Well, so it’s finished airing…and SciFi is very pleased. From our producers this morning:<\/p>\n
The premiere of Dark Kingdom averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+).<\/p>\n
This is the most-watched Monday program ever for Sci Fi in any second quarter.<\/p>\n
Dark Kingdom delivered 1.181 million P25-54s, the #8 cable program for the day on Monday on this measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…Over on the BBs at SciFi there’s a certain amount of approbation, a lot of confusion about where the story came from, and some indignation at the ending, along the lines of “How dare this not have a happy ending, it’s a fairy tale, right, a fantasy, where’s our happy ending?”<\/p>\n
Ah well. We have ours. \ud83d\ude42 On to the next miniseries!<\/p>\n
(The funniest remarks over there so far: (1) “There should be a sequel!” (Whoops, sorry, we seem to have killed everybody but Kriemhild. (2) “We want a series!” (Argh! But now that you mention it… NAAAH.) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Tags: Dark Kingdom<\/a>, The Dragon King<\/a>, Sci-Fi Channel<\/a>, miniseries<\/a>, Diane Duane<\/a>, Peter Morwood<\/a>, Uli Edel<\/a>, Kristanna Loken<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, so it’s finished airing…and SciFi is very pleased. From our producers this morning: The premiere of Dark Kingdom averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,43,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-and-tv","category-media","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"\n
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