NEW YORK – June 20, 2014 – Successfully establishing a potent Thursday night original scripted programming block, the premieres of Syfy’s new epic Supernatural drama series Dominion and the second season return of the popular series Defiance each delivered two million total viewers during their June 19 premieres.
In its 9-10:24PM (ET/PT) time period, Dominion averaged 805K Adults 18-49 and 935K Adults 25-54. Compared to all ad supported cable scripted drama series premieres year to date, Dominion ranks #4 in L+SD rating among both Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54, and #2 among Men 18-49 and Men 25-54.
Dominion saw more tweets than recent scripted series premieres of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, A&E’s Those Who Kill First and TNT’s Murder in the First.
Kicking off the night at 8PM (ET/PT) with its Season 2 premiere, Defiance delivered 776K Adults 18-49 and 948K Adults 25-54.
Season two of Defiance stars Grant Bowler stars as Nolan, along with Julie Benz as Amanda Rosewater, Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa, Tony Curran as Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr, Graham Greene as Rafe McCawley and Jesse Rath as Alak Tarr. The cast also features Dewshane Williams as Tommy, Trenna Keating as Doc Yewll, Justin Rain as Quentin McCawley and Nicole Munoz as Christie McCawley. New this season are James Murray as Mayor Pottinger, William Atherton as high-ranking Earth Republic official Viceroy Mercado and Anna Hopkins as Earth Republic soldier and documentarian Jessica “Berlin” Rainier. Linda Hamilton will play the key recurring role of Pilar McCawley, the wife of Rafe McCawley (Greene) and mother to their three children. Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives, Caprica) resumes his role as executive producer and showrunner. Smallville’s Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin return as executive producers for Season 2 and Michael Taylor serves as consulting producer. Michael Nankin (co-executive producer) directed the Season 2 opener.
Based on characters from the theatrical film Legion (2010), Dominion is set in the year 25 A.E. In this transformed post–apocalyptic future, an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, has waged a war of possession against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, has chosen to side with humanity against Gabriel. Rising out of the ashes of the 25 year-long battle are newly fortified cities which protect the human survivors. Dominion stars Christopher Egan (Kings), Tom Wisdom (300), Roxanne McKee (Game of Thrones), Alan Dale (Lost), Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias). Dominion is produced by Universal Cable Productions and Bold Films. The series is executive produced by Vaun Wilmott, Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer, along with executive producers Scott Stewart, who co-wrote and directed the feature film Legion, Michael Litvak and David Lancaster of Bold Films who produced the original film. Film Afrika serves as the local production entity in South Africa.
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"Dominion saw more tweets than recent scripted series premieres of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, A&E’s Those Who Kill First and TNT’s Murder in the First."
ReplyDeleteI love you SyFy but really? Those Who Kill was cancelled after two episodes and Halt and Catch Fire did even worse than Turn. Don't get my wrong, I really liked Those Who Kill and Turn, and plan on watching Dominion tomorrow, but that line is just wrong.
So 0.6 for both. Not as strong as the press release makes it sound.
ReplyDeleteNot too bad i suppose , defiance ended last year on a 0.6 so at least it retained an audience.
ReplyDeleteSeason 1 finale got 0.7, actually.
ReplyDeleteyep, your right i just looked again.
ReplyDeleteSyFy couldn't even write "Those Who Kill" title right.
ReplyDeleteWow, I never got to follow Defiance and the last time I read about its ratings was for Episode 1x02 when it went below 2 million viewers. I just saw a chart on its ratings and I'm really impressed that it managed to grow its ratings towards the end.
ReplyDeleteEek, I hope Dominion keeps enough viewers for another season. Even if they skate by, please.
ReplyDeleteAh! I dind't even notice!
ReplyDeleteI really loved Dominion, I mean i REALLY loved it! I hope it gets a second season, it was very good :)
ReplyDeleteDefiance was extremely boring imo, i was really disappointed by it tbh
Don't forget that it's also up against the World Cup and last season, it's ratings dipped quite a lot during the World Cup - which lead the ratings on the night...
ReplyDeleteThe World Cup happens only every 4 years though.
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