Q&A Paul Rauch of The Young and the Restless

[DRW50]

I always associate Rauch's opera love with that GL scene where Olivia, while listening to Tosca, I believe, tried to commit suicide because she didn't have Josh. Josh saved her, and got involved with her. What a lovely message.

[lovely_m]

Don't forget the scene as Victor was burning down his French Villa while listening to opera.

[Sylph]

Exactly.

Utterly laughable, as I said.

[Ann_SS]

I remember that scene. Olivia was so pathetic.

[NYC123]

The sad thing is that ratings for Y&R are improving...

[R Sinclair]

Puff piece.

[DRW50]

They're stagnant. I guess that's better than a decline, but given how Y&R is now STUNT STUNT STUNT, they should be better.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Could these idiots at Y&R pat themselves on the back any more?

These people are arrogant and clueless, hence why the show is in the dire creative state it's in.

[Ann_SS]

Y&R's demos are strong and even climbing so of course, they think they are doing a good job.

[MoTheGreat]

I know back in the days when summer hit people made sure to watch their soaps. Let's see what summer holds because I'm sure GH thought their [!@#$%^&*] didn't stink but it finally hitting them like Y&R has it's karma coming for them.

[EricMontreal22]

His Russian costume drama novella is one of the best loved serials in the world, ever. It looks pretty great on youtube too--of course he just supervised it

[Ann_SS]

Its the demos during sweeps that count. Y&R didn't have major increases like GH, but it held strong and GH at its best couldn't touch Y&R at its normal demos. This is why I can understand MAB, Sheffer, Hamner, and Rauch as well as CBS looking at those demos and thinking that the online fans are overreacting and are full of it. From their perspective, despite the criticism they are achieving their goal of good demos and are doing much better than all the others soaps.

[classicmoment]

I especially loved this part, Gone are the "it is really sad news what happened to guiding light" (S) as we inch closer to " let's face it that show was crap anyway when Paul Raunch left" they are really showing their incompetence and complete disgust for the genere on a whole. I'm not a Guiding Light fan and that statement is still unsettling

[Jay]

Lemay = Maria. OMFG. VOL.

[rememberatwt]

Not that I want to say that Paul Rauch is good at producing every soap he has been on but when he arrived at Guiding Light in 1996, the show was on the verge of cancellation by CBS. Paul was brought in to see if he could bring the soaps rating back up and to strave off cancellation. As early as 1996, Guiding Light was in the towards the end of the ratings pile and at one point or so above The City in ratings.

Yes most actors may complain about him and even soap fans for the way he does things but he may have and again I say may have saved Guiding Light for an early cancellation. In the late 1990's CBS did look a few new ideas for soaps that could have possibly replaced Guiding Light.