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UPDATE: Syfy’s programming chief Mark Stern issued the following statement: “Bruce Miller and Jaime Paglia have brought a creative vitality to Eureka that has kept it fresh and inventive. Although we do not have a commitment beyond six episodes for the sixth season, we are hopeful that this will not be the end of the franchise.” Note that the statement doesn’t say “the end of the series”. We will see…
EXCLUSIVE: SyFy’s Eureka will be coming to an end. I’ve learned that the cable network is close to ordering six more episodes, which will mark the end of the sci-fi series starring Collin Ferguson and Salli Richardson-Whitfield. SyFy is currently airing Season 4.5 of Eureka, while the show is filming the 13 episodes from Season 5. I hear filming is expected to wrap as planned at the end of the month, with the cast and crew coming back in October to shoot the final six episodes. Created by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia and produced by Universal Cable Prods, Eureka is set in the fictional town of Eureka, Ore., inhabited almost entirely by geniuses and scientists. The current Season 4.5 premiered last month with 2 million total viewers, 893,000 of them in the adults 18-49 category. As we reported earlier this week, SyFy also is poised to renew Warehouse 13.
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NOOOOOO!
this makes me sad I LOVE this show. 
I to am really sad to hear this and also eliminating a great show leaving very few TV series to watch.
That’s a real shame – creatively it’s never been better. Superb cast and the additions of Felicia Day and Will Wheaton have added a great sparkle.
Looks like I stopped watching Eureka at just the right time! Take the entire Eureka budget and put it into Alphas! w00t!
Alphas suck hard!
Totally… its bland and nothing special or different than any other “superhero/mutant” type show. I only watch it cause there is nothing else to watch anymore thanks to Syfy… I really wonder why so many people like it.
I love Eureka, but the show’s getting a little long in the tooth. 5 years is a good run for any sci-fi show, and at least they’re getting the chance to wrap it up in a way that will be satisfying to the fans (like myself).
I have to agree, I really love this show but what would be the final (what 5.5?) episodes, maybe its time. This 4.5 has not gotten me as totally involved as I have been on all the other ‘seasons’
So sad!! This is my favorite show on Syfy by far. Alphas and Being Human are dull. Warehouse 13 is juvenile (sort of like when your dad makes lame jokes and you’re just embarrassed rather than amused).
Eureka is the only show with the right mix of scifi and humor. It’s just plain overflowing with charm. I’ll be sorry to see it go.
No f…..ng way?! First Human Target, now Eureka! Why are all the best show being sacked?
!SOB!
WTF? I love Eureka. Big mistake!
It’s probably the right time, all the characters seem to be loved up now and there’s no tension, some of them have become a bit annoying as well, to tell the truth.
The high in any episode is still Colin Ferguson’s performance.
Oregon? No way…
There aren’t any time towns like that here.
It seems very Canadian Rockies to me.
F’ing BS
Is Syfy turning into Fox by keeping bad shows and canceling good shows?
Bring back NATHAN STARK!!!
This show has (sadly) been losing steam since his departure.
Now that the show is ending, bring him back for a final sparring session with Sheriff Carter. The banter between Carter and Stark was out of this world hilarious.
I think all the people who are upset aren’t seeing the big picture here. Eureka will have a Season 5 in the can AND a 6 episode final season. That means if the show stays on its current schedule it will continue to air new episodes into late 2012 if not 2013 (if SyFy decides to treat the last 6 as a final season and air them the summer after Season 5).
If the show goes to 2013 that would give it a 7 year run which is good for ANY show on TV. So this really isn’t Eureka being cancelled its more Eureka making a graceful exit.
Tom has hit the nail on the head. Don’t start up those stupid ‘Save Our Show’ campaigns people. This decision rightly lets Eureka wrap things up properly. Even I was thinking the show had about two good years left, maximum. With the current storyline, it lets them possibly do another plot game changer AND they can bring back Stark!! Win-Win for all.
This goes against everything the network previously stated about a renewal, so where is your source getting their info? The numbers continue to be strong for this fan favorite, and not even SyFy would be stupid enough to kill their golden goose in a down economy.
@Tom, I agree… though like others I will be sad to see it go. It’s one of my favorite shows of all time… that said, Jamie Paglia said a while back that they only intended to have six seasons, so its actually not a surprise. I was just hoping that they would have more episodes as they had planned before the writer’s strike. P.S. I would love it if they bought back Aiden Quinn, he was part of my favorite love triangle.
Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Carter) is on Twitter saying this story might not be true. He’s @colinferg on Twitter.
roughly 82 episodes in 7ish years isn’t impressive.
That blows my mind. I didn’t get to the panel at comic con cause I was working. But it sounded like it was a huge showing. Scifi has screwed it up and they have the best shows on the air right now. Alphas is getting great, Warehouse 13 is awesome, and Eureka is creativly amazing. What do they want? Can they top it with out boring us like Battlestar and Caprica did? These are inventive and intelligent shows.
I sure as heck hope this is wrong. Love Eureka – charming, sweet, funny. I’ve tried to like Alphas, but it’s just not working, and I’m falling out of love with Warehouse 13…Please keep Eureka.
Note I have only ever watched this show on Netflix, and no longer even have cable/satellite TV. Is that in any way relevant to ratings?
What, they have to make room for more wrestling or crappy ghost shows? Their programming choices baffle me.
They just love spandex that much
So hoping this isn’t true. The only other decent show on syfy is Alphas. For those who boycott the network because of crappy SGU hope you’re happy as now I guess they will do WWE and reality bs five nights a week.
Maybe it’s not the end of Eureka. Perhaps a spin-off is on the horizon.
I’ve watch this since it started and enjoy the show. The characters are well-drawn, even if the plots tend ot be a bit formulaic – you can usually see the solution to the POTW (problem-of-the-week) presented sometime in the first 10 minutes, usually as a “throw-away” piece of tech. (This is a similar problem ST:TNG had with Wesley Crusher/Boy Genius solving every week’s disaster.)
What has made Eureka enjoyable are the season-long arcs, usually with a cliff-hanger in the last few minutes of each episode. That makes the show watchable and more difficult to air out of sequence (like they did the first year).
Perhaps a spin-off could be a cross-over between Eureka and Warehouse 13 – they’ve overlapped characters on both shows before.
I will be sad to see Eureka go, it has always been a little sweetspot in my week. it’s a little s