I've been sick all week with the flu (Totally Sucks btw) and I have been anxiously awaiting the news Errol mentioned earlier in the week. Being home all week has been beyond boring and awful but when I've been up to it, I've been all over this thread looking for any morsel of additional news about BTG. I'm really looking forward to Monday too.

Maybe we'll get the news over the weekend??? 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

1 minute ago, skiman12082004 said:

Maybe we'll get the news over the weekend??? 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I think next week we'll be inundated with the BTS specials and more stuff than we can handle tbh.

Right now I am just trying to keep an eye out for leaks or takes from people who were at the screenings.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I keep hearing people talk about how poor B&B's ratings are. I'm glad if that's still enough to help BTG.

Errol posted an article about the ratings that give a better picture of what CBS is looking at:

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Highlighted by game shows “The Price is Right” and “Let’s Make a Deal,” and soap operas “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” CBS remains the most-watched daytime network overall, averaging 3.83 million viewers, led by the most-watched program, “The Price is Right” (5.38 million), up +4% year-over-year.

Maintaining its lead as the most-watched daytime drama series, “The Young and the Restless” (5.09 million) placed second, up +5% year-over-year, while “The Bold and the Beautiful” (4.13 million) ranked third among all daytime shows and second among daytime dramas, up +5% year-over-year. Meanwhile, “Let’s Make a Deal” (3.34 million) is up +4% year-over-year.

https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/67814-article-‘the-price-is-right’-‘the-young-and-the-restless’-average-more-than-5-million-daily-viewers-in-delayed-ratings/#comment-1972779

It doesn't mention streaming numbers, but it shows what we've been hearing so often these days that live ratings alone don't matter. 

Edited February 15Feb 15 by Chris B

Can we not get into DEI crap? Giving the far right more attention is not what we should be doing.

 

Tamara Tunie and Daphne Duplaix will be on Sherri Shepard’s talk show next Friday

26 minutes ago, detroitpiston said:

 

Tamara Tunie and Daphne Duplaix will be on Sherri Shepard’s talk show next Friday

Not a fan of Sherri, but will looking out on YouTube for clips.

3 hours ago, detroitpiston said:

Local news segment from the DC screening

I liked how they pointed out the community aspect of soaps and how this is bringing that back!

1 hour ago, ReddFoxx said:

Can we not get into DEI crap? Giving the far right more attention is not what we should be doing.

It's gone beyond giving the far-right attention at this point, unfortunately, as that type of bigotry what now runs our dying country, but hopefully there are still enough daytime viewers with any sense of decency to give the show a chance.

Edited February 15Feb 15 by DRW50

I think the point is we're all dealing with enough of that every single day in 2025. We don't need to buy trouble worrying about it here before BTG even airs. We all know sooner or later the right will target the show if they haven't already. We can't control that, but we can watch and hopefully enjoy the show and the resurgence of a television art form, and appreciate that CBS appears to be fully behind it atm. Whatever happens happens.

1 hour ago, ReddFoxx said:

Can we not get into DEI crap? Giving the far right more attention is not what we should be doing.

With all due respect, DEI is not crap. I have no intention of relinquishing any power to the far right. My plan is to enjoy the show and support it wholeheartedly.

3 minutes ago, skiman12082004 said:

With all due respect, DEI is not crap. I have no intention of relinquishing any power to the far right. My plan is to enjoy the show and support it wholeheartedly.

What I was caling crap is the extremist misinterpretation of it. not DEI itself.

21 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

What I was caling crap is the extremist misinterpretation of it. not DEI itself.

Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate it.

All masks will fall off once the show premieres. 

Now P&G is doing some promotion from their social channels. Granted this ET clip wasn’t fact checked - since, no, ATWT was not on the air for 72 years…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGF0vAmtQom/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Edited February 15Feb 15 by BetterForgotten

Procter&Gamble posted an inclusivity statement blogpost dated of 1/13/2025 (one week before the inauguration of Tr*mp) 
P&G refers to "E. and I." (Equality & Inclusion) instead of "DEI" (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) 
but  they indicate the same thing.

blog post from P&G
"How Inspirational Leaders Ignite Our Purpose: P&G's culture of inclusion fuels our people and innovation."
https://us.pg.com/blogs/inspirational-leaders/

The blogpost contains descriptions of four employees who won awards for leadership, and also has within it embedded youtubes of each of the four.

The videos are embedded but if it won't run for you, there's a link under each embedding that says "If you’re having issues viewing this video, watch it here."  And clicking on "watch it here" will lead you to the separate youtube.

They each introduce themselves, and each describes their own visual appearance for the benefit of anyone visually impaired who might be watching/listening.  And they give their pronouns.

Josette Floyd (African American woman), from Detroit and Cincinnati 
34 years of employment at P&G, now in leadership in sales. Vice President of "Innnovative Selling Coverage".   She talks about her leadership style and interacting with all her team members. She is part of the P&G Strategic Black Leadership Team.
"I've seen the company make a lot of progress in the area of E&I; and in my opinion it's the right strategic business choice for the company -- but I also believe that it's just the right thing for us to do and I'm proud to work for a company that values E. and I."

Trevor Hutchinson (man with a walking disability)  (global toothpaste department)
He talks about the P&G company "disability confidence" initiative for disabled employees to inspire confidence and success and openness.

Ranya Shamoon (woman of Arab heritage who lives in Greece and works with P&G Europe baby division)
She talks about creating aisles in stores for visually impaired shoppers so that they can more easily pick out the diapers they need. (Maybe it's technology within the diaper packaging  maybe, I'm not sure?)

Sarah Tickle, white woman, chair of human resources for P&G global home care.
She talks about some of the inclusion initiatives that she implemented decades ago.
She says how it may have seemed odd thirty years ago, but now this is normal.