12/16 Heard in the Waiting Room

• An interesting article on whether soaps can survive the WGA strike (source)
• I ran across this article which included one woman's account (halfway down the page) of how her HIV planned pregnancy affected her family and other's reaction to it. It's an interesting read...
  

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Special thanks to the Scrubbies relaying this information…here are the Spoilers and Speculations for the day:

Expected GH Scrubs airdates
Week of 12/17
Robin
12/18 Tuesday
Liz, Mac, Maxie & Cassius
Liz, Mac, Patrick & Epiphany
Maxie & Coop
Patrick
Mac & Maxie
12/20 Thursday
Maxie & Felicia
Maxie, Felicia & Dillon
Maxie, Felicia & Dillon
Maxie, Felicia & Spinelli
12/21 Friday
Mac
Mac
Funeral
Funeral
Funeral
Funeral
Patrick
week of 12/24
Monday and Thursday - Robin and Patrick
Week of 12/31
NYE and one other day

::Golden::
ABC Hotsheet: Meanwhile, Maxie is shocked when Felicia arrives in Port Charles and explains that she's been working on top secret missions with Frisco. During Georgie's funeral, Maxie delivers a touching eulogy, then suddenly focuses on Felicia and how she was a terrible mother to her and Georgie!
ABC SoapScoop: scrubs scene included
SoapZone spoilers: Week of December 17 - 21
Georgie’s gone. Her murder finally draws Felicia out and back on the canvas.
As far as Maxie’s concerned, Felicia’s gone and done. She reams her mother up and down but good at Georgie’s memorial service.
Felicia suffers Maxie’s public castigation in silence, feeling in part, it’s her due punishment.
Later, when nobody’s around, Felicia pays her respects at Georgie’s freshly dug grave.
News of Georgie’s murder levels Robin, Maxie, Mac, Spinelli and Lulu.
Lulu must inform Dillon of what’s happened to his former girlfriend
Georgie at the hands of the text message killer.
Dillon takes pity on Felicia and is wonderful to her.
Georgie’s murder rebirths the bitch of the century in Maxie. Gloves are off and it is on.
Robin can’t bear the loss of Georgie in such a violent manner, and so, she leans on Patrick.
The cops like Johnny as the text message killer, whereas Jason figures Cooper’s the guy – and aims to prove it.
Spinelli turns up as another prime suspect when clues from Georgie’s strangling single him out. Nobody’s safe. (source)


:: Pretty Reliable::
SoapQueen: none at the time of this post
SoapKing: none at the time of this post
AIG:none at the time of this post
Script Insider: none at the time of this post
Chat up:: (one other "insider" joined in - in bold italics)
So, ratings don't matter after all and they are continuing with their pre-sweeps story plans featuring the people they always planned to feature. Sarah Brown will take care of Feb. sweeps?
Ratings matter tremendously but what are they going to do?
I told you last week Frons had a complete meltdown when final sweeps ratings were released. Sweeps bombed, he can't fire the headwriter, he can't call him in and tell him to fix it, he can't hire someoen new. That 1.2 in the 18-34 bracket probably cost the show a fortune. But right now its all but impossible to change things
Complete meltdown over the final numbers is overstating it - quite a bit. He has been apprised on a regular basis what the numbers were and certainly was not surprised at the final week's performance. The numbers were exactly what they were projected to be after the first two weeks.
GH was a 1.0 in 18-34 the last week of sweeps and a 1.4 in 18-49.
Thanks CU. Very Happy
OH, wait a minute. I don't know about this other stuff but I heard about the Frons meltdown as well. I think that's accurate. The final number for the sweeps period was a 1.1 in the 18-34 age group(that's the average of the four weeks period). That's the biggest single factor ni the determination of ad revenues for the next three months and it will likely cause about a 30% loss of revenues. It was horrible and yes, I have it from very good sources, that he was very upset.
He was upset but he has been upset for most of October and November. I wouldn't qualify it as a meltdown but I guess that's just my interpretation.
Yes the average was 1.1 - not 1.2 but I was referring to the final week's performance.
And your number is pretty accurate - that's about the cost of the poor performance. (source)

:: Could be Complete Crap Fiction::
Soap Dish Anon:
12/15
the new year
patrick/robin : baby make three!
robin and patrick make love
robin is pregnant but ask kelly to make it look like the father
is an anonymous donor;a big storyline begins
maxie/coop
maxie is sleeping with her sister's murderer
someone from coop's past is coming to town
maxie gets depressed ; felica and robin want to help
felicia is not stay long (more details to come)
more vets coming back (usual ones plus two new )
2008 is going to be a big year; better than both 2006/2007
more details to come (source)

There are two killers. Coop is one, Logan is not and neither is Spinelli. (source)

Robin is not attacked and the premonition SL has been dropped. She will get pregnant by AI and the father will be a very willing Patrick. They will be back together and happy and Patrick's kid issues will be mostly glossed over. CarJax will play into their story somewhat but not in a major way and mostly for Carly angst since she is having trouble conceiving and they do receive AI at the same time. There is no sperm switch SL. Do not expect a big air time jump for Scrubs. The SL will play out and be promoted but the mob SL will take major precedence through out sweeps (source)

if you have longterm plans- are Patrick and Robin a couple when she gets pregnant.
Yes, they are and will be.
Thnak you! How about Patrick will Noah be around to help ease his fear of fatherhood? thanks
There are no plans for RS to return long term. (source)

Do you know when Scrubs reunite? December? January? Feb? Thanks!
Last one. They are back to being an offical couple by early/mid Jan. (source)

12/16
Robin will want to go the anon donor route because she thinks Patrick is insincere about wanting a kid after all.Maxie blames Mac for Georgie's death, Spin will try to help her. (source)

A surprising and slow forming bond developes between Maxie and Spinelli after Georgie's death.
Mac becomes unprofessional in his search for the Text Message Killer.
Patrick and Robin grow closer in the midst of tragedy. But they still have to face their problems head on. Robin admits she doesn't want to waste anymore time.
Patrick wants to work out a compromise. Robin takes baby steps to have her dream come true.
Maxie recieves another text message and calls on Spinelli to use his computer skills to help her out. Maxie is determined to find Georgie's killer.
Maxie starts to suspect Coop and plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse
Coming Up:
Carly and Robin find themselves going through a similiar situation. (source)

The second killer has a brother on the canvas. Will a certain lawyer be devestated as well...or dead?
~LKB (source)