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.
A New Year and more bad tv. TV destroyed itself and Dallas along with it. The list of shows you watch that keep you paying that bill is shrinking. I’m thinking it won’t be long to the point of it not even being worth it. If advertising doesn’t suppress it, something better will come along. Something in the order of ‘on demand’. Probably internet based. When they put those satellites up, it’ll come.
Probably the best deal in viewing is the $5 DVD table in the big box stores. So tired of these game shows and shows like the big gufus theory. And the 5 minutes of mindless commercials every 5 minutes. It’s gotten so bad that a great show like Dallas is not even watched. Nobody watches much these days. TV is self destructing. So sad to see this.
I took a hard look at the tv industry that cancelled my favorite show…Dallas. Now I know why tv is falling off a cliff. It’s because of out of control advertising. Advertising drives why we have so many channels and faster internet. Why? So they can cram more ads and commercials in. This, at first, seems great but they’ve over done it. Now nothing is sacred except ads. That’s where the bucks are.
Yes, I think TV has seen it’s last hurrah. So what are they doing about it? Well, putting in more commercials, of course. TV has turned into an ad machine where truly popular shows are secondary. Where ‘produce it on the cheap’ is rewarded with more commercials. Dallas fell victim to this and so did a lot of other shows. And so what’s left? Well, you see it every day. Just turn on your TV.
We have to pay for these garbage shows on garbage channels to get anything close to decent on the Sat & Cable packages. A lot of dead weight and a lot of commercials. This is not good. Something needs to change. TV is going straight down the toilet when they cancel Dallas and play this garbage show game.
Eventually it’ll come back to haunt the networks and they’ll never recover.
They must have ran their ratings for Dallas in political areas where they don’t want to see any successful people on tv. These ‘stupid theory’ shows are about all I can take. Can’t watch this stuff…too ridiculous and not even good. As I have said before, the commercials are made better than the tv shows…they spend more $ on them. But can’t watch those either. What’s left?
Merry Christmas to all Dallas fans. We have hope. That’s about all we have for tv.
I wish I knew what the reason for the aversion of Dallas on tv is. They won’t even put on a show similar to Dallas. Has the Millennials, GenX and Edgers repopulated the tv viewing audience that much? You’d think they’d at least throw us Boomers a bone. They do that with a lot of services (i.e. Senior Citizens). But, apparently, not tv. I guess we don’t buy into the ads and spend money foolishly.
Pretty soon they probably won’t have repeating series. We thought 8 to 9 episodes were short? I’ll bet that it gets shorter. Every show will be a pilot show. They may just go with 100% reality shows because it’s cheaper. They spend more producing the commercials than they do the show populated with them. We are being had, folks. Dallas was just another victim. There’s a long list.
In general, these new shows they put on remind me of casino bets. They don’t want to gamble too much so they only make about 8 or 9 or so. Seems that networks just gamble on their science of how they view the audience. How they view the audience is so weird. The way they live in Hollywood…how on earth can they be sane. Cancelling Dallas and putting these awful shows in it’s place shows what whacks they are.
Maybe it’s good that a quality show like Dallas is not grouped with the garbage shows that are on now. It’s surely a degrade in quality to be on tv now. Just look at what’s still on. The best series shows that are on now last maybe 7 to 9 episodes a season. Who knows if they return or not. Nothing to get excited about, huh? But losing Dallas hurt. That show is missed.
Could be that Dallas was the best series of all time. There hasn’t been anything better since. So, with the situation that tv is in with continued downward viewing and dropping quality, Dallas will remain the best series that ever was and will ever be. So sad that tv has become such a wasteland.
Can’t think of anything else I’d rather watch than Dallas. It was the greatest show ever. Some day these networks will realize what a gem this series was. A great injustice was allowed when this show was cancelled. Shame on you, TNT, for bringing it back and then not doing it right.
Here we are, stuck inside because of Winter cold, and there’s nothing worth watching. You want to see Kaepernick take a knee? Or how about some propaganda BS in the news. Gee, maybe infomercials…no? Gosh I miss Dallas. Apparently networks and advertisers just don’t care about Dallas fans.
They could make a lot of people happy if only they would return Dallas.
There was a time when tv was worth watching. It is coming to the point of irrelevance. Can’t believe the news, can’t watch football, sitcoms and game shows are awful, way too many commercials. The days of Dallas were great…too bad it was cancelled. Would love to see Dallas again.