I think if GH shows ANY ratings growth with the new regime, it's safe for the end of the year. Katie is as expensive as a soap and they'll be heavily promoting it and it needs a strong lead-in. If GH is pulling decent-good ratings and on budget they'll use it to launch Katie. Then once Katie is stable they can cancel GH next year. Unless they pull an NBC and just go with one soap.

If GH does build up enough then perhaps they could just put it on hiatus for a few months until The Revolution's contract ends. Then they could put GH in The Revolution's timeslot (assuming they won't move Katie).

I just wonder what the level is before ABC says enough with The Revolution. It's stopped bottoming out hasn't it?

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/02/02/the-talk-delivers-its-largest-audience-ever-and-matches-its-best-women-18-49-rating/118503/

The demo is absolutely atrocious.

Now they're paying people to be on the show?

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2012/02/revolution-paying-30-to-be-in-audience.html

This is funnier than I would have ever thought.

LMFAO at thenm paying people to be on the show. I wonder when the cancellation announcement will come down bc I doubt these ratings are gonna get better.

Here's a few more numbers to throw out at you. A lot of it is the same as the press release linked above.

But I think this part is new:

These numbers come during the dawn of ABC's The Revolution. The lifestyles talker, which replaced One Life to Live on Jan. 16, dropped from 1.68 million to 1.53 million in its second week.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/the-talk-ratings-revolution-view-286710

Now they're paying people to be on the show?

http://www.welovesoa...n-audience.html

Sounds like they're more than a little desperate over there at ABC these days....

Amen!

Demise of the soaps saddens loyal viewer

http://blog.syracuse...saddens_lo.html

And, perhaps at little funny, lol...

The soap opera "One Life to Live" just ended its four-decade-plus run. This will give the cast an opportunity to finally take those acting lessons they've been putting off since 1965.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120202/NEWS01/302039998/1041

Do they know the show started in 1968?

Anyway, is it a common practice to pay audience members? Doesn't this kind of fly in the face of "it's so cheap"?

It is not. I can hear in my head years and years' worth of free ticket bumpers on talk shows. This is essentially casting extras under the guise of audience members. And they need to drop the pretense of fresh faces and just go with whoever is willing to show up. I've noticed people in The People's Court who've sat in for a few tapings.

Yeah free tickets are the common practice.

What does it say that they can't get people to show up? Do you think people who go to the taping have a bad experience? Does the warmup person sucker punch them or something?

Maybe Mario Batali comes over to cross promote. And by cross promote, I mean get naked. That would drive anyone away.

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