Gray Bunny

GUIDING LIGHT: My first break began in the fall of 2000 with Claire Labine's work in full swing. The storylines just seemed so pointless and bad to the point where I just didn't have any enjoyment out of the show. This was when there was that underground club at Millennium that Danny was running with that May girl always saying, "cigars, cigarettes, cigarillos!". Meanwhile, Reva's job du jour was being a refugee crusader, Harley/Philip were imploding... I really can't remember the other stories at the time (San Cristobel, etc.) but I just felt it was a waste of my time and I was busier in life so I had limited TV time to spare. In hindsight, I wish I had stuck it through because I know there was some good stuff I missed in 2001 and early 2002. I finally got back into the show in June 2002 for its 50th TV anniversary. My second and basically final break was around August 2007. Like @althea-davis I can't recall a specific story as to "why", it was just overall an unenjoyable program again. It became a chore to watch, the stories were bad, the low budge look of the show and its limitations made bad stories look worse (I do remember Reva getting "hit" by Olivia's car, even though Reva was standing on Main Street. Oy.) I only checked it out the following summer when they were doing that movie recreation story of Josh & Reva's 1989 wedding, and again during the final few weeks of the show.

From the start of August through the 2nd week of September, you saw 4 shows hit the No. 1 spot (Y&R, DAYS, GH, OLTL). That's pretty interesting to see the top spot switch from week to week. All that is missing is a good week for All My Children.

Boom! There it is Congrats to DAYS, 35 years later

Good. Stefan should have stayed dead and Jake should have never existed. One less useless character taking up screentime. On the other current topic in this thread, until a male character is castrated and has his penis re-attached upside down, or a character who is half male/half female get pregnant by their own father, we can proudly keep our heads high knowing DAYS is just one step above Passions. But just one at this point...

I feel cheated 😂 And considering the "closet" remark during the season with Denise's alleged dalliance with Brandi, I'm surprised she didn't use a similar quip... Side note: Anyone else side-eying this whole Kyle/Mauricio "separation" these days...?

Yeah, pretty ho-hum and the deliveries on most are flat.

What a mess. I will say Brandi has a point in that bad behavior gets rewarded on these shows. Kinda icky that Bravo producers encouraged her in UGT 4 to give them another round that she gave in UGT 2 and now she's caught holding the bag on both. She's not innocent, but she's not completely guilty.

Man, after seeing such a nice rebound in January and February, I was hoping to see a spike for everyone during May sweeps, but now we're seeing just the top soap (sometimes top 2) in the 7's with the rest of the top half down in the 6's. I guess it's inevitable. And now it makes sense at how DAYS will soon be able to hit #1....

That was jarring and kind of a cruel tease. First, you air the NYC we've got. Then you air the NYC we actually want. At least they're aware the audience misses them enough to switch out the RHUGT airings to have NYC Legacy first. So I think overall, I saw about 6 episodes of NuRHONY (the first 3; the last 2-3) and so I watched the reunion, and yeah, Ubah took all the wrong cues and tried to make all these random "side bombs" work and it all fell flat and made it awkward. There's a time and place for everything, and she misfired with every outburst. I think I called it for myself when I watched the first episode and I stand by my first instinct: Sai has an annoying voice and really thinks she's something when she isn't. I'm not surprised she became the person viewers dislike the most. I don't even know all the dynamics of Jessel's marriage, but I do know that I love how she always keeps a calm demeaner when she's handling those cackling hag haters. The more she stays calm, the more irked the haters become. That's a good skill to maintain so props to her. That's all I got on them. Tomorrow we return to Beverly Hills!

He's ripping them off from the 5 background extras who keep playing musical wigs. I swear, this show.... lol

Yeah, that's annoying, especially with the characters that don't just live in a hotel room or single room above the pub. Like, what's going to happen to Belle & Shawn's house, which is supposedly Hope & Bo's home that's been reduced to one single room with mismatched patterns all about.

Admires? Hell, he's jealous! She had some eyebrow action unmatched by anyone else. It just wasn't controlled acting like Drake's and Kristian's. lol Agreed though on the lost potential. Had they not wasted her in the stupid tainted biscuit storyline right off the bat, there could've been something to build on the Hunter sisters, if the writers fleshed them out (which is a tall order for these writers).

Sigh... another overly obvious chucking of a glass on the ground, done by Angie. No shocker there. Breaking a glass in a fit of rage is a move only Lisa Rinna has been able to deliver successfully.

Very nice!! Thanks for all you do. Thanks for showing both!

The young gentleman sure is furry.

The NBC lineup certainly benefitted from these preemptions.

I'd sooner believe the rewrite of Reva being tossed into the Caribbean Sea by Edmund Winslow and magically winding up in Amishland Goshen, Indiana before this.

This gives me flashbacks to the MODELS, INC. cliffhanger ending... lol iykyk

Dang... Belle, Shawn, Phillip, Chloe... the whole Last Blast crew gets blasted off. SMH.

... and exactly 10 years later, DAYS would again achieve a 6.9 (the week of Kristen's comeuppance) but this time it put them in 2nd place, inching very close to Y&R's 7.2.

@JAS0N47 I'm curious to see how Nielsen's new usage of People Meters will affect the numbers, as I believe this went into effect in September of 1987. Do you know the issue/controversy around the change? I seem to recall in another thread that it benefitted ABC more so than the other networks.

Side note: While Another World was never gangbusters in the Nielsens after the late 70's, you have to hand it to them for pulling themselves back into the 5's and staying there for a long time, even as the heavy hitters in the top half are losing steam.

Somewhere online they promised it was coming later in 2024. Don't give up hope on the return of Herman Munster Shoes!

Yeah, I'm with DaytimeFan. NuNYC is for the birds. Meanwhile, just think that on top of all the Housewives returning, plus Married to Medicine, we also get the NYC edition of RHUGT in December! Yippee!

Ugh, I'm so glad I'm married.