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By Staff Sci Fi"s "Eureka" Series Strikes Tuesday Gold Staff New York - The July 18 debut of Eureka scored a ratings knockout over ESPN's premiere of The Contender reality boxing series and all other Tuesday night opponents, while setting a Sci Fi Channel ratings record for an original series premiere.

The series, about a community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research, generated a 3.2 household rating and drew more than 4 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Those numbers topped the 3.1 rating garnered by the July 2004 premiere of Stargate Atlantis . Eureka 's numbers also bested all cable programs for the night, including the debut of ESPN's reality skein The Contender . The...

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