Above the post update on premiere ratings from SciFiWire:
V became the highest rated sci-fi premiere of the new fall TV season after 13.9 million people watched the pilot episode last night, according to preliminary ratings. That number is still subject to some change, but it looks likely that this will be the biggest show to debut at 8 p.m. since another ABC sci-fi series, Lost….
…As avid fans know, the demon-hunting Winchester brothers, Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles), inadvertently released Lucifer from hell in the fourth-season finale, setting the stage for the end of the world, and creator and executive producer Eric Kripke promises a big ol’ scorching of the Earth in the upcoming fifth season.
“Oh, it’s the Apocalypse,” Kripke and his fellow co-executive producers Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund said in a small group interview last month. “We’re not promising the Apocalypse and then hedging our bets.”