When it comes to scripted TV shows, Syfy has had both hits and flops. Which of the current series will be cancelled or renewed for another season?
Syfy execs consider a lot of data when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series, but ratings are a major factor.
Scripted Syfy Network shows listed: 12 Monkeys, Aftermath, The Ark, Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Bitten, Blood Drive, Channel Zero, Childhood’s End, Chucky, Continuum, Dark Matter, Day of the Dead, Deadly Class, Defiance, Dominion, The Expanse, Ghost Wars, Happy!, Haven, Helix, Hunters, Incorporated, Killjoys, Krypton, Lost Girl, The Magicians, Nightflyers, Olympus, Reginald the Vampire, Resident Alien, Superstition, SurrealEstate, Vagrant Queen, Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and Z Nation.
Last updated: Most recent ratings added for The Ark.
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A couple of notes about these charts:
These figures are updated automatically as new ratings are released (usually a day or so after the broadcasts). The averages are based on the final national numbers (live plus same day viewing). For technical reasons, I have to resort them manually so feel free to let me know if I missed something.
The demo numbers, which are typically most important to the broadcast networks, aren’t quite as vital to cable channels because their audiences are usually much smaller. Demo numbers are typically reported using the 10ths decimal place (2.4, for example). In the averages, I’m using an extra decimal for easier ranking.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the ratings? Which shows should be doing better? Which one do you think will be cancelled next?
The problem with most of the channels on TV now is they are run by morons in suits with no real love for what they are churning out or the fans that watch them. Ratings will continually fall on most channels as most people are so bored of the crap they have to endure to get to anything good they would rather download their programmes in full seasons and not have to watch long boring breaks for adverts. Stop ruining television before you lose your viewers completely. Stop deciding for us what’s good and choose by asking the viewing public… Read more »
Even by cable standards these ratings are very low but I’d love for The Syfy Channel to turn things around somehow. I’m a fan of Wynonna Earp, 12 Monkeys and yes even Z Nation. I’ve accepted the harsh fact that each season is not promised and try to just enjoy each show for however long they’ll be on the air.
Time will tell what happens next but at least I now have an idea of where each show stands. If all three are canceled I just hope the writers ends each finale satisfying to the viewers.
I really upset that Ghost Hunters end one season left over for good been on forever couldn’t believe it lasted 11 season this is it for show so good for generations think still ghost out there proof of experience professional people learning how handle it really will be truly miss show best childhood show love coming to end.
Somebody just pointed out to me how pathetic the ratings are on shows on SYFY. How can 12 Monkeys be doing that awful? Wynonna Earp at a 0.14? Hunters at a 0.09? if Netfliix is willing to buy any of them, let them go. People actually think ratings like these are acceptable? SYFY used to be a first class station. What the heck happened? Sounds like there needs to be a large turnover of employees here. What a disgrace.
I can’t believe how many good shows get cancelled and yet useless ones keep getting renewed. 12 Monkeys, Defiance, (other network) Forever,etc. Are Great shows that like one reader put it ” writers go outside the box “. And stupid shows like housewives, keeping up, bachelor, other reality shows continues for many seasons and some are still going on.
SYFY has pretty much always sucked as a station. They cancel the good shows and fill their air time with crap that is cheap to produce, predictable and cut and paste writing. Look at the stuff netflix, Amazon, and others are coming up with and it makes this station pale in quality.
I hope Netflix buys 12 Monkeys and Hunters. If SyFy Universal managers are idiots and just cancel their best shows. Netflix ones could be clever and buy top-notch shows that people are willing to pay for.
Studios/networks managers mafia .. what a shame they are! No law for them. All the ratings are fake and tampered with.
Now they want to cancel the top-notch sci-fi show 12 Monkeys too!
And the tv show Hunters gets very good as the story goes on episode by episode.. they want to cancel it clearly.
Expensive shows with an high production value get canceled by the managers mafia.
These managers must be put in jail along with bankers that is where they belong!
Never trust the fake ratings!
These ratings aren’t fake. They are ABYSMAL, GROSS. and TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. How did the quality of SYFY tank this horribly? Wynonna Earp isn’t even averaging 600,000 viewers. You don’t think Hunters with a 0.09 average should be cancelled? Static(or snow) is 0.00. These aren’t fake ratings. They’re ratings that say Nobody cares.
You look at 99% of scripted shows on the neilsen ratings, they are down 40-60% year to year. People are watching shows different ways, these ratings are old and partially invalid on how the viewing public watches scripted shows.
OH MY GOSH-SAW THE LOW #’S FOR MY TWO BEST SHOWS. I DONT THEY ARE GONNA MAKE IT-12 MONKEYS AND HUNTERS. PLEASE DONT CXL THESE 2 SHOWS. PLEASE
Syfy is not a humanitarian organization. The number of viewers and the price of production – decides whether to renew or not. (TV show or series)
Thank you for writing the truth. I couldn’t believe how pathetic some of these ratings were until someone forced me to look. I like 12 Monkeys, but a 0.11? that’s nuts. I hope they give it a good ending unless Netflix wants to buy it.
I WILL NO LONGER INVEST ANY TIME ON SYFY CHANNEL. Cancel a great program that we invdzted 3 seasons on ( DEFIENCE ) but keep a campy Walking Dead rip off like Z nation just makes meshake y head in awe. The very east Syfy could and should do is give us some closure eiyh a syfy movie finishing the show. You make trash like sharknado s but ignore great Sci Fi.CHANGE YOUR STATION ID FROM SYFY TO JOKE cause thats what your station is. Good bye sygy0
12 monkeys is up there with orphan black and game of thrones. Syfy, plz do not let this one go. It will b a huge mistake to cancel it. Some shows dont get their deserved attention at first, but this one WILL and should b given the chance to do so. Dont cancel 12 monkeys. Ur show has many fans.
scy fy cancelled two of their biggest rated shows! defiance and dominion. I hope they don’t give up on ‘hunters’ and ’12 monkeys’ , that would be shame, they are bogus by not formally cancelling olympus though. what the heck are they doing? wynona earp is fun too. scy fy, hopefully will give these shows a chance, 12 monkeys is the best sci fi show on tv. and it’s not over the top like helix became. which killed it off. still I have yet to see a bad scy fiy show. even olympus was fun. is it cancelled? tell us!… Read more »
For me, Olympus is much better than the 12 monkeys.
Hoping for 12 monkey’s season 3…writers are thinking outside of the box…definatley a one of its own post-appocolyptic show.!!
Hope SyFy learns how to end a show and not just canceling it. Defiance had a very good following but they decided to cancel it. Yet other shows that have a worse following they keep on. You can bet I will not get vested in any SyFy series again.
I completely stopped watching SYFY after SG1, SGA, and SGU left the air. Yes, Farscape was another tragic decision. I started back because Dark Matter was appealing and I find Hunters interesting. This is the channel that brought Sharknado so my expectations of writing/quality are a little low for them. They just don’t care about the fans of any show at all and I’m more likely to not try new shows because they just pull them. If CW can make decent shows how can Syfy not do better?
The CW doesn’t have shows with ratings this pathetic. Whose fault is this? Is there no advertising or promotion being done? Shows with ratings below a 0.14? Wynonna Earp averages a 0.14. Where are the viewers? Sounds like a lot of people need to be fired from SYFY. The inmates are running the asylum.
it looks like they are canning Hunters-which I like-because it’s not on until midnight now. LOVE 12 Monkeys and miss Defiance
I am so mad as I loved Defiance and Dominion ! Seriously you can take Z Nation which is a joke off !