SciFi ordered up a special overnight for the finale of Battlestar Galactica and James Hibberd says the two hour and eleven minute finale averaged 2.4 million viewers and was the most watched episode since its season 2.5 premiere.
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SciFi ordered up a special overnight for the finale of Battlestar Galactica and James Hibberd says the two hour and eleven minute finale averaged 2.4 million viewers and was the most watched episode since its season 2.5 premiere.
Pretty good for the final episode. Too bad SCIFI doesn’t really have any shows to air in the Friday night slots after that. I see they’re airing the SG1 movies for the next two weeks. . .
The BSG finale was the best television on friday nite. I even watched it a second time that nite. I have a hard time believing that only 2.4 million watched ftiday nite, everyone that I know was planning on watching. No one asked me what I was watching friday nite or any nite.
I watched and was reminded of just how bad the show really was and had become. The “twist,” to the original’s ending was seen a mile away. I think this is a statement. It says quit putting crap on. It says “no more bad sci fi, please.” What is sad, is this show is easily one of the best shows the network has ever produced.
Which is what happens when idiots who don’t understand the appeal of science fiction run a channel devoted to it.
Brilliant Finale ……… Best Sci-Fi Ever …. End of an era ……. This show will definitely be missed by a huge audience ……. Good Bye BSG …….. So Say we All
Fal.Co, it will be missed by a huge audience? You mean around 2.5 million people? That is huge in comparison to a town of 600 people, but in the world of TV and even cable it’s nothing special.
Which SCI-FI is capable of. Make a truly great science fiction based show, and the viewers will come.
Ben unless you know more than 2.4 million people and can vouch that every single one of them was in fact watching BSG live then I’m not sure I give much weight to the reasoning behind your theory. I’d also suggest that it might be likely that your social circle might not be the best way to gauge the rest of America’s viewing habits.
wow, that’s really a jump from recent episodes.
Nick C,
You seem to forget that USA is not the only place where people watch BSG. Being a fan doesn’t require for you to live in US or to watch the show live on cable for that matter. I know BSG has a huge fan base. Quantity and quality are different things. Crap shows like dollhouse can get 4 million viewers but they don’t even come close to BSG when you compare the quality of the shows. I’m a huge Sci-Fi fan and this for me is the best that sci-fi is ever gonna get …….
Nick C, do you like any shows?
Jeez, people, why the hate? If you didn’t like BSG, fine, but don’t be so pissy to those of us who did. As for 2.4 million viewers, that’s damn good in the cable world. When the DVR viewers are added in it might even be more.
As for the finale itself, it was mostly great in my opinion, but I was disappointed in the way the Starbuck plot line ended.
Isn’t there supposed to be a Starbuck movie? Or did they can that idea? Or am I just completely making that up?
Fin, yeah I do like shows. Just not junk. BSG was junk. Sorry, but the whole is he/she a Cylon? Etc. was just bad. It took an interesting original idea that sure, was cheesy in that 70s kind of way and turned it into a dark and silly soap opera. The best part of the whole finale stuff was Edward James Olmos throwing up on himself. It was symbolic. It signified the vast majority of SCI FI fan opinion of the show.
Fal.Co, I don’t really care what the rest of the world thinks. 2.4M people is ok for cable, but it was the finale!
Seriously, that is the best the SCI FI channel can do? Heck, Eureka is a better written show, and that show isn’t anything to write home about either.
Alex, I know there is a “Cylon POV,” movie…
The BSG finale will be at least 3 million when Live+7 is factored in, but Star Wars: The Clone Wars typically does 3.0 million on a Live+SD basis. BSG’s numbers weren’t outstanding, just a lot better than the 1.66 million it got last week. But to put it into perspective, it still won’t likely be SCI FI’s most-watched show. That will be Ghost Hunters (last week 2.67 million).
2.4 million is by no means a bad showing on cable, but it’s not great either, and hardly the 6.1 million the season two finale of Burn Notice averaged, not to mention there will likely be more than a dozen repeats of NCIS on USA that averaged between 2.4 million and 4.5 million.
YAY NCIS repeats!
Wait, what was my point again?
@ Alex: there is a two hour tv movie about the Cylons called The Plan and a spin off series about Caprica coming up on Syfy.
From that alone I guess that by SciFi’s standards BSG must have done okay. I am happy I got to watch this show, but I do not have some pathological need to talk it up as the best thing ever to happen to TV.
Sometimes you just need to be content with what you get and sometimes it pays off and kicks all the critics in the nads by growing tremendously in its sixth season. Against all odds.
Seriously sorry about the NCIS cheerleading.
There was never gonig to be a Starbuck movie.
Who cares what the finale got, the show ended. It was VERY flawed, and the flashbacks were too long, but it still somehow feels OK. I loved the ending with “Yu know he doesn’t like that name”. Perfect little mystery.
NICK C: Rather than polluting this comment board with your inane, bitter comments why not run along and spread your bile somewhere else? You obviously have some issues (ok, a lot of issues) and are a sad little man on a quest for something. Have at it. Somewhere else. Maybe on one of the websites of those “great sci-fi” shows you keep babbling about. Because if you don’t consider BSG among the best dramas on television (sci-fi or otherwise), then you really have some dubious taste. Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion but it is obvious yours is based on some misplaced anger towards a certain cable network. Of course the SciFi channel sucks…they were lucky to have a show like BSG and they never had any idea what to do with it (a KFC contest?!?! come on SciFi). So is that the fault of the show? The millions of viewers and critics (including those folks who hand our Peabody Awards) who rallied around BSG did so for the show, not the network it aired on. Get a clue, buddy. Right now you just come across as a pathetic contrarian.
ROBERT SEIDMAN: We know you can regurgitate a bunch of cable ratings stats but, for the love of God, what is the point of your rambling post? That BSG wasn’t a hit based on some ratings numbers? THE BIGGEST LOSER and a Howie Mandel hosted game show on NBC draw millions of viewers but does that make either of them great shows? Honestly, anyone who is a fan of BSG long ago gave up judging the show’s merits based on hard numbers.
DAVID4: It was “VERY FLAWED” but you loved it anyway? Odd. As someone who loved the finale (especially after mulling it over for a day), I’d have a hard time feeling the same way if, indeed, it was as massive a flaw fest as you seem to believe. Hmm.
I guess for some, if you don’t have lasers cutting stuff up and alien monsters jumping out of people’s throats, you don’t have sci-fi. Me, I’ve been reading sci-fi since I was 10, and watching it since before then. The reimagined Battlestar Galactica was some of the best, character-driven sci-fi on television. Ever. Period. It harkend back to Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and even a little Arthur C. Clarke. It took a good concept and made it great. Battlestar dealt with contemporary issues through great writing, great characters and believable technology. It may not be the *best* thing on TV, but it certainly was the best sci-fi on TV. At least in my opinion. What’s that? You don’t agree? Go get a lap dance, buddy…