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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 198031" data-attributes="member: 102">My guess is that regarding European fans compared to American fans is that the biggest difference is European fans are better in at least one way - they remember artists they like (whether they are actors or musicians) and stay loyal to them for longer. Do you think that&#039;s possible? It seems like here, once a show or a musician is out of sight, or if what they do goes out of style (mostly a music thing) they are forgotten more quickly in America than in Europe or Japan where people tend to remember people they used to enjoy watching or listening to, even many years ago.&nbsp; So the strength of TNT Dallas was it still had original cast members playing roles people loved, even though the stories were not up to the quality of original Dallas.I don&#039;t think American fans care what channel a show is on as long as they get that channel. We aren&#039;t loyal to channels - we&#039;re loyal to shows. TNT did a good job advertising to let people know Dallas was returning and 7 million Americans watched TNT Dallas&#039; first night. The next week, half of them were gone and they didn&#039;t come back. They didn&#039;t forget the channel; they didn&#039;t like the new Dallas enough to keep watching it. After that the show kept losing fans fairly consistently, although at a slower rate. The ratings of the third season didn&#039;t justify keeping it for a fourth season. They really looked lost in the season without JR. The first two seasons had some of that original Dallas flavor but the third had very little if any of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 198031, member: 102"] My guess is that regarding European fans compared to American fans is that the biggest difference is European fans are better in at least one way - they remember artists they like (whether they are actors or musicians) and stay loyal to them for longer. Do you think that's possible? It seems like here, once a show or a musician is out of sight, or if what they do goes out of style (mostly a music thing) they are forgotten more quickly in America than in Europe or Japan where people tend to remember people they used to enjoy watching or listening to, even many years ago. So the strength of TNT Dallas was it still had original cast members playing roles people loved, even though the stories were not up to the quality of original Dallas. I don't think American fans care what channel a show is on as long as they get that channel. We aren't loyal to channels - we're loyal to shows. TNT did a good job advertising to let people know Dallas was returning and 7 million Americans watched TNT Dallas' first night. The next week, half of them were gone and they didn't come back. They didn't forget the channel; they didn't like the new Dallas enough to keep watching it. After that the show kept losing fans fairly consistently, although at a slower rate. The ratings of the third season didn't justify keeping it for a fourth season. They really looked lost in the season without JR. The first two seasons had some of that original Dallas flavor but the third had very little if any of it. [/QUOTE]

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