BATTLESTAR is big

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2005
Source: Sci Fi Channel

The results are in for last week's series premiere of the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and it's good news for the show's creators and the Sci Fi Channel: GALACTICA's two-hour programming block delivered the network's best ratings ever for a January program. As a Sci Fi Channel series, the first episode of GALACTICA turned out to bring in the second-highest ratings series telecast numbers ever (right behind the series premiere of STARGATE: ATLANTIS.)

Overall the show earned a 2.6 household rating, which works out to 3.1 million TV sets being tuned in to watch the series debut. Stacked up against UPN's ENTERPRISE (which broadcast a new episode against GALACTICA), BATTLESTAR outperformed ENTERPRISE with viewers aged 18-49 (1.9 million versus 1.5 million) and viewers aged 25-54 (2.2 million versus 1.7 million), no small feat for a cable show up against a network show.

GALACTICA's strong domestic bow matches the program's opening figures for the show's broadcast on England's Sky One channel last fall.








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