BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread

[BetterForgotten]

B&B has OG Sheila bartending at the budget Olive Garden:

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Edited March 7 by BetterForgotten

[dragonflies]

and utterly f*cking boring and useless, bring on Leslie anyday!

[Aback]

- calling it 'a HIT';

- 'Splashes';

- somewhere I even read a victorious sentence on how BTG's share of 9 beat Passions' share of 7 (from 1999 and the lowest rated show)

- 5 million people watched at least 6 minutes lol... how does that matter?

All I'm saying is that its performance was decent/good, I'm not seeing a HIT at the moment and that's okay.

[Cheap21]

Im fine with him having flaws and one being an affair years ago. It makes hiim more interesting IMO

Plus I think Eva and Kat have good chemistry as sisters which would be a waste to not texplore given the setup. It would be stark difference between the dynamics of the other 3 young women (Kat, Naomi, Chelsea to have one be volatile and not healthy)

[Antoyne]

So you’re upset that they compared it to the last new soap to premiere? 
 

What would it need to be to be a hit if beating a show with a built in audience of over 50 years is not considered that? Did it need to beat Y&R and Bold to satisfy you?

I will never understand the need to be negative just because.

[te.]

I agree - I don't think "cousins" have quite the same sting to it... plus Eva and Kat would have no reason to go at each other if Ted isn't her father.

Also, I'm not sure how you can't call this anything else but a hit, especially since it did exactly what it meant to do. It increased the time slot viewing significantly, won the time slot and increased the flow of CBS Daytime in general as both Y&R and B&B seems to have benefited from it. It also did amazing in the demographic they targeted it for - African-American women. It's hard not to spin this as a huge success.

But of course it's week one and daytime soaps are a marathon, not a sprint etc etc.

[dragonflies]

They'd still go at each other sisters or not, I can't ever see those two ladies liking one another lol 

[janea4old]

You were replying to the preliminary ratings report.
Here's the full update:
https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/daytime-broadcast-ratings-total-viewers-households-february-24-28-2025

Another:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/beyond-the-gates-ratings-premiere-week-cbs-1236156508/

Edited March 7 by janea4old

[Cheap21]

They can but the dynamic completely changes if they are not sisters. Its not the same. Im invested bc they are sisters. If Eva really is just some random, then there's less reason to care

[Taoboi]

Time to start.

 

Will the Friday cliffhanger be as good as last week's?

[Alan]

PGP is a different entity from P&G Studios and a lot of social changes have taken place over twenty years but we have to be honest about PGP's track record of homophobia.

"We don't need that kind of controversy, because we might lose viewers. 'All My Children' is doing a gay story line right now, and -- how shall I put this? -- the ratings haven't gone up."

-Mary Alice Dwyer Dobbin, "Oakdale Days," New Yorker Magazine 2002

P&G handed oversight of their dramas to MADD for a decade. No, she is no longer at P&G but we need to set the record straight.

[Taoboi]

Lord at drama between Jacob and Naomi.

 

Hehe at Dani back at Uptown. But I love that set.

 

He feels used? And Dani...not caring is a lmao.

[AMCOLTLLover]

To be fair a Lot of people already calling it the best Soap ever created and Whatever and that’s just a way too early to say that lol 

[janea4old]

P&G page on LGBQT+ inclusion -- this is the products, not the studios, but still...
https://us.pg.com/lgbtq-visibility/

[Vee]

I think what's really pertinent is that several years after that quote CBS did do LGBT stories, and they did feature physical intimacy (kissing, etc). So I don't see any evidence that anyone is keeping BTG from doing that here.

Edited March 7 by Vee