How is Firefly doing in the UK?

POSTED BY: kasuo
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 21:00
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KASUO

Friday, June 13, 2003 10:53 PM

How is the show doing ratings-wise on SciFi UK?

SUCCATASH

Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:48 AM

After your post, I tried searching for any tidbit of news but I couldn't find anything on UK TV ratings.

GAMBIT3

Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:58 AM

Unfortunately, it seems to have dropped somewhat from week 1 to week 2.

A 30-second Google search led me to this:
http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklytop3
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If you scroll down, you can see the Top 10 rated shows per channel.

For the week of 6/1/03 (or 1/6/03 for you Europeans), Firefly was the 10th rated show on Sci-Fi, with 0.07 million viewers.

For the week of 5/25/03 (or 25/5/03), Firefly was the FOURTH rated show on Sci-Fi, with 0.10 million viewers.

Now, I don't know the accuracy of Barb.co.uk, but it looks pretty exhaustive to me.

*HOWEVER* I will add that for Major motion pictures, a 30% drop from opening weekend is actually considered very good.

Hopefully viewership will stabilize with some high numbers.

And to you Brits: Quick watching the Beckham/Posh/ManU/Barcelona/Milan saga!!!!

Watch Firefly instead!!!!

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WILLIAM

Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:03 PM

I'm British !

You should check out :

http://uk.scifi.com/forum/

There's a Firefly section, and from the looks of it, alot of Brits (like myself) love the show.

Don't know about the ratings though...

But Scifi UK, show it twice on a Monday, once of Friday and Sunday

DRAKON

Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:31 PM

Okay, First off, this is Saturday morning and I feel I must whine about Act 3 of Message not coming up. Is all okay?

Second, I see the Brits are getting 4 chances a week to view a Firefly episode. Grrr.... I am jealous.

Have not seen the unaired episodes, except Trash. Loved Trash, read the script for Heart of Gold, and half the script for Message. Note how the acts break at a climax? Hence the above whining. Another Grrr....

Will be getting DSL next week, these new episodes are the excuse I can use. Wife loved Trash, as did I.

Whoever is making DVDs of the unaired episodes, contact me. Even though I plan on dling them, I want the DVD as well.

Am getting at least 2 copies of the offical DVDs, as per orders from spousal unit. Any idea when they will be released?

Thanks all ya'll for your efforts.

SUCCATASH

Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gambit3:
A 30-second Google search led me to this:
http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklytop3
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What did you search for, Gambit? I tried Google for several minutes, couldn't find anything. Just curious.

GAMBIT3

Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:34 PM

1. google UK Television ratings.

2. Link #9 lead me to this:
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/57118/adf4aa0297971c340979eae306
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3. That lead me to the ratings site.

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BIRDIE

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:22 PM

I would take any ratings for the UK performance of Firefly with a pinch of salt. Sci-Uk is a tiny channel that screens most of its shows & movies up to five times a week. It does not produce its own shows (apart from a couple of magazines)and is entirely insignificant compared to the UK's premier cable channel, Sky 1.

Firefly was not picked up by any of the UK's terrestrial channels BBC, ITV, Channel Four or Channel Five. Shows such as Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Alias, X-Files, Enterprise etc have all been shown on this big four. Unless one of these channels picks Firefly up, it's performance on UKSci-Fi is commercially irrelevant, as that channel has an overall negligable slice of the market.

In other words, a minute portion of the UK is even getting the chance to see it.

ENGLISHFAN

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:50 PM

Well, I'm jolly glad that Sci-fi are showing Firefly. It's brilliant. We have just seen the very scary 'War Stories', and I'm very glad I'll get a chance next week to see it again!

How could this show be cancelled? Are they insane? I don't get it. With all the completely dross, unchallenging rubbish we do get on tele they thought Firefly was no good????....it's time for the world to end

ARCHER

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:27 PM

To our British associates, allow me to extend a formal apology on behalf of our gorram stupid entertainment companies on this side of the pond.

It has been the height of cruelty for us to introduce you to such a high-quality program after it has been canceled by the idiot network that butchered it. We are trying to rectify the situation.

It would be very much appreciated if you could stage another invasion, and this time along with burning Washington D.C. to the ground, we would not frown upon the Tommies torching some select portions of Hollywood. I'm sure we can find some native volunteers eager to act as guides. (Archer raises his hand.)

I feel this is the only way we can set right the grievious wrong we have done to you.

There ain't nothin' I can't overcome or come to know. So lay your heavy load down on me, strip everything I have away. I am not your prisoner, I am not afraid.

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