Roswell

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ROSWELL
Season 1
Time Period: Wednesdays 9 p.m. (most of season), Mondays 9 p.m. (last few episodes)



Episode 1 (10/06/99) - Rating: 4.9/8
Episode 2 (10/13/99) - Rating: 3.5/6
Episode 3 (10/20/99) - Rating: 3.5/6
Episode 4 (10/27/99) - Rating: 2.9/5
Episode 5 (11/03/99) - Rating: 3.0/5
Episode 6 (11/10/99) - Rating: 3.1/5
Episode 7 (11/17/99) - Rating: 3.1/6
Episode 8 (11/24/99) - Rating: 2.6/4
Episode 9 (12/01/99) - Rating: 2.8/5
Episode 10 (12/15/99) - Rating: 2.8/4
Episode 11 (1/19/00) - Viewers: 3.6 million
Episode 12 (1/26/00) - Rating: 2.7/4
Episode 13 (2/02/00) - Rating: 2.5/4
Episode 14 (2/09/00) - Rating: 2.5/4
Episode 15 (2/16/00) - Rating: 2.8/5
Episode 16 (3/01/00) - Rating: 2.7/4
Episode 17 (4/10/00) - Viewers: 4.3 million
Episode 18 (4/17/00) - Rating: 2.5/4
Episode 19 (4/24/00) - Viewers: 3.6 million
Episode 20 (5/01/00) - Viewers: 3.3 million
Episode 21 (5/08/00) - Viewers: 3.1 million
Episode 22 (5/15/00) - Viewers: 3.6 million

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ROSWELL
Season 2
Time Period: Mondays 9 p.m.

Episode 1 (10/02/00) - Viewers: 4.6 million
Episode 2 (10/09/00) - Viewers: 4.5 million
Episode 3 (10/16/00) - Viewers: 4.2 million
Episode 4 (10/23/00) - Viewers: 4.4 million
Episode 5 (10/30/00) - Viewers: 4.4 million
Episode 6 (11/06/00) - Viewers: 4.8 million
Episode 7 (11/13/00) - Viewers: 5.1 million
Episode 8 (11/20/00) - Viewers: 4.5 million
Episode 9 (11/27/00) - Viewers: 4.6 million
Episode 10 (12/18/00) - Viewers: 4.8 million
Episode 11 (1/22/01) - Viewers: 3.7 million
Episode 12 (1/29/01) - Viewers: 4.5 million
Episode 13 (2/05/01) - Viewers: 4.3 million
Episode 14 (2/19/01) - Viewers: 4.0 million
Episode 15 (2/26/01) - Viewers: 4.2 million
Episode 16 (4/16/01) - Viewers: 3.9 million
Episode 17 (4/23/01) - Viewers: 4.0 million
Episode 18 (4/30/01) - Viewers: 3.6 million
Episode 19 (5/07/01) - Viewers: 4.0 million
Episode 20 (5/14/01) - Viewers: 4.2 million
Episode 21 (5/21/01) - Viewers: 4.5 million

New Episodes Average: 4.32 milion viewers

[TVRatingsArchive]

the show premiered with like 7 million+ but it slipped a bit. it did good throughout its WB run but they put it after 7th Heaven, oddly enough.

[uniqblue69]

Thank you so much for this. I've been wondering how the ratings were for some of my favorite shows. It's funny how Roswell was averaging 4 million viewers and it was considered struggling and eventually axed and yet 4 million viewers was considered a success in the WB's last years and on the CW now. The WB must've been doing really well back then!

[TVRatingsArchive]

for the most part yeah. The show did well, dont know why they didnt pick it up for season 3. It did do okay on UPN though. despite being uncompatible with 7th heaven, it did okay after it.

[malbano]

Yeah, Roswell looked pretty healthy in its second season, maybe it was having a similar situation like Buffy having budget concerns, so thats why it went with Buffy to UPN.

[dec78]

Do you have the numbers it did on UPN and the rest of season 1?. I am quite surprised, really. Season 2's ratings were not bad at all. I was under the impression they were pretty bad since everyone kept talking how the show was struggling to stay alive and there was all this fan campaigning and all. Those numbers were pretty good for the WB to renew.

[uniqblue69]

The WB has been dominating TV ratings in the key demographic of 18-49-year-olds thanks to strong season debuts by Roswell, Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 6.71 million people tuned in to the Oct. 6 premiere of Roswell, which attracted the second largest audience ever for a WB show (7.72 million people watched Charmed bow in 1998).

I got the from the news archive at scifi.com. Though the author is incorrect that Roswell was the 2nd highest debut when Felicity had premiered to 7.1 million viewers just a year earlier.

[dec78]

uniqblue69 said:

The WB has been dominating TV ratings in the key demographic of 18-49-year-olds thanks to strong season debuts by Roswell, Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 6.71 million people tuned in to the Oct. 6 premiere of Roswell, which attracted the second largest audience ever for a WB show (7.72 million people watched Charmed bow in 1998).

I got the from the news archive at scifi.com. Though the author is incorrect that Roswell was the 2nd highest debut when Felicity had premiered to 7.1 million viewers just a year earlier.

Are they just talking about the debuts of shows on the WB or shows in general?. If it's shows in general, then they are way wrong. Several moths before Roswell debuted, 7th Heaven had the largest WB audience ever. The season 3 episode in which Annie gave birth to the twins reportedly had 12.5 million viewers.