Warehouse 13 and Eureka Syfy's two most popular shows
The first season of Warehouse 13 has run its course and the third season of Eureka has also wrapped up, completing the latest run on what have become the two most popular series on Syfy.
It seems Syfy’s odd approach of restricting their promotion of both series paid off. Whilst most networks allow promotional trailers of their shows to appear on video networks including YouTube, trailers for Warehouse 13 and Eureka were not made available by any source other than Syfy’s own video site, with each promo being immediately removed once broadcast. Syfy’s decision made it difficult for bloggers to promote the shows, but clearly that didn’t impact ratings.
Eureka’s third season was its most popular yet, averaging 3.2 million viewers every week. Nine episodes of its latest season now sit in the list of the ten most watched episodes of Eureka ever.
Warehouse 13 stole some of Eureka’s glory by becoming the most popular series ever to air on Syfy in its 17 year history. It’s first season averaged 4 million viewers an episode whilst it’s season finale was the #1 cable program in its 9PM (ET/PT) timeslot.
Both show’s will return next year with all new episodes.
Music composers Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica) and Nathan Barr (True Blood) will be signing CD’s this Sunday, September 13th, at 1pm at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.
McCreary will be signing CD’s from Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Eureka, Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
In the next episode of Eureka, 3.13 “If You Build It…”, a mysterious Stonehenge-like structure of stolen scrap and electronics appears in a field. Carter discovers that Eureka’s teenagers are the architects, somehow being directed to build the structure whilst they sleep…and it appears the origin of the control is the signal from space…
In the next episode of Eureka, 3.12 “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, rivals from Area 51 visit Eureka for a bowling tournament whilst Carter probes an escalating series of pranks.
In Eureka’s second episode of the back half of season 3, Carter (Colin Ferguson) becomes isolated for a re-certification test and Deputy Lupo (Erica Cerra) becomes Acting Sheriff. But she is not acting at like her usual self, which may be good for Fargo…
Eureka S03E10 ‘Your Face or Mind’ airs on Syfy Friday July 17 8/9c.
Eureka star Salli Richardson-Whitfield (aka Allison) and series co-creator Jaime Paglia talk about the new episodes (the back half) of season 3…and a musical episode of Eureka:
Although fans are worried about the impact of its new Friday timeslot, at least the long wait is almost over for the return of Eureka when next week the remaining half of season 3’s episodes will begin to air on the Sci Fi Channel. I mean the SyFy Channel.
The next episode will take off where the previous one left off and deal with the firing of Sheriff Carter (Colin Ferguson).
Spoiler ahead
Next week’s episode will introduce Carter’s replacement – a robot named Sheriff Andy. Sheriff Andy is a billion-dollar robot who takes over Carter’s job whilst Carter looks for a new one. Although Andy only lasts as Carter’s replacement for one episode the series co-creator and writer/producer Jaime Paglia likes him so much he wants him back.
“I would like to have Sheriff Andy make a return to the show,” Paglia said. “He very nearly [returns] in the season finale, but I would definitely say that, looking forward optimistically to season four, I think that he would be great to have come back, on at least some kind of recurring basis.”
Colin Ferguson with his new 'Eureka' love interest, Jaime Ray Newman
The good people at io9 have spoken with Eureka co-creator Jamie Paglia and star Colin Ferguson (aka Sheriff Carter) about what fans can expect from the new season and it seems the answer is “romance”.
Colin Ferguson: From an acting perspective, what’s really nice is about these episodes is that I have these emotional lines, mostly with Jordan, whether she is or isn’t going to go to college. Also there’s dealing with Salli (who plays Allison) in more of a friendship capacity than in a lover capacity, because she’s pregnant. I enjoyed that, and being able to dig deeper on the friendship angle of our relationship.
Jamie Paglia: We wanted to bring in a new love interest for Carter, and change the dynamic that we had traditionally [featured, which was] the two alpha males battling over the alpha female. We wanted to bring in a new character, with the actress Jamie Ray Newman who playing Tess Fontana — who has a history with Allison, they are old friends. But that gets a little tense, when she and Carter begin to develop a romantic connection. Which was really fun to play, and to give Carter a real honest love interest.
Colin Ferguson: Yeah it was a nice change of pace to be both receiving and giving of love with the character, than with the relationship I played with Salli, which is sort of unrequited and confused most of the time. It was nice.
Jamie Paglia: We wanted to bring in a romantic quality of the show…We wanted Fargo to get a girlfriend, which we’ve finally done. We wanted to step up the relationship with Jo and Zane and challenge it. Is it a short term thing, or is it something more? And also for Zoe and her boyfriend Marcus, who’s at an age now where they are talking about college and whether or not they are going to go to the same place. We got a chance to deepen those connections and relationships.
