Ratings Up for German ‘Borgia’ Finale

6:08 AM PDT 10/28/2011 by Scott Roxborough

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Jiri Hanzl

The final episode of the Tom Fontana-created period series draws 4.7 million viewers on German pubweb ZDF.

COLOGNE, Germany – Borgia, the papal period drama created by Tom Fontana (Oz) and starring The Wire’s John Dorman closed its first run on German TV with a strong, if not outstanding, final night on pubweb ZDF. Some 4.73 million German viewers tuned in for the last episode of Borgia’s first series, a 14.8 percent share. That’s about 200,000 more than watched the show’s penultimate episode but still nearly 1.5 million less than tuned in for the series premiere.

Tom Fontana’s ‘Borgia’

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Borgia’s strong bow in Germany made ZDF’s second season greenlight seem inevitable. While no longer a slam dunk, a renewal is still likely, given the show’s strong performance for its other major European broadcast backers CanalPlus and Sky Italia. Netflix has rights to the series in North America.