Warehouse 13 is an American fantasy television series that premiered on July 7, 2009 on the Syfy network.
Executive-produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins, the dramatic comedy from Universal Media Studios has been described as borrowing much from 1980s television series Friday the 13th: The Series, and as "part The X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting." Syfy President Dave Howe has suggested that it was derived from a 2006 miniseries The Lost Room. The series premiere was Syfy's third largest debut to date, garnering 3.5 million viewers. It also has a near 50% female viewership. The first six episodes were all among the top 10 highest rated series episodes on Syfy. Episode 6, "Burnout", drew 4.4 million viewers, setting the record for Syfy's highest rated show. The second season of Warehouse 13 began July 6, 2010. On October 5, 2010, Warehouse 13 was renewed for a third season of 13 episodes that premiered on July 11, 2011.

The series follows United States Secret Service Agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly), Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and ATF agent Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) when they are assigned to the government's secret Warehouse 13, which houses supernatural "artifacts". It is located in a barren landscape in South Dakota, and they initially regard the assignment as punishment. As they go about their assignments to retrieve missing Warehouse 13 artifacts and investigate reports of new ones, they come to understand the importance of what they are doing.

 

First weeks ratings

Syfy Channel’s returning dramas gained a little ground in the ratings last Monday night, but newcomer Alphas shed some viewers. Here are the numbers for Syfy’s original dramas for the second week of the summer season.
In its second week Eureka gained 7 percent, up to 2.162 million viewers (Live + Same Day).
Warehouse 13 won the night with an impressive 2.457 million viewers for its second episode of Season Three. This is a 5 percent improvement over the July 11 premiere).
Finally, Alphas capped off the night with 2.225 million live viewers — still strong, despite a drop of about 12 percent from the series premiere.
In its season premiere at the end of Week 1, Haven picked up 1.884 million viewers. (WWE drew 2.552 million that night as Haven‘s lead-in.) This is the show’s best performance since mid-season last summer, and 11 percent better than the first season finale.
UPDATE: In its second week Haven slipped slightly to 1.837 million (down 2 percent), but held steady with a 0.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic.

Dont miss Eureka and Warehouse 13 at 8 and 9pm Eastern Time on Monday Nights on SyFy Channel.

 

Syfy’s new Monday line-up scores over 2 million viewers

Syfy Channel launched its brand new line of Monday night original dramas this week, drawing an average of more than 2 million viewers over three hours and growing its audience hour-to-hour.
New superhero drama Alphas premiered at the top of the pack, ratings-wise, while Eureka and Warehouse 13 returned with strong numbers — despite some year-to-year erosion.
Eureka began the night with the start of the back half of its fourth season, picking up an estimated 2.02 million viewers (Live + Same Day) in the 8 p.m. time slot and a 1.5 average household rating, according to Syfy. (Check out our sister site, SciFi Stream, for a full set of interviews with the Eureka cast!)
The series has already been renewed and is currently filming its fifth season in Vancouver.
At 9 p.m. Warehouse 13 returned for its third season, with 2.34 million viewers and a 1.74 rating.
Syfy capped off the night with the premiere of Alphas at 10 p.m., averaging 2.52 million viewers (a 1.84 rating) for its 90-minute premiere. That’s the strongest original series premiere Syfy has had since Warehouse 13 bowed in 2009. (Not coincidentally, it’s also the first original, scripted drama since then to premiere in the summertime.)
But the move to Monday wasn’t all flowers and candy for the two returning shows. Eureka‘s premiere was down 10 percent from last summer’s finale, and 20 percent from the season premiere last July (Fridays). Warehouse 13 dipped 2.5 percent from September’s Season Two finale, and 21 percent from last July’s premiere (Tuesdays).
The new Monday night line-up is the first time (that we can remember) since the Friday night line-up of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica that the cable network has stacked three original, scripted dramas on the same night, which surely helps retain audience members from one hour to the next. Syfy’s strategy in recent years has been to spread out its original programming to cover more nights of the week.
The big premiere numbers demonstrates not just viewers’ love for these shows, but further proves that Syfy’s original dramas perform markedly better during the less competitive summer season — especially when they aren’t airing on Friday nights.
Later this week, Syfy will premiere unscripted originals Ghost Hunters and Legend Quest (series premiere) on Wednesday, followed by the second season premiere of scripted Haven on Friday. Since that show enjoys the post-wrestling time slot, we’ll be very interested to compare Haven‘s ratings with the new Monday night block next week.

 

Syfy prepping Warehouse 13 spin-off

Syfy Channel is developing a spin-off of its highest rated original drama, Warehouse 13, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
The series will follow the 1890s adventures of H.G. Wells, a recurring character in the show’s second season played by Jaime Murray.
“While it is still in the early stages and thus subject to change, the idea is to put Wells in a 1890s steampunk environment,” the site reports. “Despite Warehouse 12′s efforts to recruit her, she would remain a free agent who uses her knowledge of contemporary science to solve murders and other mysteries.
“In this incarnation, she would enlist the help of a mechanical engineer and utilize her relationship with the police commissioner to solve what appear to be unsolvable cases. Both the skills and style she employs will become the framework for the well-known stories of H.G. Wells, as written by her brother.”
The project is being developed by Warehouse 13 showrunner Jack Kenny and another writer. Warehouse 13 averaged 3.4 million viewers last summer (which would include DVR-delayed viewing), according to the Reporter.
Also on Syfy’s development slate in the scripted drama category is Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (which is currently producing a pilot for the network and hasn’t been greenlit to series yet), and Alphas, which premieres its first season on Mondays this July.
Warehouse 13 returns with its third season on July 11.

 

Syfy renews Warehouse 13 for Season Four

Syfy’s current flagship series Warehouse 13 has officially gotten its pick-up for a fourth season, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Season Four will air next summer, and will be comprised of 13 episodes.
With an average viewership of 2.3 million viewers on Monday nights, Warehouse is the cable channel’s highest-rated original scripted drama, besting both its lead-in Eureka and its lead-out, newcomer Alphas. With DVR-delayed viewership accounted for, EW reports that the series has been averaging 3.2 million viewers so far this season.
While Eureka‘s viewership erosion likely contributed to its cancellation earlier this week, Warehouse 13 has improved 15 percent (for the first couple of episodes this season) in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.
“Under executive producer Jack Kenny’s leadership, this superlative team of writers, cast, and crew continue to turn out a series that only gets better and better with every episode,” Syfy president of original content Mark Stern said. “Warehouse 13 is deservedly the most popular series in our history and we’re delighted to renew it for a fourth season.”
The network also announced earlier this year that they’re hoping for a spin-off of the show, focusing on the character of H.G. Wells (story).
It’s the third original scripted drama that Syfy has renewed since the start of the 2010-2011 broadcast season, bringing its success record this year to 50 percent:
Caprica (cancelled after one season)
Stargate Universe (cancelled after two seasons)
Sanctuary (renewed for fourth season)
Being Human (renewed for second season)
Eureka (cancelled after five seasons – concludes 2012)
Warehouse 13 (renewed for fourth season)
Haven and Alphas are the only shows still without a decision, though with its new-show smell and nearly 2.2 million viewers, renewal for Alphas seems likely. (Other scripted dramas on the network, such as Merlin, are acquired from other countries — so their futures are not contingent on receiving a pick-up from Syfy Channel.)
Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti. New Season Three episodes continue every Monday at 9/8c on Syfy.

 

Never seen it but it does sound like an interesting show .

Will have to check it out .

 

Eureka cancelled, Warehouse renewed … What is Syfy doing?

This week the Internet has been abuzz over Syfy Channel’s surprise news that it will end Eureka next summer, after five seasons. (Season 4.5 is currently airing; 13 episodes for Season Five are nearing completion.) Warehouse 13, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season.
Eureka‘s ratings are good, at over 2 million viewers (Live + Same Day) Mondays at 8 p.m. But costs tend to rise the older a show gets. And since revenue is tied to ratings (viz. the ad rates the network can charge), the profit margin shrinks from both sides. Syfy cited this as the reason for ending Eureka (which reps suggested was a decision ultimately forced upon them by Comcast, now majority owner of parent company NBC Universal).
As we saw a week ago, Syfy was thinking about a limited, 6-episode sixth season to wrap up the show … but even that idea fell by the wayside. After fan backlash at the cancellation, however, they did give the writers one additional episode for Season Five to give the show a proper conclusion.
Warehouse 13, by contrast, continues to be Syfy’s highest rated original scripted drama with 2.3 million on Monday nights and 3.2 million after DVR viewing is factored in. The series has even increased its share of adults 18 to 49, up 15 percent for the first two episodes of the current season.
There’s no word on Alphas or Haven, yet. Alphas is off to a solid start on Monday nights, averaging just under 2.2 million as Warehouse‘s lead-out. Haven is closer to 1.8 million, which may be lower than Syfy is hoping for in the post-WWE time slot on Friday nights.
I don’t follow either Eureka or Warehouse very closely, myself, so I’m not sure what to say. The Warehouse pick-up is obviously a no-brainer. It’s the biggest show the network has ever had, precisely because no other show has been able to capture as much mass appeal. Middle-aged viewers generally have no problem leaping from NCIS to Warehouse 13 — it’s a police procedural with appealing characters, some light-hearted banter, and only a little sci-fi element for which to suspend disbelief.
Eureka‘s cancellation is a surprise, though. Obviously Syfy (and/or Comcast) thinks they can do better with another show — younger shows, if you can launch them strongly and keep them close to 2.5 million weekly viewers, are just more profitable. But when it comes to television fandom — especially in our genre — the profitability calculation can’t be the only factor. It may, at the end of the day, have to be the decisive factor — but networks have to take into account the loyalty relationship it’s established with its viewers. Fans invest themselves in these characters and stories, so when a series like Eureka is still doing well in the ratings and still making money (if not as much), it should be given the benefit of the doubt.
Warehouse 13 will live to see another season, with a pick-up for Season Four this week.

Syfy and Comcast would have been much better off giving a long-lead warning to the show’s producers and fans. Even with a shortened order for Season Six, this means that everyone would have had two years to deal with and plan for the show’s conclusion. Instead they yanked the rug out from underneath both the producers and the viewers when they simply did not have to.
Over at GateWorld we see a huge number of fans of Stargate (and other shows on the cable channel) that are furious because their shows are getting axed without such warning. The result is that they swear off the network as incapable of dealing sensitively with their fandom and their favorite shows — so they refuse to watch newcomers, like Alphas. After cancelling Caprica, Stargate Universe, and now Eureka within less than a year, Syfy has given itself a huge image problem among hardcore science fiction viewers.
In some cases, like Caprica, it’s hard to avoid the way cancellation plays out. It’s an expensive show with low numbers, and the studio’s contracts with the cast was nearing expiration. Syfy needed a decision, and those October 2010 numbers streamed “cancel me.” For other series, like Eureka, the decision is more uncertain. My point is that the network is shooting itself in the foot — heaping fuel upon its image problem — by not giving these shows and their fans the benefit of the doubt.
Everyone knows that their favorite shows must come to an end sometime. The only satisfying ending is one that is expected, one that is led up to and written by the writers and they intended it. Cancellation without warning makes this impossible, and it betrays the viewer’s investment. Of course, such warning isn’t always possible — whether it’s because of the cost of production or low, low ratings, some shows can’t justify the order of additional episodes. But then there are some — like Eureka — that can stay afloat long enough to finish telling its story.
And it’s Syfy’s responsibility to recognize that that’s the case, and make sure it happens … even if it means making a little less money from that show next year.

 

Hey hornyguy ............ can you give us a little info on the show . What's it about .

 

well if you are talking about Warehouse 13 it is the very first one on this thread to tell you what the show is about

 

decent theme but after a few shows the writing kinda sucked...lost interest

would have worked better as a movie with about 2 sequels

 

I loved the concept of the film and linking the famous people in history to different (and sometimes creepy) artifacts..... but.... its so American. The actors are pretty expressionless and one dimensional.

I think its something you watch for the storyline rather than the acting

 

The writing was lacking and two of the four primary characters were pretty lame. Arty and Claudia were entertaining but the two Secret Service agents were as interesting as watching paint dry. The concept was great but the writing realy killed the show in my oppinion.

 

i thought it was pretty horrible, but that's just me

 

What did you guys think of the season finale of Warehouse 13? the show will be coming back next year though. that might be July though. there will be a christmas specail like they did last year in December.

 

Personally I love the show. I love how the show ended, but I HATE that they killed Jinks. We'll see what happens in July.

IMO Alphas needs to be cancelled. The show is dry, the plots predictable, and the characters unimaginable. I stopped after 2 episodes.

 

I tried to watch the show but it seems too corny and lame to me...horrible acting...the story could be interesting but its been strained and rinsed so far it came out rather flimsy. It was good idea but horrible production. I actually liked the sanctuary better. Its another syfy show

 

Christmas Episode

If you haven't seen Warehouse 13 before then check it out now on the SyFy Channel. the new season of Warehouse 13 is Summer of 2012.