General Hospital had a great week with increases from last week in all three categories. B&B consistently ranks number two in all three categories. This drop is the smallest decrease in either demographic for any of the four remaining soaps. The soap is down just 13% in women 18-49 and 8% in women 25-54 with a. Much of the audience has returned, especially in the last few months of this season. The very end of last season included no less than five of the lowest-rated in the show’s history and viewers were slow to return post-pandemic, which impacted its performance into this season. So far this season, B&B is averaging 2.808 million viewers compared to 3.022 million down just 7% from last year.

Compared to last year, B&B bounced back adding 597,000 viewers from last year’s 2.447 million, an increase of 24%. 39, still ahead of its season average and In women 25-54, B&B came within a hair away from tying Y&R for a first-place simply by maintaining the. Y&R remains firmly in the lead in all three categories.īold and The Beautiful was off just 23,000 viewers from last week’s season-high to 3.044 million viewers. Y&R is averaging 3.236 million viewers (down 7%). The most convincing evidence of the show’s return to form was a 48% jump from the series low of. An additional 758,000 viewers have returned since Y&R’s disastrous post-shutdown premiere this time last year when just 2.685 million viewers tuned in. 01 of tying for first place in the demographic.Ĭompared to the first week of its return from hiatus, Y&R was up 28% in total viewers. 43 (which is still in line with the season average). 49 in women 18-49, dropping to its lowest in over a month with a.

The show remained on top in the demographics was down 12% from last week’s season-high of. Despite the drop of 80,000 viewers from the previous week, this was Y&R’s second-best full week of the season (only behind last week’s 3.523 million) with 3.443 million viewers tuning in. Y&R had no trouble keeping its first-place lead in all three categories. Young and The Restless dipped in viewers and women 18-49 this week but held steady in women 25-54.

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