STNG still rocking the ratings
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Saw online that STNG on SYFY still avgs 700,000 a week while the brand NEW Stargate Universe is around 900,000-950,000. How's that for a 25 year old show?
RAMA
Is that per showing? Or is it the accumulated totals for multiple showings?
Those numbers mean nothing until they're actually defined.
Saw online that STNG on SYFY still avgs 700,000 a week while the brand NEW Stargate Universe is around 900,000-950,000. How's that for a 25 year old show?
RAMA
Is that per showing? Or is it the accumulated totals for multiple showings?
Those numbers mean nothing until they're actually defined.
I'm assuming its just what it says, an "avg" for the week. what else would it be?
Saw online that STNG on SYFY still avgs 700,000 a week while the brand NEW Stargate Universe is around 900,000-950,000. How's that for a 25 year old show?
RAMA
Is that per showing? Or is it the accumulated totals for multiple showings?
Those numbers mean nothing until they're actually defined.
I'm assuming its just what it says, an "avg" for the week. what else would it be?
Well it could be an average per showing or it could be the average number of viewers each is pulling in a given week. If it's the latter the 700,000/950,000 doesn't really tell the story. You would need to divide those totals by the number of showings of each in a given week.
I'd be interested in seeing a link to this.
there are links in the stargate forum, were its fans are concerned that sgu's 2th season is the last. 700,00 is the average per showing. considering that syfy is advertising sgu 4 times per hour and announces the showing times of sgu, but never for tng, tng might enjoy greater success after all the time.
In my cable guide, TNG is shown on SYFY, BBC AMERICA, Superstation WGN, and two local channels.
I don't think I've seen TNG on this much back when they were original episodes!
I don't think I've seen TNG on this much back when they were original episodes!
Despite reading both the BSG/Caprica and SG forums on a regular basis, I have yet to see an actual link to this claim, though I have seen the same "700,000" number posted in at least one of those forums.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
Where I live in Toronto, it's every afternoon at four on Space: The Imagination Station after Stargate Atlantis.
Thoughts on the "revival" of STNG on TV: it gets steady, though not spectacular ratings...something smaller stations and cable channels need. However...to me the greatest reason--and I stated this on the TOS forum a year or two ago--is that STNG eventually had to have its moment where there will be a nostalgia for it. It was viewed by so many the first time around it hasn't gotten in the fan or public consciousness as a legendary series...how could it when it was so prominent for so long? It was in movies only 8 years ago...but now, people are finally starting to miss it and come back to it..creating the nostalgia factor for Trek again, as evidenced by the ratings on BBC America and elsewhere.
RAMA
RAMA
Part (if not most) of the TNG revival has to do with CBS placing TNG reruns back in syndication after TOS-Remastered ran its course. Not so much nostalgia as it is simply availability, IMO...
According to The Making of Star Trek DS9 by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, TNG was estimated to have brought Paramount $511 million in revenue, of which $293 million would have been profit, during its seven year run. Considering how often TNG has been rerun over the sixteen years since it ended, I wonder what the profit figure would be now.
Good to hear.
It's on late where I live, but I always DVR it in case it's a dandy and I can watch it while I'm home. Otherwise, deleted.
(Dark Page) delete
(Tapestry) watch
etc
I gave Aquiel another shot the other night. Not as bad as I'd remembered, but not a particularly exciting offering.
I've got "Power Play" saved in case someone comes over and we want to crank a TNG classic.
It's on late where I live, but I always DVR it in case it's a dandy and I can watch it while I'm home. Otherwise, deleted.
(Dark Page) delete
(Tapestry) watch
etc
I gave Aquiel another shot the other night. Not as bad as I'd remembered, but not a particularly exciting offering.
I've got "Power Play" saved in case someone comes over and we want to crank a TNG classic.
I have them all on DVD but it's still a pleasure to watch them 'live' for some reason.
I got into TNG when it was on spike about 7 or 8 years back since then I have seen all the movies and watch it on tv spent the money on the dvds. Being 4 when it finished its 7th season I think it still is attracting a lot of new fans.
btw this also got me into the other shows as well big fan of them except enterprise never watched that
Seriously. It's the strangest thing...
Starship Mine was on tonight, I've seen it least a dozen times, and yet...
There are enough good moments to keep watching. The Data/Hutchinson scenes are a scream. Picard does some asskicking. A ship goes boom. Picard loses his saddle.Tim Russ steady hangin' as Evil Tuvok, the bridge crew trying to weasle out of the reception... how could one not watch??
The thing that pisses me off about the DVD sets is the lack of 'Next time on Staaaaaaaaaar Trek: The Next Generation' promos'.
Believe it or not, I always miss the title card and little bit of music that would always play at the end of an act when they went to commercial during the original run. DS9 and Voyager did that too. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? Haven't seen that used anywhere since the original run.
