The truth about Battlestar Galactica and SciFi Channel

[xmagman]

spider,
You are a laughable little man. Don't be mad that someone took your precious little show and removed all of the campiness, cheesiness, and shallow characters and turned it into something far superior.

Sure TOS was good when I was 5 and didn't know any better. But trying to rewatch the TOS (I actually went out and bought TOS on DVD) is painful to say the least. I barely got through the first episode before I turned it off. Hell, if TOS came out today and was updated for special effects, the storyline was exactly the same and all of the characters were played in exactly the same way and the situations were made relivant for today TOS would fail more miserably than it did in 1978. In fact you'd be lucky if it got 500,000 viewers, ever.

Times change, people move on....maybe you should too. And if you have having trouble with this to the point where it keeps you up at night you might want to talk to your therapist.

[spiderr987]

Steady Decline in Ratings for Moore's GALACTICA IN NAME ONLY

http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php...page=4#1700088


http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~springob/bsgratings.html

Season one’s premiere "33" averaged US Nielsen Ratings of: 2.6
Season one’s Finale "Kobal's Last Gleaming: Part 2" averaged US Nielsen

Ratings of: 2.5

Season two’s premiere "Scattered" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.6

Season two’s Finale "Pegasus" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.0

Season 2.5's premiere "Resurrection Ship pt.1" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.1

Season 2.5's finale "Lay Down Your Burdens: Part II" averaged US Nielsen
Ratings: 1.9

Mini ratings (average of parts 1 & 2): 3.5

Season 1

33/Water..................= 2.6 January 14, 2005
Bastille Day..............= 2.3 January 21, 2005
Act of Contrition.........= 2.5 January 28, 2005
You Can't Go Home Again...= 2.5 February 4, 2005
Litmus....................= 2.5 February 11, 2005
Six Degrees of Separation = 2.2 February 18, 2005
Flesh and Bone............= 2.5 February 25, 2005
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down..= 2.1 March 4, 2005
The Hand of God...........= 2.2 March 11, 2005
Colonial Day..............= 2.3 March 18, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.1= 2.2 March 25, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.2= 2.5 April 1, 2005
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Average Ratings of........= 2.16

(If "33" and "Water" are concidered 2.6 each then the average is

2.19)

Season 2.0

Scattered.................= 2.6 July 15, 2005
Valley of Darkness........= 2.0 July 22, 2005 [That's 23% plunge in one episode]!
Fragged...................= 2.0 July 29, 2005
Resistance................= 1.9 August 5, 2005
The Farm..................= 2.0 August 12, 2005
Home pt.1.................= 2.1 August 19, 2005
Home pt.2.................= 2.1 August 26, 2005
The Final Cut.............= 2.0 September 9, 2005
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

Season 3.0

Occupation.............=1.8 October 6, 2006 [That's lower than the season finale and still under 2.0!]
Exodus pt.1.............= 1.6 October 13, 2006 [This 11% drop in ratings to 1.6 is a new low!! Keep in mind, this is the ratings level where STARGATE-1 was cancelled]!!
Exodus pt.2............=1.4 October 20, 2006 [That's another 11.1% drop from the last episode and a total 22.2% drop from the already crappy season premiere ratings performance! This turkey is almost done!]
Collaborators...........=1.4 October 27, 2006
Torn....................=1.5 November 3, 2006
Measure of Salvation....=1.5 November 10, 2006
Hero....................=1.3 November 17, 2006 [Ohhhhhhhh!! That's a new low]!
Unfinished Business.....=1.3 December 1, 2006
Passage.................=1.3 December 8, 2006
The Eye of Jupiter......=1.4 December 15, 2006 [All three airings of THE LOST ROOM beat out GINO by a long shot! So far GINO has been beaten by GHOSTHUNTERS, also.]
Rapture.................=1.4 December 21, 2006 [UNlike the X-FILES, GINO continues to mire itself in craptuclar ratings. I guess the GINOids, who had those ludicrous hopes, forgot that X-FILES had great ratings even before it was moved to Sundays]
Taking a Break From All Your Worries...=1.5 January 28, 2007
The Woman King.................=1.2 February 11, 2007 [color][Another new ratings low! SG-1 was cancelled for having higher ratings. That suxxxxx!!][/color] [hehe]
A Day in the Life..............=1.2 February 18, 2007 [It seems that GINO has become consistant at sucking]. [hehe]
Dirty Hands....................=1.1 February 25, 2007 [Another all time low for the "greatest show on television!" I couldn't have wished for such piss poor ratings! Wow! Thank you Santa Claus]!

Season 4.0

He that Believeth in Me..........=...exactly a 28% decline in ratings from the season 3.0 1.8 ratings premiere, keeping up the trend of GINO\\\'s premieres always peforming worse in the ratings, than the previous premiere.

In essence [from the mini debut of 3.5 to the last episode's ratings performance of 1.1] GINO has managed to retain only 37% of it’s original audience, which is an overall drop of 63%!!

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...272|1|,00.html




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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





"Actress Katee Sackhoff sat down with reporters on the Vancouver set of her latest film WHITE NOISE 2...

There was talk on one point of putting us on NBC. I think everybody on the cast was like, 'No. We'd be canceled after a week. There's no way.' We wouldn't get the ratings, and we all know that."

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-ka...v-mainheadline

[netsolo]

You realize everyone's stopped paying attention to your little crusade, right? Give it a rest man...

[tailhook]

Originally Posted by netsolo

You realize everyone's stopped paying attention to your little crusade, right? Give it a rest man...

Ignore is a great thing. Notice he replies to his own posts since nobody else cares or sees what he has to say.

-TH

[spiderr987]

Originally Posted by netsolo

You realize everyone's stopped paying attention to your little crusade, right? Give it a rest man...

Evidently, I have your undivided attention.

[netsolo]

Originally Posted by spiderr987

Evidently, I have your undivided attention.

If by undivided you mean constantly getting reply notices in my email to this thread when you find it necessary to post a dissertation that I can't even bring myself to read anymore because you just sound like one of the loons on the corner of Hollywood and Highland trying to convince me that John Lennon is still alive and has a graph to prove it... then yes.

[spiderr987]

Hardly anyone watches Moore's imposter BSG, b/c the show plain sucks, junior. Moore is incapable of producing a cohorent story, let alone penning his own universe and source material. Glen Larson created BSG. Gene Roddenberry created STAR TREK. George Lucas created STAR WARS. What has the hack known as Ronald D Moore created?

[Gartism]

Ok, Lucas was a bad one to throw in there since he murdered the Prequel.

Once BSG is DONE what will you do, crusade against George Takei's wedding?

I'm looking forward to, well FOREVER of not seeing the reposting of posts that you made graphs of 5 years ago.

[spiderr987]

Slam Lucas and Roddenberry all ya want, but they have accomplished 100x more than Moore has. A little advice to Moore... ya have to be capable of penning your own source material and universe. Mooching off of other people's work is not considered writing.

[netsolo]

Hey, watch who you're calling junior there, Mr. I Got Snubbed From Ronald Moore's Christmas Card List and am Carrying a Grudge... what'd he key your car or something? Are you an intern that Moore chastised for getting his morning latte wrong? Or is it because you think you wrote a masterpiece Star Trek spec that was returned to sender?

What's Glen Larson done lately that you're so attached to the guy's ankle? Was Millennium Man really that good?

Go out and discover that 1989 ended... and it's not that bad out there in 2008... junior. What's on TV, at present time, not fifteen years ago, that you enjoy?

Quit coming into my favorite restaurant and trying to convince me the food is salty.