'Dallas' season premiere drops half of last season's audience

I watched the first 2 episodes of the new season today. I was surprised to see they had already aired. Last summer for the first new season there was a lot of hype, a lot of previews and teasers. Now there was none of that ! Like they had to sneek the new season in to the programming somehow ! Maybe that is also why not that many people watched... TNT stop and think what you are doing...maybe move it to a better night...Saturday maybe, no great shows to compete with on that night. And pump up the advertising for the series.

With on demand and reruns, many of us delay watching shows at the first showing. It will be harder than ever to find how popular a series really is. Give it some time.

That's almost exactly what I thought when they announced the start date for S2.  And this past Monday saw reruns of the CBS comedies...next Monday has new episodes of those shows airing, which will probably hurt Dallas even more.  Hopefully TNT will realize the mistake they made airing it now and give it another chance for summer 2014.

 

That is, assuming the loss of J.R. doesn't simply kill the show.  J.R. made the original series, and while I haven't seen any episodes of the new version (I am sooooooo far behind in watching shows!!), I can't imagine him not being a huge part of the new one as well.  I imagine a lot of people tuned into the first season just because of him...without him, they may all just tune out.  For that matter, that may account for the low ratings for the season premiere...since people know that Larry Hagman died in Nov., they may have just assumed it meant that J.R. wouldn't be in *any* episodes this year and so decided they weren't going to watch at all this year.

 

I'd say TNT made a bad decision to debut season 2 now, instead of doing another summer launch. There is too much competition on Monday nights right now.