think that it is ridiculous that the character of Kendall has been featured on 90% of this year's episodes. That is way too much screentime for one character. They need to stop featuring this character, as well as Zach, Greenlee, and Ryannnie as much and start to give more screentime to other characters. I am tired of seeing Kendall almost every single day along with these other few characters. Not a lot of people outside of the same favored five characters is getting much screetime or really any storylines. The lack of balance and extreme overuse of characters like Kendall is one of the reasons why this show is doing so poorly.

On any soap - frontburner should equal 3.5 episodes a week at most not 4+ (7 of the top 10 are at 3.5+, 4 at 4+). That's just ridiculousness even if the character is beloved. Although I do think the main reason AMC is suffering right now, simply because balance has been an issue for 4 years, is poor story-telling (very little emotional balance) and writing with too many new faces making up that "select" front/"only"-burner (Richie, Annie, nu-Greenlee, nu-Babe).

Now - why are people saying Greenlee and Ryannie are on more than Zendall? Zach and Kendall were on EVERY episode this month.

Maybe this is why, with Greenlee...

November "TALK OF THE TOWN" Count [How many times a characters name is mentioned]:

1. Greenlee: 528 times (3)

2. Zach: 380 times (1)

3. Kendall: 252 times (1)

4. Richie: 231 times (4)

5. Jack: 182 times (8)

6. JR: 177 times (10)

7. Spike: 175 times (12)

8. Ryan: 123 times (4)

9. Babe: 89 times (8)

10. Adam: 67 times (16)

"MINUTES" for the month of November [this is out of 800-900 minutes in a month]...

1. Greenlee: 187 (3)

2. Kendall: 177 (1)

3. Zach: 155 (1)

4. Ryan: 134 (4)

5. Aidan: 118 (6)

6. Erica: 117 (10)

7. Jack: 104 (8)

8. Annie: 98 (7)

9. Richie: 97 (4)

10. JR: 96 (10)

I'll keep these two extra counts going for as long as I do the episode count. I'm not sure I can last all of 2008 because I really don't like B&E's writing and storylines. I'll finish 2007, though.

NOVEMBER EPISODE COUNT: 20 EPISODES

[Thursday, November 1 to Friday, November 30]

01..Thorsten Kaye [Zach Slater]...20

01..Alicia Minshew [Kendall Hart Slater]...20

03..Sabine Singh [Greenlee Smythe]...19

04..Cameron Mathison [Ryan Lavery]...17

04..Billy Miller [Richie Novak]...17

06..Aiden Turner [Aidan Devane]...16

07..Melissa Claire Egan [Annie Lavery]...15

08..Amanda Baker [babe Carey]...14

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AMC YEAR-TO-DATE COUNT: 236 EPISODES

[Tuesday, January 2 – Friday, November 30]

[90%] 01..Alicia Minshew [Kendall Hart Slater]...213 [+1%]

[83%] 02..Thorsten Kaye [Zach Slater]...197 [+1%]

[83%] 03..Cameron Mathison [Ryan Lavery]...195 [+1%]

[75%] 04..Amanda Baker & Alexa Havins [babe Carey]...176 [Havins: 154; Baker: 23] [Havins Exit & Baker Debut: 10/8] [sAME]

[72%] 05..Melissa Claire Egan [Annie Lavery]...170 [sAME]

[58%] 08..Sabine Singh [Greenlee Smythe]...137 [Debut: 4/19] [+3%]

wow. way to go AMC!!! you keep going strong and pull in those great ratings that ~supercouple~ zendull is bringing in!!

"Where are Colby, Sean, and Dre? After the summer, they dropped off the planet.

And where in the hell is Del? Not that I truly care, but he hasn't been on in months, and he wasn't even at Thanksgiving with Opal or Tad or anyone? Let's drop his contract and use the money elsewhere! Ugh! "

Well said. WHile I find the band story and Dre completely uninteresting and a part of me applauds that newbies aren't shoved down our face, ummm WHERE is the story?? What was the point?

And I've been thinking that about Del for ages--I doubt he's one of the higher paid actors but come on...

Does anyone know the Date of the last time Del appeared?