David Eick talks BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

I love Battlestar Galactica, and I can't wait!

Part of me wishes that this show would go straight to DVD, because it's probably going to end up on my shelf anyway. New "Galactica" is pure television alchemy, and the kind of television I wish would happen more often.

Flight of the Phoenix.....= 1.9 September 16, 2005
Pegasus...................= 2.0 September 23, 2005
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Average Rating of.........= 2.06

Season 2.5

Resurrection Ship pt.1....= 2.1 January 6, 2006
Resurrection Ship pt.2....= 2.0 January 13, 2006 [The last time GINO made 2.0]
Epiphanies................= 1.9 January 20, 2006
Black Market..............= 1.8 January 27, 2006
Scar......................= 1.9 February 3, 2006
Sacrifice.................= 1.8 February 10, 2006
The Captain's Hand........= 1.7 February 17, 2006
Downloaded................= 1.8 February 24, 2006
Lay Down Your Burdens Pt1 = 1.8 March 3, 2006*
Lay Down Your Burdens Pt2 = 1.9 March 10, 2006*
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Average Rating of.........= 1.87

In essence [from the mini debut of 3.5 to the season finale of 1.9] GINO has managed to retain only 54% of it’s original audience, which is an overall drop of 46%!

1 ECW 2.8

2 Countdown to Doomsday 1.1

3 Jeepers Creepers 2 1.1

4 Immortal 1.0

5 Poseidon Adventure part two 0.9

6 Bats 0.9

7 SS Doomtrooper 0.9

8 Hellraiser 8: Hellword 0.8

9 The Day After 0.8

10 Black Hole 0.8

Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 6/12/06 - 6/18/06

By todays's cable standards GINO's ratings are nothing to write home about. GINO had it's chance to score big on major network tv and this is what happened:
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CBS Sinks NBC's 'Battlestar' on Saturday

(Sunday, July 10 08:38 AM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Saturday, July 9, 2005.
Led by a pair of episodes of "48 Hours," CBS won all three primetime hours on Saturday, though The Eye still couldn't beat FOX in the coveted young adult demographics.

Overall, CBS averaged a 4.3 rating/9 share, outdistancing second place FOX's 3.7/7. ABC was a distant third with a 2.7/5. NBC, which ran three hours of the Sci Fi Channel drama "Battlestar Galactica" was a dismal fourth with a 1.8/4.

FOX came in first among adults 18-49, doing a 2.1 rating in the demographic advertisers love the most. ABC was second with a 1.5 rating, followed closely by the 1.4 rating for CBS. NBC trailed again with a 0.9 rating.

CBS started the night off right with a 3.8/8 for "48 Hours Mystery," good enough to beat FOX's "COPS" (3.3/7) for the hour. ABC was third with the 2.2/5 first hour of "The Emperor's New Groove," while NBC was last with the beginning of the "Battlestar Galactica" marathon.

At 9 p.m., CBS got a 4.3/9 from "Cold Case," edging the 4.1/8 for "America's Most Wanted" on FOX. The second hour of ABC's Disney movie was third, while NBC got a 1.8/3 from its "Galactica" hour.

The second "48 Hours" episode delivered the night's strongest ratings for CBS, with a 4.9/10. ABC moved up to second with a 3.2/7 for "America's Funniest Home Videos." NBC remained last with "Battlestar."

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,617|96272|1|,00.html

While Barbecues Sizzle, Ratings Fizzle

Three programs produced fireworks over the Fourth of July week; everything else fizzled. The three programs were the finale of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, which attracted 22.4 million viewers and was by far the most-watched show of the week; another was the season opener of Big Brother 6, which drew 8.5 million viewers; and the third was the season premiere of USA Network's Monk, which, with 6.4 million viewers, drew bigger audiences than many network shows last week. Otherwise, the week produced the smallest audiences of the year.

Indeed NBC drew one of its lowest ratings ever with a two-hour showcase of Battlestar Galactica set to air on Sci Fi channel, an NBC corporate sibling. It turned out to be the lowest-rated show of the week on any of the major networks, drawing just 2.3 million viewers.

The evening newscasts finished with virtually unchanged ratings, with NBC leading with 8.7 million viewers, ABC following with 8.2 million, and CBS trailing with 6.8 million. All of the networks experienced a spike in their ratings on Thursday following the terrorist attacks in London.

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-07-13#tv1

RONALD D MOORE (Occupation: Hack)

Crap-ica - A PIPEDREAM THAT WILL NEVER SEE LIGHT OF DAY

GINO - AFTER A 46% DROP IN RATINGS ON LIFE SUPPORT & HEADING TOWARD
CANCELLATION ON THE SCI FI CHANNEL: WHERE CAREERS GO TO DIE

Touching Evil - CANCELLED AFTER 1 SEASON

Carnivàle - CANCELLED AFTER 2 SEASONS

Roswell - BANISHED FROM WB TO UPN TO DIE AFTER 2
SEASONS

G vs E - CANCELLED AFTER 2 SEASONS

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P.S. None of Moore's STAR TREK credits were included, b/c it's pretty clear now, that he was just riding on the coattails of several & better co-writers on that particular staff.

For such a crap, hack show it is doing way better than the original.

Must drive you nuts, huh? Ha hah! (nelson laugh)

Glen Larson speaks out against SFC's molesting his BSG source material!

‘Battlestar Galactica’ returns
But fans of original are wary of remake


Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2003

Hatch understands the fan sentiment.
“I had a lot of anger and frustration because I saw a studio not on any level being receptive to what the vast majority of fans wanted,” the actor says in his small apartment littered with “Battlestar” paraphernalia, including a lunchbox, posters and videos.

Hatch, who has written six spin-off novels, tried his own sequel: “Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming.” A four-minute, self-financed trailer has been a hit among conventioneers, but studio executives have been unimpressed.

“Every time they bring back a classic, they always fail because they’ve thrown the baby out with the bath water,” says the 58-year-old Hatch. “They throw away the very elements the fans loved most.”

A few years ago, fans thought they’d get the continuation saga they’d clamored for when Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, the director-writer team behind “X-Men,” hooked up with original “Galactica” creator Glen Larson to develop a project at 20th Century Fox.
When that deal fell through, Universal TV chief David Kissinger brought in executive producer David Eick and Moore to rework the franchise for Sci Fi.
“We want the fans to embrace what we are doing,” says Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer, “but if you produced now what was produced then, it would feel like old TV. We wanted to make it more relatable, even in terms of the stereotypes of characters.”
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“I understand they’re trying to do a modern version,” says Larson. “But change for the sake of change — it’s taking the title and exploiting it.”
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