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Ratings: BSG Does Not Frak Dollhouse Up

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | March 23, 2009 | +

On Friday I lamented the overlap of Battlestar Galactica’s finale with the paradigm-shifting relaunch episode of Dollhouse. But it turns out that maybe a rising tide lifts all spaceships / human-personality-imprinting facilities. BSG did score a big sendoff, with its highest ratings in three years. But Dollhouse not only held fairly steady—albeit at a relatively low level—but added viewers from its Terminator lead-in. There may be reason for Whedonites to hope after all.

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  • Tom Shaw

    I think the “BSG and Dollhouse audiences do not overlap” argument is incomplete; instead, I’d say the proper argument is “Number of Flashpoint viewers who prefer Dollhouse to NCAA is nearly equal to the overlap of live audiences for BSG and Dollhouse”.
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    Check the history: Flashpoint took a serious dive when Dollhouse premiered, then picked back up most of the audience that abandoned Dollhouse in the following weeks. Much like 24 & Heroes, TV seems to only support one action show in a given time slot.

  • James Poniewozik

    FWIW, I wasn’t thinking that the two shows’ audiences do not overlap–although I wasn’t taking Flashpoint into consideration, my thinking was that the two highly buzzed-about airings probably boosted the live (vs. time-shifted) ratings for both shows.

  • Rorschach

    I figured the DVR hits would be way up (like during The Watchmen release), any word on those?

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