Friday (9/28/18) Daytime Ratings

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Pearl Jam (NITRO Legacy), Kelly Green Fridays Music Jam (MGM Television) (ICE-TV) (Channel 7)

These are the daytime ratings for the 24th day of the 2018-19 NITRO Television regular season on Friday September 28, 2018.

Network Rankings

1. ICE - 44.56 million viewers

2. ROD - 20.21 million viewers

3. NBC - 12.25 million viewers

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Strawberry Shields (ICE Starlets), Staying Alive (Paramount Television) (ICE-TV) (Channel 7)

STRAWBERRY & EVA BRING IN THE RATINGS FOR ANOTHER KELLY GREEN FRIDAY

The usual Friday hitters this season bought in the big ratings again to ICE as the big guests make a huge difference for the network again. ICE started the day with a Teen Angels repeat that reached 21 million viewers as we've noticed certain shows are expanding their repeat performances lately and that led into Tahj & Arielle AM which had an extremely hot week and grabbed almost 50 million viewers on Friday having Molly in South Philly stars Molly Ephraim and rookie Angie Bonanni on there and Nancy Nery performed some music and Nancy has been trending this week due to her beef against Vika Bronova and her hometown Vancouver rival Dasha Dereviankina. Molly Ephraim made a second talk show appearance as she was on Pyper America's talker and it was a huge show as Young Girls stars Eva Adams and Kaylee Bryant were both on as well with Pearl Jam performing ahead of their huge concert hour later in daytime. Pyper America's show was the only program on this Kelly Green Friday to reach more than 60 million viewers as this was the first time this season that ICE didn't have at least 2-3 programs reaching over 60 million viewers so it was a quiet Friday for them.

ICE's soaps stayed red hot as Cliffhanger Friday for them continues to be a huge draw every week as Strawberry closed out the second week of Staying Alive with 57.11 million viewers.

Legendary rock band Pearl Jam took the stage and it was a much a different act than what ICE usually rolls out there on Kelly Green Fridays and the ratings were a bit lower as the Music Jam hour didn't get over 50 million viewers for the first time this season. Friday Night Family Game Night aired its last episode until January as they get ready to make way for the new game show ICE Starlets vs. Cheerleaders next Friday in that same slot so it should be interesting to see how that rates. Kelly Kapowski grew greatly out of a lower rated Friday Night Family Game Night and seems to be the one Saved By the Bell comedy in the franchise still doing well right now.

Caitlin Stasey (ROD Knockouts), Caitlin Stasey's Bullshit Mornings (Sony Pictures Television) (ROD-TV) (Channel 5)

ROD had a different looking start to their mornings as this was the first time since September 2013 when ROD didn't lead-off their daytime lineup of original programming without the recently departed Hunter & Kacey which ended its run yesterday and Caitlin Stasey's talker tookover the hour and the move worked as Bullshit Mornings got a series-high 28 million viewers and showed no signs of being lead-in dependent. It looks like ROD is going to be okay in that timeslot going forward. ROD was up with their soaps again all day as ROD has some promise with their daytime lineup as they still work on their revived lineup which won't being for another few weeks as ROD said they're going to move their Halloween movie anthology series ROD Thrillfest up a few weeks to fill some afternoon slots starting next week as they will air Child's Play 2 from the Chucky franchise on Thursday which ROD got the rights to before the 2012 season to go with the Frankie doll in the Fright's Game franchise and they also got the early rights from ICE to air the Skipper Roberts movies. ROD had to get the rights to the Chucky movies because Universal owns them and that meant NBC had dibs on them but now ROD has exclusive rights to the franchise now. They also have the rights to the Freddy Kruger franchise so they will air Freddy vs. Jason next Friday but ICE also has the rights to that movie since they have the rights to the Jason franchise via Paramount. ICE made a similar deal back in the earlier days of NITRO when they owned the rights to Jaws but lost them before the 2013 season as the franchise went back to Universal and they produced a TV show which has just ended its run after Monday's disappointing ratings. Michael Myers and the Halloween movies are still owned by ICE but they have a shared deal with NBC to air the movies and they've given NBC the rights to air the TV series Hospitality which features Michael Myers niece. No word just yet on when that series will be ready to go yet. ROD will air horror movies all month to celebrate Halloween until their new daytime lineup is ready. ROD sources said they might not have the full lineup ready until after Halloween but they will have the new slots moved around by October 22nd so be on the lookout for that then.

NBC is showing some signs of life in daytime but they still need a lot of work as they're releasing a revived lineup on Monday but one thing that's not struggling at all is their morning lineup which is super competitive against ROD right now thanks to Drama's Place and Fashion House improved ratings and War Update improved ratings. 10am soap The House That Love Built is going to get a huge boost as Barbara Shields announced a 4-episode arc that will begin on Thursday and we'll see if this helps with the future popularity of the show as it worked when Rena Sofer bought her character Quinn Fuller to All My Children last season for a Sheila Carter crossover and it worked for All My Children as the show has been up ever since so we'll see if that helps with The House That Love Built.

The Anna Kendrick Show has seen a couple of days over 13 million viewers as we got Jake T. Austin and Austin Mahone who have been in the news lately on the show and that helped the classics behind it.

TERRI SHIELDS = RATINGS!

Terri Shields continues her hot streak as her new variety show has been a massive hit inside of that 7pm slot as her show reaches a series-high 37 million viewers and just like her performance on Rachel the night before it should be no surprise that her variety show did this well.

Tonight we have a very busy night on NITRO Television as we have the 3-way diss show battle between Molly in South Philly, I Love Lucy Hale, and The YouTube Life all going against each other. Shane Tovar chose Lucy's sketch variety series to be on tonight and we'll see how that goes meanwhile the ICE Shields sisters are super hot right now and they will be Molly's biggest guests today as they make fun of their sister Terri. NBC unleashes Liam Spencer to viewers at 12am and the New Girls in Town Pageant travels to Detroit to find NITRO's next big Motor City star as the Shields sisters are from the city themselves.

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Seems like primetime was a lot more busier than daytime as it seems as there was just a few stories from daytime today.

Molly Ephraim seemed to be pumping the ICE talk shows and Eva Adams was on It's High Noon with Pyper America.

Caitlin Stasey's Bullshit Mornings had her new timeslot premiere and got around the same numbers that Hunter & Kacey got so they're not losing a beat there on ROD. Tracy Kimmell is doing very well also for ROD.

I do think the soap battle between ROD and NBC has room to get more interesting because I do believe Barbara Shields can get The House That Love Built's ratings up when she appears on there next week and potentially beat Guiding Light on ROD.

Terri Shields' momentum is hot right now it seems like all of her shows right now are killing it right now. If Kelly Kapowski didn't air in that slot then NBC would've led that 7pm hour easily.

I can't wait for tonight so much going on and now that we got that huge surprise appearance by Michi Kat Grimes revealing that Jethro is back in NITRO and that she setup Shane Tovar getting jumped by the big Mister X reveal. Another surprise later in the evening just so much going on.

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Friday completed the first month of the season and it's clear that we're way ahead of everybody else not in everything but the key timeslots.

I do agree with Big Prox and D Stiles that NBC is close to catching ROD as I think Barbara can help The House That Love Built and my soap pilot that I sold to them The Music Box Killer if cast well can get them closer too.

I think War Update will stay up the rest of the season because the actors are gonna be at war with each other all year long.

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Strawberry Shields: Terri I'm better than you in every sense of the word. You're getting hot lately but I'm still the top Shields sister until further notice and DJ Becky will get stronger ratings than Rachel on Wednesday.

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NBC creeping up on us a little bit