Ricky Martin did play on GH in the mid 1990s so maybe he could return to next years nurses ball…i think he played Miguel?(spelling) Well, GH50 your half right…the show isnt as good as it once was but…however…i still find it entertaining and i like most of the new characters(Kathleen Gati is a huge talent but needs to be written less dark)…the show does need more continuity, more character connections and toned down some of the violence and it could be nearly as great as it was during its best years which were…imo…1977 to 1985…part of the shows problem is that they seem to forget things…like Patricks and Sabrinas hit-and-run car accident…now im not totally against what you are saying GH50 but to me the show isnt totally bad…months before Frank and Ron took over i tried to watch GH and thought it was at its worse…none of the four current soaps are as great as they used to be but as long as they are still here and are attracting more viewers than two years ago it still better than nothing…and if one or all get cancelled sooner or later so be it…ill miss them but ill move on!!!

UI think the Nina s/l is stretching things way to far. We waited for Silas and Sam to get together, now to have interference along with the Insta -nuisance (despite the wonderful talent), is just overkill, Too many branches onthe tree. Loving Julexis, too, just saying..

GH50 you have some good points but i don’t agree with them.This isn’t the first time GH or any soap is promoting a major soap star joining.As for fans tuning out in the last ratings report GH had gained 37,000 from the previous week and gained 308,000 from the same time last year.Finally if you no longer like GH then why do you keep watching it?

I could see Nina going after Julian for revenge because he’s Ava’s brother.

Thank you Andrew, I was about to quote the numbers and ask the same question, but you beat me to it. The improvement from Guza is immeasurable, and while I do think that the show is floundering a bit, GH is as good as it was with labine. I ave a feeling tha we are about to turn a corner and the show will soar again. OLTL had acoule of bad years via valentine/RC, and they overcame that and started cranking out great soap opera. (and then got cancelled lol) but that was the network boneheads.

I did hear that MS was going to be on The View and balloons were going to come crashing down around her head! Just kidding! Memories of CBS overkill with Steve Burton.

Andrew, GH50, myself and others have answered that plaintive query, “Why do you watch?” numerous times on Mr. Fairman’s comment section before. It does get tiresome trying to answer the same question and it deflects from the issue at hand. In short, most of us disgruntled viewers only watch sporadically, keeping it on in the background as we tend to household tasks and home office duties. It just seems like the multitude of unfinished storylines and ill conceived new characters is being written for those suffering from short attention span. We hold on with the hope that it will get better. When you grow up watching a certain daytime series you do become attached to it and it’s hard to completely quit. I do know the time I spend watching dwindles week by week.
Wanting a daytime drama to do better because we know it can does not make us haters. Personally speaking I am growing tired of complaining and my acrimony will dissolve into apathy and you will no longer have to ask me,”Then why watch?”

Andrew, look at your logic when discussing the ratings. You point to the week of 3/24 having a gain of 417,000 viewers from the previous week. It “gained” nothing because it had lost 400,000 viewers the two weeks prior. It LOST 400,000 viewers the week of March 10 from the week of March 3. It maintained that 400,000 loss for the week of 3/17 and then went back to where it had been, only three weeks earlier the week of March 24. So after suffering a dramatic loss in the course of one week, getting back to where you were is a major gain? And then subsequently losing viewers the very next week and for many subsequent weeks.That is the spin that ABC press releases are made of and I’m really not sure why it is you do so.

You hope I wasn’t expecting GH to stay at 3 million? Why not? What’s your basis for thinking it shouldn’t? What’s your basis for thinking that a show shouldn’t be able to maintain an increase in viewership and actually build on it, that’s what good shows do, especially in this case when the 3 million number isn’t wildly impressive, is not an unachievable number based on having reached it and at times exceeded it by hundreds of thousands of viewers.

You and others like to refer to other soaps going down certain weeks and comparing them to GH. Again, a way of deflecting and spinning. The CBS soaps have way more viewers and their numbers don’t matter. This is about GH and its audience. An audience that was ripe for the taking and squandered.

And you know what, I really can’t find anything good about GH these days. I think the writing is terrible and I find the agenda of TPTB a total turnoff. This is GH. It should be about GH characters, families and history. New characters should be brought on to the canvas with ties to that history and integrated properly. Michelle Stafford coming on as Nina Clay is a total joke. This character is coming back to reclaim her life that no one knows about and from people that no one really knows. This is a prime if not the best example of the agenda. Somehow it didn’t serve the egos of FV & RC to write for GH and write for its history, legacy and families. Instead they create this entirely new family, with new actors, that have no ties to the show, put them front and center and now MS and her family will eat the show alive.

And I’ll say one more thing to you and other’s who always come back with, if you don’t like it why do you watch? Having a TV on between 2-3pm is not really much of an investment. I have a TV on in my office all day. It’s background noise for the most part. I’ve watched GH for 34 years, so that’s what I turn the TV to at 2pm most days. During that time, I don’t sit quietly, glued to the show. It’s not that difficult to follow and doesn’t require the greatest of concentration.

GH50 you and i are never going to agree about how GH is doing.IMO it doesn’t matter how GH did ratings wise in the past.All that matters is how they are doing now.So in the ratings report for GH for the week of May 19-23 the show had 2,909,000 in total viewers.Which is only 91,000 from 3 million viewers.Plus i think it’s now 3 straight weeks that GH has gained viewers.Also week to week ratings go up and down all the time.For example GH could have several weeks of gains but then have a week where they lose viewers.I think as long as there are more weeks that GH has gained viewers from the previous week than losing viewers it’s a good thing.