Original "Star Trek" is weekend's top sci-fi

from broadcasting and cable

Star Trekking to the Top
By John Eggerton

The top science fiction weekend hour in syndication is one of the
oldest: Paramount Domestic Television's digital remastering of the
original Star Trek led the pack, according to the latest Nielsen
weekly ratings report for the week ending Oct. 8.

Star Trek, which turned 40 last month, recorded a 1.2 rating, down a
tick from the 1.3 the week before, but that was in the face of stiff
competition from the MLB playoffs featuring several teams with
top-market rooting interest--Yankees, Mets, A's.

Paramount returned the series to the syndication rotation after giving
it a digital facelift to make it more viewer-friendly to a generation
weaned on computer graphics.

Trek's 1.2 topped Stargate: Atlantis at a 1.1; Stargate SG-1 with a
1.0; and Outer Limits at a .4. It also beat the off-Si Fi Channel
Farscape at a .8, though that show is classified as a general drama
rather than sci-fi.

muzicmakr...

Why isn't Farscape sci-fi? Have they not seen what those characters look
like?

Ken from Chicago...

Clearly classifiers need medical help: Either a shrink or eye doctor.