Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: At first , viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial , but ratings picked up in its second year , eventually reaching the top spot in the daytime Nielsen ratings by fall 1958 .
Simplified: At first , viewers were not excited about it , but ratings picked up in its second year , and reached the top spot in the daytime Nielsen Ratings by the fall of 1958 .