October 18-22, 2010

[DRW50]

OLTL's stories are too inconsistent and repetitive to really invest in -- how many times have Starr and baby been taken hostage. The show sacrificed a lot of character development for shock stories, but the stories are very very overfamiliar and not very well paced.

What featured on GH last week? I know it's probably not accurate but I still think the more they feature on Brenda and her men the more viewers might lose interest.

[OLTL_fan]

GH has been soo boring. I pretty much FF all of last week which had too much Brenda/Dante stuff.

All the action going on with OLTL and them promoting the explosion and viewers are tuning out? I honestly dont understand the ratings sometimes.

[Bella20]

The CBS spin masters could learn something from the ones at ABC. You have to love how they make it seem like these numbers are good.

I wonder if Y&R will fall under 1 million in the 18 to 49 demo this season. This could be the year where people notice that Y&R is performing just as poorly as the other soaps.

People watch based on what happened in the past, not what is currently on screen, this is why the stunts don't work anymore, and why people didn't even tune in for the ending of ATWT. What's the point of watching an explosion, if the past history of the writers/producers has shown that the story won't go anywhere, or that the whole story is the explosion, and not how the characters deal with it.

[marceline]

OLTL's explosion is no different than GH's explosions or AMC's tornado. A stunt is a stunt is a stunt.

[AS THE WORLD TURNS]

There is 6 not 5.

[Carolyn1980]

Both OLTL and AMC had a 0.9 based on their viewer numbers in the 18-49 demo. Unlike the household ratings, which cannot be compared to total viewers, 18-49 viewers DIRECTLY compare to 18-49 ratings. Below a certain amount of 18-49 viewers (somewhere in the mid-to-upper 550,000's), a show will get a 0.8....above that, a 0.9. Since only 7,000 18-49 viewers separate B&B and OLTL, we can assume the 0.9-1.0 threshold is somewhere between OLTL's 625,000 and B&B's 632,000. In other words, OLTL is at the very high end of the 0.9 rating while AMC is at the very low end this week. A few thousand more viewers, OLTL would be at 1.0...a few thousand less, AMC would be at 0.8.

[Bella20]

I just realized that it's so funny that CBS highlighted what The Talk is doing in markets where they own the station, but the flip side to this is that if the show isn't doing well for their affiliates, it wouldn't be a surprise if the affiliates either dumped the show, or moved it to another time of the day. I'm saying this, but realize that it is too early to pronounce the show dead.

[Melroser]

I too would be curious what number of online viewers each show gets. I am an OLTL fan and have been watching more regularly, but online. I wonder if Days is still getting their huge viewership online that they were getting not that long ago.

[Bella20]

Based on a report that came out last year, Y&R was among the top ten most watched shows online. It was right next to shows like Grey's Anatomy.

[Soapsuds]

I am laughing my ass of at this! Both shows are in the shits....OLTL had or is having a big conclusing to its big Eli story and yet it drops.....lol A possilbe 0.9 demo....lol......

The Talk...yeah right ..those are impressive numbers....lol...a 1.6 rating...a 0.8 in 18-49 demo and horrible....2.1 million viewers...hahahahaha

GH....Brenda return is a big fat fuckikng failure........lol

These ratings are laughable pathetic!!

[MontyB]

....and ATWT is off the air. It's just the way it is.

[EastMA2]

CBS has to be very happy with The Talk's ratings. It didn't bomb and even though they are slightly behind what ATWT did, CBS is still ahead of the game because of the much cheaper production costs of The Talk. CBS is already a winner in this.

[Soapsuds]

Yup...at leat it left with class...OLTL is a hot mess of a show..lol

Yes...CBS daytime is looking cheaper by the minute.

[DRW50]

They can run that as an ad campaign. It didn't bomb.

[EastMA2]

You betcha! Show BUSINESS has always been about money!