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Thanks for the upload, that's interesting. Wasn't Jamie recast at the same time? You'd think with his vibe they'd have wanted him for Tad's son instead of Adam's.

Good to see B&B continue its great season in W18-49. It has a real shot of taking the season crown from Y&R in that demo. That said, it's strange to see it even in W18-49 YOY yet down a full tenth YOY (along with GH & Y&R) in W25-54. Worst retention yet of B&B's demos for BTG at 54% W18-49 & 66% W25-54. What's ironic is that last week it had its best W25-54 hold since April. Hopefully that bought the show some leeway.

Electra becoming an insecure bitch is long overdue. Pleasantly surprised that the actress pulled it off. Likewise, I thought they actress who plays Dylan played her reaction well. The Hope/Taylor scenes we nice. I like that Hope respects Taylor despite their family baggage. Steffy hooking up with Deacon would be epic.

For sure. She's easily #3 after Jordan & Ripa in the best current career pecking order for AMC alumni from the 90s on. At the moment I'd say Josh Duhamel & Tichina Arnold are on the next tier, followed by Mark Conselous & Gellar.

I liked them too. It feels organic that Eric would feel that being pushed aside is a bridge too far. At the other end of the spectrum, Steffy agreeing with Electra that she shouldn't shack up as much with Will to appease Eric was ridiculous. Chastity was never one his core values.

She's been in four one and done series since Buffy ended. Not counting cameos, her last hit movie was in 2004.

Talk about a full circle moment if SMG uses the ample earned media she'd gain from an onscreen reunion with Susan Lucci to help promote her Buffy revival.

I've never claimed that. I'm not sure if it's a reading comprehension issue on your part or if you're being purposely deceptive but we were discussing altering the Canadian companies about the preemption not the preempitons themselves.

Where did I blame the preemptions on them? Obviously the network schedules, not the production company. But then they should alert their international partners. You don't think it's curious why this is happening repeatedly?

It's not the US network's responsibility, it's the production company's. Granted they are owned by the same entity in this case.

Isn't this at least the 4th or 5th time this has happened? This never happens with Bold unless there's a news interruption and then it's rectified the next day so it must be a CBS Studios issue. At least Bell Media won't care anymore because they moved it out of the simulcast slot.

Something positive for all shows: -GH up YOY in 18-49 -Y&R first in both demos -BTG retained almost 87% of B&B's W25-54 demo -B&B won its first quarter ever in W18-49

Or - hear me out - they had the option to air the actual show.

Sure, but I still think it's a bad programing move. It's a holiday where people have the day off and likely to be at home because of the cold weather, paying off holiday expenses, no planned festivities, etc. The network could have scheduled a repeat on NYD with the rest of the lineup in repeats instead. Unless that was a test to see how the show did following a B&B repeat.

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No red flags for new RJ's debut. I liked hearing the classic music cue for his intro. Not to nitpick, but a voiceover telling us who the new actor is isn't necessary when the character has been gone for over a year. Especially when someone names them a second later.

Sorry Deke, no room for you, but they'll find something for a teacher's assistant who let a psychopath into a preschool without dong a background check. She must be good though if Will & Electra stopped by work in the middle of the day to provide a reference. Of course, the CEO will have to ask her dad first before hiring for an entry-level position.

This could be circling the wagons to cater to its older viewers. The median age for SVU on Peacock is about 45 vs 65 on NBC. I'd shocked if Days didn't skew a lot older.

It was on CTV across the country since the 70s, long before most people had cable, so it built a massive lead on the others. Y&R overtook it as #1 here before it ended though.

Here's what I remember about the US soaps airing & moving in Canada. Any corrections/additions welcome: BTG - CHCH until the end of August, then CTV Drama until the end of 2025. E! in January 2026. Sunset Beach - CHCH. At least initially it aired at 3 while the Buffalo affiliate aired it at noon. Maybe the last time before BTG that a soap here didn't air at the same time as it does in the US without being a day ahead. AW - CTV - until the end. AMC - CBC until the mid 90s, then A Channel (what is now CTV2, then owned by CityTV). The revival was on FX Canada. OLTL - Same as AMC but I think A Channel stopped airing it it before ABC did. Days - Global, then WE (same company but on cable) when it went to Peacock in the US. Y&R - CHCH (apparently), then in the 80s Global bought the rights, airing it a day ahead at 4:30. It moved to 4 a few years ago. ATWT - CHCH until Passions was cancelled, then Global. GL - CHCH until the mid 90s, then none for a while? Global at the end? B&B - Some CTV affiliates. I know for a few years around 1993 it was day ahead in Toronto. I believe at 4 (maybe 330?) to try to get the Y&R viewers to tune in before switching to Global at 4:30. Possibly because of the Sheila/Lauren crossovers. Then CTV in its regular slot. From 2013ish-2023 it was on CTV2 before promoted back to CTV. GH - Global until 2000, then CTV until 2009?, then A-Channel/CTV2 for a few years (I think CTV bought the stations by then), then CityTV by the mid-2010s to present. Passions - Replaced AW on CTV initially before moving to Global in 2000 to finish the NBC run. The Direct TV run aired on SuperChannel (pay-tv). Did it air day ahead at 330 leading into Y&R at some point? There was a rumor that Global & CTV made a deal to swap their rights for GH & Passions in 2000.

Anything's possible but the most logical explanation is that they own the show unlike the other 2 so the only added costs are residuals (which are tiny on streaming) & data storage. I guess they have production partners in the NAACP & P&G but I don't think we know if their stakes are that high, and it's not like they'd play hardball with a bubble show.

0% chance they asked him to return, the show clearly brought on Will to replace him because they didn't think he could handle the Luna story.

It took 15 months but Electra finally earned her First Character Trait badge!

Interesting, BTG will air a new episode for the first time following repeats.. I guess it's too much of a headache for the Mountain/Pacific CBS affiliates to air today's B&B episode tomorrow instead of a repeat.

Yeah, there's no putting lipstick on its W18-49 number or the bad retention from B&B. BUT - the positive is that it had its best retention of B&B in the W25-54 demo since August (the week before its second repeat week).