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Where Sci-Fi Need Not Apply
If the crew of the battlestar Galactica is in search of a home, it best keep looking on cable.
In an outing for NBC on Saturday night, the hit Sci Fi Channel series stalled. Back-to-back episodes, all of which originally aired on Sci Fi last spring, averaged 2.3 million viewers, and got zapped by Fox's crook-catching reality shows and CBS' crime-series reruns, per Nielsen Media Research.
Since relaunching as a miniseries in 2003, Galactica has proved a solid performer--on cable. There, its first-season debut episode, which aired in January, was watched by 3.1 million.
Galactica's unspectacular turns for NBC--earlier in the year, it rebroadcast the miniseries--underscores the challenge sci-fi shows face in finding broad audiences in that broadest of arenas--broadcast network TV.
A Website (http://www.angelfire.com/trek/proutsy/) that keeps track of TV's longest running shows lists lots of western, cop and doctor shows, but only two over-the-air network sci-fi shows, X-Files and Star Trek: Voyager.
Cable and syndication, on the other hand, are far more hospitable environments for geek love. Sci Fi Channel's Stargate SG-1, humming along on basic cable since 1997, helped run off Star Trek: Enterprise when UPN moved the since canceled series to Friday nights. And then there is the ultimate off-network success story: Star Trek: The Next Generation, which in seven seasons in first-run syndication, produced 99 more episodes than the failed NBC series, Star Trek, that spawned it.
The Sci Fi version of Battlestar Galactica, starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, needs only to fend off the Cylons for 22 more episodes to surpass the combined runs of the original 1978-79 ABC series, starring Lorne Green and Richard Hatch, and the reconfigured, land-locked version, Galactica 1980, also aired on ABC.
Galactica embarks on its second cable-universe season on Friday.
Elsewhere:
ABC's Dancing with the Stars went out as TV's biggest summer hit since the first season of Fox's American Idol, and its Kelly Monaco-crowning finale responded accordingly, luring 22.4 million viewers (first place), just shy of the 23 million-plus posted by Idol's Kelly Clarkson-crowning finale.On a smaller scale, Chuck and Caitlin's Beauty and the Geek triumph was a winner for the WB--70th place, 4.3 million.
The fourth-season opener of USA's Monk drew a big-league crowd--6.4 million viewers.
Big Brother may be watching, but he has less company. The sixth-season premiere of the CBS voyeur venture (ninth place, 8.5 million) was off 15 percent from last summer's fifth-season premiere. (Among coveted viewers aged 18 to 49, however, Big Brother 6 was the week's third-most watched show.) The nation's 229th birthday had viewers in the mood for the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on CBS (12th place, 7.7 million) and Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (20th place, 7 million) on NBC.
An NBC news special on Deep Throat, the Watergate figure, was watched by more people (22nd place, 6.9 million) than Inside Deep Throat (estimated 2005 box-office gross: $683,852, per BoxOfficeMojo.com), a documentary about the porn film Deep Throat.
Who is the next Paris Hilton? Still not Kathy Hilton of NBC's I Want to Be a Hilton (52nd place, 4.96 million), and certainly not Brandon and Brody Jenner of Fox's Princes of Malibu (53rd place, 4.955 million).
Overall, CBS led the week in total viewers, averaging 7.4 million; ABC won the 18-49 demo.
ABC took second in total viewers (6.1 million), followed by NBC (5.8 million) and Fox (2.3 million). UPN (2.3 million) bested the WB (1.9 million).
Here's a look of the 10 most watched prime-time shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:
1. Dancing with the Stars (9 p.m., Wednesday), ABC, 22.4 million
2. CSI, CBS, 14.9 million
3. Without a Trace, CBS, 12.3 million
4. Dancing with the Stars (8 p.m., Wednesday), ABC, 10.3 million
5. CSI: NY, CBS, 9.8 million
6. 60 Minutes, CBS, 9.5 million
7. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC, 8.7 million
8. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC, 8.6 million
9. Big Brother 6, CBS, 8.5 million
10. Crossing Jordan, NBC, 7.8 million
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