Thread: falling skies - tnt

Falling Skies’ Season One Finale Snags Good Ratings
Aug 9, 2011 by Michael Crider
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The ‘Falling Skies’ finale Sunday night was the most-watched episode since the June premiere, scoring over 5 million viewers. That makes it the most successful new show on basic cable.Falling Skies has been a surprise hit on TNT, a fact that’s become even more apparent as the numbers for the feature-length finale have come in. The two-hour episode netted 5.6 million viewers, according to a press release from the network.That makes the finale the most-watched episode since the premiere on June 19th, which scored slightly better at 5.9 million viewers (and a full 8 million in the Live +7 ratings). Falling Skies has averaged 4.8 million viewers across the 10-episode freshman season, numbers to make any cable show (and many broadcast shows) jealous. About 50% of viewers are watching on DVR devices, so the finale’s ratings should increase significantly when the +7 ratings come in two weeks.The genre show is also performing surprisingly well in the all-important 18-49 demographic: 2.5 million viewers of Sunday night’s finale fell in the range. With that, Falling Skies is the best-performing new basic cable show this year. TNT renewed the show after its fourth episode, and Season 2 is currently scheduled for another 10-episode run next summer.The show’s success is even more surprising given its unashamedly sci-fi premise. Science fiction shows have been falling left and right for the last year: No Ordinary Family, V, The Event, Caprica, Stargate Universe… it’s refreshing to see a genre show get a good jump out of the gate.Audience reactions to Falling Skies have been mostly positive, with critical reactions to match. If for no other reason, a good chunk of the viewership will probably return next year just to find out what happened after the impressive finale cliffhanger.Falling Skies is also making a splash on international television. According to TNT, the show is the best-performing launch ever for parent company Turner in Spain, Germany and Austria, with strong performances in the UK, Australia and Germany. The series launched almost simultaneously in over a hundred markets.
Falling Skies is scheduled to return to TNT in the summer of 2012.

Just watched the finale, the kid's attack on the radio you could see coming a mile away (though how they did it was a surprise), but the rest had some good twists. The HF radio "interference" against a seemingly advanced civilization was a bit hard to believe, BUT a lot better than the virus uploaded to the mother ship in Independence Day Definitely didn't see the ending coming at all with Tom.

Glad to see it's coming back since only a few decent SciFi shows left...

-Mike

I think the virus in Independence Day was intended more as a joke/homage to H.G. Wells than anything else.

While I would not call this my ATF Sci Fi show I enjoed it and will be back for next year.

I like this show and am glad to see it is re-newed. I wasn't going to watch it as it seems like new shows that come out that I like get cancelled just as I'm getting into them.
Anyway falling skies is entertaining and hope it keeps that going. To bad we have to wait so long for the 2nd season.
I have the episodes dvr'd to watch later on again.

Anyone know when this comes back on?

Sunday, June 17, 2012

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