Slice of SciFi fan Timothy Morris clued us in on a little discussion the National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States had about scifi hit show Battlestar Galactica.
Is this a good thing? You decide. I have to go along with Slice of SciFi Host Michael R Mennenga when he said after being told, “Anything that gets scifi to more folks who swear they don’t like scifi is a good thing.”
Click to catch the NPR program .
Well, aside from the host obviously being shocked that someone as stupendously normal as her could enjoy the show, I think it was a good bit. And might even snag a few new viewers.
It wouldn’t be called seeing the light if people weren’t starting in darkness. 😉
I grinned like an idiot when I woke up to this piece on my clock radio on Saturday morning…
Considering that BSG is getting murdered in the ratings, I think any kind of help would be appreciated…
Ya, I agree that is great. BSG is my favorite show right now and it needs all th exposure it can get, everyone should be watching it.
>Entil Says:
>October 25th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
>Considering that BSG is getting murdered in the ratings, I >think any kind of help would be appreciated…
Murdered? By who? What else is on Friday nights at 9pm?
And who’s to say people aren’t TIVOing or in my case, taping it?
Yeah….not sure what is meant by “getting murdered in the ratings” either. BSG is averaging 5 million viewers every Friday night. That’s 5 million in the US alone who go to an obscure cable channel to watch a TV program for one hour. That does not count the several million who TiVO or DVR it and watch it later, nor does it take into account those hundreds of thousands that download the episodes each week on iTunes but don’t watch it on SCI FI Channel.
So, keeping reality in line – BSG is the highest rated CABLE show on each Friday night. I wouldn’t call that getting murdered.
BTW: It is not legitimate to compare the ratings of a cable program to those of network TV. Maybe one day, when everyone has cable or satellite and the ratings systems learn how to accurately count the Tivo’d and DVR’d hits, then – at least in my opinion – the rating system might actually mean something.