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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grangehill1" data-source="post: 357825" data-attributes="member: 833">I think there was notice that there was going to be a gap and to the casual viewer the mid season break ended on a brilliant cliffhanger with Jenna besides Naldo’s dead body.  7 weeks was nothing to wait for the next episode especially as Dallas was in the news practically every day I’m talking about the decline in Britain and not the US and emphasizing that it wasn’t comedies that became more popular than Dallas (the US) but more soap operas albeit grounded ones - EE and and Neighbours.Howards way was successful but never reached the heights of EE and Neighbours.The enforced gap in the UK because of the BBC/ITV deal was horrendous. We’d just seen Bobby killed and then had to wait nearly a year for the aftermath. And then literally a month after the Family Ewing transmitted we found out in the UK Bobby was coming back which made the rest of season 9 painful to endure until the end.And in the meantime EE was growing a loyal fan base, becoming the tabloids darling and leading to the biggest episode on Xmas Day 86.I think I’m the UK at least the ‘majority’ of people would watch Dallas and EE and Neighbours. All soap fans and it was Dallas that wained in popularity out of the three with soap fans.If season 9 had transmitted in October 85 the audience would have had a mix of EE plus Dallas and then the Bobby shock reveal at the end of the season may have sustained interest</blockquote>

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