From the cancellation news, I'm assuming that SG1 was notably lower.

It's something of an apples/oranges comparison, though. SciFi might tolerate lower ratings for BG because it earns money from DVD sales, which it doesn't for SG1.

No, I meant that something in the cancellation news implied SG1 was lower. And lower than SGA. But I can't recall what.

God, my head is made of cotton candy today.

The press release doesn't exist at that site anymore. I vote prank.

Galactica averaged 2.0 last season. The lowest rated episodes went down to 1.7. Maybe that's why the number sticks in your mind.

I got my weekly Netflix envelope in the mail yesterday, and I opened it up expecting Disc 1 of the new Doctor Who, when I was surprised to find "Rememberance of the Daleks," the Sylvester McCoy 25th-anniversary-season ep that had tons of callbacks to the original show's first episode, "The Unearthly Child." I had forgotten that that was on the top of my queue, but enjoyed watching it again (it's the only original-series ep I still have on tape, but I wanted to watch the extras).

A really excellent episode, and much darker than I remembered, especially with the racism theme running throughout the plot, both for the Daleks (race war between two variants of the same species; to quote Ace, "They're not pure in their blobbiness. Result: they hate each others' chromosomes.") and for Ace's hunk-du-episode, Mike the Racist Army Guy. Also, since it was a Dalek ep, lots of explosions and deaths on both sides (the commentary with McCoy and Sophie Aldred had a running tally of the number of times their lead stuntie gets killed in spectacular ways).

Scariest/creepiest bit was the way the Daleks used a little girl to control their minions.

Oh, I love watching darts! Those guys are amazing! Admittedly, I also watch OLN for their other programming, too, and not just the hockey.

Also? I say doom, doom, doom, about SciFi. This is the Man getting back at us geeks for the tech bubble bust, isn't it? I mean, really, I'm sorry about that. I didn't mean it!

I consulted the tubes for any other references to a name change, to thankfully no luck. Though I did find the wikipedia entry for Eureka, where it says that Eureka was originally going to be an animated series. Glad they didn't go in that direction!

Also says that Colin is "pleasant and believable," which I think is an excellent description.

SG-1 's ratings (and to a lesser degree, SGA's) have been in free-fall this year into the low-to-mid 1's. But I thought they were both hovering around the 2.0 level last year.

This might have been what started my train of thought:

The ratings of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis have dipped and there is no guarantee that without their strong lead-in, Battlestar Galactica will fare any better when it finally airs in October. With all the advantages of the original three-hour programming block behind it, its ratings were only on par with those of Stargate last season.

From scanning various google hits, it seems that BSG did outshine the Gates in its first year.

The BSG promo that aired during this week's Eureka.

SG-1 was down around 1.4, 1.5 this year, though for 200 it bounced back up to a 1.9 (which is about its average from last year, if I remember correctly). SGA was running one or two tenths higher.