Who watches network daytime TV these days? And why?

Due to rain, I have been unable to walk outdoors and am back on the treadmill. The daytime TV shows seem to be unwatchable and with almost no substance, excepting PBS reruns of travel and cooking. So other than Julia Childs making French onion soup in black and white, it is a parched desert. Hype, chitchat, commercials, more hype and unscripted banal and fatuous chitchat and then previews of tomorrow’s show. (Let’s not forget “Bridezilla.”) Who is the audience?