While SciFi's Battlestar Galactica has received critical acclaim with this season of stories, the ratings have shown a dip for Episodes 211 through 214.
Listed below are the ratings for these episodes:
Episode 211: "Resurrection Ship- Part 1" - 2.1
Episode 212: "Resurrection Ship- Part 2" - 1.9
Episode 213: "Epiphanies" - 1.9
Episode 214: "Black Market" - 1.8
Although people are expressing "gloom and doom" for the show after Season 3, one has to put these ratings in perspective. No show in the SciFi Friday night line-up has been doing well. In fact, the Stargates have been faring even worse than Battlestar Galactica, and only Stargate: Atlantis has managed to gain a slight edge over BSG in the most recent week, earning a 1.9 over "Black Market's" 1.8.
SciFi has been contacted and they are as strongly commited to Galactica as ever before. They see the ratings not only going up by the time of the season finale, but also see a long life for the series with several more seasons being planned. This is unofficial information as of right now.
However, this should dispel some of the "nay-saying" going around the boards and should inspire new series fans to continue watching the exploits of their favorite battlestar without fear of it being yanked off the airwaves. If that were to happen, that would be science fiction indeed!
Stay tuned for more Galactica developments in the weeks ahead.
Article comments
1 - Michael Hinman
There is no dip. 98 percent of the time, you are going to see some sort of drop from the premiere to the regular episodes. While Resurrection Ship Part 1 is the 11th episode of the second season, it is still a mid-season premiere. Going from 1.9 to a 1.8 is really nothing. The ratings are still stable.
2 - Shaun
Yes the ratings fluctuate depending on the action or lack thereof. I believe that Scifi should schuedule the New Dr Who in front of BSG in the third season.
We will see, great article KR
KR gave a State of Galactica address on the most recent installment of Subject2Discussion. To listen to it click on the URL under my name and you can listen to the podcast with or without an iPOD
3 - NWLB
The show has long legs beyond even the first run. DVD, soundtrack, comics, books, and occasional showings on NBC are all part of the equation. For cable, the ratings aren't bad. For a Friday time-slot, the ratings are doing pretty well.
But as for Dr. Who? I don't think that show draws from most of the same crowd. BSG draws well across the board. Dr. Who is still too.....limited in its appeal.
NWLB
4 - Ed
2.1 to 1.8 over 4 weeks? Well within the margin of error, as a pollster would say. The sample is too small for such a minor change to mean anything, yet.
5 - John Kopotic
Jim Iaccino has become too involved with some in the know ‘insiders’ of The Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica”. He explains away the .3 drop in the ratings as insignificant. Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer was staunchly extolling the virtues, as well as the strong female demographics of the critically acclaimed show “Farscape”, whoops it was canceled less than a week later, oh my.
Episodes of both Stargate shows picked up a .1. The Sci Fi Channel is not going to air Battlestar Galactica when Dr. Who is making it’s US premiere. Not so coincidentally they discontinued Battlestar Galactica 2.0, when it’s rating where way below both Stargate productions, ratings. The bean counters in charge of programming at Universal/Sci Fi TV, Battlestar Galactica 2.5 will not have Battlestar Galactica 2.5 perform poorly in the ratings. Especially when the very ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica are of coming out on DVD.
6 - Jim
Well- it went back up to 1.9 for Scar.
And while that might be insignificant too, SG-1 scored a 1.5 that week- the lowest in quite awhile.
As long as BSG holds its own around a 2.0, we can be sure of more seasons.
And that's not only my opinion, but Sci-Fi's.
As far as FARSCAPE goes, it dropped to a 1.5- almost as bad as how SG-1 is performing of late.
The one you should worry about is SG-1 going another season past the 10th one (or not).
Jim