GM is adorable, charming and fun onscreen despite months of nothing to do until recently, and has a bodacious bod. I'm not cosigning the show or this story - I haven't watched a full episode in over a month - but I think we're all taking the small victories in 2025 at this point.
I'm open to testing this theory!
I think Jason might've posted some numbers for the syndication a while ago and the numbers for Falcon Crest was horrible. Like 1.5 rating or something, which was terrible.
ETA: it was actually Paul Raven:
New to syndication 60 min
Fall Guy 67 markets 3.1/8
Falcon Crest 110 markets 1.1/5
To get into the top 40, you needed a 4.6/9 rating for reference - and Falcon Crest managed to get into a lot of markets to begin with.
In the fall of 1985 Dynasty, Dallas and Knots were syndicated (show / rating / share / coverage % / markets):
Dallas 3.4 10 51.7 92
Dynasty 3.4 10 48.7 47
Knots Landing 3.3 10 12.5 20
So, Knots as an example trippled Falcon Crest's rating with 20 markets - I'm sure those were major ones but it just goes to show you how much Falcon Crest bombed in syndication.
It's not bad but the stories move too slow. It's the same problem when Dan O'Connor was CO-HW with Van Etten, they have a million stories and they all drag on endlessly with no resolution. I'd argue the majority of the stories airing now are good but you get sick of waiting months for something to happen.
French fan summary
Rusty took over Simon's job at Lewis Trucking after Simon transferred to Lewis Oil's North Carolina office to live near Jessie and Calla.
I doubt they would bother following up a story for offscreen characters eg marriage and a baby.
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