Manny

Great news!! Cannot wait

I remember in early 90s, in Croatia we suddenly had Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Edge of Night all airing for one year. I guess our main TV Network at the time bought the package of the soaps for one year. Unfortunately, I guess none of them caught on with the audience, because I am pretty sure they only aired for 1 year.

No, never! Actually it has been many years since I watched any daytine soap and I thought Neighbors coming to Prime would be a great time to start watching a soap again.. but alas........ I keep hearing that I already watch too much TV and I am worried that VPN will offer so much more and I will never leave my home hahaha

Thank you, both! I never really used VPN, so it did not occur to me to use it now Might try! Thanks!

I live in Luxembourg.

The ratings seem to be generally slipping (for some more, for some to a lesser extent), so I was wondering if the rise of the sale of VCRs is attributing to this. I thought maybe 1982 would be too early for this, but I found a chart. So I guess VCR sales will really explode in 1985.

I wish Prime would release Neighbors in all of their markets, instead of doing it just in a few selected markets.

Ooh, okay! Makes sense! No problem, thanks for the info and hard work, Jason!! I am also excited for all the future years you are preparing with all this data!! Exciting!!

Wow! What happened that caused this huge jump for Y&R in week of 19 April?? 😮 Also, RH seems to be jumping up and down: March 8 - 5,8 March 15 - 7,0 March 22 - 6,6 March 29 - 5,8 April 5 - 7,4 April 12 - 6,0 April 19 - 6,7 It seems it is up and down more so than others...

I completely understand your views. That's why I prefaced that I did not watch Brad/Traci episodes and by the time I started, Traci was very much a side character who only sometimes visited. I felt like Don and Eileen had good chemistry. But I definitely agree that having Traci go through the death of her only daughter was horrible and unnecessary and very short-sighted. Especially since they killed off Cassie few years prior. It was not needed to have another legacy character to be killed off.

I always enjoyed Ashley & Brad. I liked them together. But I did start watching the show in 1999, so maybe someone who watched when Brad was with Traci could not stand watching Brad with Traci's sister or whatnot. But I enjoyed them. Hated when Brad slept with Olivia.

This is so exciting!! Thank you, Jason!!

Yay!! Looking forward to it!! Thanks, Jason!!

We had ATWT in the early 90s together with Guiding Light in Croatia. But I think both shows only aired for one year.

Ah the chipmunk crap is when I finally quit Y&R for good. Never went back...

Wow, awesome news, Jason!! Looking forward to all this data!! 😀

I do see everyone's point about DAYS cancellation looming for decades and never coming true. Especially seeing Jason47's ratings from 70s and 80s where DAYS is almost always in the bottom half of the ratings, makes me wonder how did they survive for so long? (Yes, I know about their ratings renaissance of the 90s). But the difference between before and now (for me at least) when speaking about potential cancellation is that clearly NBC never had a solution to fill up that timeslot. NBC has been just killing their soaps one by one for years and finally when they were left with only one, I would assume that they never found anything that would be as watched for such a budget. However, lets be real, DAYS was dumped from NBC. NBC finally found something to replace DAYS with (don't follow those ratings, so I have no idea if it is a successful replacement or not). Now being on a streaming service, I would say that it will be much easier to pull the plug. Because there is no timeslot, there is no replacement needed to be found. As soon as the numbers are not as good, Peacock will pull the plug. And yes, this is only my assumption that DAYS is not doing so stellar on Peacock, just because any news of streaming ratings that do come out and Peacock is mentioned, it is never DAYS that gets mentioned. So yes, these are all my assumptions, but I just think it is much easier now to pull the plug than ever before, because it is no longer a network tv show. Streaming services nowadays are killing shows left and right. As for the quality.. I wouldn't know. I stopped watching full time a long time ago (when was Hogan the HW? :D) because even then I didn't like it anymore. And even though I tried to come back several times (last attempt was during the Ben serial killer storyline... I remember also watching Bo dying.. was that happening at the same time or was that separate? Don't remember..). Based on what I read, the quality had to have gone down because this SF [!@#$%^&*] has really gone out of control. But I'll have to believe you all when you say it has been just as bad all these years. EDIT: sorry, just realized now what a huge post this is.. sorry about that

Haha Well you could say that too, indeed. I don't really watch to show anymore, but I still hang around here and read what's happening and it saddens me what this show has become. You said it well. I hope they take notice, although I don't think the show is salvageable. It is airing one of the smallest streaming platforms. Who knows how long this platform even has, let alone a 60+ year old soap opera which is in such terrible condition, that writes 324 years in advance and cannot course-correct even if they wanted it to. Even if they improve, I don't think enough audience watches Peacock or watches DAYS on Peacock to make the positive word of mouth spread. So best case scenario, they keep the numbers they have now, but I doubt this would keep the budget from getting slashed, because if your numbers are stale and costs keep growing (due to inflation or otherwise), the budget will go down.

Thanks a lot, Jason!! Looking forward to this!!

This show is dying a very slow and painful death...

Oh gotcha! Looking forward to it whenever you will have time Thank you once again!!

I really enjoyed reading these. Thank you for providing these recaps!!! So the May 1978 is the last that exists?

Exactly! She had this fun campy side, but she also was good at the more serious dramatic stuff. Obviously, she wasn't a fit for New York soaps or Y&R, but she would be a perfect fit to DAYS or GH. Oh yeah, I remember that! I was so hoping it would somehow turn into a permanent role, but alas...

I know, I know. I should have been more clear.. what I meant was something more permanent. B&B role was not that long lasting and today she is nowhere to be found.

Wow, haven't watched Y&R since the chipmunk stuff and I saw now this thread, so... I am shocked. This is just so bad.. and sad... this looks like a fan made video... in 2003.. in Windows Movie Maker... I get that the budgets are slashed, but I am sure they could have done this better?? The font is so basic, the background looks very early 2000s... my... so sad..