Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 What a horrible week for soaps, damn. It looks like 2008 will be the year that viewers decrease significantly across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 What a horrible week for soaps, damn. It looks like 2008 will be the year that viewers decrease significantly across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brimike Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 What scares me even more? These are writers with something to PROVE, post-strike. I think we're going to see a very "event"-heavy May Sweeps. Shock value and all that. And we'll all roll our eyes like we always do and ask "WHERE'S THE STORY?!?!" The other thing? I really REALLY hope I eat my words. Seriously. I do. Imagine if we had a May Sweeps of emotional reveals and unpredictable Friday cliffhangers, instead of hot air balloon collisions or whatever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members winterguy125 Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Well atleast CBS held up sort of good, ABC seems to be in freefall mode again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members londongirl Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Am I misreading? It looks like the absolute number of viewers watching soaps is remaining approximately the same (or increasing slightly for CBS soaps) but the percentages are going down. Doesn't that translate to more people overall watching more television during the daytime hours BUT spread across more shows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 This is what, the third week that Y&R has placed below a 4.0. Is that some kind of record for them? Can't say I'm surprised. The recent batch of storylines on this show either make no sense, are coma-inducing, or both. The whole ABC lineup is dying. Debbi & Darnell on AMC are magic, but they can't be expected to rescue what is a mind-boggling clusterfuck of a show. OLTL is just boring, but I'm not sure its low ratings are the result of its dullness or the fact that it bridges 2 faltering shows. And what's there left to say about GH? The best shows on the air now are probably ATWT and DAYS, and even they are so-so at the moment. I think the genre is just slowly dying, and despite our pleas for new HW and EPS, I'm not sure anything can be done to shift the tide. Very, very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Wow........this is just bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brimike Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Seriously, if ATWT and DAYS are the best shows on the air right now? We're in trouble. They're both easy on the eyes, at best. And that's about it. Certainly not interesting or ground-breaking. They're managing not to piss off anybody right now (until Martha's last air show, that is), and that's about all they have going for them. It does seem as if there are more total viewers from a year ago, but since the important demos keep going down, my guess is we're seeing more baby boomers retiring (or people over the age of 55). And those people are home during the day. But that's just me pulling that out of my @ss. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Yep, I'm sure everyone is running scared, which can only translate in huge spectacle-type event-laden plots for sweeps with little story to back them up. Geez, I can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted April 3, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2008 Yeah, it's something like that. As the HHs ratings point increases every year, the HHs numbers are expected to go down every year, but that doesn't mean the Total Viewers will also decrease. Look at Y&R for example. Even though they tied a new low in HHs, they are actually up 243,000 Total Viewers from a year ago. That's why I would look at Total Viewers more than HHs because it's inevitable that the HHs will go down every year as the ratings point increases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rakesh Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 OMG, look at ABC! Fons must be going crazy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Ugh, the ratings are not good. ABC soaps will be the first off the network and onto cable at this rate. Their audience is in freefall. CBS is hanging in there. I wonder abou the demos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 And here's hoping that GH's ratings continue to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 And here's hoping that GH's ratings continue to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Noel Posted April 3, 2008 Members Share Posted April 3, 2008 Ouch. Wasn't expecting any of this at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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