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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 372805" data-attributes="member: 57984">NBC might have given FLAMINGO ROAD a second season because it was understood that these nighttime soaps didn't always explode into popularity in their first year -- and NBC desperately wanted its own nighttime soap hit (which they never got).Funny, though, how DALLAS' ratings are pretty much exactly what they should be for each season, the descent correctly happening at the right time and pace given what the show was giving us.With DYNASTY, it was the reverse: the first year before the show found an audience and the last year after that audience was already gone, were probably their best. Ironic that DYNASTY's Season 9, one of the best years of any of the soaps, was also the lowest rated of them all -- but that's the perversity inherent to DYNASTY.KNOTS deserved better ratings, but at least it got into the Top 10 a year or so. And by the end of the decade, was pulling better numbers than any of the others.The renewed energy of Freilich's Season 6 of FALCON CREST slowed its ratings slide, but it wouldn't last.</blockquote>