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Ratings for the week April 8-12, 2024

2 minutes ago, Althea Davis said:

I listened to the whole album yesterday.

A masterpiece. Her best work till now.

I am not overstating it.

She is growing so much as an artist.

Nice! Glad you enjoyed it!  I'll have my thoughts about it soon.   I need a whole a week to process it.  LOL

Chart Data: Taylor Swift's 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' becomes the fastest album in history to surpass 1 billion streams globally. [5 days]

In first week sales, the album is projected to get close to Nsync's No Strings Attached album at 2.4 million for #2 overall, only behind Adele's 25 album. 

1.4 million pure copies in the first day!    It already beat her previous best first week sales (1989TV got 1.359 million).   It also became the best selling album of 2024 after one day. 

Spotify numbers are rolling in and they're bigger than anyone expected.  

- ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ debuts with 313,747,178 streams on Spotify. It's the biggest debut ever on the platform with over 127M more than ‘Midnights’.

I'll give my opinions on the album later. 

On 4/3/2024 at 10:32 PM, VelekaCarruthers said:

James Harmon Brown no longer listed as script editor on Y&R. 

He's back as SW as of April 15.

Ratings for the week April 1-5, 2024

Yay!  January 2025 is sooner than I expected.  They gotta put it behind Y&R. 

Ratings for the week March 25-29, 2024

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Oh, I know 

I just really hate that it's one of the worst, if not the worst character on GH right now that's always calling it out.

I think Kristina vs. Joss could be good as well. It was such so biased in favor of Joss today. She's attacking a pregnant woman and we gotta take her side? Hell no. 

It wasn't totally one sided because of what Molly said to Joss right after Kristina left, and she (Molly) was right as well. 

5 straight episodes with no BDW listed for GH, 6 if you don't count last Friday's Mulcahey credited episode (could've been a mistake he was listed because he wasn't listed a BDW this week).  It sure looks like, at least for now, they went the Josh Griffith route at Y&R.  We'll see what happens next week. 

@AbcNbc247 But........she's totally right about Sonny.  LOL  I'm enjoying Kristina vs Joss. 

I noticed that the opening segment is very short now - about three minutes long.  I guess is done to have the acts a bit longer. 

52 minutes ago, SteelCity said:

I would love to FINALLY see a real fight between Steffy and Hope after 20 years! Seriously, how has it not happened? I guess it'll happen when I get my earthquake!

It should happen after Hope sleeps with Steffy's husband.  You know it's definitely going to happen now. 

@Contessa Donatella  We have someone here posting the episode counts.  You don't need to post the twitter screencap. 

Ratings for the week March 18-22, 2024

Well, we'll see in a month or two how the writing staff is assembled.  Patrick has not been yet credited as a SW.  Today was his first credit, as a BDW, for a specific episode. 

I don't know.  We always complain that daytime needs new blood instead of recycling the same old writers over and over and over. I just thought it was very fresh of GH to do something that other soaps weren't doing.  Oh well. 

I would prefer Patrick to write scripts.  Maybe we'll get that one day as well. 

Wow, another newbie to daytime out.  I thought GH was doing a great job in hiring people who never worked in daytime, all of them female too. I fear Emily Culliton could be next - female and new to daytime.  Lucky Gold has been writing soaps since at least the early 80's and will turn 74 in September.......time to retire??....just saying, you know.  LOL  I really wonder now if they're cutting down the number of BDWs to 2 or 3.  What has Josh Griffith started? (possibly)

GH:

- Patrick Mulcahey first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 29

Very surprised he was credited as a BDW! When I saw his name credited alone, I got a bit excited (LOL) because thought he wrote the script, but then Kate Hall's name was shown next.  Hopefully this means the credits will continue to credit Korte/Mulcahey whenever they write breakdowns. 

2 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

On her IG account yesterday Shannon Peace indicated a post would be coming soon about how breakdown writers also wrote dialogue at GH. I did not screengrab it but I thought I would watch for the upcoming one & grab it. 

Breakdowns can have lines of dialogue.  The script writer can choose to keep it or change it up a bit. 

@janea4old  As @titan1978 mentioned, a "writers room" doesn't have to be a psychical room - they can do a conference call.  And yes,  a "writers room" is usually just the Head Writers and breakdown writers.  They go over the layouts for the week, and talk about scenes, and breakdown writers can make suggestions, like the example Shannon Peace provided. 

@janea4old Script writers aren’t in the writers room, that’s why Shannon said she was the only POC writer in the room.  

9 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Possible that EK/PM plan to eliminate one breakdown role (or two) and write some themselves. When PM was on a HW-ing team with Curlee and Demorest at GL, occasionally they’d all take turns in writing some breakdowns. 

That could be it.  Until last year, Dan and Chris would write, on average, 2 breakdowns each a month and the show had 4 BDWs.  Then in 2023, GH went to 5 BDWs while D&C only wrote 6 breakdown episodes.  We'll know in a month or two once we get more data. 

7 minutes ago, Khan said:

What if Elizabeth Korte and Patrick Mulcahey are about to pull a Josh Griffith and handle all the breakdown/outline-writing duties themselves?

Josh has Beall and Beldner to help with the outlines.  You'll need at least a couple of writers to help you out because it's just too much work, especially if Korte is still the script editor.   Maybe GH isn't replacing Peace, maybe they're just trimming down the breakdown team, which it seems like all the soaps are doing now as a cost cutting measure. 

6 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

What I heard was that it happened right after Dan & Chris were notified of their firing with the strong implication that it had to do with New Team & nothing at all to do with the strike. So, timing, they got back from the strike, wasn't it in Sept? And, the D&C happened the week of Jan. 15th.

Donna, you've been posting about soaps since at last the 90's on those old newsgroups and you have not ever been considered an "insider" anywhere, so please chill with the "what I heard stuff" because you don't have any credibility when it comes to insider info. 

So another writer fired once their cycle is up after coming back from the strike?  Probably to make way for someone who wrote during the strike?  We'll see.