Sep 16, 2008

Last week marked the beginning of summer re-run season is ending as FOX jumped the gun, with the debut of the new science fantasy/horror series, Fringe, on Tuesday. The network also started its new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Every other science fiction, fantasy or horror show on broadcast TV last week was still in reruns. In the battle...

NBC’s showing of theatrical movie, National Treasure led the meek offering of genre-related programming this past week on broadcast television. The Nick Cage-starring fantasy spy-fi adventure flick beat out repeat episodes of Ghost Whisperer and Chuck to take the genre crown in the few day before the Big 5 networks started rolling out their fall TV...

Following are the ratings for speculative fiction shows that aired on the broadcast networks August 18-24, 2008 (all shows were in repeat): SHOW | [NETWORK] | Rating (Air Date) 1. (tie) Madagascar [ABC] 1.1 (August 23) 1. (tie) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles [FOX] 1.1 (August 20) 3. (tie) Smallville [CW] 0.9 (August 24) 3. (tie) Terminator: The...

Broadcast networks turned to a record 12 Science Fiction and Fantasy programs to counter the Summer Olympics - with mixed results. A repeat showing of the Tom Cruise film, War of the Worlds ranked at the most-watched genre TV show of the past week.

Aug 2, 2008

Following are the ratings for speculative fiction shows that aired on the broadcast networks last week (all shows were in repeat except Fear Itself): SHOW | [NETWORK] | Rating (Air Date) 1. Fear Itself [NBC] 1.4 (July 31) 2. Ghost Whisperer [CBS] 1.3 (July 25) 3. Reaper [CW] 0.9 (July 29) 4. Peter Pan [ABC] 0.8 (July 26) 5. Smallville [CW] 0.7 (July 31) 6....