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For some reason her friend Steffy, who threw the shower for her, is morphing into Nancy Hughes and strippers would be not appropriate.

She's been a pleasant surprise. This could have easily been an annoying and cloying part, but so far so good. It would be nice if the show keeps her as an unrelated character and doesn't suddenly make her Deacon's daughter. I hope Electra goes that route. The times when she's been nasty have been the most watchable.

Ridge's nonchalant "not ideal" when Steffy told him Taylor was dating a married man was hilarious. Do Liam & Hope live in Brooke's guest house?

Interesting that despite the multi-year viewer highs, only Bold beat one of its August demo highs (W18-49). And likely only because that was a rough ratings month for the show. TPIR averaged about 1 million more viewers in daytime vs its primetime special. I'm drawing a blank when the last time I tuned into broadcast or cable in primetime for something other than sports or big news events. Likely when the Crave app was acting up.

GH has been pretty volatile week to week in the demos for a while now. Save for the MLB playoff week where they counted repeats, is this the first time it fell behind GMA3 in W18-49? Good rebound for B&B in W25-54. Not bad for the rest of the CBS shows either with Y&R up slightly and BTG's loss was minimal despite not airing on Monday when CBS tends to do the best.

Would Miguel on GH qualify? I think he technically lasted over a year but was off-screen for months before he came back for his exit IIRC. I think Marshall Kramer on AW lasted over a year as well, but barely appeared before his exit. AW hired Randy Brooks from Y&R with great fanfare to pair with Felicia, but the show chickened out quickly and moved her into a Misery-knockoff storyline.

Looks like BTG set a record for its best retention performance from B&B in W25-54 at nearly 90%. It also had its best W18-49 retention since August.

In my OP on this topic I specified met. Didn't Dani know Andre since he was young because he was her sister's nephew?

Of my last 3 posts on BTG's ratings, 2 solely pointed out a positive. On the week I noted its record bad demo holds, I did note that the week before it had its best hold since April.

I'm one of the only people who pointed out how historically well did the show in the beginning. More than a smidge of times. I recently pointed out that the show had its best W25-54 hold since April. I don't apologize for talking about its ratings dip. It was real. And I've repeatedly pointed to the repeats being detrimental to its growth. Way more than I've brought up the creative. Go back and look. Where did I predict its swift doom? It'll end eventually like all shows do. Be it in December, or with the rest of the CBS soaps, or somewhere in-between. Nah, I'm giving my thoughts on the performance of the first, and likely the last, network soap launch. It was supposed to be laughable. You are correct, B&B has a horrible track record of Black representation. Diversity in general. "Even B&B did this!" wasn't meant to applaud B&B for the epic saga of Carter & Daphne Rose (epic was sarcastic BTW). It was a factual statement. Even if their execution is half-assed (it is). I'll post as I see fit. No one is forcing you to read my posts if you don't find any value in them.

Thank you for the correcting my typo. I said it deserved to be renewed in April based on its (then) success with women under 50. But continue on with your fan fiction about my posting history. "I'm glad that people on this board are enjoying it. Not every show is for everyone. My opinion is also clearly the minority view as the show has been remarkably stable in viewers under 50. BTG's renewal will surely be announced shortly, and deservedly so based on its performance. Edited April 18, 2025 by bongobong"

100%. The decision to have only 1 Black male regular character single & ready to mingle at the start was another a big blunder of the initial bible. When they do the post mordem on this show, the conclusion shouldn't be that a Black-focused soap was a bad a idea. It was clearly a great idea. The show had a terrific premier and had good numbers with women under 55 for the first 6 months or so. So clearly a lot of people in that demo gave it a real shot. Its initial good numbers, coupled with its 5-month-ish ahead shooting schedule were a hindrance to making adequate course corrections. The path forward is telling more romance stories with Black characters. Actually delivering what was expected by a large, under served audience.

I like that there's a bunch of stories going on at the moment. Even the Gen-Z story now is entertaining, especially compared to pre-crazy Luna. I would prefer if they mixed up the main stories more in a given week though. It feels like for the past few weeks they go too full throttle on one story for a week, be it Logan or the Gen-Z quad. I was enjoying the Taylor/Deacon/Sheila triangle but I need to see some movement there. Way too much talking in circles there.

I don't think the BTG crew is sad about having the #1 soap in W18-49 as their lead-in.

"It's not proper!" LMAO. Cool, Ivy's Maude Flanders now.