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ABC’s The Chew and CBS’ The Talk, which replaced long-running daytime soaps, both posted highs last week. According to averages released today, The Chew, which replaced All My Children this fall, averaged 2.16 million viewers, 
growing for a fourth consecutive week and posting a series high for a second straight week. Meanwhile, CBS’ The Talk, which replaced As The World Turns last fall, delivered 2.08 million viewers for a season high. Vs. the same week last year, The Talk was up 1% in total viewers.
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It’s amazing that there are 2 million people that tune into this drivel. I mean, at least “All My Children” was supposed to be bad.
How do these numbers compare with the soaps they replaced?
I was wondering that, too.
However, these shows are far less expensive to produce than the soap operas. They can survive on fewer eyeballs resulting in lower ratings and lower advertising revenue.
The soaps were getting well under 2.5 million viewers total. Around 2.2-2.3 million was typical for AMC in the past couple years. On a cost basis, The Chew costs so much less to produce that it is a reasonable success.
Cant understand The Talk getting higher ratings. The show has totally gone downhill – I stopped watching after they got rid of half their cast and offended their audience by not even acknowledging it and replacing it by the god awful sheryl underwood and the bland aisha tyler. I don’t get it. Plus the whole premise of the show has been abandoned- it was supposed to be a ‘view’ like show based on celebrity moms and mom issues. TO my knowledge, the new hosts aren’t moms so what is the show now
I may be off by a couple of years; but I still hold that all afternoon network soaps will be off the air by 2015.
This is just sad.
My favorite program is now ‘THE CHEW”. I tape it every day so as not to miss an episode. I get belly laughs from these chefs and advisors. The “Chew” is the best new program to come along in a good long while. I love, love, love it.thanks