IMO I don't think B&E will be back after the strike, anyone could predict that and don't need a column to do it

Again, it came out after rumors of their dismissal were beginning to spread. Kinda like how the "shocking return" scoop came out after Cady was fired from ATWT

LOL that's what I was gonna say basically. She posted HER stuff after SON and other sites broke the news. For someone who supposedly has a "source" that's kind of pathetic. From what I've read her "source" has all but dried up.......

Edited November 25, 200718 yr by AMC Zendall Fan

I want B&E out of there NOW!

Also they need to get a new EP.

Nothing's happening behind-the-scenes right now b/c of the strike, and that's all I have to say about that.

True, but from what I read, B&E have a 13 week cycle that's about to end soon, and I thought I read something about that the network can fire them after such an amount of time, even with the strike going on. Is that last part true?

True, but from what I read, B&E have a 13 week cycle that's about to end soon, and I thought I read something about that the network can fire them after such an amount of time, even with the strike going on. Is that last part true?

Yes, after 8 weeks into a strike, the networks/studios can declare force majeure and fire any of the writer's.

Thanks, I thought I remembered reading something about that.

Come on strike!

FIRE B&E!!!

Frons was stupid enough to hire McTavish back for the third time (but I understand his point-of-view), but he's not stupid enough to hire her back for the fourth time.

but he saw first hand how wildly unpopular she is with fans, her poor ratings performance, and her unbearably destructive last several months on the show. I would say that last winter fans had never been angrier about the state of the show and it just so happens she was fired at the end of February.

I believe Frons will buy back Megan in a second. Especially considering how she accomadated to him on whatever he wants with the show.

As to Megan's rating performence even when Megan's stuff was airing I never saw AMC get a rating lower then 2.3 B&E have struck the lowest of the low with being in a last place in terms of total veiwers. I am sure Frons is begging for Megan's performence compared to B & E's seemingly atrocious run. Megan was able to give spikes and was able to bring the ratings with her antics and stunts I don't think any of her sweeps periods went lower then a 2.5 and would go up to 2.6's, 2.7's and even 2.8's at some points. Megan was always able to gain veiwers back with whatever crazy scheme she had. But B & E have been draining the viewers dry and have now put them in a spectacular last place in total veiwers. Geez. I once remembered AMC being in 3rd and 4th place under Megan's reign. Now even AMC's highest rated day can't masure past middle of the pack.

The interim writers and B & E screwed up majorly. Even during Meggie's darkest days I don't remember ratings like these.

The winter of 06' we were starting the Satin Slayer storyline and even that was able to put AMC in the 2.6-2.7 range something that B & E would probably dream of having right now....

No Megan fan but even she didn't screw up this show so much that nobody was watching. I mean seriously 1.9's those are atrocious figures.

Edited November 26, 200718 yr by Skin

If B&E are fired post-strike, this will be one of the best moves for daytime in the past 10 years. I'm so sick of these crap HWs getting years to turn a show around, which never works. B&E had their shot, were a huge flop and need to go IMMEDIATELY!

OLTL has been turned around in such a way, I hope AMC can as well. AMC airs at the same time as Y&R and I'd love to pick it up since I stopped watching Y&R.

How many soaps kept their HWs after the 1988 strike and how many didn't?

Food for thought...

How many soaps kept their HWs after the 1988 strike and how many didn't?

Food for thought...

All the CBS soaps stayed the same, I believe. I don't think the ABC soaps changed writer's either. I think only AW got a new HW out of the 1988 strike.

Well, to me, B&E haven't been so bad. All they really seem to care about is their "Crash" storyline and that's all they really have. They haven't been great, but they haven't been bad. When I look back at some of the McTavish days, I'm glad that she's gone, but she did really have some great stories. I just pray to god that she doesn't come back, but I wouldn't object to yet another change either.

I once remembered AMC being in 3rd and 4th place under Megan's reign. Now even AMC's highest rated day can't masure past middle of the pack.

Do not forget at the end of the babyswitch that AMC reached 2nd place. Overall, I thought Megan did a good job her third time around and gave us some great stories (Bianca's rape, the babyswitch, Bianca hiding her pregnancy from Erica, Bianca/Kendall bond, Zach/Maria/Edmund, Edmund's paralysis, Jonathan/Maggie and domestic violence, Garrett pursuing Danielle and raising awareness about predators, Erica's intervention, Satin Slayer, Zach/Kendall, Bianca/Zoe, Krystal's baby paternity, Janet's reign of terror, Di pretending to be Dixie, JR/Babe, Mardi Gras Ball)

Edited November 26, 200718 yr by DevotedToAMC