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The 1991 revival of Dark Shadows did start off strongly ratings wise, but given the time it launched, ratings plummeted.
This because Dark Shadows launched when the Gulf War broke out. NBC would preempt or reschedule episodes in favour of news coverage.
Bare Essence would later become a TV series for NBC.
Genie Francis reprised her role from the miniseries, but the Donna Mills, Linda Evans, Bruce Boxleitner and Lee Grant roles were recast.
Bare Essence aired after the A-Team on Tuesday nights, but couldn't hold on to that audience. Midway it was moved to Friday (against Falcon Crest), while Remington Steele, which occupied the Friday slot, was moved to after The A-Team.
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A brave / stupid move putting it up against Falcon Crest. Regardless of timeslot, I think it was doomed to fail as it wasn’t a very good show unfortunately.
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To be fair, I think the move was more about saving Remington Steele rather than Bare Essence. I think they had given up on it when they moved it there.
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Really wish this show was available somewhere. I'm curious how soapy it actually was. Just from that one it seems right off the bat more soapy than Melrose.
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Yes, it’s definitely one of those 90’s soaps that’s fallen through the cracks alongside the likes of Hotel Malibu.
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This is one soap that doesn’t get discussed much, if at all, on here. Originally a three part miniseries airing in early 1979, it was turned into a weekly series in early 1980. William Devane, Roy Thinnes and Kim Basinger appeared in both iterations while Don Johnson and Barbara Hershey (taking over Natalie Wood’s Golden Globe winning miniseries role) were new additions to the cast for the weekly series. After five episodes and with ratings sinking to half of what the miniseries pulled in, the weekly series was yanked from NBC’s schedules. The remainder of the episodes produced were burned off as double bills later that summer.
The weekly series to add in the same 10pm Wednesday timeslot was against Aaron Spelling's Vegas, ranked in the Top 30, and with Spelling's Charlie's Angels (then in the Top 20) as a lead in.
(The 2 hour premiere of the From Here to Eternity series aired at 9pm, and had to face Charlie's Angels as a result as well as Diff'erent Strokes).
Didn't help either the From Here to Eternity series had the poor rating sitcom Hello, Larry as a lead in.
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This is the first time I’ve seen ads focusing on the older contingent among the Central Park West cast. These ads are for episodes 8 & 9, which were the last to air (in mid-November) before the show went on hiatus. By then, there was already talks about retooling the show to appeal to an older demographic, which may explain why Linda and Allen were given newfound prominence in the promos. The show was to move towards becoming “a younger Knots Landing rather than an older Melrose Place” with the focus shifting from hot young things working in a magazine to two families vying for control of a media empire. Casting was underway for a rival media mogul and his fiancée and the show was due to return in January. Alas, we got a media mogul and his ex wife instead and the show didn’t return until June.