{"id":691,"date":"2006-10-10T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2006-10-11T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T16:32:03","slug":"battlestar-premiere-ratings-not-stellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/battlestar-premiere-ratings-not-stellar\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Premiere Ratings Not Stellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of massive promotion on Sci Fi Channel and other venues, Friday&#8217;s premiere of Season 3 of <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> in the US earned a rating of only 1.8, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=9\">as reported here<\/a>. This is not much higher than the 1.7 with which Stargate SG-1 finished its half season. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zap2it.com\/tv\/news\/zap-battlestarseasonthreeratings,0,6745094.story?track=rss\">As reported here<\/a>, BSG&#8217;s 1.8 rating represents a large decline from its first season ratings, and is only 2% higher than its last half-season average. It&#8217;s not clear if BSG&#8217;s &#8220;darker&#8221; arc has turned away some viewers, or if the break-up of &#8220;Sci Fi Friday&#8221; had a negative effect.<\/p>\n<p>Stargate fans may wonder if Sci Fi will be as tough on BSG as it was on Stargate for slightly lower performance, but after much less promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of massive promotion on Sci Fi Channel and other venues, Friday&#8217;s premiere of Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica in the US earned a rating of only 1.8, as reported here. This is not much higher than the 1.7 with which Stargate SG-1 finished its half season. As reported here, BSG&#8217;s 1.8 rating represents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/battlestar-premiere-ratings-not-stellar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battlestar Premiere Ratings Not Stellar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}