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When Torchwood: Miracle Day premiered on Starz, the show was getting in the neighborhood of 1.5 million viewers, which was respectable but about the same as Starz' recently-cancelled Camelot. With the second episode, the show dipped to about 1.4 million, and Entertainment Weekly warned that if it dipped much further, "Captain Jack might be immortal, but TV shows are not." More »
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Only about 6.4 million Brits watched the first episode of Doctor Who season six, "The Impossible Astronaut," according to overnight ratings, versus 8 million for last year's "The Eleventh Hour." More »
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No matter what Rob Liefeld thinks, we're not sure that Deadpool needs an R rating. But there are some characters we're dying to see in salty, untamed R-rated action. Here are five comic-book heroes whose movies shouldn't be for kids. More »
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Producer David Eick promised we'd know the fate of Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica by August 15, but there's been no word. Is the show doomed? We hope not. But it hasn't gotten BSG-level ratings. What do you think went wrong? More »
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Comedy Central gambled on bringing back Futurama, and it's already paid off, big time. Thursday was the channel's best night of the year, and its best Thursday evening ever. Futurama got 2.9 million viewers and ruled among key demographics. More »
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Two genre TV shows really broke out of the pack and captured the popular imagination in the past half-decade: Lost and Heroes. They both showed how genre TV can rule the DVR era. What's going to happen when they're gone? More »
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Heroes "failed to see a bounce" for its story's climax, says Variety. The show got 4.4 million viewers, barely beating the 4.3 million who tuned into Jay Leno's almost-final 10 PM show. But Heroes still might get a fifth season. More »
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We loved the second week of the Battlestar Galactica prequel, but viewers didn't. Only about 1.4 million viewers watched it on Friday night, down from 1.6 million the first week. (For an episode that wasn't available on DVD beforehand.) [TVByTheNumbers] More »
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Nobody should be surprised that Caprica's debut pulled in weak ratings on Friday. The pilot was on DVD for months, and viewable online. And the show was opposite a Haiti fundraiser telecast. The real test? This Friday's all-new episode. [THR] More »
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The return of Chuck garnered its best ratings since its 3-D episode, with an estimated 7.7 million viewers watching the first hour and 7.2 million the second... making Chuck one of NBC's most successful scripted dramas. Recap coming tomorrow. [THR] More »
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Despite being on a cable channel versus broadcast network, Syfy's Stargate Universe won the first round of its timeslot clash with Fox's Dollhouse on Friday, delivering the most viewers for the Stargate franchise in four years. More »
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Not a good sign for Dollhouse or Smallville last night; both shows' premieres averaged around 2.5 million viewers (with Dollhouse slightly ahead), a drop compared with last season's final episodes. Time to start the deathwatches again, perhaps? [Mediaweek] More »
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Only six million people watched last night's two-hour season premiere of Heroes, down 46 percent from last year's season premiere. House, meanwhile, rose 14 percent from last year, hitting 16.5 million, and Big Bang Theory soared 28 percent. [THR] More »
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The first episode of storehouse-of-weirdness show Warehouse 13 was the top-rated cable show of the night, with 3.5 million viewers. That doesn't beat Eureka's 4.1 million debut. More »
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Don't call it a comeback, but the audience for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has grown for the second week running. Has the show turned a corner in its ratings woes? More »
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The best we can say about last night's ratings for Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? I think I'm going to go with "Well, it could've been worse." Not such good news, I'm afraid. More »
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Battlestar Galactica has always prided itself on being a different type of TV show, whether it's a break from the sterile SF of Star Trek, a political show devoid of West Wing-style earnestness or even just a show that has very, very bad bald wigs for their characters undergoing chemotherapy. But, says the Hollywood Reporter, now it's a different type of show for an entirely different reason: It has actually gained viewers in the last year. More »
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This scene from last night's episode of post-apocalyptic survival show Jericho really startled me. I had to rewind my DVR a bit, because I didn't believe what I was seeing at first. It was the first really surprising thing in this whole season of Jericho, which has been cool and subversive, but not really startling except in a twisty-turny suspense thriller way. But this clip — which you really shouldn't watch unless you're prepared for major spoilerage — changed all that. Click through for spoilers. More »
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Our favorite day-after-nuclear-bombs TV drama, Jericho, actually improved its ratings this week over the week before, with a million extra viewers and double-digit increases in all categories. Will it be enough to win the show a third season? Stay tuned. [The Futon Critic] More »
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Jericho isn't toast yet, insists producer Carol Barbee. The post-apocalyptic TV drama's first two episodes of its second season got "good but not great" ratings, but the demographics were decent. And if tonight's episode shows an uptick, then the show about Kansas surviving a nuclear holocaust could still win a third season. If CBS pulls the plug on Jericho, Barbee adds, she may shop it around to a cable network. [Sci Fi Wire] More »
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Doug Liman proved that he's got a nanotech hide, even though the negative reviews of his two latest projects keep teleporting in. Both Jumper and Knight Rider were panned across the board, but the movie hauled in more than $30 million over the weekend, while the television show raked in huge ratings. More than 8 million people tuned in to watch the show, including the 18 to 49 bracket that advertisers drool for. So chances are high that we'll see both a Jumper sequel, and a Knight Rider series in the months ahead (a replacement for NBC's ailing Bionic Woman?). We just hope they'll stay closer to the source material in a Jumper sequel, and give Knight Rider a tuneup. Either way, we're sure both projects got a huge thumbs up from The Hoff. More »
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The post-apocalyptic rebuilding may have begun on last night's Jericho, but the CBS show's own restoration after a cancellation scare looks like it'll be short-lived. The season opener failed to beat a rerun of Law and Order, and an original Boston Legal. The episode's 7.1 million viewers was much better than the tail end of season one, but nowhere near as good as the show's first few episodes. Barring a miracle spurt in the next couple of weeks, Jericho is not coming back. To make things worse, few critics liked the season opener as much as we did. More »
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has only just started winning our hearts, and it's already on life-support. Its first episode scored an amazing 18 million viewers, after a high-rated football game. The second episode dropped by nearly half, and last night's outing dropped another 18 percent. It came in third, after American Gladiators and reruns of Two And A Half Men and How I Met Your Mother. Sitcom reruns! [Zap2It] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=347806&view=rss&microfeed=true Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles can breathe an Arnold-less sigh of relief. The first half of their premiere scored 18 million viewers last night, giving it the best opening night of any new show in three years. More good ratings may be ahead: The second part of the premiere tonight has the advantage of not going up against a new episode of Heroes. More »
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It's semi-official. NBC has pulled the plug on Bionic Woman. In totally unrelated news, NBC is having to repay tons of money to advertisers because its fall ratings were so disappointing. [SpoilerTV] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333891&view=rss&microfeed=true Bringing in 6.3 million viewers its first night (Sunday), 4.4 the next, and 5.3 on the last, the cheesy Wizard of Oz remake Tin Man is officially the most popular thing SciFi Channel has ever aired. Other top shows on the channel have been a Dune miniseries, and Taken, a Steven Spielberg-produced soap about alien abduction. Battlestar Galactica, probably the most critically-acclaimed and smartest show SciFi has ever aired, never gets those kinds of numbers. Razor, the recent BSG special episode, brought in 1.7 million viewers. [Entertainment Now] More »
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Christian Bale will star in Terminator 4, aka Terminator: Salvation, several news sites are reporting. But will he play a Terminator? Or will he play John Connor, as AICN claims? Neither, says CHUD. Instead, he'll play a character who is "new to the Terminator mythos." That jibes with some other recent reports about the direction of the movie. More »
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The apocalypse came to a small town, and nobody noticed. But that could change this spring. CBS' nuclear apocalypse drama Jericho barely escaped out-and-out cancellation thanks to a mail-in campaign involving bags of nuts. And this spring, it may be the only game in town, thanks to the writers' strike. More »
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Audiences would rather watch Kitchen Nightmares than sit through an hour of Jaime Sommers' domestic life. Last night's Bionic Woman pulled in just 6.5 million viewers, down from the 13.6 million who watched the series debut. It's obvious BW's particular blend of escapism and soap isn't working. But do TV audiences want more escapism, stronger characters, or both? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=320692&view=rss&microfeed=true NBC is starting to get rope burn from sticking out its neck for science fiction. Last night's episodes of Heroes, Journeyman and Chuck all hit series lows. Now it's not just Journeyman in danger of cancellation, but Chuck also. More »
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Can an award-winning writer from The Sopranos save Bionic Woman? The Jaime Sommers saga continues to trend downwards in the ratings, achieving a lackluster fourth place last night. Jason Cahill, who won a WGA Award for his work on The Sopranos, replaces Friday Night Lights' Jason Katims, who in turn replaced Glen Morgan, who left after the Bionic pilot. It sure looks like a lot of behind-the-scenes turmoil, but it could be worth it if Bionic Woman finally has Sopranos-level writing. Of course, it could be too little, too late. More »
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Can Chuck Bartowski's loveable-loser schtick defeat a naked Summer Glau? Nerd-spy show Chuck has been showing some ratings momentum, but starting in January, it'll air opposite the Sarah Connor Chronicles in the Monday 8 PM slot. Chuck actually has a lot in common with the long-awaited Terminator spin-off, including a Firefly alum (Connor's Glau and Chuck's Adam Baldwin.) Not to mention the hapless man-boy hero, paired with a woman who does all the real fighting. (At least John Connor is actually meant to be a boy.) More »
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Heroes was supposed to boost NBC's high-concept new sci-fi shows Chuck and Journeyman. Instead, the two new shows may be dragging Heroes down. All three shows saw double-digit declines in overnight ratings, and Heroes had a season low. NBC came in third for the night, although Heroes still came in first. Says Medialife: More »
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