They’ll be back
The pilot episode of successful Terminator spin-off serial The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted on Virgin 1 last Friday, raising the bar for the channel’s viewing figures, drawing in 642,000 viewers on its initial broadcast, and a further 744,000 on the later +1 timeshift run, beating the 323,000 number of viewers who tuned in on the channel’s opening night.
The show is set directly after the events of the second Terminator movie, and sees Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker, playing the respective roles of Sarah and John Connor, on the run again after they realise that their previous efforts merely delayed the creation of Skynet and Judgement Day. The pilot episode features the appearance of a new T-888 assassin who tracks down John at his new school, and another protector filling the Arnie role this time in the form of a beautiful teenage girl.
The series, broadcasts in the States last month, has generally been well received by critics and audiences alike, and is a real coup for Virgin Media, who want Virgin 1 along with Living, to become a prime UK channel in the vein of Five, Sky One, and C4 etc.
In other movie spin-off news, Virgin also snapped up the broadcast rights to Blade: The Series, which, although only running for one season, attracted a cult following when it was shown in the US.
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