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RATINGS: It’s All About The Bold and the Beautiful!

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The ratings are out for the final week of May Sweeps – May 18th-22nd – and it was CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful as suspected that came out as the daytime drama series with the biggest gains, and in fact, the only soap to gain total viewers for the ratings week!  In addition, B&B was up in total viewers in the key women demos 18-49 and 18-34.

The story of Maya Avant (Karla Mosley) being revealed as a transgender woman, and the fallout it has on her career and her love life, and that of the career of her boyfriend, Rick Forrester (Jacob Young), and his struggle to hold on to the CEO position at Forrester Creations was top-notch story.

In addition, how Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) and his Spencer publications is using Maya’s very personal story and turning into sensationalism to hurt Rick, and to sell magazines and drive traffic to their online platforms, really caught viewers attention.

And in the case of Monday’s news of Caitlyn Jenner appearing for the first time and on the cover of Vanity Fair and tweeting an emotional message:  “I’m so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can’t wait for you to get to know her/me,” the story on B&B couldn’t be more relevant and current.

B&B came close to almost 4 million total viewers for the ratings week.  The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Days of our Lives all ended up in the minus column for total viewers for the rating period, with GH slightly down with -2,000.

So, what do you think about the performance of The Bold and the Beautiful and the timeliness of this storyline and its twists and turns? Comment below!

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The writing of this story has been stupendous…add the superb acting chops of Jacob Yound and Kara Moseley and you have a recipe for excellence.

The Bold & The Beautiful is the ONLY soap that is being solidly written these days. It’s actually believable and I look forward to watching it. I’ve turn Y&R off until CBS & Sony come to their senses and dump the horror duo of Phleps & Pratt. They have made that show unwatchable. DAYS is on such a downward spiral, that it is doubtful that it will ever recover. As far as GH goes, it’s a convoluted mess. It has a better shot at re-gaining its footing, but it better get on track fast. The daytime soap genre is faltering, except for B&B.

please tune in to DAYS , August, 2015… when the new writing team for DAYS premieres

it’s the 50th anniversary

shows shift change and deserve that chance to premiere their work

hi Patrick..
I am going to tune in and check it out 🙂

DO tune in..too much online that the 50th into 2016 is the last year if numbers remain so low. Don’t be moaning and crying if you suddenly find DAYS off the NBC schedule as of next September. It doesn’t even need to happen at all if people just tune in..DVR..get others to do it and push the ratings up whether it’s your favorite or not. How many favorites can you have out of 4..ALL..how would the landscape look with just 3..BLEAK…WATCH WATCH WATCH!!!!

strong week for B&B. they are the best soap right now

Kudos to B&B!

But this is what I find ridiculous about the show: it’s a half-hour show, and yet they continue wasting precious moments of airtime with exterior (some new) shots of Los Angeles. It seems they are adding increasingly more time to these exterior shots. We get it! The action takes place in Los Angeles. It just seems like unnecessary padding to me…

I agree totally, but it helps to know when to stop when FF through the commercials

Hi Lynda: Well, that’s one benefit…

I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT THE SAME…WE GET IT!!!!!

Hi Judy: Great minds think alike…

This story, at it’s heart, is a love story– whether these two people can overcome their issues and stay together– yes, the issues are a bit different than most couples go through, but that doesn’t change the heart of the story. There are two ways to approach soaps, the campy plot driven way, or the character driven way, where the characters are the star, not the action. B&B right now is the only soap left that hasn’t dipped its hand into the campy style. The transgender story could have been told in a campy way, but they wrote it beautifully simple and real– and I think that style still has a place and by the ratings it seems like a lot of others think so too.

I am also really liking the corporate take over story line of this week. It too is being written really well, delving into the history of the family and what makes a Forrester a Forrester– blood or love— It is nice to see Brad actually writing something other than another lame love triangle– please do not start it up again with Steffy, Liam, Ivy and Wyatt–okay. PS. I like to see Caroline have to be joint CEO with Rick, as part of some compromise to this take over business.

I believe Y&R +400,000 viewers same week over last year.

Yes. Up almost a half million viewers over a year ago.

I don’t like Pratt but am surprised that it wasn’t mentioned.

It has been amazing. Jacob and Karla have kept me running to the television every afternoon for the next episode. Rays is clearly the new IT couple.

nice response

i’m excited for Jacob Young… I LOVED his work on AMC
I am thrilled that Karla work is being acknowledged… what a tough storyline
posts have already lauded her for an emmy nomination and “deserved” win

dang! I loved and hated Jacob Young’ work on AMC as JR…. so this intrigues me… as he never accepted his romance with Marissa.. was over… she left him.. and started a romance with Bianca… YES …. : loved this

so the angst and turmoil… for Rick Forrester is frontburner

I’m excited for both actors, and would like to see both win an Emmy next year. Great love story for them.

B&B was up in total viewers in the key women demos 18-49 and 18-34.
We have had the similar ‘ups’ for Y&R and GH and even Days..
It all depends what the doggie in the window is to get them to come and look..
Seems a transgender was the winning ticket/the doggie .. lol

I once tried tried to watch B&B and its people especially the women were too phony/plastic.. lol..

Happy for the B&B fans..

i agree with… whatever it takes to “lure” in viewers

at the end of the day

my days… continues the tradition of relationships… family… love…

familial ties bonds and tribulations

being a Salem’ite

Salute

Patrick !
you do so love your soap!
I like seeing that 🙂
hope it has a loooong run !

Proof that great writing and storytelling will bring on the ratings. B&B has been killing it this year especially with the Maya and Rick storyline. Well done B&B!

surprise, surprise…. young and the restless lost viewers!? nooo……..
you mean fake jack having heart to hearts with genoas finest when the viewers know he s a fake isnt touching?
real jack realizing cuckoo kelly who was once torn and full of grief but suddenly over the top looney and dead isnt exciting?
nikki off the wagon after she desperatly forces neil to an aaa meeting and consquently kils christines baby but doesnt learn her lesson again, isnt must see tv?
sharon pathetic again for another of nicks relative not romantic enough?
victor not evil enough with no ounce of remorse?
wow… that was fast, the viewers are already over pratts fill the plot holes with characters no matter if it makes no nsense at all.
i hope jfp s contract doesnt get renewd and that pratt runs out of material , not like that would stop him from recycking past plots or writing crap anyways!

oh shucks

3 points

#1. “… sharon pathetic again “… this has to be the all time biggest fan outcry

#2. “… viewers are already over pratts fill the plot holes ” he fills them with dung

#3. “… he s a fake isnt touching ” Peter Bergman… has been reduced… wow that’s spiral

I will forever lament, stronghold, and soapbox… “I cant’ stand what has happened to #1”

There are just too many twists and turns over at Y&R now. It becomes difficult to follow and after you start to not care about the characters who are already not acting like themselves. Well, this is where I am finding myself these days, and it gives me a headache to watch.

B&B is great right now, I just hope we’re not slipping into a Liam Steffy Ivy nightmare triangle.

Yeah, it’s happening. Lol

It’s a shame Days didn’t do better. Hopefully these great stories by these stupendous writers will deliver more eyeballs.

The only problem I have with this story is how Maya and Rick have been so God awful to everyone and now suddenly were supposed to root for them.

Who said you have to feel sorry for them? Examine why Rick has been awful to them. Did Caroline, Ridge and Ivy do anything to him? To Maya?

What’s to examine, they were horrible to everyone. I don’t feel sorry for them, I cant root for them because they are hideous human beings. Little Ricky is his mother’s son through and through.

Rob, I totally agree with you. Also, because Rick has been such an incredible jerk to everyone (as you say), I was fully expecting him to reject Maya once the truth was revealed. BTW, if someone shoots a gun in my presence and/or is condescending to me, I don’t root for him!

I haven’t always enjoyed Brad Bell’s writing, but I think he’s doing a good job with this story. The transgender reveal has happened and it’s now taking a small backseat to the corporate maneuvers with a lot of different pieces to the story: Bill publishing the news about Maya; Steffy’s return and how that impacts Liam, Ivy and Wyatt; Ridge and Eric’s past issues; Ridge and Rick’s past issues; what it means to be loyal and to be family; and Maya and Rick’s love story. I also have to give credit where it’s due to Thorsten Kaye for giving some depth to the corporate storyline. In a lot of ways, he’s leading the cast and IMO is more comfortable as Ridge in this story than I’ve seen him be since he started. He’s doing a great job.

While the storyline on Rick and Maya is attention getting, what happens when the gimmick gets old? This is merely a trend. It’s not necessarily revealing storytelling. I give kudos to B&B for being adventurous. I think the Bell production/writing team has strength but it hardly makes up for the lousy stories they told prior to this. They may have gained audiences but audiences are fickle. They tend to tune out when they get bored. DAYS is solid evidence of that. And all the bitching and moaning about Y&R is doing nothing. Ratings keep climbing and the Pratt/Phelps regime keeps it together. I wish that instead of moaning online they actually stopped watching the show and made the Sony execs take notice.

I LOVE B &B!!! Wonderful acting. I’m 59 and have watched B &B and Y & R since the beginning!! But B &B is the best it’s ever been. All characters are
at their peak!! Now don’t let Ally kill Steffy. Get her some help! I miss Michael Muhney but the new Adam is doing his best.

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Lisa Rinna Would Be Down to Reprise Her Role of Taylor McBride in ‘Melrose Place’ Reboot

When Lisa Rinna departed her popular role of Billie Reed on Days of our Lives back in 1995, her next major role would be a jump to primetime and the soapy Melrose Place.

In 1996, Lisa was introduced as new character Taylor McBride and stayed with the Fox young adult sudser for three seasons. Now in 2024, with the recent reveal that a Melrose Place revival is the works with Heather Locklear, Daphne Zuniga and Laura Leighton all on board to reprise their signature roles, would Rinna board the project should it come to fruition?

Speaking with PEOPLE, Rinna expressed, “Well, gosh, I’ve heard about it. I haven’t been approached or anything, but I would love to see what Taylor McBride is up to 25 years later. Wouldn’t that be something?”

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OG Melrose Place fans know that in story, Taylor moved to the Melrose Place apartment building with her husband Kyle played by Rob Estes. However, Taylor had her eye on Dr. Peter Burns played by former GH star Jack Wagner (ex-Frisco). But, by the time she had moved to the apartment complex, Peter had married tough as nails ad executive, Amanda Woodward, played by Heather Locklear.

Recalling her time on Melrose Place, Rinna added that it, “was one of my greatest and most fun acting experiences, playing Taylor and working with Heather and the whole crew.”  Rinna also noted, “So if they need a Taylor McBride appearance, they know who to call. I’m around.”

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The new Melrose Place is in development at CBS Studios. In the premise of the reboot, the Melrose Place residents reunite after the death of one of their friends, “but the pressure cooker of a reunion soon uncovers old traumas, rekindles old romances, reignites old resentments, and reveals new secrets… throwing our characters into chaotic drama that’s reminiscent of the past, but with a much more modern perspective.”

So, would you want to see Lisa Rinna reprise her Melrose Place role as Taylor McBride? Comment below.

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Sean Kanan’s Stepdaughter, Juliet Vega, to Appear on The Bold and the Beautiful

Coming up on this Friday’s April 26th episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, Juliet Vega, the stepdaughter to Sean Kanan will make an appearance on the CBS daytime drama series in the role of Michele.

Keeping it “All in the Family”, the character is named after Juliet’s real-life mother, and Kanan’s wife, writer and producer, Michele Kanan.

Back in 2012, Sean married Michele Vega and thus began their blended family which included his daughter, Simone, and Michelle’s children, Peter, Gigi, and her twins, Annie and Juliet.

Photo: JPI

According to a B&B show spokesperson, Juliet’s B&B character is intentionally named Michele in honor of her mother and Sean’s wife.

While we don’t know how “Michele” shows up in story, it is the same episode that Clint Howard makes an appearance as well seemingly tied to the case of where in the world is Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown)?

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We can’t imagine that Juliet wouldn’t get the opportunity to mix it up on-screen with her stepdad, Sean Kanan. Previously, the two acted together in Sean’s streaming series Studio City, where she played the role of Delilah and he played soap actor, Sam Stevens. In it, Delilah is the bio-daughter Sam never knew he had.

So, looking forward to seeing Juliet on B&B and how ‘Michele’ turns up in the story? Comment below.

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Cameron Mathison Previews New Game Show ‘Beat The Bridge’ (Promo)

As previously reported, Cameron Mathison (Drew, General Hospital) will be seen doing double duty this summer when he premieres in June as the host of Game Show Network’s Beat The Bridge.

Now, while Cameron will be the host with the most, that doesn’t mean he will stop playing GH’s Drew.  In fact, Mathison taped the game show in 2023, so it will now air for the first time in 2024.

Taking to his Instagram this week, Cameron shared his enthusiasm and some new hosting snaps, sharing, “Our newest game show host reporting for duty😎 Head over to the Game Show Network YouTube channel for your first look at the show and don’t miss Beat The Bridge premiering this June! I can’t wait for you guys to see this!”

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In Beat The Bridge, an enormous interactive bridge dares players to cross by stepping on the right answers to challenging trivia questions. As they play, each steps forward and puts money in their team’s bank, with bonus money for each successful crossing. Here’s the catch: the team gets to keep the money only if it can “beat the bridge” by returning one of its players back across before time expires.

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Meanwhile, on GH, Drew and Nina (Cynthia Watros) recently had hate-sex. Do you think its a one-time deal? Where will Drew’s story take him next under new head writers, Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte? Stay tuned.

Now below, check out the first promo for Beat The Bridge from the Game Show Network with you host, Cameron Mathison.  Then, let us know, will you be checking out the game this summer? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

 

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