VanessaReardon

It has taken 20 years to understand why AW was cancelled but I finally get it. The NUT Donna Was fighting to save AW. Mickey Dwyer Dobbin was given a choice - deal with Donna or cancel AW. I’d have made the same choice, Mickey. 

2 hours ago, Donna B said:

Okay, thanks, I've never even heard of him. Where else has he worked?

Donna, if you label yourself a Scholar, why are you so uninformed? 

12 hours ago, Donna B said:

So @ChrisB we disagree on some & yet we agree on some. It's true that in the beginning Wheeler's team wasn't ready with new writing to go with the new production model. But, they got that writing going & it was terrific. Kreizman, Gold, Chris Dunn, Jil Lorie hurst, Donna Swajeski, Karen Harris, they had a strong Writing team & they tackled great subjects. But, everything I know about what was going on behind the scenes is that they did not have time to prepare the physical side of the new production model & that they had to learn OJT. They learned how to do what they were doing as they rolled out the new production model. I blame CBS for that.

Good lord Donna. Karen Harris NEVER wrote for GL. Please stop posting incorrect info. Please. You embarrass yourself with all of the wrong facts. 

A book is just that. A book. One persons perceptions and recollections. People mentioned in the book will always have different recollections and dispute the book. Take it for what it is. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. 

Shocking that she posted more wrong info.  Does she ever get anything right! lol

1 hour ago, slick jones said:

Pratt and Phelps have been out for 3 years. again, misinformation.

Marcia says that you need a time out on that AW bench! 

I’m in contact with Marcia and you are quite wrong, Donna. 

Donna - can you PLEASE stick to facts! Goutman & McCabe divorced in 2016 - LONG after ATWT went off the air. Stop spreading misinformation. God you’re annoying!! 

Good lord Donna. I will take JFP anyday over Ellen Wheeler!! Jill was at least a strong woman who made hard decisions, unpopular or not. Ellen Wheeler was an embarrassment to GL. Peapack was a worse decision over killing Maureen Bauer.  Peapack? I still shudder over that mess. No wonder the show was cancelled. 

You guys are correct - the date that is handwritten is the issue date of Daytime TV. The magazine did not identify what weeks the ratings represented. We can surmise that the ratings are a few months behind the issue date. 

GH is a disaster! Memo to Nathan Varni: Frank Valentini is NOT the only person in the soap world who can manage a budget. With these low ratings, there is no budget to manage. Fire Frank!

DonnaB, will you retire? One can only hope!

Strasser is totally going for the Guest Actor Emmy. She wants it BAD! 

Sad news. He really turned around ATWT and made it some must see soap opera. RIP. 

Kind of ironic that Y&R rose so much during a week where the show featured a very Chuck Pratt-esque gimmick. Given the short attention span of viewers these days, it makes sense that a one week, no long term consequence trick drew in viewers. 

Y&R is basically unwatchable. Victor being dead for the umpteenth time. Y&R is so boring. They are not doing anything new or daring or courting new viewers. Same old, same old. Victor’s dead, oh wait, he’s not dead. Do something new to get lapsed viewers back. 

Live plus 7 adds less than 10 percent to the audience total and don’t advertisers still focus on the C3 ratings not live plus 7? Live+7 is a way to inflate your numbers but it’s not what advertisers base their rates on. 

Why is Valentini still employed? He’s burned out. I’m tired of the rumored excuse that “he manages the budget well”. Seriously - Frank Valentini is the ONLY person in this world who can manage a soap opera budget? Oh please.  I don’t buy it. But with these ratings, there won’t be a show or budget to manage much longer. I’m still abit mystified how these shows are surviving because all demos are so much lower than the shows that were cancelled in the last 10 years. Even GL had higher demos when they were cancelled than Y&R has today. 

Every time Victor dies we should.....well do your own thing. Victor pretending to die for the 9th time will NOT get viewers back. God damn. Why do soaps shoot itself in the foot.