May 4-8, 2009

[Soapsuds]

Yup, ATWT is only 15,000 viewers away from 4th again even though they hit new lows in Total Viewers...LOL.

[SteveFrame]

Do we all get to laugh at ATWT this week.

Glad for Y&R but overall these ratings stink.

[NYC123]

Ok, like I said before what is with all your AMC hate?

You NEVER said a positve thing about AMC and you have wanted AMC to go down every week. I understand if you hate AMC but please you don't have to kepp preating yourself.

ETA: Good for Y&R being up from last year.

[dragonflies]

I wonder if the soap boycott carried over into the May 4th show, weird that AMC, OLTL and GH all got 1.8's for that Monday

I don't see why it's a problem with someone hating the show It's a two way street, I don't think I've ever seen you say a bad word about the show......

Sorry but some of us don't celebrate mediocrisy.

[Angela]

The numbers are awful for the ABC soaps, well for all the soaps 4th place and under. Pratt hadn't gotten anything under 2.5 million since pre-tornado (rarely anything under 2.6 million), now 3 weeks in a row of 2.4. Those were and are bad numbers (for B&E, for Pratt - used to get them 7th and 8th place in viewers) so the fact that AMC is the #1 ABC soap as well as the #1 middle of the pack soap in viewers even with those numbers is pathetic. Maybe the numbers for the middle of the pack will pick up when summer vacation comes around. As much as the soaps have made me groan over the last decade, I like knowing that they're around.

[Soapsuds]

You can laugh at ATWT and the rest of the soaps except Y&R because they are awful and the ratings are dismal. Soaps 4 thru 8 should be cancelled. Days is lucky to be on an upswing.

[Angela]

1.(1) Y&R: Monday: 3.6/5,089,000 (-45,000)

2.(2) B&B: Monday: 2.3/2,964,000 (-540,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Monday: 2.1/2,675,000 (-69,000)

4.(7) AMC: Monday: 1.8/2,403,000 (+276,000)

5.(4) ATWT: Monday: 1.7/2,357,000 (-320,000)

6.(5) GH: Monday: 1.8/2,323,000 (-30,000)

7.(8) OLTL: Monday: 1.8/2,250,000 (+225,000)

8.(6) GL: Monday: 1.4/2,008,000 (-17,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Tuesday: 3.8/5,220,000 (+131,000)

2.(2) B&B: Tuesday: 2.7/3,621,000 (+657,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Tuesday: 2.2/2,871,000 (+196,000)

4.(4) AMC: Tuesday: 2.0/2,616,000 (+213,000)

5.(7) OLTL: Tuesday: 2.0/2,505,000 (+255,000)

6.(5) ATWT: Tuesday: 1.9/2,501,000 (+144,000)

7.(6) GH: Tuesday: 1.9/2,337,000 (+14,000)

8.(8) GL: Tuesday: 1.5/1,975,000 (-33,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Wednesday: 4.0/5,337,000 (+117,000)

2.(2) B&B: Wednesday: 2.6/3,433,000 (-188,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Wednesday: 2.2/2,941,000 (+70,000)

4.(6) ATWT: Wednesday: 2.0/2,641,000 (+140,000)

5.(4) AMC: Wednesday: 2.0/2,533,000 (-83,000)

6.(5) OLTL: Wednesday: 2.0/2,532,000 (+27,000)

7.(7) GH: Wednesday: 1.9/2,449,000 (+112,000)

8.(8) GL: Wednesday: 1.7/2,239,000 (+264,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Thursday: 3.8/4,962,000 (-375,000)

2.(2) B&B: Thursday: 2.7/3,391,000 (-42,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Thursday: 2.0/2,582,000 (-359,000)

4.(7) GH: Thursday: 1.9/2,489,000 (+40,000)

5.(6) OLTL: Thursday: 1.9/2,444,000 (-88,000)

6.(4) ATWT: Thursday: 2.0/2,409,000 (-232,000)

7.(5) AMC: Thursday: 1.9/2,370,000 (-163,000)

8.(8) GL: Thursday: 1.5/2,000,000 (-239,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Friday: 3.7/5,246,000 (+284,000)

2.(2) B&B: Friday: 2.4/3,391,000 (SAME)

3.(3) DAYS: Friday: 1.9/2,610,000 (+28,000)

4.(4) GH: Friday: 2.0/2,626,000 (+137,000)

5.(5) OLTL: Friday: 1.9/2,463,000 (+19,000)

6.(7) AMC: Friday: 1.9/2,375,000 (+5,000)

7.(6) ATWT: Friday: 1.7/2,261,000 (-148,000)

8.(8) GL: Friday: 1.4/1,866,000 (-134,000)

[Cashton]

I love Y&R - MAB and co. are going to take this show to a 4.5! Just ya'll wait!

[Rakesh]

As much as I would love for GL to find life on a new network, this show better conclude on CBS. Those ratings are clearly reflecting on the pathetic writing. If anyone is to be blamed for GL's demise, it's Ellen Wheeler and P&G(Telenext Media). Yes, Ellen's production model is the reason why the show is on air and I've always praised her for it. But since she's the EP, she could have easily fired David KrazyFuck and the other idiots. Y&R, a show with so many writers would never, ever put 4 people as HW. I hope GL goes out with a bang on CBS, and as for those writers, they can !@#$%^&*] off. Ellen on the other hand, I seriously hope she find a producer (not EP) or acting gig on another show.

[MarkH]

See, for me, the interesting shows are Days, AMC, OLTL and Y&R (focusing on total numbers because, like NB, I don't give a sh!t about the "demos").

Y&R looks like it is going up, but MAB & JG presided over the most precipitous drop ever for that show...on a weekly basis...in early 2008. So this "gain" for Y&R really just reflects that they bottomed out early last year, and that MAB is achieving some repair now. Still, that they have reversed a decline phase is interesting.

Days remains the miracle. While it is down over last year, it remains the "comeback kid". There is a lesson to be learned there, somehow. Maybe part of the lesson is that Gary Tomlin is not that bad.

And AMC/OLTL also show much shallower one-year decline trajectories than their soap siblings. Moreover, that has been true for a while now.

The shows with serious problems (as we know) are GL, ATWT, GH, and B&B. Since ATWT has basically been cancelled (IMO, with that final one-year contract), the question is whether GH and B&B can pull it together and bounce back. GH was always the "jewel in the crown" for ABC...I'm shocked they can't save it. And B&B should be able to pull off another Bell miracle. Maybe MAB/HS can consult for them .

[Rakesh]

I've been waiting for many months now... Unfortunately, I'm loosing hope. Y&R is the best soap on-air right now and it deserves better ratings than that. Maria need to speed up the storylines a bit more. She lacks romance and so much more.

[Adam]

It would be rather ironic of GH ended up being cancelled before AMC and OLTL.... however if this keeps up.... I imagine all three will go at the same time.

[Adam]

3.8-4.5 I don't think is a possibility in this current climate, even for Y&R. MAB is at least keeping the show steady with minimal gains. She should be commended for that. And while AMC is still not bringing in stellar numbers, they are still ahead of last year by almost 100,000 viewers..... GH bled over 400,000....... I mean its "spin" but it is somewhat of a positive. These days as long as you are ahead by one viewer over last year's number's, those should be considered positive. For me anyway....

[Toups]

A 4.5 daily is do able. A 4.5 weekly........I don't think it'll happen anymore.

[RoseVioletDaisy]

I agree, I hope it just ends on CBS with some tiny semblance of dignity. Let it go, it's already dead, let it be buried already.

The writing improved for what...6 or 8 weeks? And now it's boring, senseless garbage once again, that ain't gonna cut it. These people who think that Lifetime is chomping at the bit to get it's hands on a daytime soap that's been dying on the vine for over a decade, has shed a huge chunk of viewers, and is now back at it's rating's nadir are living in a fantasy world. Not gonna happen. They'll happily stick with Desperate Housewives reruns and cheap reality shows.