Originally posted by
Auntbeast
Originally posted by
tunaman
In this case, the answer is "money". It's not much of an exaggeration to say that more people watch a single wrestling event than watched all of season 4 of BSG.
You sound so bitter.
Not really. I liked
BSG, but that was the only thing I've ever watched on SciFi. And honestly, the numbers for
BSG were terrible. The finale - the big deal that people had parties for and everything - drew a 1.7 household rating with 2.4 million total viewers... which barely beats the average
Desperate Housewives rerun or a new episode of NBC's
Merlin (4.2 million viewers), which is considered an epic failure.
It just got on my nerves that so many geeks I know were like "
BSG is the best, most important show
ever made! I can't believe they'd show
wrestling on that channel!" (as if that somehow "defiled"
BSG). I tied to tell them that the network had to make money somehow, as more people live in Athens, Georgia than watch an average episode of
BSG.