Brian Damage
04-08-2011, 10:16 PM
For the last few ratings cycles we've all been anxiously paying attention to the ABC soap opera lineup, and rightfully so, considering Brian Frons allegedly would be okie dokey smokey with tossing two beloved sudsers for some replacement crapola, however someone really needs to ask the question of Ken Corday: Why on Earth are you letting Dena Higley destroy your birthright?
Days of Our Lives has been on a ratings downward slide for weeks now (Source: Soap Opera Network), and while DAYS isn't in any immediate danger, since it's locked into a relatively recent deal with NBC, do we really always have to wait until an axe is about to fall to point out the obvious?
DAYS is in much worse shape creatively than any soap on the ABC lineup, complete with silly doppelganger storylines and bad, purple sets. I understand they can't do much about the sets from a budget standpoint, but Corday and Gary Tomlin can do something about Dena Higley's terrible storylines. They can fire her.
It is a sad day in Salem when the only watchable storyline features the child actors who play Ciara and Theo. I've mentioned it before, but DAYS is the sudser closest to my heart, so to see my faves like Peter Reckell, Kristian Alfonso, Alison Sweeney and Crystal Chappell suffer through one turkey of a storyline after another is so disheartening. Okay, on to the numbers.
DAYS dropped 133,000 total viewers the week of March 28-April 1, hitting a new low. The sudser was also dead last in households, tying its all-time low in that demo for a third straight week. DAYS fell one-tenth of a point in the all-important women 18-49 demo, tying it's all-time low there as well. The sudser managed to hold steady among women 18-34.
You know, seriously, I don't get off on being nasty about shows I've watched and enjoyed since I was a toddler. I don't want to see DAYS canceled, but it will be if Corday doesn't fire Dena Higley. Unlike with AMC and OLTL, where even though the numbers might not be so hot, there is still potential (loads with the latter), Higley's sorry ass stories are darn near about to put DAYS at the point of no return. I'm talking Another World with babies in a tree. It's time, Ken. Make the hard decision. Tell Dena she ain't got to go home, but she's got to get the hell outta Salem! Thom Racina and Sally Sussman Morina could put this show back together like a jiggsaw puzzle, after a bratty child slung it apart, and that's what needs to happen.
http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2011/04/08/ratings-rants-and-raves-exactly-how-low-does-days-have-to-fall-before-ken-corday-fires-de
Days of Our Lives has been on a ratings downward slide for weeks now (Source: Soap Opera Network), and while DAYS isn't in any immediate danger, since it's locked into a relatively recent deal with NBC, do we really always have to wait until an axe is about to fall to point out the obvious?
DAYS is in much worse shape creatively than any soap on the ABC lineup, complete with silly doppelganger storylines and bad, purple sets. I understand they can't do much about the sets from a budget standpoint, but Corday and Gary Tomlin can do something about Dena Higley's terrible storylines. They can fire her.
It is a sad day in Salem when the only watchable storyline features the child actors who play Ciara and Theo. I've mentioned it before, but DAYS is the sudser closest to my heart, so to see my faves like Peter Reckell, Kristian Alfonso, Alison Sweeney and Crystal Chappell suffer through one turkey of a storyline after another is so disheartening. Okay, on to the numbers.
DAYS dropped 133,000 total viewers the week of March 28-April 1, hitting a new low. The sudser was also dead last in households, tying its all-time low in that demo for a third straight week. DAYS fell one-tenth of a point in the all-important women 18-49 demo, tying it's all-time low there as well. The sudser managed to hold steady among women 18-34.
You know, seriously, I don't get off on being nasty about shows I've watched and enjoyed since I was a toddler. I don't want to see DAYS canceled, but it will be if Corday doesn't fire Dena Higley. Unlike with AMC and OLTL, where even though the numbers might not be so hot, there is still potential (loads with the latter), Higley's sorry ass stories are darn near about to put DAYS at the point of no return. I'm talking Another World with babies in a tree. It's time, Ken. Make the hard decision. Tell Dena she ain't got to go home, but she's got to get the hell outta Salem! Thom Racina and Sally Sussman Morina could put this show back together like a jiggsaw puzzle, after a bratty child slung it apart, and that's what needs to happen.
http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2011/04/08/ratings-rants-and-raves-exactly-how-low-does-days-have-to-fall-before-ken-corday-fires-de