GL is at its very worst and its ratings are decreasing. Everyday more fans are leaving the show because of poor writing and the disrespect of womens issues by Ellen Wheeler and David Kreizman. The show that so many of us has watched for years is being destroyed by incompetent people.

Some may find this crap entertaining but it isn't and I for one would hope that the people in charge would make some real changes before it is too late. Right now GL is one of the worst soaps on the air and I don't see it getting better until the current people in charge are removed.

I don't want to see comic books on my soaps,Rape victims apologizing to their rapists, or constant character assassinations to fit stupid plots that should not have been done to begin with. Storylines are dropped for weeks at a time and then they are picked up again when people have lost interst and they shove their favorites down our throats while the people we want to see are on the backburner for weeks or months at a time.

In my opinion GL is doing a heck of a lot better than some of the others. I have a long history of watching it too and its far from perfect but at least it moves and tries new things. Its fatalistic attitudes like this one that are killing the show.

I have to agree that out of 9 soaps GL isn't nowhere near as bad as most. Just like a previous poster stated it has a craptastic budget and it was basically forced to reinvent itself. Not to say that it's reinvention was the most successful but it could have been a lot worse. Ellen Wheeler is just dragging her feet in getting rid of David Kreizman. She knows that he has failed in many ways and hasn't delivered anything that is must see GL. Besides with Jonathan and Tammy are leaving and DK can't write for anyone else without weaving these two into everyone's orbit. He's a lost cause. For right now though I'd say GL is safe. I think if and when they renew GL it would have to be with a new head writer in place.

Enough with the ignorant and overgeneralized statements! Have you paid attention to the ratings lately??? For months, GL has been sitting around a 2.2/2.3 and just a few months ago, it managed to jump to a 2.4. On some days, it has even gotten a 2.5. So for a low-budget soap that "everyone" is so sure will be cancelled within the next year, it's doing pretty well.

Oh, and a legendary [!@#$%^&*] getting raped again so that viewer's can sympathesize with her this time around (*cough* Days *cough*) or a man shooting his adoptive child's father in an attempt to kill him (ATWT, anyone?) isn't bad enough for other soaps to take a dive in ratings?

GL just simply isn't as bad as everyone says it is. Even when the stories suck, I still manage to find something entertaining, amusing, and genuinely heartfelt about the show. Also, the cast has to be given a lot of the credit because the things they do with mediocre material amazes me.

I have watched the ratings drop from 2.4 to 2.2. The only time Gl got a 2.5 was around Reva's death which was when the show beat AMC in the ratings and it dropped back down since then. I looked up GL ratings and they have gotten 2.3s and 2.2s for most shows not 2.5.

Those other soaps are doing better in the ratings than Gl and they have made changes to improve the show unlike GL. I never said that I had problems with most of the cast only the writers and the executive producers. You may find it entertaining but I see a show that is being destroyed by people that do not care.

When the people in charge make it known that the history of the show is baggage I take it as a sign that they do not care.

Edited January 7, 200718 yr by alanspauldinghottie

Darlin', that's just your opinion. I'm not saying GL is the bee's knees, but I'm not ready to bury it 6 feet under just yet.

"I find this entertaining!"

"No, you're wrong, it's not entertaining!"

:::rolling my eyes:::

I do not want the show cancelled only a change in the current regime.

sorry for the double post

Edited January 7, 200718 yr by alanspauldinghottie

GL's chances of renewal are 50-50. It could be.....or it could be.....

Isn't GL's contract up in June/July this year? I remember thaat Procter & Gamble Productions announced the much-missed Another World's cancellation in early March 1999, and AW aired it's last ep in late June. So it was about 100 days from the announcement until it's last original ep airing on TV.