Ratings for the week July 2-6, 2018

Y&R is in absolute freefall, but it’s hard to look bad when the other soaps are collapsing as well. DAYS has finally plateaued in the demos.

I've really been enjoying DAYS, and it's nice to see it is up over it's 2017 same week. It seems to be up and down, week over week,  and the audience declines Monday to Friday. I wish the show could gain a better footing on the audience.

It will be most interesting to see the ratings for that first week after Mishael Morgan's character Hilary has left the Y&R canvas. 

Many of her fans on social media have been threatening to drop the show.  Although I suspect some of that has already happened after her exit was spoiled weeks ago, I know that many claimed that they were simply hanging on until she left, then they'd quit the show.

 

Also, depending on how Eileen Davidson's exit is handled (since the character has come and gone over the decades, I suspect Ashley's departure will be handled with less extreme storytelling), I'd be interested in whether (or not), Davidson's exit affects the ratings in any way.

 

I do expect there to be more drops in ratings for Y&R in the next several weeks.

Edited July 20, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer