ratings Round up -UK

Last nights all new episode of "Heroes" (review coming soon) on BBC2 came third in the 9pm hour pulling in 2.4m (10%). ITV1's new Law & Order spinoff lead the hour with a respectable 6.4m (26%) and the atrocious "Who do you think you are?" gave BBC1 second place with 5.7m (23%)

The advance showing of the next episode of Heroes at 10:30pm gave BB3 a share of (6.4%) pullng in 782,000.

Goddess of Scifi

Ratings Round up -US

Well, the latest figure are in...

Whilst "Dollhouse" fell 15% in the ratings (4.2 million viewers 1.7/7), this is pretty standard drop-off from a pilot episode, it was beaten in the hour by "Supernanny" (5.2 million 1.8/5). In the 8pm slot "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" fell a tenth of a point from last weeks mid-season return (3.8 million 1.3/5)

Normally, these ratings would be alarming. However, these are in the Friday night "graveyard" slot considered by most, the place shows go to die so they don't raise too many concerns apart from both shows being relatively expensive to produce. I never really understand the need to move TSCC or premiere DH in this slot to begin with. Maybe FOX just wants rid of them?

More soon...

Ratings Round up -UK

It looks like the US import Lost is steaming ahead in the Sunday night smackdown that is Lost (SKY1) - V - Being Human (BBC3) - V - Supernatural (ITV2).

Early ratings for last night show that Lost managed to average 963K (4%) whilst Being Human has dropped to a new series low of just 578k (2.5%) although this is at least 30% higher than usual. Meanwhile, The Winchester brothers managed to pull in 472K (2%) ITV2 & 196K (1%) ITV2+1.

So it looks like Lost is maintaining it's audience after starting the season with 936K (4%) but Being Human isn't fairing anywhere near as well dropping from 898K (3.9%) for it's opening episode. 

I can't fathom why the boring, no-plot, badly written Lost is beating both Being Human and Supernatural when they are available to a far wider audience and overall better quality television.

Does anyone out there have any ideas?

Reviews for all three series coming soon,

Goddess of Scifi