PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING TIME CHANGES FOR SYFY’S LINEUP ON THURSDAY NIGHTS BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
HAVEN
Season 5 of Haven will now air Thursdays at 8 PM ET/PT.
SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA
Episodes of Spartacus: Gods of the Arena will now air Thursdays at 9 PM and 10 PM ET/PT.
HAVEN
Season 5 of Haven will now air Thursdays at 8 PM ET/PT.
SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA
Episodes of Spartacus: Gods of the Arena will now air Thursdays at 9 PM and 10 PM ET/PT.
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well...this sounds less like a final season move and more like syfy being willing to push the show further.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Bang Theory, The Vampire Diaries, Bones, Grey's Anatomy in same timeslot? It's final season for Haven...
ReplyDeleteSince i never cared about it what show they had last season up to the 8/7 timeslot on syfy?
ReplyDeleteI mean Haven early October will go against shows far more popular social media wise , established but again the majority of these shows can affect the ratings for the show? Haven doesn't have a lot of fans inside their core viewership that spread to them. I would be more worried if Haven was going against Supernatural . But losing the WWE as lead in can affect.
Syfy need to sort out what they want for the show.U wanna kill it? Because it looks that way.Unless they move the show back on 10pm after Spartacus is over . Bold move that has nothing to do with Syfy trying to show faith on the show. Spartacus is a very bold show to be on in a 8/7 timeslot.Simple.
TBBT is moving back to Monday.
ReplyDeleteThe average ratngs for season 3 and 4 look the same, but moving to this timslot is clearly a way to get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteUp against GA? Really, SyFy? What the hell.
ReplyDeleteThe only show that seriously steps into Havens genre is Vampire Diaries and I would heavily doubt that any of Havens audience is currently going to go for TVD.
ReplyDeleteGiven that syfy is a genre channel it mostly matters what genre show battles their shows in those nights and given that TBBT is now on mondays, Bones doesen't really attract the same audience and Grey's certainly doesen't I'm fairly convinced that the viewing figures won't change for the worse
Why does it matter?
ReplyDeleteGrey's Anatomy is not a show that fights Haven for its audience given the drastically different genres
Moving it a week before its premiere date is still a pretty bad move. I'm worried now.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this . Not many tvd fans watch the show neither attracts viewers from the rest. If it was up against Supernatural i would declare this last season.
ReplyDeleteThe move remains bad.
ReplyDeleteLess than week before the premiere,also note their schedule on October according their site has the show up to 10pm. So maybe they pull it back ?
In Semptember and October. Then is TBBT in Thursday.
ReplyDeleteAs a loyal Haven watcher this move stinks - especially the week before the S5 premiere. Everything I've read says S5 is the last season and Syfy plans on a divided 'final season of 26 episodes'. Whether or not SyFy airs all 26 episodes is the question... maybe SyFy plans to cut the episode order. Fortunately SyFy re-airs their new episodes at least 2X
ReplyDeleteThere're only a few shows that really attract the same audience and luckily most of these shows aired on syfy (Warehouse 13, Eureka) or are already cancelled (Lost, Torchwood).
ReplyDeleteThe only current shows I'd consider serious genre competition are Agents of SHIELD, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow or Grimm. Mystery procedurals like Haven are a pretty rare breed these days and given syfys audience being generally genre savy and not a casual viewer audience I wouldn't be too worried.
I agree that such a badly timed move is a bad decision but bear in mind: Haven (or any syfy show for that matter) doesen't attract the classic "huh, wonder what's on tv tonight, I'll zap through it" audience. These people get stuck on NBC, FOX or ABC.
ReplyDeleteThis show appeals to a genre savy audience that knows its start dates.
Spartacus is so heavily edited it doesn't even really matter lol
ReplyDeleteI really really adore Haven but everyone freaking out that it might be the last season has me a little confused. I feel like the storyline has progressed enough where all they even need is 26 more episodes or so, which they are getting, and I would love to see the show end while it's still dear in my heart rather than something to simply pass the time (*coughSupernaturalcough*) and with Audrey being Mara again, I feel like the show is ready for it's final chapter and I'm more happy about this most likely being the end than anything.
ReplyDeleteAnd I generally buy the season pass on Google Play so the timeslot doesn't matter much to me but I hope it does okay.
This is in fact final season for Haven Syfy hasn't announced it yet but they will air 11 episodes this yr and then announce the other 11 as final season of Haven.
ReplyDeleteWhy worry for the fate of Haven when we all know this is the final batch of 22 episodes. They will break these two batches into S5 and S6 thus making S6 final season of Haven.
ReplyDeleteActually it is final season bc no show on Syfy goes beyond 6 lol. The fact they ordered 26 episodes for the span of two yrs clearly tells its the end. I'm betting when rookie blue comes back next yr CTV will announce it as a final season lol.
ReplyDeleteyou can't call something a fact if it's strictly based on your imagination
ReplyDeleteI do wonder why Syfy insists on ending their more popular shows after 4-6 seasons. I've noticed that too.
ReplyDeleteUm it's not my imagination but a mere fact that Syfy never allow shows to be produce beyond the 6 seasons.
ReplyDeleteDo your research on Syfy.
I don't need to do any research, if a show performs more than solid and is profitable for a channel it will be renewed eventually.
ReplyDeleteIn case Haven manages to pull in a 0.2-0.4 you may be onto something. If it gets constant 0.5-0.6 rating the show will live.
It's actually 2-6 seasons lol Alphas never made it to the 3rd yr and Sanctuary never saw the 4 yr lol. What's even more lame is that all the show's are filmed in Canada and i always assumed it's cheap to film there.
ReplyDeleteArrow.The Flash.SPN.Smallville.Rush.Rookie Blue.Continuum.The Strain.Fargo. all these shows filmed there and still are.
Ratings isn't the only reason. The fact is that the longer a show is on the air the more $$$ the networks have to pump into the show to keep it going. CGI is never cheap and cost more $$$ then the actually sets themselves.
ReplyDeleteSyfy only goes 4 or 6 seasons with there shows so i think this will be the last season :(. I did hear some good news that they may air the second 13 episodes in the summer instead of waiting for fall .
ReplyDeleteIt's no one's imagination.
ReplyDeleteCheck this TVLine headline dated Jan 28, 2014 - "Haven renewed for Supersized S5" and the same day the main Haven cast ('Audrey', Duke, 'Nathan) tweeted the same details. 13 episodes each for Fall 2014 and 13 in 2015. Multiple sources picked up the 'Haven News' including the TV ratings site, Zap2it's 'tv by the numbers'.
Whether or not the time will have any impact on the S5 order of 26 episodes is unknown but the cast has been hard at work filming S5; Haven is one of the shows that couldn't make time for the cast to attend SDCC 2014 because of it's heavy filming schedule.
that was never the point, it IS Boris' imagination that it's written in stone that this is the final season
ReplyDeleteWell we all know Syfy ,even the cast is aware of the "end" scenario so far the writers leave a small window open.
ReplyDeleteIt's in the nature of a fan to hope for more. I was sad when they announced the ending of Fringe but i was okay they announced it early before s4 was over. So i hope Syfy at least informs the writing/showrunners team to not hope and wrap properly the show with a proper ending and not an open ending in case the network goes beyond.
Haven is one of my favorite SyFy shows of all time, but I'm also fine with this being the final season. I'm at the point where I'd like the writers to start giving us some real answers regarding what the hell is going on (and something less esoteric than "Audrey's love ends the troubles"!) and if it continues for another few seasons, that will not happen.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. In fact it may be my top favorite. I love the small town feel, all the characters are excellent and fun to watch, the plots are a bit cheesy yet the writing and acting are good enough that it keeps it from being overbearingly campy. Not to mention the locales are absolutely gorgeous, I think this may visually be one of the most beautiful shows to look at. (I think I'm definitely retiring to Nova Scotia later in life.) But despite all that my original statements still stand, I'd love this show to go out while it's strong.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm correct, originally it was supposed to be a close-ended one season show for ABC (similar to Kingdom Hospital) but when Syfy took over and wanted an ongoing series, the writers just took the big plot points and spread them out. If that's true then 70+ episodes is enough IMO. :)
Hopefully as early as April or May. :/
ReplyDeleteI believe one of the tv sites said S5 would be the final season but I don't have time to look more thoroughly. I loved Eureka, too, and was very excited at the 'rumor' that Eureka would get a shortened S6 of 6 episodes but Eureka never officially got them and S5 was it although it seemed like the cast/writers were planning on a short renewal. Syfy is now totally owned by Comcast and Comcast was the entity that put the breaks on S6 Eureka not anyone associated with either the show or the network.
ReplyDeleteSyfy scripted (ot unscripted) shows don't normally have 26 episode seasons and the probably substantiated 'buzz' is that SyFy/Haven PTBs knew that Comcast wouldn't allow an official 'S6' of 13 episodes (that is, S5 13 episodes 2014/ S6 13 episodes 2015) so 'they' supersized S5 instead. Doing Haven S5 'this way' probably saves cast contract increases for 'S6' at least.
No Syfy scripted show that I can think of has gone beyond '5 seasons' since Stargate SG1 and that was back before the network changed to SyFy. Even Stargate Atlantis was ended abruptly after 5 seasons with at least a few started, future 'arcs' unfinished.
What my primary point was - is the show going to get its 'back 13' in 2015 or have the writers been instructed to write an earlier conclusion?
I think maybe Syfy has a case of setting standards for their shows from the past. They want their shows to get the ratings that they used to get but the network in general is just not getting as much attention as it used to.
ReplyDeleteThe viewers are just not there to make any of their shows big hits except on the rare occasion. So now they're canceling decent shows early in the odds that they get a show that gets above a 0.5 rating after its first season. (That and maybe because costs to pay actors go up with more seasons?)
Though they do really seem to like to hang onto shows that aired in Canada first (even though some of them seem to get the poorest ratings even for Syfy). I guess they do it because they didn't make the show/only pay for use of the episodes and to fill in schedule gaps?