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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 430317" data-attributes="member: 27">I saw the early stories about casting and the Los Angeles/Hollywood setting and assumed it would be more about &quot;Hollywood glamour&quot; rather than the generic sort of wealth and opulence we were getting on OG Dynasty.&nbsp; Everything was speculation of course, but the early &quot;Dynasty II&quot; billing made it sound like it would actively copy more of the original which....I was glad they did not go that route.&nbsp; I recall looking forward to its premiere since I had not watched OG Dynasty from the beginning, and this was a chance to see the spinoff from day one. Alas, that all went out the window once CBS made the boneheaded decision to move Knots Landing into a timeslot to air directly against The Colbys.&nbsp; I had a VCR so I could record one (The Colbys) and watch the other (Knots Landing) as it aired, but I know I would have held TC in higher regard if CBS would have kept KL at 10pm and allowed viewers to watch both shows &quot;live&quot; in sequence (TC at 9pm on ABC, KL at 10pm on CBS).&nbsp; By the time CBS made that adjustment (moving KL to 10pm), I&#039;d lost a lot of my initial enthusiasm for TC.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard for some modern viewers to understand, but our viewing habits back then were much more geared toward &quot;appointment viewing,&quot; and time-shifted material like The Colbys on tape was seen as less urgent viewing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 430317, member: 27"] I saw the early stories about casting and the Los Angeles/Hollywood setting and assumed it would be more about "Hollywood glamour" rather than the generic sort of wealth and opulence we were getting on OG [I]Dynasty[/I]. Everything was speculation of course, but the early "Dynasty II" billing made it sound like it would actively copy more of the original which....I was glad they did not go that route. I recall looking forward to its premiere since I had not watched OG [I]Dynasty[/I] from the beginning, and this was a chance to see the spinoff from day one. Alas, that all went out the window once CBS made the boneheaded decision to move [I]Knots Landing[/I] into a timeslot to air directly against [I]The Colbys. [/I]I had a VCR so I could record one ([I]The Colbys[/I]) and watch the other ([I]Knots Landing[/I]) as it aired, but I know I would have held TC in higher regard if CBS would have kept KL at 10pm and allowed viewers to watch both shows "live" in sequence (TC at 9pm on ABC, KL at 10pm on CBS). By the time CBS made that adjustment (moving KL to 10pm), I'd lost a lot of my initial enthusiasm for TC. It's hard for some modern viewers to understand, but our viewing habits back then were much more geared toward "appointment viewing," and time-shifted material like[I] The Colbys[/I] on tape was seen as less urgent viewing. [/QUOTE]

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