Ratings for the week April 21-25, 2014

Y&R, stop being so boring! I'd rather watch a "bad" show with a lot going on (GH) than a boring show (Y&R).

Way to go, YR!

Y&R, stop being so boring! I'd rather watch a "bad" show with a lot going on (GH) than a boring show (Y&R).

Nothing is going on on GH.

Nothing is going on on GH.

So true! It's a disjointed mess!

Oh well GH is still been the most stable through spring fever. Very strong April for them and up from last years big anniversary episodes. Positioned quite well into may with the nurses ball. GH has been stable through August 2013. It's like 8 strong months of ratings. Who cares about Emmys when dollars and cents in network heads pocketbooks is all they care about.

The ratings are so stale.

Stale Spring numbers are right.. here's to some good May sweeps!

So true! It's a disjointed mess!

So true! It's a disjointed mess!

GH is a mess but I think it has a lot more going on than Y&R which i'm still 10 episodes behind. Say what you want about MAB but her demos were never this low....especially the prized demo.

Edited May 6, 201411 yr by PJA

Given the choice between MAB's last year at Y&R (very B-A-D) and the current Y&R, I'd pick the current Y&R, hands down. Yes it's boring and yes it's mediocre (on a good day) writing.

Too bad TPTB *think* these are the only two choices - bad or boring.

Get rid of Passante and Altman. Bring back Alden and Bibel.

Y and R is experiencing a little spring fever. Jill's ratings have been higher then Maria's. It will bounce back you all are way too negative.

We have stated over and over again our reasons for being uphappy with Y&R. Perhaps the viewers reflected in the ratings who have tuned out feel like we do? It's easier to paint us as just negative though. I know......

I guess it's hard to be objective about the writers when you aren't.

Edited May 6, 201411 yr by bluejeanbaby3

Jean has only been at the helm since end of December. Give her more time. She's a seasoned vet with tons of experience. 22 consecutive years in the biz is a long time and an Emmy winner. CBS wouldn't be employing her if she didn't have the resume or vast experience. It takes time to make big changes to a show. Y and R was a bit boring for awhile. It's not disgusting or offensive as it was under MAB.

SMH...broken record........

Jean has only been at the helm since end of December. Give her more time. She's a seasoned vet with tons of experience. 22 consecutive years in the biz is a long time and an Emmy winner. CBS wouldn't be employing her if she didn't have the resume or vast experience. It takes time to make big changes to a show. Y and R was a bit boring for awhile. It's not disgusting or offensive as it was under MAB.

In all honesty, Johnny, you want all of us to be as grateful as you are just to have a few soaps left. Sorry, some of us are just not wired that way. We want a good show and everything that entails, period! And while your passion is great, it does not make sense to champion garbage.

I will give 4 examples off of the top of my head to illustrate the sucky writing:

1- Abby and Tyler's stupid conversation in the park about his previous activities in Los Angeles with Mariah. The writer of those scenes is clueless about writing for a soap and ruined that relationship for the viewers at that point.

2- Nick's dialogue to Sharon when he and Sharon were alone in the tack house with Mariah. The writer of those lines is apparently trying to reinvent a perfectly fine wheel and is clueless about writing for a soap. JM deserves an award for the immense restraint he surely had to exhibit.

3- Neil's dialogue to Devon after his boink with Hillary. That writer is clueless about writing for a soap and is very insulting to veteran actor KSG.

4- JFP was laughing in an interview about Ray Wise's upcoming scenes with Victor. Yeah, it's just so darn funny that a serial child molester that she brought back to the canvas TWICE in one year is going to make eye contact with Victor by laying his head on Victor's desk. Freaking hilarious. Just what I want to spend an hour of my day watching.

It is a shame what has been done and continues to be done to Y&R. As if what MAB did wasn't bad enough. Before long, our beloved Y&R actors and actresses won't even give a damn anymore and will give up trying to make sense of the sh_ _ they're given and will start phoning it in. That will be the end of Y&R and JFP, et al, will have NO ONE to blame but herself. Just like MAB who WOULD. NOT. LISTEN. This is JFP's version of raping and pillaging Y&R - something she said she would not do - with less than mediocre writing and taboo SLs.

Re: "She's (Jean) a seasoned vet with tons of experience. 22 consecutive years in the biz is a long time and an Emmy winner."

Then she should absolutely know better by now and not need more time than she's already had (since December).

Edited May 7, 201411 yr by bluejeanbaby3