'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others || 'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others ||

'Sanctuary' Premiere Best Since 'Eureka' Debut

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Oct-09-2008

Viewers definitely wanted to check out a little "Sanctuary" on SciFi Channel last week.

The debut of the Web series-turned-television series starring "Stargate SG-1" alum Amanda Tapping attracted 2.7 million viewers Friday night, marking the best rating for an original SciFi Channel series since the series premiere of "Eureka" in 2006.

SciFi was able to pull in a lot of viewers in a key advertising demographic of adults 18 to 49 with 1.08 million viewers, finishing fourth among cable primetime shows that night, according to Multichannel News. When that demographic is shifted to adults 25 to 54, the number of viewers increase to 1.4 million.

At the same time, NBC Universal is keeping better track of who is viewing shows online, and found that those looking for "Sanctuary" on the official Web site were the highest ever at all levels. On Friday night alone, Scifi.com pulled in 208,000 unique visitors, 287,000 video streams, and 1.2 million page views.

"Sanctuary" airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on SciFi Channel, immediately after "Stargate: Atlantis," a series Tapping was a regular part of for one season following the end of "SG-1." "Atlantis" is expected to wrap up its final season in coming episodes.

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