July 10-14, 2006

[King]

Ohhhhhh. K. Thanks!

[PJA]

I think you misunderstood their post. They just mean that B&B typically doesn't kill people off for sweeps purposes like GH does. In fact Darla was killed off because the actress opted to leave the show not because they wanted to have this huge temporary spike in ratings for sweeps purposes.

[DaysForever]

I have to agree with KR on this.

The actress opted to leave. Fine. But they didn't HAVE to kill her off. They could have just written her out (ex: leave town). But they decided to KILL her off.

They did this for ratings purpose only. Everything is about ratings these days.

[RogerNewcomb]

In SOD, Brad Bells talks about deciding to kill Darla and letting the actress go. It doesn't seem like she chose to leave. But he wanted a story for Taylor and this was it.

[King]

Well, maybe not, but everything that is done on a soap is done for a ratings grab, IMO.

[PJA]

Yeah but it's the way they go about it that's different. GH and other ABC Soaps and usually do deaths, explosisons just to gain a temporary spike in ratings during sweeps. B&B and other CBS soaps really don't do that.

[Ms. Walsh]

CBS definitely doesn't do sweeps...or they're at least more subtle about it than ABC. CBS is nothing like ABC and NBC: its ratings do not change dramatically because of a storyline. B&B was crap for a few weeks and it was hitting 3.3, but last week it was good and it got a 3.0. It's the same w/ ATWT and GL. ATWT gave one of its best performances two weeks ago, yet the ratings didn't even budge. The other networks have their shows flying up and down the charts. One month GH is #3 and Days is #7, and the next month it's the opposite. And then people blame the fanbases for the ratings changing, which I don't understand either, but if they're that impressionable, then I'd be more worried than shows that stay about the same.

B&B killing off Darla might have been about ratings, but it could also be for the Emmys. It's the only show that benefits from the new policy, since it can nominate almost its entire cast. Also, with Bell getting a lot of flack about his writing, this could be a way to prove that he still has it in him to write good storylines.

[DaysFanJean]

Deleted by me because it is to the wrong thread........argh.

[skiman12082004]

I'm happy for NBC Daytime. Nice to see increases for Passions and DAYS. Hopefully this upward trend continues.

[PhoenixRising05]

Well, it's good to come back to great news. I knew Days would go back to normal-they always so after tennis. That is why I didn't worry last week-I was not expecting a 2.6 though and Days did pretty well in demos and dailies.

I hate to be mean about any soap falling but GH at 2.4 is laughable. How an earth will the soap press spin this since they always ignore any negative GH buzz. Every year they have a Save Days cover but I have only seen a Save GH cover once. Guess it's time to break one out.

I agree with KR though-Days just went back to where they were prior to tennis. However, that is better then nothing and shows the audience came back which is good. They need to be consistently good to hold 3rd because I want them in good position for when Beth and later Hogan come to take 2nd. .

[RogerNewcomb]

The only way to draw any conclusions is to look at the ratings over time. I don't really see any trends over the past few months except a slight dip from ABC.

Ratings Trend

[King]

What's with the delay, Toups?

[Toups]

I haven't received the ratings yet.

[sema608]

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GH deserves those ratings! The show is shamefully bad! Why did ATWT get a 2.2 on Friday?

Have you watched Friday's episode? It was beyond BORING! The best was Simon. The episode was just unbearable to watch.

[bandbfan]

Lol, I would've like to see them try to write her out without killing her in the space of time that they killed her (about a week). Oops, Darla's gotta go....do something in another city out of no where. lol. Or they could have just never shown Darla again but fans that don't keep up with news (and probably a majority don't,) wouldn't know that she was gone. (Isn't that what happened with Kristen, she just moved to Florida all of a sudden?) If Schae Harrison gave them little notice that she wanted out, then killing her off was probably the only viable option, story-wise. If they were really looking for ratings, then I think they did a poor job of advertising it on TV. It seems like the whole story was marketed as something, "a mother's worst nightmare," happening to Phoebe, not having anything to do with Darla.