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.
Dallas is still the king of all TV shows. Nothing they put on is even close. The joy of watching Dallas will go down as being the best TV moments that ever was.
Everything else has been weighed and measured and found lacking.
The return of Dallas could save TV. Maybe it might because it sure couldn’t hurt.
I hope that the producers of Dallas will at least make a special or a movie. Have that show on one of the commercial free channels. Or…even at theaters. They’ve got to do something for us Dallas fans. TV has let everybody down in so many ways. Even the NFL will bail and then regular broadcast TV it will be essentially dead. So lets bring back Dallas on a more healthy business model.
If the ad folks and the networks knew what the heck they are doing they’d put on some shows to get people to watch TV again. Well…simply put…they aren’t. It seems from the day they cancelled Dallas, TV started going down hill. And downhill fast. Such a slide like we’ve never seen. Goes to show you how popular Dallas was. You can’t argue that.
What eats at me is that these networks keep trying for the millennium viewers. They make awful shows that only millenniums would care to watch. Yet the millenniums aren’t watching. Have the networks given up on the older crowd completely? Will they ever figure out to get viewers that they should put back shows like Dallas? 60’s and 70’s TV execs knew this. It’s no wonder TV viewing is down. They don’t know the audiences and they really don’t have a clue to what they are doing.
If you don’t have CableTV or Satellite TV, then you will probably opt to VOD. I don’t know what will become of the 4 networks. No one’s watching them anymore. This situation will get worse when VOD gets better shows. Because the 4 networks aren’t getting better shows. Sad, probably, but the best we can hope for is Dallas reruns. TV is so off track.
If someone was to compare video on demand to standard broadcast tv…VOD would win hands down. So if networks don’t return a show like Dallas, it’s spiraling down to oblivion. They did this to themselves. Greed TV…
We could sure use a return of Dallas to TV. It would be a breath of fresh air to a stagnated TV schedule. Without Dallas, TV is getting close to unwatchable. It’s wearing out my FF finger 🙂
Dallas reruns could beat out the garbage shows they broadcast now. TV is spread too thin. Now no decent production can survive. Add to that all the politics of ads seeking certain age groups. And TV networks wonder why viewership is down…way down. TV is sinking under it’s own weight.
Imagine Dallas reruns beating 1st run shows in the ratings. That would be something,huh? It would be a probability IMO. That’s probably why they don’t show Dallas reruns. It would show the egg on the networks execs faces. Really something, huh?
I guess TV will never be the same again. It’s rare that the experience of watching a tv show brings any joy or creative thought. It does make noise for the kids crawling around on the floor though. We can tune in to FBN for news but that’s just about it. I would really like to watch Dallas again. Heck TNT won’t even broadcast reruns. They must be afraid Dallas reruns might win ratings over the junk they regularly broadcast.
If they returned Dallas, I would definitely watch this show. I’d even promise to watch all those commercials. A sacrifice on my part, I know. But I’d even be willing to do that to get back my favorite show. But, of course, this just goes to deaf ears.
I wish there was a way to watch Dallas again. TV has really changed though. Dallas probably couldn’t make it because people aren’t watching the tube anymore. At least not the way they use to. TV has lost it’s mojo. I only watch about 6 channels now. Hardly seems worth what I have to pay. If it weren’t for fast forward, I wouldn’t watch at all.
When there were only 3 channels on tv, back when Dallas and other shows was in it’s heyday, tv was actually better off than it is now. You actually had better tv shows, more per year, less commercials and for more seasons. Isn’t that amazing? We’ve gone to the future and it’s less satisfying. I miss Dallas very much. Those days were better.
TV is in trouble. They can choose to fight back with better shows or continue doing what they’re doing now. If they don’t make better shows there’s not much hope for this business model. Video on demand will take over. It won’t be hard to see what people like to watch then. Not what advertisers think or want them to watch. The bottom line will be much clearer. When the dust settles…I hope there’s room for a Dallas.