Battlestar's Ratings Blowout

Sci Fi Channel series goes out with its most-watched episode in more than three years

Goodbye, Farewell, Ka-Ching! Friday's Battlestar Galactica two-hour series finale scored an estimated 2.4 million viewers—the show's biggest audience in more than three years, Sci Fi Channel said today.

Compared to Battlestar's third-season finale 100 years ago—well, March 2007—its fourth and final finale was up a whopping 56 percent. 

So, Was Battlestar the Biggest Sci-Fi Friday Show Around? No. For one thing, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronciles was bigger (3.7 million, per Nielsen stats as reported by MediaWeek), and for another thing so was Dollhouse (4.1 million). Terminator was up a little from its performance last week; Dollhouse was about even.