somehow ruin it for you? Do you let other people’s opinions decide everything in your life. Worthymagic has as much right to express their dislike for this series as you do in expressing your love in for it. This is not a DARK MATTER FAN PAGE!! It is a page about which series will be renewed or cancelled and solicits peoples opinions on the ratings…… Read more »
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension, because if it was adequate you would have realized I never said he DID spoil it for me. I said he was TRYING to spoil it for the people who enjoy the show, and that was really all he was doing. His post is in no way constructive or even critizing, it’s just hating on the show and schadenfreude about his perception of the shows ratings tanking. Wishing something gets canceled is really only trying to p*ss the people off that like it or sheer malice against the show runners, because nobody… Read more »
Nothing wrong with my comprehension… ruining the viewing pleasure for this series was clearly your concern. Whether it has happened yet or not is just a matter of time and according to you…it would be due to his / her comments. So your gripe is with what he is “trying” to do. And yet you say he cannot succeed at that in any way. But you’re concerned about him spoiling it for someone else??? (You seem a bit confused) How does that work? Are the rest of the fans just as fickle? Do they read a negative comment and go… Read more »
It’s interesting how you seem to know better than myself what my thoughts and intentions where when posting, can I borrow that crystal ball from you? I never said he couldn’t succeed in any way, I said he can’t for me, but he sure can for other people, and that is what bothers me, at least you got that right. This and that the sole point of his post was to obviously do that. It serves no purpose at all than to spew hate and negativity on the show. There is no opinion voiced there but that he hates Scify… Read more »
Hahaha, you ask to borrow my crystal ball because I don’t know what you’re thinking, and then claim that you know exactly what Worthymagic is thinking and that he’s not interested in constructive criticism, so you won’t ask him. I guess your crystal ball is more accurate than mine….lol. Here’s a little insight into how murky your crystal ball is. He, if it is a he, never once said he hates scifi, at any point, or can’t you read or comprehend what he wrote?. He also never said he hates this show, he called it garbage and once the ratings… Read more »
The nature of his mutliple comments here makes his intentions clear. You on the other hands are trying to twist the words in my mouth. Completely different thing. He never said he hates Syfy, never expresing he was disappointed with them? Quote:”I hope Syfy realizes what a piece of garbage they have become” Yeah sure, he never did those things.. But we already determined your reading comprehension isn’t the best, so this is to be expected I guess. I have no problem at all with people expressing why they dislike the show. As a matter of fact there are multiple… Read more »
You obviously either don’t comprehend proper english. Or you choose to cut off the sentence to suit your opinion, and be deceptive. The…” they’ve”… He’s talking about… being garbage… is clearly Dark Matters and not SyFy because he immediately says… “and cancel it…referring to what he claims is garbage. You can’t cancel syfy…or don’t you understand that. You leave out that part because you’re so twisted up with hate, and personally offended that you can’t read what he wrote. Now you’re attacking his character and becoming vulgar insinuating your own hatred unto what you claim he’s…” basically”….saying, which he didn’t…… Read more »
“they have become” plural, the people at Syfy, “cancel it” singular, the show. I am not a native speaker and still I seem to have a better grasp of English than you do. If he meant dark matter the sentence would have been: “I hope SYFY realizes what a piece of garbage IT HAS become and cancel it”. Sure, I am connected to the show, even though I live on the complete opposite of the world. Your “arguments” get more laughable and far fetched with every comment you make, so there is really no point in continuing this. I made… Read more »
You obviously aren’t a native speaker since you don’t understand that him saying “they”, still refers to the series, and not SyFy. You were… Done… As soon as you chose to attack an individual over expressing their opinion, when they never directed their comment towards you. That’s not what this page is about. Then admitting your hatred for him and that you attacked him using vulgarity and insinuating comments you are imagining they are saying, when they aren’t, says an awful lot more about the kind of person you are, and it’s pretty insecure and ugly. And as far as… Read more »
I’m a little disappointed the dislikes weren’t higher. It does though verify the massive insecurity of the fans for this series. If they were confident the show was fantastic and would be renewed for many seasons, they wouldn’t care what any individual says, especially if the ratings supported their view. The fact that the ratings show the series is in trouble (unless it picks up) this show will be cancelled and all the whining these fans can do, or the amount of …”dislikes”… they post aren’t gonna change that. Their response merely confirms that they too are worried about the… Read more »
Mathematics 1: 0.12(for the season) * 87(countries) = 10.44
Mathematics 2: 0.696(for first 5 episode) * 87(countries)= 60.552
Hahaha…that’s hilarious! That’s not how networks measure the ratings. If the ratings are too low in any other country, those advertisers won’t support the programming either, based on the ratings in that country. It isn’t cumulative. Or do you just like making up stuff?