Next week, TNT’s Dallas will complete its third season — the first full one without JR Ewing. How’s the TV show done in the ratings? Will it be renewed for a fourth season or will it be cancelled instead?
Airing on Monday nights, Dallas continues to follow the machinations of the dysfunctional and powerful Ewing clan. The cast includes Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo, Brenda Strong, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Mitch Pileggi, Emma Bell, Kuno Becker, and Juan Pablo Di Pace.
The third season began airing in late February and the first episode was down by 11% when compared to the second season opener. That was a reasonable decline but then the second installment dropped by 27%. The numbers dropped even lower as the season progressed.
Year-to-year, Dallas is down by 26% in viewership and down by 38% in the 18-49 demographic. It’s one of TNT’s lowest-rated scripted series and that’s not a good sign for the show’s future prospects. It also has a large cast so that means it’s not a cheap series either.
On the positive side, there’s some financial incentive to keep the show going. Dallas is produced by Warner Horizon Television which, like TNT, is part of the Time Warner corporation. Also, at the end of season three, there will only be 40 episodes. That’s not enough for a syndication package so if the execs are on the fence about whether to renew or cancel, that could work in the show’s favor.
I suspect that TNT will renew Dallas for a fourth season but, with ratings like these, the show could certainly be cancelled.
But, what do you think? Have you grown tired of the new Dallas TV series? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season?
Update: TNT has cancelled Dallas after three seasons. Details here.
Been looking forward to a new season of Dallas.
Lets keep a good show going!!!
please dont cancel Dallas. i love it . very good acting and show. looking foward to a new season .
CANCEL IT LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AFTER JR’S FUNERAL. The new show is an abomination to Jr’s memory! Full of mostly unknown kid faces doing nothing but getting off with one another! Shame shame shame on you for ruining Dallas. Jr IS Dallas. This should be remembered as the old original great TV show with the best bad boy oilman ever. We don’t want future kids remembering it as that rubbish TV show! Even more upsetting that you took Jr’s face off the opening credits! He should have stayed on there for respect! I stopped watching it from Jr’s… Read more »
Shame on you. I am probably the number 1 Dallas fan and i Love the show. The show portrays life as it is today. I loved jr and I think they are keeping his character alive. It should not be cancelled. Look whAt they keep on.
Please don’t cancel the fourth season of the new Dallas show. It has great writers and I think it is one of the best shows on TV. Please reconsider!!!
Please bring Dallas back for 4th season. Dallas is the only series we watch. Great writers and cast! Please!!!!
looked forward every week to watch in Dallas
Put Dallas back on t.v.
I look forward to watching the show please reconsider and bring it back
I watched the original series as a child and was thrilled to
Watch the new series as an older adult. I actually thought they
Created more drama on the new one. Please reconsider canceling
The show . It is the one tv program I still look forward to
Watching…
Thanks from an avid fan!!!!
Why CANCEL DALLAS the BEST SHOW ON
PLEAS3 RECOMSIDER!!!
I love the show Dallas, whether we are talking about the original or the new version. I think the plot on the new series worked very well with the memories of the original. I would love to see more from this show, the actors, and the writers. All seem to work well together.
I love the new Dallas! It is even better thatn the original. Please do not cancel it! I look forward to watching every single epidoe.
I was a big fan of Dallas when I was young when it first came out and never missed a season was very happy to hear that Dallas would be rebooted it’s sad to see that it’s going to be canceled I’m still a big fan and hope to see season four they left a lot of cliffhangers in the end the season three
i don’t think you should cancel
I LOVE the new Dallas show, although we also record, only because we’re not usually up that late. Can’t understand why people prefer such dimwitted television instead of good character acting and story-lines. Please don’t axe it!
I’d sometimes wonder who really decides what are the true rating on TV shows. When there are so many brain less show that keep returning every new season. Do they think we are all stupid. I’d rather which reruns from 60′, 70’s and 80’s. I was so happy when I heard Dallas was returning. I never missed a show.