Members kalbir Posted December 10, 2023 Members Share Posted December 10, 2023 Despite Guiding Light ratings during Calhoun's run (remember that time slot rival General Hospital was 2nd for most of Calhoun's run), I think he left the show in pretty good shape when JFP took over. Yes JFP got the ratings up but as we are seeing in this thread, the ratings rise is overlapping with General Hospital tanking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 10, 2023 Members Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) Thank you, @beebs, ICAM. In fact, I was going to add that to my last post, but time got away from me. But, yes, it seemed like every other scene would climax in a shouting match between characters. In the past, AMC always had been about the "brotherhood of man," with a community of people who loved and cared for one another, even when they might have been at odds. With Megan McTavish as HW, however, Pine Valley became a cold and dark place to visit. Lorraine Broderick restored some of the show's warmth and humanity when she came back as HW, but it never was the same. You also have to take into account that Pamela K. Long was the HW for most of Calhoun's run and that, aside from some major storylines, the magic with her might have been gone. Edited December 10, 2023 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoldRestless Posted December 10, 2023 Members Share Posted December 10, 2023 12/9/91-12/13/91: GL you have an 18 share, SOW has 19 Rest is good! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TEdgeofNight Posted December 11, 2023 Members Share Posted December 11, 2023 Yes, Calhoun did leave GL in good shape. And JFP took off from that and made it even better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted December 11, 2023 Members Share Posted December 11, 2023 Wow, the week of Jan 13th - 17th saw better numbers nearly across the board than the usual holiday highs of the last week of December. Wonder if there was a big snowstorm on the east coast that week? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted December 11, 2023 Members Share Posted December 11, 2023 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/3/92-2/7/92 & 2/10/92-2/14/92: Please register in order to view this content FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/17/92-2/21/92 & 2/24/92-2/28/92: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members kalbir Posted December 12, 2023 Members Share Posted December 12, 2023 Y&R February 4, 1992 Randy Brooks debut. Y&R February 12, 1992 Traci gives birth to Colleen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted December 12, 2023 Members Share Posted December 12, 2023 Coming soon: Friday, March 13 -- Bo (now played by Robert Kelker-Kelly) is back on Days of Our Lives. Friday, March 20 -- Will is killed on All My Children. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members beebs Posted December 12, 2023 Members Share Posted December 12, 2023 Interesting to see OLTL already starting to rebound during early Gottlieb, even if I suspect a lot of that is down to AMC's growth, as OLTL's in some major transition at this point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted December 12, 2023 Members Share Posted December 12, 2023 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/2/92-3/6/92 & 3/9/92-3/13/92: Please register in order to view this content FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/16/92-3/20/92 & 3/23/92-3/27/92: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted December 13, 2023 Members Share Posted December 13, 2023 Y&R March 9, 1992 Barbara Crampton last episode until her 1998 return. All My Children not that far behind Y&R and pulling up the rest of ABC's big three. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Khan Posted December 13, 2023 Members Share Posted December 13, 2023 (edited) Friday the 13th. In retrospect, probably the first, big clue that hiring RKK maybe wasn't the best idea. That's probably why ABCD kept hiring Megan McTavish and re-hiring her, but her career trajectory definitely proves that the law of diminishing returns is no fluke. We know by now how Victor Miller and Wisner Washam felt about working with her, but I'd love to know whether others - Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick, Felicia Minei Behr, etc. - felt the same way. Edited December 13, 2023 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mitch64 Posted December 13, 2023 Members Share Posted December 13, 2023 She did that to GL too..besides the infamous Brent/Marion (killing yet another Mom and making jokes about it..making a dumb girl believe she is HIV positive) Roger and Holly lost all their nuance and he became EVIL (even wanting to drug Dinah and murder her) Amanda an amoral madame, Josh hating Reva when she returned, AM resenting Phillip when he returned..Phillip thinking anyone in his family, including Alex, who always supported him, could frame him...and just generally all connections between the interconnected families of GL were downplayed...Bridget stopped being involved with Uncle Ed, never talked to Chele, Chele called Nola her aunt "Mrs. Chamberlin" and the same with Vanessa, her Mom's best friend..hell, McTavish even made Nola, a manic depressed loser! That is why I never understood why and how she screwed herself and the show later...she saw what worked and what was successful..why ruin it? Id love to see what they had to say, she seems such an odd person/writer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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