I recently stopped watching Days. The stories are just terrible. Are we supposed to believe Deimos has that many women falling all over him? Too many Hernandez and now they own TBD. Rafe and Hope are a joke. Aiden’s return has been wasted on them when he could have been paired with someone else. The Ciara character is just a really bad actor and Billy Flynn is stuck with her. Too many things wrong to list. I don’t miss it.

The ratings do not represent if the soap is actually liked.
IF, the ratings showed how much of an episode was actually watched, then and only then would the ratings represent like or dislike.

I FF through much of GH and only watch certain scenes, about 13 mins of the episode.
I watch, I am a number in the ratings, but GH is no longer GH and at times I don’t know what in heck I’m watching, surely not GH..

So– ratings do not show if or if not a soap is good / just that people tuned in even if for just 5-10 minutes.

I would hate to lose a soap and hope all the soaps continue on..

To me the worst 2 soaps on the air are DAYS and B&B. They are either high up on camp or so boring that a noon time nap always seems better. The acting on those two shows wastes the talents of some really good cast members. I love Y&R and GH but those two shows are the first ones pre-empted. No surprise that it affects ratings. One major complaint with DAYS is the actress who plays Ciara (who will intentionally remain nameless to protect her feelings) is horrible. She looks as if she is reading her lines off of props. She has no emotion. She might do better in an episode of the The Walking Dead as that is how she presents herself on the show. Never have I seen a show shove a character down the viewers throats that can’t live up to that kind of presentation. Having her get involved with Chad is so awful an idea that makes me wish Chad would go for Paul instead. God knows those two actors can act and are both so attractive. There I said it, I’m done. DAYS is on it’s way out because they can’t seem to catch the clue that they are writing bad stories. Sad state for the dramas but I am all up in Y&R and GH cause they make me glad.

I agree that the ratings do not indicate that a soap is good. All 3 of the soaps I watch (days, y&r, gh) are all struggling right now. I end up FF most of every episode. I’m annoyed with everything on GH right now. I think that Billy and Phyllis are hot on Y&R so I’m interested in their affair but frustrated with everything else. And on days I actually loved Rafe and Hope when they had a romance developing. I thought they were sweet and I loved Galen Gering finally have a romantic storyline again. But since Aiden has been back I’ve hated the way that hope has been acting so I end up skipping most of her stuff now too.

Get it together soaps!!!! I love you and don’t want to see another soap go off the air!!!!

Days needs to write out the teen set until better actors is found-they should had never aged the children- characters like Paige, J.J., Bev and Rory were enough to attract younger viewers and they were better actors in those parts…V.I. as Deimos does not fit in as a K…he should had been a Dimera…i have mixed feelings about Rafe’s family-im for diversity but they seem a little overwhelming at times…Aiden should date Nicole for brief time to see if that worked as Hope and Rafe realize they are better as just friends…Summer and that girl with Rafe-why?

GH has had some good moments but the Huxley character and that Kathy Bates impersonator with him was disappointing and just seems stupid and pointless… whats with this Ava suddenly with a stolen statue-hopefully its not an elephant…why not utilize characters you have instead of having newbies-Mac and Felicia on a trip could had seen Nik and try to prove he is alive as Nik avoids them at every turn…seeing Monica used more-yes…but Laura’s mystery whatever it is or was has fizzled…Tracy said she doesnt like to see a new doctor but yet she barely knows Finn who she suddenly became attached to so quickly- like a dog with its new chew toy!!!

pre-emptions aren’t the only reasons Y&R and Days are hitting lows. the storylines are terrible. Y&R and Days have fallen in the ratings this year and i don’t blame people for not watching. even on days Y&R and Days weren’t pre-empted,their numbers weren’t very good. Pratt is very terrible. the women are being made to look like crap. with Phelps gone,lets hope we can get better stories

Where’s all the family scenes at on GH. Where’s all the friendships scenes at. Where’s all the drama at. GH just sucks these days.

I love Genie Francis and wish they would get on with her mystery storyline but it was just dropped. She is back to babysitting Spencer.

Of course GH had an uptick…because they lost nearly 300K viewers the week before. When you have an outlier week like that, there will be an inevitable “regression to the mean” …meaning numbers will return closer to their average. So, these numbers (although, they look good on the surface) are not necessarily reflective of a good week. In fact, GH has lost 100K total viewers over the past 2 weeks — and had 3 days under 2.0 in daily ratings. That is pretty low for GH averages. Next week, although, will be a better reflection on how things are going. The past two weeks have had abnormal losses and gains, which can be misunderstood if you just look at the -276K and +176K.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall to know what Ken Corday and NBC/Sony executives really think of these ratings for Days. It’s very sad to see how this show has been destroyed with awful writing, perhaps permanently. But honestly, it’s well deserved. It just goes to show that in any business, you can’t keep treating legions of longtime fans like total crap and expect them to keep being loyal to your product as well as attract new younger fans. I think at this point that all of the actors and crew members with Days would be well-advised to brush up their resumes in the coming months.

I hate to be cynical and negative about this genre, but quite frankly, looking at the key demos, I can’t help but wonder what ABC will do with GH if indeed NBC puts Days out of its misery next year.

I watch a little bit of all four soaps, and I’m not surprised the ratings are down, though I take no pleasure in saying that. I stopped watching DOOL a long time ago, right when Vincent Irizarry started and his character was poorly written, with a nonsensical backstory that I couldn’t invest in. I do watch the special episodes with Matt Ashford and Peter Reckell returning, but MA should be back fulltime, and Hope’s romantic prospects are rather dull without Bo, though I understand Peter Reckell wants to raise his daughter fulltime in Tennessee. I want to like Y&R more than I do, but something isn’t working there. Maybe it’s Victor being behind bars, or me not being into any of the couples, but the stories are rather blah. However, I am looking forward to the fallout of Billy/Phyllis’ affair. There had better be some juicy explosions there.

B&B has spent a huge amount of time in 2016 taking old scripts from past years and changing the names to fit Liam/Steffy/Wyatt, although they don’t need to change any names for Brill and Katie. They’re just flat-out re-doing a story that was hard to stomach the first time around. What B&B needs desperately is new talent on the canvas, so that we don’t see the same characters circling the same characters over and over again. I wish someone, anyone would call out Brad Bell and say that B&B, for all of its lavish international trips and quality sets, doesn’t have the money to hire a new man for Brooke or Katie. When the last 3 or 4 actors hired on contract by B&B are all unknowns under the age of 26, who come at a cheaper price than a Ted King or a Jon Hensley, you have to start to think that B&B isn’t nearly as financially successful as it claims to be, despite money coming in from licensing rights overseas. Painful as it is to say it, Rena Sofer’s character is too nutty to stay on canvas, so if her salary was freed up to pay for a new leading man on the show, I’d be all for it.

As for GH, they’re making some very, very risky moves with Julexis, and they have much too large a cast. Michelle Stafford, talented actress that she is, has to be costing GH alot of money, and considering the story she’s in now, which featured gags with a vibrator, it’s pretty much a waste. I can’t imagine it lasting that much longer if it doesn’t find its way, and fast.

I love Days- I have done watched thiscshowcsince I was a kid and gave not missed one single episode in over thirty years. I would be bereft if it was ever canceled. That being said, I cannot imagine anyone other than a long time, loyal viewer tuning in anymore. Seriously, the storylines have not been this bad since the very early 90’s when Melinda Clark played Faith Taylor. First and foremost the actress who plays Ciara and the actor who plays Theo are just plain terrible actors. They HAVE to stop rapping six months ahead so they can see of their actors and storylines aren’t working. I’m glad to see that they are finally giving Mary Beth Evans a storyline of sorts. They really need to do the same with Deidre Hall. She is the most recognizable and valued cast member, not to mention supremely talented, but they have not used her wisely in story for YEARS now. The series needs better writing and Corday needs to become more actively involved in producing the day to day aspects of the show.

Typo above- “They have to stop taping six months ahead…..”

Days has always been my favorite soap. I tape both Days & Y&R – have never watched the other two. I find Y&R to be atrocious right now. Same old story lines over and over again . The Billy & Phyllis pairing makes no sense, etc. Only watch now to check out the female casts fabulous clothes

All four shows are terrible and should be put out to pasture. I am watching old gl episodes on YouTube for my soap fix.

GH is HOT right now… Loved when the cops showed up at Brad and Lucas’ wedding and Carly snidely said “oh look the cops.” Nina spread out all over the desk was also hilarious.

In general summer time is the dullest time of the year for soaps, stories don’t rev up until August.

It is obvious Days is just putting on filler to bridge the gap after Josh quit and the new writers stuff airs in August. Days most likely dumped most of Josh’s stuff since they knew the new writers would not follow through, so they either came up with temp stories or they stretched out some Josh’s old stuff, but either way it is filler. It keeps the ship afloat, but it ain’t going anywhere. If this pace continues after the Olympics when the new writers stuff begin, then Days will be in real trouble– but right now, it is just coasting, NBC knows it, Sony knows it, the cast knows it, viewers know it and ratings show it.

I don’t mind GH– right now it is like the white bread of soaps. It might be bland but still gets the job done. It could use a bit of flavor to make it a bit more interesting, but it beats vampires and mad scientists that freeze people and bring them back to life.

Over at CBS– my trick to watching B&B is not to watch it everyday. If you watch it everyday, you will go mad, but in small doses it is fine. And since most episodes are saying the same thing as the last one, you really don’t miss much if you don’t watch everyday, and if things pick up or a particular story gets good, you can indulged a bit more, but B&B is like the junk food of soap– a little is great, too much makes you sick.

Y&R is improving– the dialogue no longer makes my ears bleed and characters are becoming a little less stereotypical, but still a long way to go to get back to where it used to be in rounding out the characters. And story wise there is enough stuff right now holding my attention

I’m looking forward to finding out Victor hired Chloe to frame Adam. I like to see Chloe back, with the original actress if possible– want to see the reveal when Billy finds out she had his baby. I like Travis– is he a nice guy or playing Vicky? I don’t know why they had to have Sharon go off her meds just so she can see Sage everywhere– bipolar is a mood disorder it doesn’t make you hallucinate- you make poor choices but you don’t have a reality break– this unrealistic approach to her illness is making a otherwise okay story more absurd than it has to be–

I certainly understand why DOOL is at down. The stories are dull. Everything moves at a snails pace and doesn’t go anywhere. What was the 15 minutes flu epidemic about? The dialog is lifeless. The teen actors are simply not experienced enough to manage such prominent roles. (I tried to be polite.) I’m not invested in any of the current story lines. I was happy to see Lucas and Adrienne earlier in the week. I really like those two characters and wish they’d give them something worthwhile to do. The only reason I’m sticking around is to see Kassie DePaiva’s return. When she leaves again, I’m gone too.

I agree with Michael and everyone else that Ciara is a terrible actress; however, I disagree with Michael about Theo . I think that he’s one of the best teen actors.

I’ve been following the spoilers for dool and I’m not impressed, Sonny and Paul really. Paul is nothing but a home wrecker who knew sonny was married but still went after him anyway. Will wasn’t even buried long enough before they had sonny and Paul planning a date. The writing sucks I really hope it does get canned and I hope the sonny and Paul thing really back fires

It’s really hard to keep interested in the soaps I watch. I’m GH girl. But like many have noted on MF just too many stories with loose ends that either never get resolved, or are put on the shelf for so long that I lose interest. Really frustrating when there seems to be great potential like Laura and Kevin. Also too many actors to follow, especially because of all of the different mini-stories, too much crime with no consequences, or no relevance to the spirit of GH.

Then by default I started watching B&B and Y&R. It only took a couple of years to see that B&B is mainly “romantic” musical chairs with the same characters. But must admit they had a few storylines thrown in that have had great acting.

Then there’s Y&R which is dominated by a Victor the same way GH is by Sonny/Carly. It would be hard to have either of these soaps without these key characters, but their egos, “do anything for my family,” no consequences, get really old quick.

At the same time it must be really hard to come up with new ideas to keep soaps fresh and still keep to the soap’s tradition…5 times a week, 24/7. Seems to me a great opportunity for scripted soap writers, as long as they find a good balance between number of actors; established and newbis; stories; and keeping to each shows tradition/ legacies.

Days Fall was great it was Days as we love it.
In the winter Days grew unrecognizable! The stories were bad, too many new characters thrown into the spotlight instead of slow integration. Horrible editing and pacing. Days threw every woman into Deimos its become a bad joke, why is Dario still on?, how did Kayla become a shrew whose one line is all negativity toward Steve no matter what the man does, assassins profit, the teen stories are inane instead of human!

I think its obvious the writers are fighting with each other, what airs should not!

Y&R is just terrible! Seriously, it takes me 15 minutes to watch, these days! Anything involving the Winters clan, FF! Jack Abbott is a moron! Anything Victor does to him he deserves! Billy and Red make my stomach turn, FF! Glummer and Kookus,FF! Dylan is a super cop now but cannot “Detect” that his wife is off her rocker? All that bartender/Wallstreet wiz is’ is a Billy Miller wanna be! Oh and Adam, he goes to jail,Victor gets out, blah, blah, blah! Terrible!

Y&R needs to purge itself of the horrid by Chuck Pratt & company. It is terrible TV and some of the worst dialogue I’ve ever seen on the show. CBS must be sick of this garbage and has supported it as much as possible, yet the audience is leaving. Why must we watch a 75 year old fossil make out and sex up a 40 year old woman? It’s nauseating. The character has no business dominating this show anymore. Enough. Phleps got fired, now Pratt deserves the same fate.

Aw, Tim…W-O-W!!!!! Powerful post, dude…AND EVEN MORE SPOT ON!!!!! OK…some thoughts of my own here…

1. I have a feeling that Victor (unfortunately) will be released sooner or later. Hey…it’s a soap…nobody stays in jail and/or prison FOREVER!!!!! Unless it’s off-camera…LOL!!!!!
2. Dylan is such an EMBARRASSMENT as a so-called cop!!!!! Truly lame.
3. How many more times can Sharon ‘go off her rocker’?!?!?!?!?! BEYOND BLAH!!!!!!!!!!
4. Travis and that whiny, self-absorbed and EVEN MORE ANNOYING Victoria are so RIDICULOUSLY MISMATCHED!!!!! SNOOZE-VILLE ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!
5. At this point, Jack is nothing but a spineless and self-righteous JACKASS!!!!! ULTIMATE FAST-FORWARD!!!!!

Tim…take care, dude.

I will never understand the six-month gap between production and air dates for DAYS. Makes no sense for a daytime serial. I do wish days in Salem would be a little sunnier. It is the one serial that seems to have that solid family reality grounding that makes soaps appealing to me. Really, the core tenets of successful daytime drama have not changed in 60 years. Execs seem to want to monkey with things that should be let be.

DOES ANYONE LIKE ANYTHING?

WHEN IS THE NEW WRITING INTRODUCED?

I enjoy Kevin and Mariah, Dr. Neville, Ashley is holding. Whoever that antagonist to Victor is in the jailhouse (Ian?) is great but the writing isn’t letting his charm emerge.

DOOL’s all time low ratings reflect how horrible the stories are. At this pace I don’t expect it to be renewed next year.

when will Ken Corday bring in Ron Carlivati to bring life and humor back to this boring terribly written Days….and please turn on the lights….the show is so dark….stop bringing in all the Hernandez characters and shift focus back to the original core families….and for the life of Salem, please return to traditional taping of a month to six weeks in advance…stop with this half a year taping…..so much easier to fix storylines that dont’ work when the shows are close to the dates airing…..Corday just got a star on the Walk of Fame…surely he can “fix” this show??????

The Bold & The Beautiful – so many complaints, so little time…
1. They had an opportunity to redeem the character of Quinn an give us a couple to root for by pairing her with Liam. Yes a May/December romance, which they have done before, but I don’t recall much about those characters because it was a few years back. Rena is gorgeous and definitely doesn’t look her age. But instead of giving us quality writing and romance they pair her with Eric. ERIC!!! Eric is 2000 years old!!! No offense to John McCook 🙂 I guess it is a May/December romance – just not the one I was expecting. I threw up in my mouth just a wee bit when i saw them kiss.
2. Brook – nuf said.
3. Corday & Bell should check out this site and see some of the great ideas the loyal soap fans on here have for storylines.
4. I-I-I gotta get a life.
5. The End. Thanks for listening.

Please get rid of Jasam, killing the show and ratings.

The ratings are low on B&B and DOOL for one reason and one reason only: REALLY bad writing! Why bring back Aiden for a romance with Hope–having a double be responsible for the attack on her–when he has suddenly become a liar and a conniver? And no, I didn’t like Hope & Rafe. Boring, and she is too old for him. Rafe needs a good storyline, maybe pair him with Nicole. She doesn’t deserve to be saddled with the crappy Deimos thing. The teen set is mostly boring, although Joey is a good actor, and I enjoy Claire and Theo. The Summer storyline is absolutely dreadful. What was the point of this witch being brought to Salem? To make Victor more cranky? To make Brady and Theresa fight even more? For Maggie to keep crying a lot? Dumb!

B&B is equally bad. Ridge and Caroline is awful. I can’t believe the stunt they pulled on poor Thomas! Where the heck is Ivy? And why is Liam still going after Slutty–I mean, Steffy?! This has been going on since 2010—six years now! ENOUGH! Nobody cares! Let her be happy with Wyatt! He, like Katie, always seems to be “rewarded” for his mostly good behavior with heartbreak. Speaking of Katie, why is this heart-transplant (her bro’s heart at that) victim drinking instead of taking care of her child? And is anyone really into the stupid storyline of Brooke and Bill? This back-and-forth stuff has been going on since 2013–three years now! It was bad back then, and is even worse right now.

I can’t speak much about Y&R except that I watched in 2014 for a short time and liked it back then, but lost interest a few months later. Seems like nothing has much changed.