What are B5's ratings?

[Bryce Burchett]

Does anyone know how B5 is doing ratings wise?

-Thanks
Bryce {:) <--attempt at a Minbari smiley.

[I.K. Ridley]

In article <38l0b8$c...@news.ccit.arizona.edu>,

Bryce Burchett <br...@SEDS.LPL.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>Does anyone know how B5 is doing ratings wise?
>

I'd like to know how it's UK ratings are as well. Especially how they have
changed from the pilot to the end of the first season.

Ian Ridley

[Chris Harding]

They were posted only yesterday. I'll include them here again:

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>From e...@unix.bton.ac.uk Fri Oct 28 15:28:06 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 07:32:38 -0400
From: Freelancer <e...@unix.bton.ac.uk>
Reply to: baby...@solaris.cc.vt.edu
To: chris@pongo
Subject: B5 UK season 2 news and season 1 complete ratings list

[ stuff deleted ]

Below are the final ratings for the pilot movie and season 1 of Babylon 5
aired in the UK on Channnel 4, shown from the highest to the lowest rating.
Ratings are in the format:-

[position in C4's top 30 where known]/[# of millions of viewers]

AIR DATE PROD. TITLE RATINGS
CODE

94/05/16 103 "Midnight on the Firing Line" 14/2.61
94/10/09 N/A "The Gathering" 16/2.43
94/09/19 118 "Babylon Squared" 22=/2.13
94/06/06 101 "Infection" 19/2.12
94/09/12 121 "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" 21/2.05
94/06/20 110 "Mind War" 21/1.86
94/05/23 102 "The Soul Hunter" 26/1.79
94/10/03 112 "Chrysalis" 31/1.79
94/09/26 117 "The Quality of Mercy" 27/1.76
94/09/05 120 "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" 22/1.73
94/06/27 107 "The War Prayer" 21/1.65
94/08/01 114 "By Any Means Necessary" ??/1.6
94/07/25 111 "Survivors" 30/1.50
94/07/18 105 "Believers" 27/1.47
94/07/04 106 "And the Sky Full of Stars" 25/1.46
94/07/11 113 "Deathwalker" 28/1.46
94/08/08 116 "Signs and Portents" ??/1.4
94/08/15 109 "Grail" ??/1.4
94/06/13 108 "The Parliament of Dreams" ??/1.3
94/05/30 104 "Born to the Purple" ??/1.2
94/08/22 122 "Eyes" ??/1.2
94/08/29 115 "Legacies" ??/1.2
xx/xx/xx 119 "TKO" NOT AIRED

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As an addendum to this, I think the TNG ratings when it was originally on
the BBC were around 2 million an episode. This is not however, any kind
of "official" rating and it may well be different know that TNG has resumed
on the Beeb. I don't know what the viewing figures were whilst it was on
Sky.

To put these in some kind of perspective, the top rated shows on the
network channels generally get around 10 - 13 million viewers an episode
out of a total population of around 50 million or so. I guess multiplying
our figures by 5 will give you a (very) rough comparison with viewing
figures from the States

-- Chris