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<blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 3332930" data-attributes="member: 924"><p>Well, actually, thanks to this helpful page which has the ratings for the entire run of Angel, Buffy, and Firefly we can compare:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://home.insightbb.com/~wahoskem/firefly1.html" target="_blank">http://home.insightbb.com/~wahoskem/firefly1.html</a></p><p></p><p>Firefly's best national rating was the premiere, at 4.0, the next two episodes were in the 3.x range, then the rest were in the 2s. Buffy didn't do much better (and in some cases about the same) but it did generally do better, especially the 3rd season when it seems to have peaked. I think Angel even did better than Buffy for a while.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, the network did matter. Buffy was among the top shows on WB, while Firefly was pretty much the worst on Fox. That sites also has a list of how the show did to others on the network. Firefly's best showing was the 3rd worst on the schedule. Most of the time it was worst. Which is pretty telling, too, because Fox runs re-runs of Cops on Saturday. In fact, saturday is basically a throw away for Fox, they run shows that have terrible ratings, but are very cheap to make (COPS and America's Most Wanted), and Firefly apparently even couldn't outperform those most of the time.</p><p></p><p>Firefly definitely can be considered a failure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trancejeremy, post: 3332930, member: 924"] Well, actually, thanks to this helpful page which has the ratings for the entire run of Angel, Buffy, and Firefly we can compare: [url]http://home.insightbb.com/~wahoskem/firefly1.html[/url] Firefly's best national rating was the premiere, at 4.0, the next two episodes were in the 3.x range, then the rest were in the 2s. Buffy didn't do much better (and in some cases about the same) but it did generally do better, especially the 3rd season when it seems to have peaked. I think Angel even did better than Buffy for a while. OTOH, the network did matter. Buffy was among the top shows on WB, while Firefly was pretty much the worst on Fox. That sites also has a list of how the show did to others on the network. Firefly's best showing was the 3rd worst on the schedule. Most of the time it was worst. Which is pretty telling, too, because Fox runs re-runs of Cops on Saturday. In fact, saturday is basically a throw away for Fox, they run shows that have terrible ratings, but are very cheap to make (COPS and America's Most Wanted), and Firefly apparently even couldn't outperform those most of the time. Firefly definitely can be considered a failure. [/QUOTE]
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