Almost 7M Welcome Back the Ewings

[Mark Jeffries]

It's not "Hatfield-McCoy" numbers, but more people caught the two-ep premiere of the "Dallas" reboot last night on TNT than anything on the broadcast nets (the top performer, Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," had less than 5M viewers)--unfortunately for TNT, they seem to be mostly out of the demo:

 

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/tnts-dallas-debut-racks-69-million-viewers-44166

[Kevin M.]

I have to say I felt a nostalgic thrill when the theme song played,
and I felt a nostalgic thrill when JR put on the hat and the music
went all badass. I'd forgotten how good an actor Patrick Duffy can be,
but all that served to do was underscore how bad the younger cast was.
I'm halfway through episode two now and I'm just not feeling it, which
probably means it will be a huge success and go on for a decade.

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[Doug Eastick]

with the exception of the 3 original stars ("featuring...."), there is a
lot of eye-candy on the show.

[Kevin M.]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Doug Eastick <eas...@mcd.on.ca> wrote:

> with the exception of the 3 original stars ("featuring...."), there is a lot
> of eye-candy on the show.

There was a lot of Charlene Tilton, that's for sure

Yeah, that's a fat joke -- I'm a fat man, and she has more money then
me so she can take the hit

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Kevin M.]

Random observation: 14 minutes into episode two, mother and daughter
in law are in the SouthFork kitchen and they hug. My quick tally has
more than 20 shots within a 10 second period and some of the worst
continuity I've ever seen in a TV show. A -- They didn't need 20 shots
for a hug. B -- Seriously, it was like the daughter in law had four
different hairstyles and was holding the recipe book eight different
ways. Watch it. It was almost dizzying. It will make you laugh or
cringe.

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Doug Eastick]

On 2012-06-14 10:17 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
> Random observation: 14 minutes into episode two, mother and daughter
> in law are in the SouthFork kitchen and they hug. My quick tally has
> more than 20 shots within a 10 second period and some of the worst
> continuity I've ever seen in a TV show. A -- They didn't need 20 shots
> for a hug. B -- Seriously, it was like the daughter in law had four
> different hairstyles and was holding the recipe book eight different
> ways. Watch it. It was almost dizzying. It will make you laugh or
> cringe.
>

dizzy is a good word. i thought it was just the "twists", but perhaps
it was the shot splicing too.

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/Doug

[Kevin M.]

As I'm watching more of the episode I'm seeing more of this frenetic
shooting/editing when it isn't called for. I can only see two reasons
for this:

-- To make the show appear faster paced than it is (remember "E-Ring"
about the paper-trail of war?)

-- They have to shoot around the bad acting (used to see this when I
worked at NBC and we saw the feed of Passions taping)

[Doug Eastick]

On 2012-06-14 10:50 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
> As I'm watching more of the episode I'm seeing more of this frenetic
> shooting/editing when it isn't called for. I can only see two reasons
> for this:
>
> -- To make the show appear faster paced than it is (remember "E-Ring"
> about the paper-trail of war?)
>
> -- They have to shoot around the bad acting (used to see this when I
> worked at NBC and we saw the feed of Passions taping)
>

it could just be because it is cheap -- TNT, fully shot in Dallas, etc.
the three geezers were on Leno earlier this week. That's what prompted
me to TiVo them.


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/Doug