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[sweetjane]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will have a two-night premiere on FOX:

Sunday, Jan. 13 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and Monday, Jan. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), the show's regular time period.

Nine episodes were completed. After the premiere, FOX will air T:SCC on Mondays at 9 ET/PT with the following exceptions, according to this press release.

Due to the STATE OF THE UNION address on Monday, Jan. 28, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES will end its season with an explosive two-hour finale Monday, March 3 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

Here is the timeslot competition for Jan. 13:
ABC: Repeat of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
NBC: 2nd hour of a Golden Globe-themed Dateline clip special
CBS: Amazing Race
CW: Life is Wild

And for Jan. 14:
NBC: Deal or No Deal
ABC: Last 30 minutes of a 90-minute Dance War; Notes from the Underbelly
CBS: Repeats of Two and a Half Men and Rules of Engagement
CW: Repeats of Girlfriends and The Game

[LittleDirtyGirl]

Nine episodes were completed.

I know that this is somewhat off-topic, but only nine? I read 13 somewhere. Darn.

[AimingforYoko]

13 were ordered, nine finished before the strike.

[ZachPruckowski]

Given that it would take 6-8 weeks to go from strike-mode to having new episodes (several weeks to write, several weeks to shoot, given that shooting > 7days, need multiple episodes), it's unlikely we'll see more than those 9 prior to at least the fall.

There's also the actor's strike to worry about. That's in June or July, and would stop production as well (for obvious reasons)

[coquiborikua]

it's unlikely we'll see more than those 9 prior to at least the fall.

I remember seeing one of those quick interviews they do on red carpets with Summer Glau, in which she says that they had an episode that could serve as a season finale, so the plan is to end the first season with 9 episodes. I'm pretty sure it was one of the linkes in the Media Thread.

[ethanvahlere]

Are they planning on repeating the first two eps for those who missed them?

[sweetjane]

According to the Futon Critic the only scheduled repeat so far will be the pilot on January 28 at 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT, 7:00-8:00 PM CT, and approx. 8:30-9:30 PM MT. It will air prior to the State of the Union Address in the Eastern and Central time zones and Mountain time it will air immediately following the approximately 90-minute State of the Union Address.

[LolaRuns]

NFL Playoffs 28.7 rating/45 share
T:SCC 12.1/18 .

From the Pif Forum

[Shattered Life]

Led by the prime-time portion of the Giants versus the Cowboys on the NFL Playoffs (which was beneficial to the series-premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Fox steamrolled past the Sunday competition. The NFL Playoffs averaged an approximate 37.27 million viewers and a 14.5 rating/36 share among adults 18-49 from 7-8 p.m., leading into the debut of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles at a hefty 18.29 million viewers and a 7.6/18 in the demo from 8-9 p.m.

From PIFeedback.

That's pretty amazing. Let's see how much of that audience it retains tonight without that mammoth football game in front of it.

[LolaRuns]

That's really amazing. I think even with a large drop off it should at least do 15 million for the next episode.

[miniglik]

Wow. A show I'm excited about actually getting good ratings... I may have to faint now. The apocolypse is coming.

[Hegel88]

Are they planning on repeating the first two eps for those who missed them?

Fox.com has episodes on demand and, in Canada, Space wil be showing both episodes this Saturday at 9pm followed by T1 and T3 movies.

[Demian]

Wow. A show I'm excited about actually getting good ratings.

Hee. You and me both.

So, how's Prison Break been performing as a lead-in thus far this season? (I don't watch it, so I haven't been following its ratings.)

Edited by Demian, Jan 14, 2008 @ 3:24 PM.

[CK17]

Prison Break was hovering around 7.5 million viewers and 3-3.5 demo. That was up against the DWTS mammoth though so it might improve tonight.

[chilicheezfryed]

Fox.com has episodes on demand

Does anyone know when they would start airing these online? I completely forgot to watch last night, so I checked the fox website but there isn't anything there yet.

[needsleep05]

Damn, those are some niiiiiiice ratings.

Just out of curiosity, do any websites show the breakdown of viewers for the East and West coasts? I know the football lead-in was huge for east coasters, but I live in the Pacific NW and there were about 3 hours of regular programming in between the end of the football game and the Pilot for the show.

It'll be interesting to see what the numbers are after tonight.

Anyway, YAY for a show that I like getting kick-ass premiere ratings.

[t389190001]

I heard it helped FOX score the best opening night demo ratings of any new show in three years Sunday night! That is pretty impressive!

And I'm so glad it wont be up against "chuck" on every Monday!

Edited by t389190001, Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:01 PM.

[sweetjane]

Does anyone know when they would start airing these online?

The pilot is available now. Here's the direct link (you may have to download the player).

[Demian]

By the way, if you've signed up for the Beta test of Hulu.com, they have yet to add this series. Just so you know.

[Butwhynot]

So, how's Prison Break been performing as a lead-in thus far this season? (I don't watch it, so I haven't been following its ratings.)

Not great. This fall it was the lead in for K-Ville which did pretty poorly - although I hear it was not that great a show on it's own merits, so who knows. In the new year, it is usually the lead in for 24 which has it's own set of viewers - hopefully SCC will follow that model, and not K-Ville's.
But regardless of that, Prison Break is pretty shitty this year and is probably not a great lead in for anything.

Edited by Butwhynot, Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:27 PM.

[MzLiz]

From my understanding the show's ratings posted for Sunday night was 7.6/18 in the demo from 8-9 p.m which means there were 18 million viewers for the demo market (adults 18-49?). Right? During Prison Break, I swear I though I saw a T:SCC promo that said there were 28 million viewers total for last night (the pilot). Anybody else see that promo?

Granted the show should do well as there is absolutely nothing else on with the writers strike, but I think this show would have done very well anyway. I was very dissapointed when it wasn't on the fall schedule since of all the new shows it was probably the one I wanted to see the most. Now I'm glad as I have a kick ass show to watch this winter.

I'm very interested to see what the final ratings were and what tonight's ratings end up being.

Edited by MzLiz, Jan 15, 2008 @ 1:02 AM.

[Mia Nina]

During Prison Break, I swear I though I saw a T:SCC promo that said there were 28 million viewers total for last night (the pilot). Anybody else see that promo?

I did and I almost spit my soda because I hadn't been able to check out the ratings. Then I saw the 18 million ratings, which is still ultra cool, but left me wondering where did the extra 10 million came from.

[MzLiz]

So, I think that's right. 28 million total viewers with 18 million of those in the demo market (18-49). Outstanding!

[Mia Nina]

Wow, mighty impressive then. I'm very happy, I wanted this show to do well, but apparently, I wasn't thinking big enough.

[solvej]

So, I think that's right. 28 million total viewers with 18 million of those in the demo market (18-49). Outstanding!

No, that's not right. 18 million people watched the episode. The 7.6 demo is a percentage figure and means that 7.6% of all adults 18-49 in the U.S. watched the show.

The 28 million figure is just network spin and a completely misleading number. It means that at some point throughout the broadcast a total of 28 million people tuned in for some period of time (meaning a small period of time like a few minutes). 10 million people saw a few minutes of the show (probably right after the game before they got around to switching the channel), while 18 million people saw the show in its entirely.

ABC did the same thing after the premiere of Pushing Daisies this fall. It got 12.8 million viewers but ABC claimed in commercials that it was seen by 27 million people. This was one of the posts explaining it on the PD forum:

Supposedly 27 million people watched at least 5 minutes of the pilot. It's the usual "creative" math. Occasionally each network pulls this crap. Totally ridiculous.

Regardless, 18 million viewers is excellent. I hope it does similarly well on Mondays.

Edited by solvej, Jan 15, 2008 @ 8:58 AM.

[jcin617]

Early returns:

Fox’s competing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted in the hour with a second-place 6.9/10. Comparably, that dipped a significant 43 percent from its preview just one day earlier... but it built out of [its] lead-in by 47 percent.

From pifeedback

[hc_8]

And the fast nationals in millions of viewers and with the 18-49 demo.

In time period-premiere news, Fox drama Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles got off to a positive start, with 10.07 million viewers (#2) and a 4.3/10 among adults 18-49 (#2) from 9-10 p.m. While this may pale in comparison to its preview just one day earlier (Viewers: 18.36 million; A18-49: 7.7/18 on Jan. 13 out of the Giants/Cowboys NFL match-up), it did build from lead-in Prison Break (Viewers: #4, 7.89 million; A18-49: #2, 3.4/ 8 at 8 p.m.) by 2.18 million viewers and 26 percent among adults 18-49.

pifeedback.com

[LolaRuns]

I'm quite shocked that it wasn't no. 1 in the demos. Stupid Deal or No Deal.

[Polter-Cow]

That's not bad! Building from the lead-in is pretty sweet; it shows that people specifically tuned in for that show.

[Coconut]

It probably helps that there aren't many shows with new episodes. That's the reason I started watching without the writers strike my Monday nights were full. And since I refuse to watch reality shows, this was my only choice.

Edited by Coconut, Jan 15, 2008 @ 2:02 PM.