"The Triangle" watched by over 28 million

[Sci-Fi]

From the Futon Critic:

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
SCI FI #1 ON CABLE IN THE KEY DEMOGRAPHIC OF ADULTS 25-54 FOR WEEK OF 12/5
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SCI FI #1 ON CABLE IN THE KEY DEMOGRAPHIC OF ADULTS 25-54 FOR WEEK OF 12/5

THE TRIANGLE WATCHED BY OVER 28 MILLION! *

NEW YORK -- December 13, 2005 -- SCI FI earned the #1 spot on cable for the week of 12/5/2005-12/11/2005 with P25-54, topping all 66 measured cable networks and delivering nearly 1.3 million viewers (P25-54) in prime time (M-Su 8pm-11pm). Across its 15 telecasts (12/5-12/11), 'Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin Present The Triangle' scored over 28 million viewers (P2+).*

Week of 12/5 (M-Su 8pm-11pm):

--SCI FI had its best week in overall ratings (1.9 HH) and delivery (2.2 million P2+) since week two of 'Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN' in December 2002 (12/9-12/15: 2.5 HH/3 million P2+).

--Third highest-rated and most-watched week for SCI FI, behind the two-week run of 'Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN.'

--The Channel has also had its best week in P18-49 (1 million) and P25-54 (1.3 million) since the 'Battlestar Galactica' miniseries in December 2003 (12/8-12/14: 1.1 million P18-49, 1.3 million P25-54**).

--Over 14 million unique total viewers (14.3 million P2+) and more than 8 million unique P25-54s watched one of the first 12 telecasts of 'The Triangle.'

--'The Triangle' brought in 4.9 million (P2+) new viewers to SCI FI.

'Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin Present The Triangle:'

--The six-hour original miniseries event scored an average 3.6 HH rating over its three night original run (December 5-7 @ 9-11pm) ? making it the highest-rated miniseries on SCI FI since the Emmy Award-winning 'Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN' (2002).

--'The Triangle' made SCI FI Channel the #1 primetime (8-11pm) destination in cable among P25-54 for all three nights that it aired. And 45% of those P25-54 were women ? SCI FI's best delivery of F25-54 since 'TAKEN.' The miniseries averaged 4.2 million viewers a night (P2+).

The miniseries marks the first collaboration between Hollywood filmmaking talents Bryan Singer ('X-Men,' 'Superman Returns') and Dean Devlin ('Independence Day'), with a teleplay by Rockne S. O'Bannon from a story by O'Bannon and Singer & Devlin.

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[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

28 million and it didn't even score bigger than Taken. That's a shocker.

[the fifth man]

Nice numbers, I'll give it that.

[creed462]

It was very good

[dec55]

Congrats Dean and Brain......now get Dean to do a cameo on Stargate!!!!

[Morbo]

i watched it, thought it was pretty decent.
was really hoping for something more supernatural than a naval experiement though.
at least it wasn't aliens, i'll give it that.

also, catherine bell makes me tingle in all the right places.

[the fifth man]

also, catherine bell makes me tingle in all the right places.

I think I know what you mean. Definitely an attractive woman. Good performance, too.

[Morbo]

I think I know what you mean. Definitely an attractive woman. Good performance, too.

just watch her in Bruce Almighty.

ding ding ding.

[FoolishPleasure]

I wasn't expecting much, but I liked it better than "Taken" (which I thought was way too slow). Was pleasantly surprised to find I rather liked "The Triangle" overall. Hope that SciFi can come up with more like this, instead of the "Mansquito" type garbage we've been getting.

[Morbo]

I wasn't expecting much, but I liked it better than "Taken" (which I thought was way too slow). Was pleasantly surprised to find I rather liked "The Triangle" overall. Hope that SciFi can come up with more like this, instead of the "Mansquito" type garbage we've been getting.

how about

Tremors 14: Yes, Another Movie

[Buzz Lightyear]

Congrats Dean and Brain......now get Dean to do a cameo on Stargate!!!!

Maybe when hell freezes over.

Seriously, I don't think Devlin and his producing partner on the Stargate movie want anything to do with the current tv Stargate franchise, since it's not the way they envisioned things when they originally planned a trilogy of SG films.

[Seastallion]

I think the Sci-Fi channel should really just stick with Mini-series, rather than the pantheon of pathetic movies they've delivered. Sci-Fi Mini-series have pretty consistantly knocked the ball out of the park, while their movies seem to mostly be strike-out losers. If their going to make something, it should be good. I'd rather have only 2 or 3 (maybe 4?), very good mini-series a year, rather than a dozen or more B movies.

But... that's just me.

[Wyrminarrd]

I think the Sci-Fi channel should really just stick with Mini-series, rather than the pantheon of pathetic movies they've delivered. Sci-Fi Mini-series have pretty consistantly knocked the ball out of the park, while their movies seem to mostly be strike-out losers. If their going to make something, it should be good. I'd rather have only 2 or 3 (maybe 4?), very good mini-series a year, rather than a dozen or more B movies.

But... that's just me.

Totally agree, most of the sci-fi original movies are total crap. When I read the synopses of them they sound like something a 10 year old would come up with (and not a very gifted 10 year old at that).

Sci-fi should make more mini-series, I´d personally like to see more space based ones that could then be made into a tv series if well recieved like BSG was.