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[12/03/07 - 04:41 PM]
Sci Fi's 'Tin Man' Miniseries #1 Telecast in Channel's History
Sci Fi spins the numbers for Sunday, December 2.
[via press release from Sci Fi]

SCI FI'S 'TIN MAN' MINISERIES #1 TELECAST IN CHANNEL'S HISTORY

Wonderful Wizard of Ratings Soars Past TAKEN As Channel's Biggest Hit

Best Ever P2+, P18-49 and P24-54

Over 6.3 Million Viewers Tune In

New York, NY � December 3, 2007 � SCI FI Channel's legacy of hit original miniseries continues. Night 1 of Tin Man, a wild re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz, premiered last night (December 2 @ 9-11pm ET/PT) to a 4.2 HH rating/3.93 million HHs, delivering more than 6.3 million total viewers (P2+), 3.8 million viewers P25-54 and 3.4 million viewers P18-49.*

Tin Man's Night 1 performance made it the Channel's most-watched telecast ever in overall viewership (P2+), as well as in both of its key demos, P25-54 and P18-49. The wizardly delivery has bested all of SCI FI's previous miniseries, including the Emmy-winning Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN.

� Best ever performance on SCI FI in P2+ (beating TAKEN Part 1's 6.1 million)

� Best ever performance on SCI FI in P25-54 (beating TAKEN Part 1's 3.7 million)

� Best ever performance on SCI FI in P18-49 (beating Frank Herbert's Dune Part 1's 3.3 million)

� Best ever performance on SCI FI in HHs (beating TAKEN Part 1's 3.91 million)

Night 2 of this three-part, six-hour saga airs tonight on SCI FI at 9pm ET.

Produced by RHI, Tin Man is a deliciously twisted take on L. Frank Baum's children's literary classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and stars Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, Raoul Trujillo and Richard Dreyfuss.

SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com ) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 93 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.

* Source: Nielsen Media Research, Fast National Ratings 12/2/07 Su 9-11pm, Tin Man Part One L+SD, Cvg HH Rating, P2+, P18-49, and P25-54 (000)s vs. all telecasts to date (1993-2007) M-Su 7pm-11pm. Subject to qualifications upon request.





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· FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE (SCI FI)
· STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS: TAKEN (SCI FI)
· TIN MAN (SCI FI)




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