Y&R- CONGRATS for bringing in Pratt !!

Y&R/CBS was very smart to fire Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante and bring in Pratt..
Under Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante Y&R had a it’s lowest drop under the Queens of Snooze. Pratt has brought new life to Y&R.

The very worst thing to come from the firing of Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante is that GH dragged them both in.
Did they realize that two near brought Y&R down to its lowest.

Y&R Suit #1;;
Hey guys, Did you see the two throwaways we put out to curb have been picked up, yup they are gone.

Y&R Suit #2;;
Congrats! our plan worked well..
We knew GH would pick up our throwaways.
They think if they came from the #1 soap they have to be good!
aha haa! the dumbasses ! gotcha!

Y&R Suit #1;;
haaa aahhaaa !! We really stuck it to GH..
GH is no longer a worry for us!
Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante will bring it down damned near like the secret weapons of destruction those two are ahha!
Good work guys!!

Y&R Suit #3;;
Hi guys, good going!
Y&R never had a hard ratings drop as with Jean and Shelly at the helm..
Poor o’l Jean was let go/fired from every soap she was with but one and she was with that one to cancellation..
Those two managed to be the only ones to ever cause Y&R a hard drop and loss of high numbers/viewers!
Now GH has them aaahaa that’s grand! It is just too good!
Yup-
Y&R/CBS was smart to fire them.
GH/ABC was dumb to bring them in.
Good work guys, good work!

she makes a point about “it should be an honor”. This past Emmy’s was the best one in years and it felt like a celebration of daytime and not an infomercial for Vegas or other random junk Tough when it’s 4 soaps but thats the reality.

Now just hoping Y&R will tell some groundbreaking stories like The B&B has.

YR hasn’t been must see TV for me since Pratt arrived. It is too much focus on all things Newman and a big FU if you like some of the other families. Victor always winning and never paying for his evil deeds makes me hate the character and the writing for him. Long term couples are broken up with major beats to their stories missing. I don’t like to guess what happened off screen to them and then not get a follow up for over two weeks yet have to see the same endless conversations with other characters. I am about to take a break from the show because the storylines they focus on have no interest to me.

It may not be a U.S. soap, but credit for a groundbreaking transgender story goes to Britains Coronation Street…Hailey had problems and some bigotry but she ended up marrying Roy Cropper and thats the first transgender/wedding ive ever watched…that was way back in the 1990s…they had their ups and downs…Hailey died on the show 2 years ago…B&B cant even come close to Corries…Meanwhile, im sick of hearing people talk about Bruce/Caitlin as if he is the first transgender(just because he is a celeb)…there have been numerous ones for decades!!!

B&B is good classic yet timely soap. I’m overall happy there.

I detest Y&R under Pratt. There have been 5 rapes since he took over.!! Add to it that Victor, despite being complicit in Phyllis being repeatedly raped, gets off Scott free yet again. He is irredeemable at this point. It also infuriates me how Pratt writes Sharon. She has been thru the ringer. As a parent I was livid about how badly she was beaten up during Faith’s custody battle. Bi-Polar disorder is highly treatable yet Pratt wants her “crazy”. It also infuriates me that Michael and Lauren are backburnered yet Summer,Kyle,Abby are shoved down our throats. They are played by very weak unlikable actors.

In this interview as with all others, ratings are the only thing that matters. Quality means absolutely nothing. Y&R has never been in worse creative shape than it is now, but the ratings are up, so that’s all that matters to the suits. Once the viewers realize that there is no Oz behind the curtains, the ratings will fall and the spin will be interesting to hear.

Angelica keep singing pratts praises um don’t you know he destroyed all my children

Do the ratings take into account recorded programs and how much is fast forwarded? There are probably sites where people rave about the recent storylines for Young and the Restless, but, in general, the writing has been abysmal. There is a lack of centering and stability. Even soaps require some of those attributes to balance the absurdities. Perhaps it is really the actors that become more important than the scripts, and viewers are willing to wait and wish that things will improve. In answer to one of your questions, I record and fast forward the ads and distasteful parts which have been many. Watching has become a habit over many years, but it doesn’t mean I think things have improved; quite the opposite.

Love Chuck Pratt ‘s writing ! can’t get enough of these stories with the disasters , catastrophes , action and adventure . We need to see that as well with the bold and the beautiful : an earthquake could take place with the whole cast in mortal peril , a tornado could hit as well , a cruise ship disaster ( think of the Poseidon adventure ) could also take place , explosions , fires , car crashes , any type of accident ! it would be nice if the Bold and the beautiful could tell a serial killer story which would leave many characters dead . you could call the serial killer ” the fashion slasher ” ! Bold and Beautiful needs to step out of its comfort zone !

“Y & R” is not but a train wreck under the poison pen of Pratt – nothing but plagiarized, regurgitated, plot-driven nonsense. It’s just going to keep getting worse and worse…I can’t make it through an entire episode, it’s just that un-watchable and ludicrous!!

FYI – “Y & R” ratings are beginning to tumble and will continue to do so with this horrible, predictable writing.

First of all, Jean and Shelly probably didn’t have half the power Chuck does to write independent of network tinkering. He’s the boss of his stories and I would be dollars to donuts has a huge amount of latitude to write his stories. That doesn’t mean Jean and Shelly aren’t at fault but they didn’t kill off legacy characters and destroy the show; they set up Chuck’s best story (Adam/Gabe), kept Chelsea interesting and established nuPhi. Chuck tells stories in a way that works: he has an umbrella story, sensationalism, not a lot of little stories and keeps the vets pretty much front and center. There’s consistency. I can only watch about once a week if that because it’s not my cup of tea but I do think he’s honed in on a formula that works and that James Reilly perfected. One of Ron Carlivati’s biggest failings was that he told six week telanovela stories and (love them or hate them) the show looked and felt different every few weeks. Viewers never knew who to invest in because they would disappear for weeks at a time. Soap viewers want to deeply invest in a core group especially with dwindling budgets, no location shoots etc. Soaps need to go back to melodramatic, teary eyed story telling..Starting to see that with Days and it might save the show…I know I’m watching every day since Griffley took over

As it pertains to Y&R, I hope Angelica is just giving her usual PR schtick. She did after all gush about the past 2 HW, calling Altman and Passanante her “A” team. I think Y&R is horrid under Pratt! Even the actors do little to sell the material as anything more than the crass, satirical mumbo jumbo that it is. Jamey Giddens, of DC Confidential, recently posted a screen grab of the soap comedy spoof, Soapdish, and wrote, “this was a documentary”. The “Soapdish” model is Pratt’s, Y&R. In reference to what some of AM says in the intv… “if you are watching something on the screen today you have to remember that this one story isn’t the end all, be all of the show. It’s really a journey – Really Angelica? This show has been a mess for several years now! From what I’ve seen, it IS the end all, be all of the show! IF this has been your stance all along, Mrs. McDaniel, why have you helped facilitate the change in HW, 3 times now in the last 3 years? And why were you micromanaging the writing process under other regimes? Clearing you weren’t FEELING the “Journey”. Guess what? Neither are we! “Last year when Chuck did come onboard, there were a lot of people who got their feathers ruffled” Yes, because we are ALL too familiar with his track record. Unlike you, we don’t drink PR kook-aid and blow smoke like a 5 alarm fire. “One of the great things about Chuck is that he is obsessed with this show. He thinks about it 24/7” Obsession and thinking about something 24/7 doesn’t equate to stellar work. You can’t pull talent from someone where there is none. Obsession be damned! If satire was the model for Y&R YOU Mrs. McDaniel, was going for, then I guess kudos to you, it’s been a success. Look how well it’s turned out for GH. And yes, their ratings also went up initially. “We just have to tell great story, and if you tell great story, people will tune-in. That is what we are seeing with The Young and the Restless.” Let us not forget, the last 2 HW also hit highs. Some not seen in 6-7 years. It didn’t mean anything in the end where their job was concerned. And evidently AM didn’t trust either team, as its been heavily reported she micromanaged the heck out the writing process. Perhaps our criticisms have been aimed in the wrong direction. Sounds like AM has done her share of swinging the axe at the show. From a writing process at least. I know McDaniel has done great things for the network. But Y&R continues to struggle creatively, and she needs to accept her part in it. From Y&R standpoint, she blows A LOT of hot air. Interestingly enough, she’s been awfully quiet about Pratt’s Y&R on her twitter page. Even when ratings have been good, she does little to tweet out the… Read more »

What is Billy Miller’s status is he coming back to y&r he definitely would be a up grade to the show.

Y&R fans, keep your fingers crossed, Billy Miller is being wasted over at GH. How much longer is his contract? The reality is he supposedly likes it there because of his “Outs” and his relationship with Kelly Monaco. We’ll see. I do know that he will NEVER return there until Steve Burton’s lap dog, Jill Farren Phelps is gone!

I totally agree. I do the same thing as well. I watch out of habit, hoping it will improve. So far, it hasn’t. I fast forward through a lot of it.

“Listen, there is always going to be stories that people don’t like, but for every person that doesn’t like that story, there is another person who loves it.” Well DUH! The same can be said about one’s garbage or the latest one-star movie.

Pratt does not care about good storytelling. He only wants shock and awe and wash, rinse, repeat. So how many WOMEN have fallen off cliffs now? Drucilla, Skye, and now supposedly Hilary. Wow! How original. Someone’s baby has been miscarried and someone else’s is about to be kidnapped. Hmm, where have I heard THIS one before.

How about you stop being obsessed with the show and start writing it the way it SHOULD be … the way the creator envisioned it? This is not some nighttime cable show. I want shock and awe, I turn to my premium shows. I watch soaps, and have for over 30 years because I like character development and a little escape from my mundane life. I don’t need complete character assassinations like what has happened on Y&R. I don’t even recognize Neil Winters anymore and Nick Newman has become a petulant manchild.

All I want is for Adam to be cleared of killing Delia. I still think that Austin discovered that fake Jack or Harding killed her and Adam was used as the fall guy.

The writers on B & B need to get real !! Here we go again with Ridge. First he gives Katie a pretend engagement ring, and now, Caroline a pretend wedding. I thought when he came back from Paris that he had grown up, however, it has turned out to be quite the opposite. Grow up Ridge !!! Need more Bill and Katie as well.