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Final Ratings: Borg Bump Minimal, Plus UPN Axes ZONE and May Move ENT to Tuesdays

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Posted: 07:14:29 on May 14 2003
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com
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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Season Two (2002-2003)
Prod #Title Airdate
128 Shockwave, Part II 9/18/02
127 Carbon Creek9/25/02
129 Minefield10/02/02
131 Dead Stop10/09/02
130 A Night In Sickbay10/16/02
132 Marauders10/30/02
133 The Seventh11/06/02
134 The Communicator11/13/02
135 Singularity11/20/02
136 Vanishing Point11/27/02
137 Precious Cargo12/11/02
138 The Catwalk12/18/02
139 Dawn1/08/03
140 Stigma2/05/03
141 Cease Fire2/12/03
142 Future Tense2/19/03
143 Canamar2/26/03
144 The Crossing4/2/03
145 Judgment4/9/03
146 Horizon4/16/03
147 The Breach4/23/03
148 Cogenitor4/30/03
149 Regeneration5/7/03
150 First Flight5/14/03
151 Bounty5/14/03
152 The Expanse5/21/03
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By Grand Admiral Thrawn ( grandfleetadmiralthrawn@hotmail.com) at 15:15:48 on May 14 2003
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I think TPTB learned thier lesson from Nemesis debacle and are moving enterprise off wednesday. Well...lets see if they deliver on thier promise for a reniasance season 3.
On the other hand i would try to vow Ira and Wolfe to contribute in some capacity to enterprise. Enterprise needs all the help it can get and they can provide the much needed boost with their proven talents

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This move might be a good idea
By Rat Boy ( ) at 14:56:43 on May 14 2003
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Chances are ENT will be put at the 8 pm spot on Tuesday if it goes to that day. Rumors say that JAG (the slot's #1 drama) will get moved to Friday at 9 (Viacom doesn't want the flagship dramas of their two networks competing?) so that the spin-off of that show will take the 8 pm spot. 24 will probably stay at 9 pm on Tuesday to continue pouncing on Frasier. This may acutally work to keep ENT from getting hammered by Smallville, but whether it will increase ratings all depends on the show.

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Tuesday? baaaaaad idea!
By Three of Nineteen ( ) at 14:15:55 on May 14 2003
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Tuesday is 24 night. There's going to be another season next year, how could Ent possibly compete?
I'd be in a pinch as well, downloading 2 episodes on bittorrent at the same time is way to slow on my connection (live in Denmark, no Ent here, for the ppl that were about to harrass me about dl'ing).

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Twilight Zone cancelled...hmmmmm...
By AdmiralMithrandir ( Saruman543@aol.com) at 10:02:06 on May 14 2003
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Could this mean that Behr, Wolfe and all the rest of the DS9 writers are available to work on another series? Let's hope Paramount wises up and dumps Bermaga to replace it with writers who actually have talent. (Sussman and Strong and the current good writers could still stay on)

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Do we need a Mullett sitcom?
By Blok_Narpin ( philly_guy_pa@yahoo.com.yahoo.com) at 09:58:35 on May 14 2003
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Moving Enterprise to Tuesday at 8 is smart, but do we need a sitcom about mulletts????




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