The final national ratings information is now available for last week's Borg event episode,
"Regeneration," which continued an upward trend for the sagging UPN series but may not have delivered the huge spikes traditionally associated with the reliable cybernetic villains.
Earning a 2.7/4 final rating and share, "Regeneration" holds steady with "Cogenitor" but couldn't improve on it in the numbers game (story). On the audience front, the Borg raked in 4.12 million viewers last Wednesday, a sizeable jump over "Cogenitor"'s 4.08m and the largest pool of viewers since February's "Future Tense" (4.62m). "Regeneration" beats "Canamar"'s 4.10 million and comes out above all 2003 episodes except "Stigma," "Cease Fire" and "Future Tense."
You can read the full ratings round-up at the Los Angeles Times. Thanks to 'Cyrus'.
In related news, the Hollywood Reporter previews UPN's fall schedule today, saying the netlet is expected to axe the freshman drama THE TWILIGHT ZONE, which has been ENTERPRISE's lead-out all season long. The show has employed former TREK producer/writer Ira Steven Behr, Jonathan Frakes directed its pilot, and freelance scripts from Hans Beimler and Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
UPN has picked up only one new drama for the fall, a science fiction skein now known as JAKE 2.0, about a national security agent who becomes something of a superhero when enhanced with nanotechnology. HR expects the series to be paired with ENTERPRISE as a natural join, and the trade paper also reports that UPN sources indicate the network is considering moving the STAR TREK prequel off its Wednesday night perch to avoid competition with SMALLVILLE (story). ENTERPRISE and JAKE 2.0 could end up on Tuesday night, filling the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER void.
Elsewhere on the schedule, UPN is expected to order up several comedies. Ordering four new laffers, the most since 1997, UPN has picked up OPPOSITE SEX, ALL OF US, ROCK ME BABY and an untitled project about rednecks with mullet haircuts (story).
UPN makes its fall presentation tomorrow. Read the original HR report here.
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