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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 160506" data-attributes="member: 102">A show with a continuing storyline week to week, as opposed to a show with stories which are resolved by the ned of an episode, require a commitment on the part of the viewer. They have to watch every week because the story keeps going; it doesn&#039;t end at the end of the episode.&nbsp; Once you lose a viewer from a show that requires them to watch every week to keep up with what&#039;s going on, you&#039;re not likely to get them back. Regardless of what the mentality is of the viewer, the results show that the revelation that the previous season was just a nightmare Pam had, only resulted in a loss of approximately 1% of their audience. When Bobby left they lost roughly 10% of their audience!The &quot;it was all a dream&quot; explanation, as dumb as it sounds, didn&#039;t turn out to be the series killer that some people think it was. It turns out that what caused fans to leave was when they lost integral members of the cast. That hurt more than any bad storyline hurt. Season 9 with it&#039;s 10% drop in the size of the audience when Patrick Duffy left isn&#039;t the only example. Patrick Duffy was one of the best liked characters of the show, especially among female viewers. I remember talking to my former girlfriend about Dallas and she had recently seen the end of season 8 and saw Bobby &quot;die.&quot;. I asked her if she&#039;d started watching season 9. She said &quot;No, I&#039;m still in mourning over Bobby. He was the only guy in the show I really liked.&quot; She found JR very interesting but didn&#039;t like him. She thought Bobby was a real nice guy. She never did watch any more Dallas. I don&#039;t know if she knows Bobby came back later on or not.Popular members of the cast leaving just killed the ratings for season 11 after the two hottest women on the show - Victoria Principal and Deborah Shelton both left.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what happened:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_10_(1986%E2%80%9387)" target="_blank">10</a> 29 September 26, 1986 May 15, 1987 #11 18.6<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_11_(1987%E2%80%9388)" target="_blank">11</a> 30 September 25, 1987 May 13, 1988 #21 15.2That&#039;s a loss of 3.4 which is 17 times the loss Dallas sustained with the &quot;it was all a dream&quot; explanation at the start of season 10.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 160506, member: 102"] A show with a continuing storyline week to week, as opposed to a show with stories which are resolved by the ned of an episode, require a commitment on the part of the viewer. They have to watch every week because the story keeps going; it doesn't end at the end of the episode. Once you lose a viewer from a show that requires them to watch every week to keep up with what's going on, you're not likely to get them back. Regardless of what the mentality is of the viewer, the results show that the revelation that the previous season was just a nightmare Pam had, only resulted in a loss of approximately 1% of their audience. When Bobby left they lost roughly 10% of their audience! The "it was all a dream" explanation, as dumb as it sounds, didn't turn out to be the series killer that some people think it was. It turns out that what caused fans to leave was when they lost integral members of the cast. That hurt more than any bad storyline hurt. Season 9 with it's 10% drop in the size of the audience when Patrick Duffy left isn't the only example. Patrick Duffy was one of the best liked characters of the show, especially among female viewers. I remember talking to my former girlfriend about Dallas and she had recently seen the end of season 8 and saw Bobby "die.". I asked her if she'd started watching season 9. She said "No, I'm still in mourning over Bobby. He was the only guy in the show I really liked." She found JR very interesting but didn't like him. She thought Bobby was a real nice guy. She never did watch any more Dallas. I don't know if she knows Bobby came back later on or not. Popular members of the cast leaving just killed the ratings for season 11 after the two hottest women on the show - Victoria Principal and Deborah Shelton both left. Here's what happened: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_10_(1986%E2%80%9387)']10[/URL] 29 September 26, 1986 May 15, 1987 [B]#11[/B] [B]18.6[/B] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_11_(1987%E2%80%9388)']11[/URL] 30 September 25, 1987 May 13, 1988 [B]#21[/B] [B]15.2 That's a loss of 3.4 which is 17 times the loss Dallas sustained with the "it was all a dream" explanation at the start of season 10.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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