May 8-12, 2006

[Pine Charles]

Wow! it's nice to see AMC up .2!

They didn't really even do anything that big, but they still had a nice increase. That's good to see.

[All My Shadows]

I love seeing the Women 50+ ratings. These are most likely women who have been watching the shows for years and are truly the veteran fans that have the most dedication to the soaps. Nice to see that they are watching ATWT and AMC.

[Adam]

Great week for soaps all around and big fat YES to Y&R having those increases bexause it truly was what real soap opera is about last week. Friggin rocked and this week was just as good if not better! Y&R has really beem darn great lately. Thank you LML!!!!!

Yay yo AMC having a big increase too and hitting 2.0 in demos for the first time in a long while.

[PJA]

I think this goes to show that Soapnet doesn't have that much of an effect on the daytime ratings as people would like to think. I think Soapnet viewers (for the most part) don't watch soaps live during the day anyway.

[DanTheMan]

Awesum numbers for Y&R. Guess the viewers really do like Victoria/Brad. I would want little Miss Colleen to tear them up...make for much better story. But it looks like she has jumped on their boat. lol

Nice to see GL was one of the soaps that got a two tenths increase.

[Toups]

LsKreet had the same ratings as I did, so I think SOW could be wrong. What does SOD have?

[Angela]

SOD has the same numbers SOW has.

[Toups]

I'll stick with my ratings.

[Angela]

LOL, but will we ever know what it really was? really? LOL, I wonder how this happened, the many differentiations - it's usually always the exact same (SON, LsK, the mags).

[DevotedToAMC]

Congratulations to the week's biggest winners (AMC and Y&R especially!)

Those Emmy wins sure helped GL

[SteveFrame]

I would say that Days should be considered one of those big winners if not the biggest winner this week. They were up 184,000 total viewers. Went up +2 in HH. Then in key demos they were up 138,000 viewers in the 18-49 and rose +3 in the HH in that category. In girls 12-17 they were up 26,000 viewers this week - way more than any other show and most dropped in that age group. And then they were the only show to rise _3 in the 18-34 too. The only demo they lost in was with men viewers.

This was a great week for Days.

[Steveo4]

I think it's interesting to see that 8 out of the 10 soaps are up in male viewers compared to a year ago. Wonder what the reason for that could be?

Otherwise, great to see all the soaps up! Alot of them are above or at least close to their viewership from last year (except NBC soaps, unfortunately). I'm looking forward to what happens with them this summer, could be good for all of them if they keep going up in viewers.

[Gray Bunny]

10 soaps? Did Port Charles come back?

I'm surprised that Passions isn't one of the soaps with more male viewers. With their daily dose of shirtless men who can't act, they're definitely targeting an audience that prefers gay male porn.

[Lskreet]

I get my numbers directly from Nielsen so I'm going to stick with mine as well.

[Pine Charles]

I'm loving AMC beating GH in total viewers. That's always a good thing.