TeamEric,

Last year they had that big SnB wedding ( sigh, I miss them). Their numbers this year compared to last will look bad

I don't see them dropping The Revolution until they try to re-tool it. Plus, their ratings stopped bleeding

That's right, the S&B wedding was held over President's Day. And OLTL that week as it was only 2.5 million viewers so it wasn't a lead-in bounce.

The other recent spike came from Sonny shooting Dante. Sonny never paying for trying to murder an unarmed cop drove their ratings steadily down for most of 2010.

Edited March 2, 201213 yr by TeamEric

GH has been so amazing lately under Ron C. and the ratings upticked faster that I thought they would but that's probably unfortunately b/c of President's Day b/c The Chew got a boost too.

If GH stays even with this rating or grows next week then we might be looking at the next OLTL.

I've enjoyed crazy Abby on DAYS but some of the other stuff is boring a little bit for me to get invested everyday.

B&B is telling the best stories everyday with that Steffy/Liam/Hope stuff. It just amazes me how Steffy who is beyond these two in beauty is selling herself short and not going for the other dudes in town. Bill is a better match for Steffy than with Liam.

Y&R clearly a lost cause just not telling good sotires right now and moving way too damn slow. I'm glad that the AMC viewers are tuning in though and keeping that show's ratings afloat.

Edited March 2, 201213 yr by JNewt

There's such a lack of energy on all the soaps now. I think that's one reason ratings don't go up. Energy doesn't mean CRASH POW SMASH, it's just a feel. In every episode of GH, there are huge dead spots, especially when it's time to go back to Sonny or Jason. The characters also seem so out of touch with humanity. I've never seen such a who-cares reaction to a dead baby.

The genre is lacking severe energy they had some spark last year with all of the AMC/OLTL cancellation controversy and OLTL becoming a force but since then nothing.

GH has the potential to put some life back into but they really need more soaps clicking together at the same time.

I think the energy has died b/c the genre has died on us hopefully there's a revolution made in the genre like a new soap not specifically daytime but something way better than what their doing now.

I have to point out I liked a lot of RC's work and though I think he's vastly overated and had huge lame points, I think he can only be an improvement to GH but... He definitely has a track record of doing often GREAT week or even month long climaxes to stories (which frankly most of his opening GH stories feel like), the downfall invariably is a let down and then there's usually a period of vastly middling storylines. I hope he had enough time to try to avoid that with GH, because they don't have any time for that and have a history of ratings dropping sharply after major event stories, but...

Well, GH is on my TiVo now for the first time. Ever. And it's to see the OLTL alums as well as curiosity about Robin's death / return of 80's faves. Emma Samms looks great!

Emma Samms does look great, however the character of Holly is taking a beating once again. I thought Ron would fix GuzaHolly and turn her back into 80sHolly but it seems Ron isn't changing a thing. I do like everything with Robert and Anna though - although the scenes are so short.

But in the end, I don't think any of this will help. I think GH will be off the airwaves by September.

I was wondering after I posted my comment how ATWT did in the ratings during the Luke and Noah kiss. I remember it getting a lot of press.

Did you not see it?...lol

U missed it it was hot and complelty came out of nowwhere.

I lost interest in Mad TV around 2001 or 2002 but loved some of the early years.

This talks about ATWT's ratings after the first kiss but doesn't go into a ton of detail.

http://www.nytimes.c...ion/15soap.html

Carl you are too funny

So ABC's complete silence on GH continues. They declined to promote GH in the New York Times and now decline to even mention it had a good bump in a press release.

I just don't see a single indicator ABC intends to save GH here.

Im starting to think the same thing. All signs point to cancelleation.

The soaps didn't get a President's Day bump.

Good to see GH's highest day was Friday. Could be a good sign for next week.

So Will smooching it up got the highest total viewers for week......

I saw that on a site

ABC's Paul Lee Doesnt want to Talk GH anymore

From The TCA's When Asked About GH From Hollywood Reporter

Exact Quote

Stop asking. Lee claims he doesn’t know if General Hospital will live on at ABC, nor does he know when such a decision will be made. What he will say is that he loves the show, and has a personal history in the soap space having gotten his

start

in telenovelas.

Boy, no matter what Days does, they can't bring in the demos. EJami's actions revealed = No bump; Will's big dramatic moment = No bump. With all that happened on Thursday 23rd, 85,000 viewers still weren't intrigued enough to tune back in on Friday. I'm really intrigued as to how or what they'll have to do to improve them.

Boy, no matter what Days does, they can't bring in the demos. EJami's actions revealed = No bump; Will's big dramatic moment = No bump. With all that happened on Thursday 23rd, 85,000 viewers still weren't intrigued enough to tune back in on Friday. I'm really intrigued as to how or what they'll have to do to improve them.

I think it just reveals that there are no real stakes in these big moments folks are invested in. Did viewers really care about anothe round of EJ/Sami/Nicole/Rafe after 3 years of it. Sami is moving onto Lucas, Nicole moves out and its like big deal or good because I'm tired of them. Even Wills story has lost some momentum.

Death always pulls in ratings for GH. Starr saves the day

Boy, no matter what Days does, they can't bring in the demos. EJami's actions revealed = No bump; Will's big dramatic moment = No bump. With all that happened on Thursday 23rd, 85,000 viewers still weren't intrigued enough to tune back in on Friday. I'm really intrigued as to how or what they'll have to do to improve them.

Rafe finding out wasn't even promoted! And there was no build up to Rafe finding out - I don't believe he was even on in previous episodes leading up to the revelation. But at the very least, Rafe finding out should've been the promo for the week instead of Will. Plus, the DAYS on air promos are so bad.

The stories lack energy. This seems to happen again and again. Screaming and yelling through scenes isn't energy. There is also no fallout - the show had already busted up Sami/Rafe so who cares about the EJ/Sami reveal?

The only story which seems to have some energy is the Abby thing.

Edited March 3, 201213 yr by CarlD2

The stories lack energy. This seems to happen again and again. Screaming and yelling through scenes isn't energy. There is also no fallout - the show had already busted up Sami/Rafe so who cares about the EJ/Sami reveal?

The only story which seems to have some energy is the Abby thing.

Well EJ and Nicole split but other than the diehards I think most lost interest in them. Maybe throwing Daniel at Nicole will get people rooting for her back with EJ.

Edited March 3, 201213 yr by JaneAusten

Glad that GH highest day is Friday. Hopefully people continued watching into this week.