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Remy showing up was a nice surprise. I fully expected Deke just to sit and listen to Dylan then disappear. I hope Remy sticks around for a while, the actors have good chemistry. The Quinn mention by Electra of all people was pretty random. I'd love to see Rena Sofer back but I won't hold my breath. Ivy & Daphne are such a fun pairing. I wouldn't have believed it a year ago when Ivy was floundering and Daphne looked to be a DOA character. If we're being generous and counting Hope & Liam getting married, it's now been 6 months since Steffy, Hope, Liam or Finn have done anything of consequence.

I thought Deke still lived at the apartment he had when when we first met him and Remy moved out, but I could be mistaken. It tracks to me that Steffy would judge Sheila forever because she's the most judgemental character on the show, and Sheila gives the most fodder to judge. I do think it would be more interesting if they followed through with Finn softening towards her for the reasons you outlined. If they're going to keep Finn chained to Steffy, it would be nice if they had some conflict. Any conflict they've had for the past few years was very brief, and was some variation of Finn submitting to Steffy, but Steffy deemed it wasn't done quick enough. Deke being ambivalent towards Sheila would interesting as well. Not that he has to be a clone of millennium Decaon, but the character would work better as being morally grey instead of Hope with a dick. I do like seeing Li as Sheila's friend from time to time, so I guess that's a consolation. Anywhoo, seeing Sheila back in her Nurse Ratchet getup was a hoot. B&B is on a bit of a roll with giving us fun Friday cliffhangers.

The W18-49 holds YOY are OK, except for BTG (-38%). But yikes at the W25-54 numbers versus last year, except for Y&R which is just off a smidge: B&B (-24%), GH (-30%), BTG (-36%).

Steffy was right to blast Taylor. Even if Sheila wan't crazy, it isn't kosher to bang your son-in-law's father-in-law in his house. That said, I agree with the above, Steffy attempting Stephanie's role on the show as the sex police doesn't work. At least 50something Taylor wanting to live with her grandchildren for a bit makes some sense. I suspend my disbelief a ton for this show, but I can't for millionaires Hope & Liam living with her stepdad who hates her. It would be one thing if the situation led to fun testy breakfast convos about Hope's role in the Deacon/Taylor situation or Liam's in Logan. But it's just so the show doesn't have to build another set.

More from a scheduling/production aspect, but NBC waited too long to launch Passions following JER's Days departure and the climax of his stories. By the time the show debuted in July '99, Days' big W18-49 advantage versus Y&R & AMC completely evaporated. Both shows beat Days in that demo the during Passions' first week. AW having a bit of a demo resurgence in late '96-97 (along with SB starting) probably played a role in the extended development time frame. But then AW's demos started tanking basically as soon as JER left Days, wasting the 2pm hour for 18 months.

I was pleasantly surprised that Sheila clued in after seeing the pizza box, and we (hopefully!) don't have weeks of Sheila trying to figure out which of her employees is dating Taylor. That said, her first clue should have been seeing Deacon's car in the driveway.

They were probably still close in the 90s though, I think Rogers was in Hall's surrogate TV movie, I doubt the network mandated her appearance. Oh, I definitely don't think Rogers had a hand in the firing. I was thinking more along the lines of their dynamic changing after that. They were much closer in appearances & salary after DH returned.

Speculation, but could it have something to do with (or exasperated by) the aftermath of Marlena & John being written out for a few years in the late 2000s? Rogers' screentime shot up in that era and I remember hearing good things about her work. Whereas Maggie barely qualified as a character from when Hall returned in the 90s until then.

Nothing malicious, but I suspect the sampling has changed in the new data/panel model that went into effect this season. It could be a more accurate measure than last year, but it doesn't seem like an apples to apples comparison. There's 4 occurrences out 86 of viewership downs year to year during an 8 week span. And 2 of those (versus BTG's first 2 weeks) are exceptional circumstances. I doubt the economy is a big factor, especially since those 55+ are the least affected. Household numbers went down every season during the great recession of 2007-2009. Even during the first weeks of Covid there were shows with YOY loses.

Literally every daytime show up in viewers YOY every week for 2 months is pretty suspect. The only exceptions are 1 week each for TPIR & LMAD, and BTG compared to its first 2 highly sampled weeks.

Given how much the show is trying to erase our memories of Luna implying RJ was a lousy lay, this isn't out of the question.

Daphne telling Ivy to go for RJ was hilarious. She'd probably stop parroting her catchphrase once she got laid.

LMAO, how inconsiderate of Disney to clarify Zhao's schedule before the biggest networking weekend of the year! And the nerve of Disney to put SMG's name out there when she wants to quietly promote what can be her first hit movie in 20+ years. Monsters! Seriously though, I don't think throwing that Hulu executive under the bus while making the Searchlight head look powerless will endear her in the industry.

Good for Bill, Eric deserved to humiliated at the press conference for flaking on Katie and letting Ridge & Brooke clean up his mess rather than manning up and discussing it his sister-in-law himself. I can't say I'm disappointed with Eric going back FC this soon, I don't think there is much to gain in dragging this portion of the story out. It's not like Eric has explosive chemistry with Bill or Katie and we're missing out on tons of great Eric/Katie or Eric/Bill scenes. The meat of this story is Brooke & Katie's feud. Both KKL & Tom have really brought it in their last few confrontations. The writing has been better too. Even though I'm siding with Katie at the moment, I feel like today and last week Brooke had a more believable and sympathetic POV versus a few weeks ago. I agree that Hope & Liam's scenes last week were weak. They should have been Steffy/Liam scenes. It's strange that Steffy is more concerned with staffing FC's most junior positions, but barely has anything to say about the Eric drama. On another note, Crew Morrow has really improved in the last year or so. He was great during his confrontation scenes today. Centering the Gen-Z story on him is smart.

I'm pretty sure JFP wanted to bring Lorna to OLTL as well. Robin Christopher joined the show as her AMC character shortly after Dano started. AW for Soapnet is the only explanation that makes any sense for this rumor. By the time AW ended, it was already in a demo tie with Port Charles, despite the latter show having lower clearances. PC even beat AW's last week in the demos. My theory is that ABC really just wanted Felicia & Lorna to go to OLTL, along with not wanting Tom Eplin join ATWT as his Jake character so they could be the main beneficiary of AW going off the air. I have no inside information on this at all, but my guess is that ABC proposed leasing the rights for the characters & then tried to sweeten the deal with a limited order for an AW continuation on Soapnet. In the end, P&G probably thought that they'd be better off trying to shore up ATWT.