"Star Trek: Enterprise" soldiered on for four seasons, but really, the death knell happened early in season 2. The season's ratings peaked with its fifth episode, "A Night In Sickbay," at 6.26 million — and apparently, that infamous episode drove off potential audiences since the ratings on "Enterprise" never reached those same heights.
This might be why the tail end of season 2 features an obvious ratings stunt (and one that seemed destined to drive canon-obsessed Trekkies up the wall). "Regeneration" features the Borg as the villains. Contemporary promos warned viewers to, "Prepare for Enterprise's first encounter with — The Borg!" and emphasized how terrifying the cyborg hive mind is. The network definitely wanted people to know the Borg would be showing up ahead of time.
Did it work? Well, "Regeneration" pulled in 4.12 million viewers — the highest ratings since "Future Tense" and higher than the season's remaining episodes. But was this short bump worth it?...
This might be why the tail end of season 2 features an obvious ratings stunt (and one that seemed destined to drive canon-obsessed Trekkies up the wall). "Regeneration" features the Borg as the villains. Contemporary promos warned viewers to, "Prepare for Enterprise's first encounter with — The Borg!" and emphasized how terrifying the cyborg hive mind is. The network definitely wanted people to know the Borg would be showing up ahead of time.
Did it work? Well, "Regeneration" pulled in 4.12 million viewers — the highest ratings since "Future Tense" and higher than the season's remaining episodes. But was this short bump worth it?...
- 1/1/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Updated: Shonda Rhimes is among the many paying tribute to Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, the head of Sony Pictures TV’s TriStar Television, who died suddenly at the age of 50.
Patmore Gibbs was passionate about providing more opportunities for female showrunners and directors and was regarded as a champion of distinctive writers and as an executive who nurtured younger and less experienced TV writers. Rhimes was one of those newcomers in the early 2000s. In a tweet, Rhimes wrote Patmore Gibbs was the first exec to say “maybe Shonda could write a TV show” and noted “she fought like hell to get us the chance to make the Grey’s Anatomy pilot. No way to describe this loss.”
Director Paris Barclay, Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and more also are remembering Patmore Gibbs. A selection of tweets follows below.
She was my very first champion at ABC Studios, the first...
Patmore Gibbs was passionate about providing more opportunities for female showrunners and directors and was regarded as a champion of distinctive writers and as an executive who nurtured younger and less experienced TV writers. Rhimes was one of those newcomers in the early 2000s. In a tweet, Rhimes wrote Patmore Gibbs was the first exec to say “maybe Shonda could write a TV show” and noted “she fought like hell to get us the chance to make the Grey’s Anatomy pilot. No way to describe this loss.”
Director Paris Barclay, Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and more also are remembering Patmore Gibbs. A selection of tweets follows below.
She was my very first champion at ABC Studios, the first...
- 3/29/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
She was the first TV executive to champion Shonda Rhimes as a series creator. She was “a class act” and “a brilliant executive” in the view of those who worked with Suzanne Patmore Gibbs during her tenures at ABC and Sony Pictures TV.
Many in the TV industry expressed shock at news of the death of Patmore Gibbs, the head of Sony’s TriStar Television banner who died suddenly on Thursday morning. She was 50.
Rhimes, director Paris Barclay and others took to social media to pay tribute to the executive who championed series ranging from “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “Desperate Housewives” to “The Blacklist,” “Masters of Sex,” “Good Girls Revolt,” and “Lost.”
She was my very first champion at ABC Studios, the first exec to say "maybe Shonda could write a TV show." Then she fought like hell to get us the chance to make the Grey's Anatomy pilot.
Many in the TV industry expressed shock at news of the death of Patmore Gibbs, the head of Sony’s TriStar Television banner who died suddenly on Thursday morning. She was 50.
Rhimes, director Paris Barclay and others took to social media to pay tribute to the executive who championed series ranging from “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “Desperate Housewives” to “The Blacklist,” “Masters of Sex,” “Good Girls Revolt,” and “Lost.”
She was my very first champion at ABC Studios, the first exec to say "maybe Shonda could write a TV show." Then she fought like hell to get us the chance to make the Grey's Anatomy pilot.
- 3/29/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
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