The only one that shocks me of these exits is MCE. She did quit, right? I guess I had never heard any rumblings she would quit...unless it was the blind item which turned out to be about her after all?

She basically carried a lot of AMC for parts of 2009 and 2010 so I wonder how they, and especially JR, will go on.

I'm not one of the fans who says "Bring back Dixie," but that's probably the only story I can think of I might want to see with JR, especially if it means they don't go back to the Babe well.

Last week should have been a good week for AMC. Really addictive with the Damon/Liza stuff, the aftermath, and Annie accidentally smacking the door on Marissa (which is as far as I've gotten right now, still on Thursday - hilarious accident, I had tears coming out of my eyes from laughing for minutes!!). Lots of great cliffhangers. So I'm predicting relatively good numbers for AMC - as in, it shouldn't be last place in overall HHs. If the numbers aren't there, I will be depressed.

Stunned by this news of MCE quitting.

Edited January 21, 201114 yr by jfung79

GH fired Becky Herbst, OLTL fired Brittany Underwood and AMC's Melissa Claire Egan is gone as well. All these talented ladies are gone for storyline dictated reasons, per ABC. There are rumored more firings coming.

OLTL def wrote Brittany into a hole--but I really really don't buy that MCE didn't leave of her own free will. Her contract would just be coming up, she's never really tried her luck at primetime work, etc, especially after a well viewed soap run, she's a big talent--this is what most young promising soap actors do, isn't it??

So I'm predicting relatively good numbers for AMC - as in, it shouldn't be last place in overall HHs. If the numbers aren't there, I will be depressed.

I think you will be depressed.

Marceline do you have a heads up on how bad the numbers for soaps are?

Marceline do you have a heads up on how bad the numbers for soaps are?

No. That's purely a guess on my part.

No. That's purely a guess on my part.

Thanks for answering cause at this point TPTB wonder why the genre is dying is because of serious bone head moves of firing popular characters.

Thanks for answering cause at this point TPTB wonder why the genre is dying is because of serious bone head moves of firing popular characters.

IA, I've always held them "equally" responsible...

I'm not saying that the attrition in the interest of soap operas isn't a sign of the times but I'm seeing them shoot themselves in the foot "as well."

I guess for budgetary reasons but I can't blame it all on that either when I'm seeing a character (e.g. Rebecca Herbst) Elizabeth Webber has gotten some of the worse writing in daytime its not "all budgetary" politiks plays in it too...Becky problem is she's too popular for her own good and this bad writing failed to keep her in the place they put her in...

There are only 3 originals left (on the woman side Monica-recurring who hasn't recurred), Robin, Alexis and Tracey. Welcome to the new GH folks.

Edited January 21, 201114 yr by Cyberologist

“The Talk” CHATS UP ITS LARGEST WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE WEEK

“The Talk” Matches Its Highest Women 18-49 and Women 25-54 Ratings

The Talk, CBS’s new daytime talk show, delivered its largest weekly audience for the second consecutive week and matched its best women 18-49 and women 25-54 ratings, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Jan. 14.

The Talk posted a 1.8/05 household rating with 2.40m viewers, 1.2/05 in women 25-54 and 0.9/05 in women 18-49. This was the series’ largest weekly audience and best household ratings to date, and matches its best weekly delivery in both women 25-54 (with the week ending Dec. 3, 2010) and women 18-49 (with the weeks ending Dec. 3, 2010, and Jan. 7, 2011).

Is this a good sign for OLTL?

“The Talk” CHATS UP ITS LARGEST WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE WEEK

“The Talk” Matches Its Highest Women 18-49 and Women 25-54 Ratings

The Talk, CBS’s new daytime talk show, delivered its largest weekly audience for the second consecutive week and matched its best women 18-49 and women 25-54 ratings, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Jan. 14.

The Talk posted a 1.8/05 household rating with 2.40m viewers, 1.2/05 in women 25-54 and 0.9/05 in women 18-49. This was the series’ largest weekly audience and best household ratings to date, and matches its best weekly delivery in both women 25-54 (with the week ending Dec. 3, 2010) and women 18-49 (with the weeks ending Dec. 3, 2010, and Jan. 7, 2011).

Is this a good sign for OLTL?

I think they would have mentioned beating OLTL if they had. Fingers crossed OLTL goes up!

“The Talk” CHATS UP ITS LARGEST WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE WEEK

“The Talk” Matches Its Highest Women 18-49 and Women 25-54 Ratings

The Talk, CBS’s new daytime talk show, delivered its largest weekly audience for the second consecutive week and matched its best women 18-49 and women 25-54 ratings, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Jan. 14.

The Talk posted a 1.8/05 household rating with 2.40m viewers, 1.2/05 in women 25-54 and 0.9/05 in women 18-49. This was the series’ largest weekly audience and best household ratings to date, and matches its best weekly delivery in both women 25-54 (with the week ending Dec. 3, 2010) and women 18-49 (with the weeks ending Dec. 3, 2010, and Jan. 7, 2011).

Is this a good sign for OLTL?

Now for MY cheerleading:

This is great for all those in charge of that show. Their Tucson discussion/tribute was great, unlike what was happening on THAT OTHER SHOW(more finger pointing, more politics, more Hasselbeck flapping her damn gums).

@marceline: If Lskreet happens to send you dailies of The Talk's Household Rating, I would be more than happy with you both if you posted them.

Edited January 21, 201114 yr by bellcurve

Great for DAYS! Looks like they tied GH again in W18-49.

‘Days Of Our Lives’ GENERATES ITS HIGHEST WOMEN 18-49 RATING IN 10 MONTHS

FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 10-14, ‘DAYS’ TIES FOR #2 AMONG WOMEN 18-49 AND TIES FOR #3 AMONG WOMEN 18-34

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – January 21, 2011 – For the week of January 10-14, “Days Of Our Lives” (1.3 rating, 7 share among women 18-49, 0.8/5 among women 18-34) tied for #2 among network daytime series in the women 18-49 demographic and tied for #3 in the women 18-34 race.

“Days” delivered its highest women 18-49 rating in 10 months (since the week of March 8-12, 2010) and matched its highest women 18-34 rating in 20 weeks (since August 23-27, 2010).

Season to date, “Days” is tied for #3 in the women 18-49 category and tied for #2 in the women 18-34 demo.

Ratings reflect “live plus same day” data from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise noted. Season-to-date figures are averages of “live plus seven day” data except for the two most recent weeks, which are “live plus same day.”

Edited January 21, 201114 yr by OLTL_fan

“The View” Ranks as Daytime’s No. 1 Program Among Women 18-34; Hits a Near 6-Month High in Total Viewers and Target Women

“The View” and “General Hospital” Tie for No. 2 in Daytime in Women 18-49

ABC Daytime

•Among Women 18-34, “The View” (0.9 rating/293,000) ranked as Daytime’s No. 1 program.

•This week stood as “The View’s” most-watched week in almost 6 months in Total Viewers (3.94 million), Women 18-34 (293,000) and Women 18-49 (869,000) – since week of 7/26/10 — lifted by Monday’s “Day of Hot Topics” and Tuesday’s show featuring rumored 2012 Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty.

•Among Women 18-49, “The View” (1.3 rating/869,000) and “General Hospital” (1.3 rating/831,000) tied as Daytime’s No. 2 program.

Following are the Daytime Lineup averages, plus Top 5 Programs Ranks – Week of January 10, 2011:

Daytime Rank: Total Viewers Women 18-49 (Rtg/000s)

No. 1 CBS 3.89 million No. 1 NBC 1.3/855,000

No. 2 ABC 3.04 million No. 2 ABC 1.1/741,000

No. 3 NBC 2.97 million No. 3 CBS 1.0/692,000

Top 5 Daytime Programs in Women 18-49 (rank based on rating)

Program Net Rtg/000s

The Young & The Restless CBS 1.5/1.01 million

The View ABC 1.3/869,000

Days Of Our Lives NBC 1.3/855,000

General Hospital ABC 1.3/831,000

Price is Right 1/2 CBS 1.1/726,000

Gotta give props to Y&R though. Their demos have fallen but not off a cliff.

Y&R is constantly whoring itself out, doing anything and everything to try to get ratings. That's helped them, I'm sure, but I often wonder why they aren't doing a little better.