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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 357837" data-attributes="member: 23">This is true. It certainly became more important and significant to my mind because of the hiatus.But it felt more interminable to me because of the uncertainty that surrounded the break. We didn&#039;t know when it would be back. I might be misremembering but I recall the announcement over the credits after Naldo&#039;s shooting just saying Dallas would be back later in the year.To clarify, so am I. I was talking about the British interest in U.S. soaps. We were quite late getting Dynasty, so our interest was still comparatively fresh in 1985 (plus in 1986 we got The Colbys in prime time and the return of Knots in daytime). The bloom was off the rose pretty quickly after that, but I suspect this was as much to do with the content of the late-Eighties U.S. soaps as it was the scheduling.Yes, but a glossy drama similar in style to&nbsp; American nighttime soaps arriving months after EastEnders (and on the same channel that aired EE, Neighbours and Dallas) showed there was an appetite for more than just grounded drama, as popular as the latter were proving. HW went on to run for 6 series and continued to enjoy a prime time slot and I suspect quite solid ratings.Agreed, but I don&#039;t know that Dallas&#039;s popularity would have been much slower to wane were there no EastEnders And likewise, I don&#039;t feel that Neighbours would have been any less popular if Dallas hadn&#039;t had the break.There was a good degree of circumstance surrounding Neighbours becoming a phenomenon, and it did come as the U.S. soaps were becoming stale, so I get what you&#039;re saying about tastes changing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 357837, member: 23"] This is true. It certainly became more important and significant to my mind because of the hiatus. But it felt more interminable to me because of the uncertainty that surrounded the break. We didn't know when it would be back. I might be misremembering but I recall the announcement over the credits after Naldo's shooting just saying [I]Dallas[/I] would be back later in the year. To clarify, so am I. I was talking about the British interest in U.S. soaps. We were quite late getting [I]Dynasty[/I], so our interest was still comparatively fresh in 1985 (plus in 1986 we got [I]The Colbys[/I] in prime time and the return of [I]Knots[/I] in daytime). The bloom was off the rose pretty quickly after that, but I suspect this was as much to do with the content of the late-Eighties U.S. soaps as it was the scheduling. Yes, but a glossy drama similar in style to American nighttime soaps arriving months after [I]EastEnders[/I] (and on the same channel that aired [I]EE[/I], [I]Neighbours[/I] and [I]Dallas[/I]) showed there was an appetite for more than just grounded drama, as popular as the latter were proving. [I]HW[/I] went on to run for 6 series and continued to enjoy a prime time slot and I suspect quite solid ratings. Agreed, but I don't know that [I]Dallas's[/I] popularity would have been much slower to wane were there no [I]EastEnders[/I] And likewise, I don't feel that [I]Neighbours[/I] would have been any less popular if [I]Dallas[/I] hadn't had the break. There was a good degree of circumstance surrounding [I]Neighbours[/I] becoming a phenomenon, and it did come as the U.S. soaps were becoming stale, so I get what you're saying about tastes changing. [/QUOTE]

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