February 4-8, 2013: Another Good Week for Y&R/B&B

[rhinohide]

Any insight on why they are delayed? Appreciated but not necessary.

[Toups]

I just didn't receive them yet. I don't like to ask why because it seems greedy. I'm just happy to get them.

[Soapsuds]

Well isnt that a kick in the stomach with P&G sponsoring AMC and OLTL...[!@#$%^&*] bastards.

Don't you pay for the ratings though?? Didn't I read that on the board a while back??

[doolfan]

Well we know how Y&R and B&B did we are just anxiously waiting to see about DAYS and GH. My favorite part of the report is looking at the daily ratings.

[Eric83]

Sponsoring is not the same as shelling out cash to pay for two 50+ year old soap operas with horrible ratings.

[y&r_fan]

No.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Soaps are no where near done. They've had a resurgence this year.

[jfung79]

I agree with your defense of P&G sponsoring, Eric83, but the reason ATWT and GL had "horrible ratings" was that P&G and CBS let them get that way. ATWT and GL were both doing alright in the ratings just a few years before they were cancelled. ATWT vied for No. 3 in the ratings at times in the early 2000s. ATWT especially could have been saved. Goutman/Passanante were allowed to linger far too long and killed the show with their plot-driven, campy, villain of the month nonsense. ATWT needed a good writer back -- not Passanante or Lethal Leah. Looking back, Chris Whitesell was probably vital to ATWT during the early Passanante era, which was decent, before he left ATWT. Carolyn Culliton is another one who could have been brought back to save the show. They tried with David Kreizman (who I like), but by then it was already too late.

The budget cut that killed GL was also implemented in a horrible manner and P&G (as well as CBS and the show itself) must bear some responsibility for the Peapack era -- there was nothing intrinsic to moving to Peapack that would kill the show, but the way it was implemented (bad sound, "slice of life" writing deliberately lacking drama) had more misses than hits for far too long. I liked GL to the end, but it could have been so much better.

[jfung79]

First post after Toups put the ratings up in the middle of the night (thanks Toups!) ...

My reactions:

Nice to see all soaps showing gains in total viewers from last year. Soap ratings have stabilized. Days still lost a little viewers from the week before, but I'm not tooo worried. If it keeps losing viewers every week the rest of February, then I'll be worried.

Interesting that Days's best day was Thursday. I can't tell what would have been particularly different about that day. Perhaps weather-related.

[aMLCproduction]

Good numbers for all shows. What was special about Monday? Nice to see Y&R cross the 5 million mark. When was the last time that happend?

I will never understand the ratings for B&B.

Days is holding on. All shows are up year over year in most categories. Great job daytime!!

[frequentsoapfan]

The last time that happened was the week prior to these ratings!

[Kimmiemae]

I'm happy Days didn't have a bigger drop in the ratings considering the horrid stories right now. The only good story is Nick/Gabi/Will/Sonny.. I can't stomach Bristen, Danifer or Ejami..

GH is looking good in the ratings for a show that was pretty much given up for dead last year. I'm not a big GH fan, but I watch from time to time when Vets returns.

[edgeofnik]

CBS overall had a big network lift the week of Feb 4-8 - the reason? It was after the SB. The ratings on Monday particularly reflected that in a dayparts. Primetime ratings for week of Feb 11 have been down sharply on CBS as compared to week before. Don't be surprised if Y&R, B&B and TT show similar drops.

[JONNYSBRO]

The thing is Y&R seems to be moving up in the right direction since JFP took over. Its kind of boring in places but nowhere near as bad when MAB was at the helm. It was lke an amateur was running the show.

GH has stayed consistent throughout which is great. I rather see consistency then crazy spikes and drops. DAYS doing well even after their big week reveal. IMO Ken Corday needs to immediately promote Lorriane Broderick to co-head writer of DAYS. Its clear her level of writing is part of the show. What is the hold up in making it official Lorriane will be a co-head writer for DAYS?

[frequentsoapfan]

That doesn't make any sense because Daytime shows were not advertised during the SB.