Defiance debuts strong for SF
Defiance has become the highest-rating new program launch for the SF channel in two years and its most popular show in 2013.
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New sci-fi series Defiance has become the highest-rating new program launch for the SF channel in two years and its most popular show in 2013.
The show starring Grant Bowler averaged 46,000 viewers last Thursday night, screened 55 hours after its US debut.
SF says in its timeslot, Defiance was the number one scripted program and number two program with 25-54 year olds and number four program with Total People.
“After much anticipation, we’re ecstatic about the number of viewers who tuned in to watch the first episode of Defiance (last Thursday)”, said Peter Hudson, CEO of SF.
“Defiance is paving the way for a new era of entertainment. It’s a privilege for SF to host the series”, continued Peter.
Defiance is set in a future Earth scenario where aliens and humans must co-exist on the same planet and also stars Julie Benz (Amanda Rosewater), Stephanie Leonidas (Irisa), Tony Curran (Datak Tarr), Jaime Murray (Stahma Tarr), Graham Greene (Rafe McCawley) and Mia Kirshner (Kenya).
A Defiance game has also been launched on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
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8 Responses
‘Jaime Murray ended up half naked, again.’
I’m not complaining 🙂
46k for SF is pretty good, but I would like to know how many viewers total watched for all airings.
It was the only scripted show on at 9:30pm Thursday!
Talk about setting a low bar.
46k isn’t much to crow about, but you need the +7 figures for all the screening to get the total number of people who watched it. .
Defiance was OK. We have the all aliens are humanoid and can interbreed thing again.
Has a great cast though. Jaime Murray ended up half naked, again.
Craig – Counting the pilot as two episodes, there are thirteen episodes in its initial season which is the standard for many series.
Must almost be time for SF to be the next channel to go HD on Foxtel (with Eurosport at the same time!)
Defiance was fantastic. One series I will be looking forward to each week.
Wow I didn’t even know they were fast tracking this. I would have watched it otherwise.
If this got 10 times that on FTA it would surly be canceled/moved to a later time.
I liked the pilot but will reserve my judgment until I’ve seen a few more eps, I understand there are only 10 in the season.
Glad to see it do well.
It was a really enjoyable first episode too.