I'm sorry that I only have one week of ratings to post (the above ratings were for the week of March 7-11, 2011 and were re-printed at golden-road.net; the original source for this material was SON, yet the link to these ratings is no longer working); however, it proves my point on just how dreadful AMC and OLTL's ratings are when compared to other shows on network daytime television. Certainly, any rational person has to acknowledge that ABC made the right business decision by cancelling both soaps.

I wonder what kind of ratings The Talk and LMAD are getting now.

What exactly would you like us to do? Mount efforts to revive ATWT and GL? Procter & Gamble owns those brands and it has no interest. Their fans fought for them to no avail. Prospect Park took the ABC soaps and intends to revive them. Would I love to see some form of ATWT or GL revival someday? Sure, absolutely. For a time I thought GL could do great with a Night Shift-style spinoff on SOAPNet. But it's not currently happening. Am I supposed to pretend this is unacceptable because the P&G soaps are not back too?

Gotta +2 this one.

Eric, I apoligize for putting words in your mouth when I referred to "your beloved ABC soaps." However, all of my other complaints never mentioned you by name (and were not even in reference to you). The best lesson out of this is that it is best for both of us not to make any assumptions about the other.

I'm trying to stay optimistic, I really want this to work, but the move to cancel-happy cable troubles me moreso than the move online, even if it means more ad revenue. I hope PP's online infotainment network is still a go, and if they can somehow get a cable network to air it as well if only for a limited time, well, that would be gravy.

Cable is too fickle to put all the eggs in that basket. They would need to be simultaneously building the strength of their online network, treating the cable airings like same-day repeats rather than the other way around. BTW, does anyone remember when Bravo aired same-day reruns of The View? I never watched, but I don't think that lasted more than a quarter, did it?

In other news, I see that Anderson Cooper will be replacing Oprah in my viewing area. The Chew, The Revolution, Katie, Anderson... where the hell am I?

I said before that I thought part of PP's funding was a government grant that was available to persons/companies invested in internet programming or whatever you want to call it. If PP moves away from the online end of it, I would suspect the grant is no longer viable.

I wonder what kind of ratings The Talk and LMAD are getting now.

Hopefully I won't get nailed for this. These are for the week of 7/18 which are the last numbers I have (courtesy of Lskreet)

LMAD II 1.8 (same)

The Talk 1.7 (same)

LMAD I 1.6 (same)

Edited August 8, 201114 yr by marceline

Hopefully I won't get nailed for this. For the week of 7/18 which are the last numbers I have (courtesy of Lskreet)

LMAD II 1.8 (same)

The Talk 1.7 (same)

LMAD I 1.6 (same)

Thanks...we wont tell Toups..shhhhhhhh........lol

Damn...LMAD and The Talk have the same ratings Days had...thats not good.

I'm surprised LMAD still can't get above GL - I wonder what the difference in production costs was between the Peapack GL and LMAD, considering LMAD gives away cars and such.

I think that AMC/OLTL may have more of a chance on cable since the cable networks won't have to pay to produce them, and unlike some other ventures, like repeats of soaps, these will be new episodes. It depends on how patient the network is. Some of the cable networks, like Lifetime, have less and less reason to expect big ratings for their shows.

Rebecca Budig talks about her future with AMC

http://www.tvline.com/2011/08/rebecca-budig-opens-up-about-her-all-my-children-future-in-my-head-i-have-moved-on/

She does know that All My Children was never on the radio, right? Maybe she was talking soaps in general.

Yeah that was a headscratcher

While it’s hard to imagine daytime TV without All My Children, it’s even more difficult to picture the fictional Pine Valley without reformed badgirl Greenlee Smythe and the talented scene-stealing actress who plays her, Rebecca Budig.

Really?

I'm sorry that her return wasn't everything she'd hoped it'd be. I wonder if everyone really is that, "Meh" about this online venture.

Edited August 9, 201114 yr by SFK

I'm sorry that her return wasn't everything she'd hoped it be. I wonder if everyone really is that, "Meh" about this online venture.

Her return was awesome for about 3 months and it got boring after that.

Edited August 9, 201114 yr by Jonathan

But Greenlee hasn’t been written for recently the way she was written for when she was with Leo, and that’s what I really loved to do. It’s actually what I came back to do [when I rejoined AMC in 2009]. But it never really happened, and that’s a big factor to me. It’s not about the money, it’s that I want to sink my teeth into something. Greenlee was so funny before, but she lost her sense of humor. They do write funny stuff for her opposite Erica (Susan Lucci), I will say that. [Laughs]

LOL!! Wow. I knew she wasn't to happy playing Greenlee.

I'm sorry that I only have one week of ratings to post (the above ratings were for the week of March 7-11, 2011 and were re-printed at golden-road.net; the original source for this material was SON, yet the link to these ratings is no longer working); however, it proves my point on just how dreadful AMC and OLTL's ratings are when compared to other shows on network daytime television. Certainly, any rational person has to acknowledge that ABC made the right business decision by cancelling both soaps.

I'm not saying whether or ABC was wrong to cancel its soaps or not, but I can say that these ratings your presenting mean nothing, because they're household ratings. They don't make money for the networks, because advertisers don't pay for them. They pay for the women 18-49 demo in daytime, and in that demo, virtually all the current soaps do better than the other programming on network daytime. In fact, only The View really falls among them in the rankings for that demo.