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After one week, it's my favourite. It's really catchy, especially the chorus. It's a sad song yet you can dance to it. It's also a bit weird with the "alien abduction" sounds. I hope she adds this era to the tour and this song will be on the set list. 🙏 It should be the next single, or at least one of the singles off this album.

Ratings for the week April 8-12, 2024

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.