Do you have the stats in?

have to take into consideration that everytime the Olympics are on daytime ratings fall across the board. The good thing to point out while yes their ratings all fell, they did a heck of a lot better than the chew and gaa! 🙂
makes me a happy camper 🙂

GH is still too dark and seems to be getting darker. There is desperate need for some lightness. The Scully mess is drowning this show, it is just awful.

And the whole Liason/McBam quadrangle just comes across as forced.

Production values are awesome, but I do get that the eyeballs still do not want to return.

Do something. Change the energy. The show is so lethargic. Drop the reality show garbage. Have Nikki drink her way out her marriage with Jack. Where’s Jill? Where’s some ferocious passionate fighting? GH tightened up that ship and only let the best stay. YR needs a little house cleaning. Genie Francis was great. She should go head to head with Jill or something.

Last week? Painful to watch that lame wedding. I don’t know, it’s like watching some la de da 50s pleasantry. Get it moving.

Give Harmony some dark secret to expose, don’t waste that talent.

We some old time Jill stealing Phillip from Katherine fuled energy.

Oh, but Paul’s scenes were amazing. That’s acting. He’s so handsome.

Well there is no way that, hypothetically should KATIE be an overnight success, that it will help GH on the WEST coast considering DR OZ will be following it.

I think the bad ratings for Y&R has to do with all the behind-the-scenes drama that went on. It is like the stock market. People probably tuned out because of it.

I don’t watch B&B, but I do see the promos as I fast-forward the commercials for Y&R. Every week it is the same – Liam, Hope & Steffy unless they throw in Bill & Katie for a change. I guess the younger kids (demographic) likes this tug-of-war and bedhopping with this triangle. It seems boring to me from all the comments I read about it and the other soap fans that complain about it. Maybe we on the message boards are truly the minority and nobody gives a flying fig what we think or what we want to watch?

As a 30+ year viewer of “Y & R” (been watching since Summer 1981), I suggest the following:

1) Stop/un-do the needless SORAS’ing of characters – Noah, Summer, Fenmore and now Kyle Jenkins have been aged to the point where MAB has messed up the show’s timelines, previous storylines and family histories. I’d like to see the original child actors return to their roles at the proper ages. The worst screw-up was the SORAS’ing of Kyle Jenkins – now being portrayed by a kid with the acting depth of a totem pole – Blake Hood needs to go!!

2) Un-do MAB’s decimation of core families: she killed off all the Carltons – The Abbott clan is now just Jack & Billy – the Newmans are divided as usual and the Fisher/Baldwin clan are now a joke unto themselves!! Josh Griffith needs to bring these families front and center again and the only way to do that is to…

3) Get rid of nearly every yawn-inducing character Maria Arena Bell and her co-hacks Scott Hamner & Hogan Sheffer have created since their reign of terror started in 2008. The following characters need to go and soon:

Tucker
Sofia
Yolanda/Harmony
Sarge
Avery
Anita (Ugh!)
Chelsea
Eden (yes, her too!)
Genevieve
Kyle
Ronan (could have been a good character, but MAB and her hacks made him a jerk!)

NOT ONE of these characters belongs in GC – they are nothing but cliches and carriers to perpetuate bad plot-driven material. Perhaps Josh Griffith can come up with a sweeping umbrella story to dispatch these useless, one-note characters.

4) New sets/places that should be seen in GC – I’ve grown very tired of that damn G.C.A.C. and the coffee house!! I am not familiar with Jill Farren Phelps’ work, but she does has the Emmy awards to prove she can do a capable job – I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt and wait until her and Josh’s version of “Y & R” premieres before I make any assessments.

and finally:

5) GET RID OF ANY TRACES OF THAT HORRID WRETCHED CHARACTER KNOWN AS DAISY CARTER – THE WORST CHARACTER THAT EVER APPEARED ON “Y & R”!! Sorry, but this long-time viewer never, ever bought for a second that she and her dimbulb brother Ryder Callahan were the demon spawn of Sheila Carter and Tom Fisher – NEVER!!

GH has got to advertise as it did before yrs., ago. When they have new accitement to air people need to know………..Advertise on outher cable networks like most shows do. It is never seen anytime anywhere. Believe it or not some drfiters thought GH was cancelled along time ago. Cable and mutiple channels and the Olympics is killing daytime right now. Dallas advertises everywhere……same genre!

The Y&R ratings are atrocious. MAB’s firing was well justified & she was delusional to think her stories would bring ratings.

JG & JFP need to clean house of Gen, Tucker, YoHarm, Sarge, Anita, Glo, Jeff & Daisy. Y&R needs to get back to the core families (Newmans, Abbots, Winters,,,etc) & business stories instead of using useless newbies. 🙂

WOW!! the ratings for Cartini’s OLTL reboot… I mean “GH” are down again. No suprise there since One Lifer’s are used more than the actual GH cast.

If the current GH shows are demonstrating it is “firing on all cylinders”, GH has no chance. If this is as good as it gets for the show, it will continue to bleed viewers. I am honestly so tired of hating this show, but it’s done nothing to make me think otherwise.

YR is just in shambles right now.

I can’t wait for DOOL to come back! I was happy for the break, but now I want my soap back on the tubes.

Don’t mean to be insulting but if B&B gained viewers I really do question the brains of soap viewers. That is why I think this is a bogus poll!!!! No one in their right mind can think baseing an entire soap on three characters who sorry are just awful could be pulling in viewers.

General Hospital ” lost another -168,000 ” I have a hard time believing these numbers–

Where do I start with y &r. Chelsea and Adam suck. Sharons character hss been ruined and she is a VET. Melissa Claire Egan is not and her character is mde into a Stepford Wife which she aont. MAB should finally see why she was let go.

I have a hard time interpreting this when Michael refers to the number of eyeballs viewing the shows. Most of us have two eyeballs. Should we halve the number then? Does he mean pairs of eyeballs? I realize you are trying to be snappy, Michael, but the result is that you are making it either confusing or inaccurate.

It is summer. People are on vacation. The next two weeks I will not be viewing because I will be out of town and I don’t record when I am gone because I will never have time to view them, even with fast forward. That means nothing in the long run. The test will be when summer is over.

I hate to see Ronn Moss go from Band B but this show repeats and repeats and that’s why I won’t watch anymore.
As for Y&R I have watched for 34 years and can’t believe what I’m now seeing. Please quit playing musical chairs with marriage! We don’t marry everyone we fall for and that fast. Phyllis is allowed too much for too long don’t even believe Summer is Nick’s, never have. Sharon Case is a great actress, give her the role she deserves, not this bimbo of late. Daniel Goddard belongs out front. let him lead it’s time!

I am most discruntled against the Y&R. I really hope they will bring back reality into the show. I have been watching this soap with interest but everything went wrong when Sharon slept with Adam when she was about to marry nick; the storyline became a nightmare for sharon. She was sweet, kind hearted admirable, though weak she was the perfect woman for nick; then from nowhere this victor madness. For this shoe to succeed the following must be done immediately 1. Restore sharon case. Bring out a medical explanation to her actions. Make her a firm and powerful woman on her own right not through the newmans or abbotts. Bring in a new storyline for her. No one currently in the show that will start a real romance and love phase just like Nick and sharon back in the 1990s-2005. Make Noah and Fait consistent in her life and that of this new romance. Give her happiness for once. Make her forget about nick cheating on her with phyllis for that is the source of all troubles. Make embrace a new life with this hot, good looking, honest and successful man. Solidify this with her having a child with him. I strongly believe this will be a good start. I really do not think someone can be without even a single friend. Since dru and grace left Sharon has just been lonely and the then writers worsened everything my making her find comfort only in sleeping with other men. This is wrong!! Create some good frienship opportunities for her especially with those that considered her as a tgreat or hated her- kill the phyllis=sharon hatred and nikki constant disapproval. Mak her to be a woman of charisma and aura just like the change of adam from bad to good!! What about Dorris Sharon’s mother, for crying out loud has she not been in that forsaking bin for long. Bring her back as she helps sharon find a new perspective in life and heal from whatever illness you deem fit. Use this to draw in a solid support from noah, faith and most of the newmans who could have ignored what she has been through. 2. Destroy Nick and Phyllis for good. Honestly what they have is not real and is mt founded on anything. Make nick figureout the pain he must have put sharon through and try to see her get well. Make him run this time after sharon but not to her interest anymore. Give him a new relationship fresh and unexpected. 3. Change the business setting in the movie. Enough of the newman being on top. The new man for sharon should be the heir of a powerful enterprise settling in Genoa City. Introduce a new family that will tussle the business world with the newman and the abbott. Expand Adams new business strategy to something big. create a real business revolution in the movie. 4. Give Jack a new sense of purpose. He’s been such a… Read more »

When the new writers step in only then will i start watching Y&R again!!