This will be the first full season of Dallas without Larry Hagman’s JR Ewing. Can the cast and producers continue to draw viewers and solid ratings without their quintessential bad guy? Will the new Dallas be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season? Stay tuned to find out.
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 ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
Final season averages: 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.92 million total viewers.
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Reference point: The second season of the new Dallas averaged a 0.8 demo rating and 2.67 million viewers.
Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays. They are sometimes harder to come by so there may be occasional delays or gaps.
What do you think? Do you still like the Dallas series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season?
Update: TNT has cancelled Dallas after three seasons. Details here.
Wow, more articles talking about TV ratings going way down. I guess if you do a bad job, you get replaced one way or another eventually. In TV’s case, video on demand is starting to take over. I’ve said this before, too many channels have cheapened TV…spread it out too thin. The networks can’t manage the volume anymore. Dallas couldn’t possibly survive this. No decent show could. Only Wheel, Feud or Buthead Theory type shows survive…oh BTW that’s our prime time show line up now…wow…
It makes me mad the way TV is setup. The way viewers don’t have a voice. It’s all about advertising and more advertising. Yet networks still wonder why people are dropping off as viewers. If advertising had their way, it’d be 90% ads… no make that 100%. It’s gotten ridiculous. Thank goodness for the recording fast forward feature. It’s wearing my finger out. Bring back Dallas.
Well, TV is losing viewers at such a fast clip now. It won’t be long before they will be looking at an entirely different business model. Even the NFL will go down due to network greed. Might as well brace for video on demand. We now need that so we can watch what we want…if there’s anything left to watch.
Dallas was a victim of this and so is any other show that costs more than a reality show to produce. Our tastes didn’t turn to reality shows…the networks did this out of cheapness and greed.
TV may never recover from the effects of bad programming, short seasons, short runs of series, long commercial breaks. That’s the long and short of it.
Could we have Dallas back please?
Just like the NFL has done…pooed in their nest. TNT did that another way by cancelling Dallas. We deserve better.
I’ll put it another way. With so many shows and channels on, there can only be so many viewers for each of them. This leaves only cheap junk shows, spreading the advertising dollar thin. Only great shows get watched in large numbers. But advertisers and networks don’t care. They make more money with the junk shows. How could a Dallas survive in this business model? Frankly, TV is doomed to be replaced by video on demand. Advertisers and networks… you’ve done it to yourselves.
It’s not a secret anymore. TV is officially going downhill fast. Double digit losses of viewership. The answer to this…more commercials. Make more money from the crud that’s cheap to produce. That what they’re doing to counter their loses. What ever happened to showing better shows? In a free enterprise system we make a better mousetrap. That’s what you do. Not more damn commercials.
Dallas, may you rest in peace because they’d plaster this show to death with commercials if you came back. In fact, they already did do that. And that’s what’s killing TV.
Ad people and networks have no spine and no heart. They must have some computer somewhere doing all their thinking for them. They have no idea what we want to watch. They appear to have no guts at all. Can’t support, advocate or make any decisions for the sake of viewers. They love game shows because they are a running ad. I’ll bet TV goes down for the count for all these ridiculous decisions that their ‘computers’ make. Dallas wouldn’t have a chance with these people.
TV is getting so unwatchable now. So many channels and so little content. Not much thought or creativity comes out the tube these days. Could anyone stand watching all those commercials plus nothing but game shows and stupid theory? Hard to take, y’know. Surfing the internet beats that. Dallas would probably be too good for TV. Bring Dallas back unfettered by commercials. On Showtime, HBO…anything but the network of ads.
Dallas probably couldn’t survive in this TV era. Not many shows do now. Well, maybe Wheel, Fued and Buthead theory. Those shows are what we get prime time now. Hasn’t the networks done a great job here? Makes ya want to just cuddle up with the popcorn , huh?
The networks are doing such crazy things. It’s no wonder people are turning off their TV sets or going straight internet. What ever happened to ‘make a great show and people will tune in to watch it’? It’s that simple. It seems like now it’s ads 1st and programming 2nd. I miss the days of Dallas when it was more balanced.
When are these networks going to realize that Dallas was the king daddy of them all? They can’t draw squat for viewers with the junk they’re putting out now. Just look at the TV ratings. It’s the lowest it’s been in years yet there’s more population out there. Am I getting through to you?
Bring back Dallas and the way it was then. Impossible you say? Nothing is impossible to advertising giants. Producers create great shows but they get shot down by the money people. I wish they’d just let great shows like Dallas be on TV…people watch great shows, y’know.
I realize advertisers use the free enterprise system to get results. I have no problem with that. But is it too much to ask for the balance of entertainment content to ads be so much ads? Many channels…many ads… Following any show is hard when they don’t last long enough to even notice. That’s killing TV IMO. I really miss those long run 30+ episodes a season days of favorite shows…like when Dallas was in it’s long run.
TV needs an overhaul IMO. There’s no competition for great shows and viewership anymore. The networks seem to be saying “take it or leave it”. Our feedback appears to mean just about nothing. You’d think there would be a better mechanism to our tastes. Instead… only what sells. That, my friends, is advertising gone mad. And that, I’m thinking, is what brought down Dallas.