Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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Entertainment Weekly lists the 12 Things They Learned from Battlestar Galactica this year. All in all a pretty good list.

BSG's ratings surged for the finale, says The Hollywood Reporter:

The midseason finale of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" jumped the show's ratings.

Friday night's episode, "Revelations," attracted the largest audience for the series since the fourth-season premiere.

The episode was seen by 1.8 million viewers. Among adults 18-49, the finale was seen by 1.2 million -- the highest-rated episode since the season’s fourth episode, which aired in late April. As always, the numbers are expected to increase once DVR viewing is included.

Multichannel News and VFX World add:
For the entire 10-episode half-season, Battlestar Galactica averaged a 1.7 rating, 2.2 million total viewers and 1.6 million adults 25-54 and 1.5 million adults 18-49, respectively. The viewership figures were the series’ best since the first half of Season Two (July-September 2005.)

Season 4 of the series has also record strong ratings among female viewers, growing 23% among women 18-49 and up 25% among women 25-54, compared to Season 3.5. Sci Fi officials said the top four women 18-49 telecast of Battlestar Galactica have all aired this season.


See also, this report out of Canada.


Paul Campbell, Billy from BSG, according to The Hollywood Reporter has joined the cast of another Glen Larson remake, NBC's Knight Rider:
Paul Campbell has joined NBC's new action series "Knight Rider," Leven Rambin is in talks to come on board Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and Sophina Brown has been added to CBS' "Numbers."

On "Knight Rider," a sequel to the 1980s NBC series, Campbell ("Battlestar Galactica") will play the head research tech at Knight Industries. He is repped by WMA and ROAR.


A few more Cinerama Dome reports from Buddy TV and Wired.

From the world of science, have astronomers found the Colonies?

1 comment:

brisotope said...

There's a lot of discussion on one of the boards I frequent as to whether they really landed on Earth or not. Apparently, in TOS they landed on a planet they thought was Earth but wasn't. But besides the obvious NYC-ish look of the scene, Gaeta did say the visible constellations matched. So I tend to think it really is Earth. Plus, in one of the shots you see a stone cross and (what looks like) an overturned vehicle.