The Hollywood Reporter On Soaps...

[JackPeyton]

That's the most shocking part. LOL.

[Ann_SS]

Props to Bruce Evans for supporting Days. Hopefully, he wasn't just doing PR and really is trying to save Days.

Okay. I now know someone. No harm meant.

[CSF]

haha I know, right? It would be pretty ironic if Days outlives all the other soaps considering it's on the network that hates soaps!

[All My Shadows]

They probably don't get high ratings against soaps on an individual basis, but I'm sure if you add together reruns of shows like the CSIs, L&Os, and others, and put them up against soaps, they take a sizable chunk out of the soaps' ratings.

IMO, the main cause for people not watching soaps much anymore is that people are A, not at home during the daytime, and B, if they are, they're watching cable. I don't think good shows would bring the ratings up, but they'd most likely bring up the number of online views and TiVo/DVR recordings, etc.

[Sylph]

Well, a newsflash for ya. As much as it's lovely to see Bruce defend it, he'll actually have no say if someone "up there" decides to cancel it. He is overseen by at least two people: Erin Gough Wehrenberg (to whom he responds directly) and Zucker, of course.

[brimike]

Yes, yes and yes - I wouldn't put much stock into any sound byte Evans makes.

(Sylph, we really have to stop meeting like this. LOL!)

[Toups]

Here you go:

Syndication: http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings...v-show-ratings/

Cable: http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings...tv-show-ratings

[brimike]

God bless ya, Toups!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Blah, nothing informative at all....

[marceline]

Toups you're as cool as the other side of the pillow. Thanks!

[JackPeyton]

its one of the shows i dont watch the new episodes at all, but the reruns? always. i dont even really like the show, yet i cant not watch reruns when i see they are on. and i dont know why. i do the same whing with a few other sitcoms tho.

ha. so true.

That may be, but still... to hear ANYONE from NBC speak good about days is so unheard of now its nice. Hell, id be happy if the boy handing out mail said he liked days or something. lol. im a simple person to please! lol.

[MarkH]

Roger Newcomb has these new ratings for Soapnet (press release, so "spin alert"). Note the absence of GH...which appears to be tanking on both the network and the cable channel.

I'm a little surprised nothing is here about the "prized" acquisitions, like 90210, OTH, Melrose, He's Not That Into You (or whatever the thing is called) or Being Erica.

[Ann_SS]

GH must be stinking up the joint if they could not even spin their ratings.

[All My Shadows]

Melrose was mercilessly plucked off the lineup in favor of more 90210 several months ago, so yeah. I'm really interested in how the daytime teen dramas do. I imagine OTH might do well with the college crowd, but if its the high schoolers they're going after, those folks are still in school. Though OTH might be expected to skew just a tad bit older than the high school demo because its original core audience is now college-aged. The OC probably does better than OTH.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I'm interested in how that crapfest, Being Erica, I think that's what it's called, is doing. It is their only original programming right now, I believe.