Members SFK Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Meanwhile, if Dorian Lord was chewing up fresh Port Charles scenery, would we have heard a peep out of bird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Mmmhmmm? This whole argument she conjured up is pointless. Can you imagine if Eileen Fulton was ranting on like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 I would have to agree. Plots being recycled SO many times is another issue. Surely we had seen characters come back from the dead enough! If they HAVE to recycle, at least do it with some originality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Strasser expressed her opinion, which is NOT bashing anyone at all. ALL actors are business people. Strasser's point is well taken - why would you stand up for a situation where networks ditch hundreds of people's jobs - not because the shows were not making money - THEY WERE. Anyone who thinks not does not understand how things work. If the profits are not high enough, you chop the budget. THEY DID, and the show went on. OLTL's demographic was excellent. It had over 3M viewrs (at least) through TV and a few million more online. That is significant. In the end, it IS all about greed, and Wright did not think things through. One thing to appear on the show - another to stand up and say "isn't this great." I do not know Wright's motives. Certainly to try and promote GH is great. But praising the existance of these new cheapie shows is NOT. Certainly when considering how they are coming about and why. More people need to stand up and speak as Strasser does, but few have the guts. Bravo Robin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 In case no one is convinced about the ratings issue, take a look at ratings from a year ago on a daily basis: Day-To-Day Ratings – HH/Total Viewers AMC Monday: 2.0/2,681,000 Tuesday: 1.8/2,438,000 Wednesday: 1.8/2,521,000 Thursday: 1.9/2,651,000 Friday: 1.8/2,608,000 B&B Monday: 2.2/3,043,000 Tuesday: 2.2/3,053,000 Wednesday: 2.2/2,870,000 Thursday: 2.1/2,986,000 Friday: 2.2/2,986,000 DAYS Monday: 1.8/2,562,000 Tuesday: 1.9/2,582,000 Wednesday: 1.7/2,405,000 Thursday: 1.7/2,377,000 Friday: 1.7/2,324,000 GH Monday: 1.9/2,572,000 Tuesday: 1.8/2,532,000 Wednesday: 1.8/2,363,000 Thursday: 1.8/2,450,000 Friday: 1.9/2,627,000 OLTL Monday: 2.1/3,020,000 Tuesday: 1.8/2,543,000 Wednesday: 1.8/2,647,000 Thursday: 1.9/2,853,000 Friday: 2.0/3,000,000 Y&R Monday: 3.5/4,796,000 Tuesday: 3.5/5,002,000 Wednesday: 3.3/4,638,000 Thursday: 3.4/4,804,000 Friday: 3.4/4,651,000 OLTL came in higher than THREE soaps - AMC, DOOL and GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 No. I actually can't imagine it. I'm trying and I literally can't form a mental picture of Eileen Fulton behaving this way. LOL! And the people who are working on the replacement shows? Do their jobs not matter? Should their families be eating out of dumpsters just to make Strasser feel better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Also, ALL daytime TV viewing has been down for more than a year, not just the soaps. http://www.studiobriefing.net/2011/03/ratings-for-daytime-tv-shows-tumble/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 She did more than express her opinion. She stated LW was WRONG, which means she's (Robin) " right". Robin should have nothing to say to another actress/businesswoman making a business decision. The decision to end soaps was not LW's, but she's decided to do what may be in the best interest of her business. Robin needs to move forward, and perhaps the problem is that she's burnt too many bridges to be asked to make an appearance on anything. It's not easy losing a job, but she needs to be handling this better. It's getting embarrassing! And the ratings you posted look like hell! They are so irrelevant at this point! ANDREA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Just because YOU do not see the relevance does not make them irrelevant. AND, her opionion was that WRIGHT was wrong. THAT is an opinion...since when does anyone not have the right to say someone else is wrong? Please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SweetPea36 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 I love Robin Strasser's outspokenness, but I think she should have chastised LW in private rather than taking it to twitter. I'm sure what LW did felt like a betrayal, and not only to RS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toml1962 Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 I can understand your feeling. But I have found that it is often better when it comes to this sort of thing to comment in public rather than in private. This way others will think twice about it in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 I'm sure LW thought about this long and hard, and in the end, she had to make the best decision for her business. The FB comments were not very kind (a few), and her husband stepped in and asked for positive posts. She had to know that some would see this as a betrayal, but in the end, it's simply too irrational. LW has to think beyond GH. She loves wine and GH, but only one of those passions has a chance at survival. ANDREA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JellicleCat Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Yeah, because I'm sure Laura Wright cares so much about what Robin Strasser says and thinks, that this will be in the back of her mind next time she's asked to do something similar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members marceline Posted June 1, 2012 Members Share Posted June 1, 2012 Oh yeah, THAT would've gone well. It pretty much would've ended with "Excuse me but which one of us still has a job?" Not if they want to pay their bills, they won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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