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?
You know I’m up in age and I like buying the DVDs to these movies, I found season 1 Dominoin but season 2 and just found this site and all my favorite movies are cancelled !! Why ? I just don’t understand,they make money off DVD’s they need to put them back on and let people buy the movies !! Bring them back Dominion -Defiance or at least tell me where I can buy the Movies !!
They aren’t movies, they’re TV shows. Movies don’t have episodes. The reasons shows get cancelled vary. Sometimes it’s creative, sometimes the stars get other higher paying work, and sometimes the sponsors decide it’s not worth paying for another season when a new show will get twice the viewers or get the targeted viewers. After all, if you’re selling shampoo and all the people with hair stop watching and all that’s left is old bald guys, it kinda doesn’t matter how many of them would watch the DVD. That’s a reason for the production company to sell the series on DVD,… Read more »
I love Aftermath please renew this shoe. Yes you do have to suspend your perception of reality, but who cares. The show has an interesting story line. As a 71 year old sicfi fan I really like this show, and the RV in it. Ann Heache is easy to watch.
How many shows can SYFY keep renewing with live viewing averages below a 0.20? Especially with the likelihood that ALL of them will do worse next season?
I also like Aftermath. Great story line. Different!!!
Please renew for season 2!!!
Syfy really screwed the pooch when they cancelled Defiance, but I suspect it was their most expensive show to make. I enjoy Dark Matter and The Expanse which I think are the best of the shows in their lineup. I am watching Van Helsing and think it might turn the corner in a positive way. Aftermath is a show you have to suspend all reality in order to watch. Sometimes that is a good thing, and more often, not! One of the considerations for renewals for some of these series is that most of them are made in Canada, are… Read more »
Actually I don’t think it’s the currency difference. It’s the TAXES. Canada has lots of incentives and accommodations that make it friendly for producing TV shows and movies. It’s a bit like the reason there’s so few good movies that paint the US military in a poor light. If a show paints it positively the Air Force etc. will loan out jets and things as props basically for free, but if not then you’ve got to pay incredible amounts of cash to rent a jet or whatever.
The problem with these old style TV ratings is that their coveted 18-49 group are the most cord cutters, meaning most of their intended audience is not watching Syfy on cable TV!!! and yet Syfy refuses to stream their shows online, like CW is doing….I rather watch commercials than to subscribe to greedy cable TV companies. They need to start streaming shows online without cable subscriptions. I may even pay modest fees $2/mo) to watch their shows…the cable subscribers are the lowest educated and older people, that’s why **** shows like Z nation and Dominion and Olympus (and Helix season… Read more »
Seems like numbers looking better for Z Nation! Murphy bear <3
I had ScyFy’s season 3 of Dark Matter set to record. I got 2 on 9/19, then another on 9/16 but nothing has recorded since, I can’t find it in Directv ‘s search,there’s no news about a cancellation, it’s not on ScyFy’s show list; it’s like it disappeared into a black hole. What’s up with this show?
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The problem with throwing so much against the wall to see what sticks… lots doesn’t! Lots means bad reputation, and also hard feelings for those that have their show canceled. I, for one, have lost all my faith in SyFy (changing your name really did nothing to improve your schedules!). Why invest in anything they produce if it will never be completed? Do you know how many times they have done this to me? One too many… that’s how many. Simply don’t care anymore. Kinda like Microsoft to me (constant abandonment of it’s customers). You feel the same too, admit… Read more »
I don’t think they know who their customers are. Maybe the people who watch shows like Dark Matter don’t stay home on Friday nights. Maybe they like it with their grits and bacon. And in general, it is a niche channel. Just because you don’t sell as many Corvettes as you do Sierras, it doesn’t mean you have to stop selling Corvettes and switch to pickups only.
Why this one it was good
Why hunters that was a good one
y this channel still exist?? every show have a miserable rating
You noticed that too? Yet tons of these people continue to demand that shows with PATHETIC ratings should be renewed. Pretty sad, isn’t it?
They need better advertising. Better access i.e.: online streaming or via Netflix. Your constant berating of fellow viewers dminishes any valid point you may have.
You cancelled Hunters?!!!!!! If you have to cancel shows would you at least have a ending that finishes the story line. Why is the age bracket you use for your demo 18- 49 yrs. That age group would the people who watch TV the LEAST, have jobs, children and social lives. Why not older people who know what is a good show!!!!!
I agree 100%. I just fell out of that group as I just turned 50. Syfy keeps cancelling shows I like. Dominion, Defiance, and Hunters are 3 I loved. And yet shows like Olympus and znation are still on. I only watched znation once and the acting was worse than the b-rated movies syfy so loves to air. I’d rather watch reruns of Stargate and Stargate Atlantis than those stupid shows. Get a clue syfy as people above 50 watch more TV and have more money!!
I’m a little older than you and I would have FREAKED if they renewed Hunters. You can’t renew a show with a 0.08 average live rating when the absolute bottom is 0.00 SYFY just turned over their upper management recently, and the new people are putting out shows with Pathetic ratings that DROP(YES, DROP!) every season afterward. I’d love to have a job where continued FAILURE is acceptable. How about you?
Worthy, the show was in ito first season with some kind of wields shows. But it was telling the storyline. Not all shows come out as superstars so a 2nd season was needed. Defiance had much better ratings and was still cancelled. Dominion another show that ended without a real ending. First give a show a few seasons to catch on and 2nd don’t cancel shows without true endings. Thats my point. I mean Olympus I watched twice and that was stupid with horrible acting. Just give a show at least 2 seasons and if cancelling dont leave us hanging… Read more »
Z nation kicked butt!! Was a comedy. Acting was spot on. Loved this series and I seem to be picky with movies.. as for having more money then everyone.. that’s pure ignorance. As for tv.. who pays for cable when you can easily just buy the dvd… no commercials… being that as you stated we have to work and take care of our children.
Why does our vote not count but I’m sure the guy in his mom’s basement had a say in it
A-men!!!!
Why is there no information anywhere about Olympus. Is it cancelled or renewed? I have tryed to find the answer eberywhere. Anybody know?
Me too Nora.
International tv shows: Dark Matter and Killjoys Renewed for Season 3 !!!
syfy is shtacko for cancelling defiance ;^; just finished season3 and its in my top 3 best show ive ever watched and im not even into syfy stuff
*ps jaime is a goddess
I agree. I was so hoping it would be renewed along with Dominion. There is so much to watch that sometimes it takes some time for us to get to their shows.
Defiance is one of the best series i’ve ever watched. But i understood, it got cancelled, i mean, there was a ending to the story, not a “happy” one, but still a ending, renewing the show, would probably turn it into some of the many shows that changed almost everything, just to continue on air.
Of course, i would like to know what happened to nolan after the ending, but, in another serie, like, about nolan and irisa, a side story, without chances to ruin the original one.
Same, I loved Defiance, I’ve rewatched it all again recently and its still one of my favourites, I think we need more, even a spin off about Nolan in space or follow the town without him, either will do lol
Killjoys has the wrong link(Van Helsing link).The correct link is: http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/killjoys-season-two-ratings/
Thanks!