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19, and we’re heading back to that date to take a look at how shows have fared. ![]() This will usually be from the Monday to the Sunday of each week, with the reports done on a Monday or Tuesday. To help compare the various shows on the network, we’re looking at them weekly. This year, we’re doing things a little differently. YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS RATINGS SOAP OPERA NETWORK TVWe used to look at the live TV ratings on a daily basis. We’ll look at the live ratings each week, playing catch up from the start of fall TV right now. We’re doing the TV ratings a little differently this year. ![]() “For our first attempt, that was pretty cool.By Alexandria Ingham 1 week ago Follow Tweet We got a good response, we ended up with an Emmy nomination. Now, we’re pretty comfortable thinking most people want something that’s 15-20 minutes. ![]() But we weren’t sure what the attention span was going to be when you’re watching something online. “Maybe should have been six episodes that were longer. They also had no quantifiable way to measure their ratings. Hill says she and her partner produced Season 1 themselves and partly financed Season 2 with crowdfunding. “A lot of them were like ‘OK, what channel will it be on?’ You had to go online and go to our website. “It was a learning curve at the beginning because you have to teach people where to watch the show,” says Hill. (Which is why there’s a four-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2.) The downfall of having a web soap, she says, is that audiences don’t know where to find them - and there’s no network support for the shoestring budget. YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS RATINGS SOAP OPERA NETWORK SERIES“Beacon Hill” earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2015, two years after the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences began accepting web series nominations.Īlthough online soaps such as “Beacon Hill” don’t air daily, Hill says the series maintains the spirit of the genre’s storytelling style. YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS RATINGS SOAP OPERA NETWORK HOW TO“One of the things we did was purposefully go after daytime actors that already had a fan base, that already knew how to film things - they can handle a lot of dialogue quickly with very few takes,” she says. That’s why she courted actors from the genre. Hill’s Florida-based publishing company provided a built-in fan base, but she was aware that she needed to snare traditional soap viewers, too. And we started thinking, ‘Why not write our own story and come up with our own show?’ ” “And we both grew up watching soaps on television, and each one started to get cancelled. Storytelling is something we’re very familiar with,” she says. “My partner and I run a publishing company. Hill was motivated to develop her series because her favorite soaps had been cancelled. Other online soaps include YouTube’s “Tough Love” and “Anacostia” and “Venice: The Series,” streaming on. Returning for Season 2 in 2019, it counts among its stars well-known daytime faces including Alicia Minshew (“All My Children”) and Sarah Brown (“General Hospital”) as ex-lovers swept up in Boston-based family and political drama. “We all believe are where it’s heading,” says Jessica Hill, creator of the Emmy-nominated online soap “Beacon Hill,” which has streamed one 12-episode season (some episodes are only eight minutes long). That’s a big deal for a part of the TV industry that keeps many actors and behind-the-scenes personnel gainfully employed - and also shined a light on web-only soaps. The network soaps then threatened to boycott next year’s awards ceremony if rule changes were not put into effect. The TV Academy made headlines last spring when it rescinded Patrika Darbo’s 2018 Emmy for her guest-starring role on Amazon’s “The Bay” (due to “submission errors”). ![]() While only four venerable network soaps still cling to life - “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless” (CBS), “Days of Our Lives” (NBC) and “General Hospital” (ABC) - there’s a digital niche of web-only soaps.Īnd they’ve even won Daytime Emmys - or, in some cases, won and then lost. The surprise TV legend who said yes to 'Nope' NBC’s 'Days of Our Lives' has a new streaming home Richard Roat, 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends' actor, dead at 89 Mark Miller, 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' star, dead at 97 ![]()
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