Well, her stunts worked in the early '90s. I'm not sure if you watched back then.

The Natalie/Janet story made the ratings shoot up, and then the Tad/Ted Orsini story made them rise even more. That's when AMC had an 8.7 rating.

WOW - what amc would do for Loving's rating now Pretend the past never happened?

This is deplorable. The is not AMC anymore - they might as well change the name to protect the people/characters who used to be on this show - the ones we used to love and enjoy watching day after day, week after week and year after year!

AMC was all about history and timely/intelligently crafted stories - with just the right amount of drama, humor and sex thrown in to make them great.

Lucci is no longer portraying the REAL Erica Kane - it's some podErica stuck in repeat stories. I too think she should put her foot down. Maybe she doesn't care anymore. Maybe no one cares? The REAL AMC is dead and gone. She's getting her paycheck.

And since the past doesn't matter anymore - lets just change the story to Edmund being alive and save us all from Jonathug saving the world redemption story. He really isn't a murderer - it was all a dream or something - MMT hasn't done THAT storyline yet!

Yes what AMC is doing and especially what Megan is doing is horriable. However it has been done before.

No one cares that this same type of story has been done before.... that's not even the point. And I'm not even sure why people are bringing up other soaps. Who cares. It's the fact that they're undoing the first legal abortion on television. If this same story was done with the baby that Brooke or Julia aborted, while still thinking it was dumb, I wouldn't care as much.

I think the Days argument is valid.

I agree about it being a different kind of soap but it set the standard for ridiculous, campy plot twists in the 90s.

Nobody can deny the correlation. Days did the Possession as a stunt to get out of the ratings quagmire and ever since, daytime has been doing that kind of 'anything goes' storytelling.

The posession was not a stunt, it was a storyline. Stunts happen once a month or briefly and have no effect, the posession was a planned out storyline that lasted from December 94 to August of 95. That's not a stunt it is a storyline. And DAYS wasn't exactly in a ratings quagmire. DAYS ratings rose since Hope returned in 1994 (that rose the ratings a whole point instantly) so there was no sense of urgency there.

The reason why DAYS comparisons seem so odd is that DAYS has been doing this and had been doing this for ages. AMC is and always has been considered traditional soap opera that wouldn't touch the lines of doing something as inane and ludicrous, but it is about to according to these rumors. So, until then, it's been this golden traditional soap, and now it can do it just because DAYS has been for the past 10 or so years??

And Bo and Billie's "miscarriage" was HARDLY not-magical. The miscarriage happened on a plantation owned by the DiMera's which had A SWAMP GIRL that was believed to be the 2nd coming of a believed dead Hope. Uhm... yeah, that's not magical, that's realistic?? Puh-lease. Not to mention that this was all going on during the search of a virus in the middle of a jungle in DiMera land. Yeah... Billie's miscarriage was definitely a big realistic story for Days.

McTavish shouldn't mess with history like this. It's plain and simple.

WONDER BOY

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Ever since fertility clinic doc Greg Madden made his AMC debut last May, followed shortly thereafter by his son, Josh, fans have wondered about the mysterious connection the fellas clearly harbor to Erica...Finally, amidst the considerable Sturm and Drang at the ball, the shocking truth is exposed.

Josh refuses to stop wrecking havoc on Erica's life, so Greg tells on Josh. "Dad rats him out...He's been bad, very unethical. He's lost all integrity and dad didn't raise him to be that kind of man. But Greg has no idea what's waiting around the corner." (Buchanan) Tad. Tad, who has hit paydirt in his investigation into Dr. Madden. Erica is still reeling from the Josh has been sabotaging her news when Tad reveals: Josh is her son.

"When Tad tells Erica, it's not like the normal soap reveal where everybody goes, 'Ah!' reports Lucci, gasping and clutching her heart in a perfect send-up of the classic soap reaction shot. She's like, 'Are you kidding? Come on.' But as Tad explains the evidence he's acquired, "She pieces it together the way I did - which is incorrectly! I thought Greg took Erica's eggs and fertilized them with his sperm and put [the embryo]in his wife. But no! Wrong! What actually happened is that when Erica went to have the abortion when she was pregnant by [then-husband, Joe's son and Tad's adoptie brother] Jeff Martin, he took the embryo and had his wife carry that baby! So, that's who Josh is."

Wowza. "Yes, it's a lot!" laughs Lucci. "A lot to grasp at once - and run a ball at the same time!" By week's end, Erica pulls it together and heads off to confront her son - and dr. madden.

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I'm really sad that susan lucci is okay with this, I'm still hoping theres a twist to this.

Okay JUST a question about Billie's miscarriage, I honestly hate that Chelsea was even created because Georgia DIED, but wasn't Billie like 6 months pregnant? Wouldn't she have been a premature baby? VERY at that?

Wasn't Georgia born in like...2000? Talk about rapid aging, that little whore is 18 now!!

Wasn't Georgia born in like...2000? Talk about rapid aging, that little whore is 18 now!!

1999 actually.

Thanks for correcting me Hartless

Okay JUST a question about Billie's miscarriage, I honestly hate that Chelsea was even created because Georgia DIED, but wasn't Billie like 6 months pregnant? Wouldn't she have been a premature baby? VERY at that?

Actually Georgia was born in 1997-1998 And I'm not sure about how far along Billie was but she was definitely at least 6 months.

.....................This has been turned into a McTravesty. I think Agnes should pitch a fit to ABC and demand they don't do this. That abortion storyline, though controversial, is a ground breaking story and an important part of AMC's history. I would expect this from JFP & GaP, but not McTavish. Congratulations Megan, you've turned this into a McTravesty.

A McTravesty

Yeah it's been pretty obvious Josh was Erica's son, especially with Josh taking Kendall's route and exacting revenge on Erica before the audience even knows that he's Erica's son. BTW can McTavish think of any other way of introducing long lost offspring on the canvas than a scorned child who wants to exact revenge on their long lost parent?

McTavish is so obviously grasping at straws here with her third tenure at AMC. Undoing one of the biggest storylines in daytime is ridiculous. I don't anticipate her getting fired though, with Frons in charge of things. Though a nice dip in the ratings would convince him.

McTavish is simply and utterly a one note has been hack of a writer and should be banned from daytime entirely.

Josh is great.

Lucci must have been given an advance to play this nightmare, thats why she's making light of it in the interview. Josh is just another hunk with no depth. Male characters on daytime are becoming so boring.

Well, I saw this coming for months and I'm still disgusted at McTrash for even thinking this stunt would work. She needs to be fired immediately so AMC can go back to being an intelligent show that utilizes its rich history instead of destroying it!