Days of Our Lives: Are the Hours Numbered for the NBC Soap?
Hang onto your seats soap fans! Dr. Marlena Evans and the Brady and Horton families may be in trouble again — and this time, there may not be an escape!
An industry source has recently reported that NBC is considering canceling the long-running soap opera, Days of Our Lives. NBC has aired the soap for all of its incredible 40+ year run but does not actually own the series.
Word is that NBC feels that the licensing fee it pays to the production company is too high (based on the show’s ratings). If a lower fee can’t be negotiated, the series may end at the end. One source has said that the current contract runs until 2009 but there is a clause in it that would allow NBC to terminate the show as early as the Spring of 2007.
I’ll be on the lookout for new developments. Stay tuned . . .
20. Marian Hill said,
I started watching this show from the beginning. I was a kid, I will miss this show too. They are lik family too.
I feel like the Bradys & Black familys and The Hortons family and etc, are all kin to me. You might as well come get my tv cause I won’t be watching anything anymore. Please don’t take my soaps away cause I am ill and homeboud and they are all I have to look forward to all day long. We love this people and we would miss them so much.
19. Marilyn said,
I Love Days!!!! When I was 11 my Mom got me into watching Days and now I can’t go a day without it! I Record it everyday, so when I get home from work I get my fix! This show relates to so many people. Please keep it going! This new give this new writer a chance to get the ratings up! bring back all the great loves and tackle the real issues of life! I miss the old Shawn and the Old Phillip! The new Shawn and the new/old Phillip just don’t really go! Just please reconsider and do everthing possible to keep Days alive… yall are already taking Passions from us, don’t take Days too!
18. elena said,
Please dont cancel. This is the only soap I like.
17. Lisa said,
Please don’t take Days away. It keeps me going. I have to see this everyday. I even rewatch it on Sunday nites. Days is more popular than everyone may think.
16. Kayla said,
I have been watching Day’s ever since I can remember. My grandmother started watching it, then my mom, and then both my sister and I. The actors are almost like family in a strange way. It would be awful if it went off the air. I would truly be upset. Please don’t cancel the show!!
15. dana said,
please give it a chance to get better!
14. tnsoapfan said,
The storyline is really as upsetting to me. CPS taking Belle/Shawn daughter away just took the cake. Lately I’ve been seeing horror stories about CPS and really don’t trust them in the real world. Victor has his nerves to do this and I was starting to like Victor but lately his character is turning back to the nasty person he is. This just doesn’t make any damn sense at all to take a child from the mother and she didn’t do anything wrong? Bo should and need to put Victor in his place!!!!!!
13. Angie said,
Please do not cancel DOOL. It has been around for so long, and it is a great show to watch. It’s been watched in my family for generations. I think several people would be devastated if you dropped this show. You’ve ran it for 40+ years, so why stop now? Please negotiate something to keep all of these millions of fans happy.
12. Potter13 said,
Please don’t cancel Days! I love the show and have watched it for as long as I can remember. My Mom has watched it from day one and got me started on it. I grew up with Days. I don’t ever remember it not being on the air! Please leave it on for many years to come!!!!
11. Twiggs said,
I just heard this news and it made me sick to my stomach. I saw the very first episode of Days, remember it very well. I may have only been 5 at the time, but the hourglass and Grandma Horton had me hooked.
Days of Our Lives is my drug. I need my daily fix!
DOOL has a dedicated and loyal fanbase across the globe. You can’t rip our hearts out for the sake of a few bucks. Go back to black and white, go back to a half hour show, go back to just the Horton family, but PLEASE find a way to keep Days alive and kicking for the fans, and for future fans. If a pair of ‘red shoes’ is what it takes, please find a pair!
10. Sally said,
How could I function if I didn’t have my daily dose of “Days”! The characters are my family, and I think they all do a fantastic job of portraying who they are. When my children were babies I would have them watch it with me, then put them down for a nap. They are now 41 and 43 and STILL want to know what’s happening on “Days”! Please, please don’t take it off the air!
9. Sandra said,
I, too, have been watching Days Of Our Lives since its inception, and I’m both furious and heartbroken at the thought that my favorite soap could be cancelled!
My personal feeling is that they could have raised the ratings through the roof if they had gone with a EJ DiMera/Sami Brady pairing instead of boring us to tears with thrusting Sami back into the arms of the abusive and immature Lucas Roberts!
Alison Sweeney and newcomer James Scott sizzled with chemistry over the summer and man of the fans were hyped to see a forbidden love story between a Brady and a Dimera.
It certainly would have open the plot line possibilities.
Hogan Sheffer killed our EJAMI dreams dead by insisting the stale and predictable Lumi pairing, and by trying to neuter the most vibrant and interesting character on the show,Sami Brady.
He also had to make EJ Wells(DiMera) into a soapishly evil version of Snidely Whiplash to make Lucas palatable.
It didn’t work and the low ratings reflect the fans frustration with wasting fine actors on such formulaic storylines!
James Scott and Alison Sweeney are wringing brilliant performances from uninspired writing and dialogue, but, if some originality and fiery romance were added to the mixture then they could be the next supercouple of DAYS.
If Sheffer doesn’t start using his imagination outside of the soap box soon then he will have a wonderful soap’s demise to add to his credits!
8. BABY MONSTA said,
i cant figure out where to go to name hopes baby. name her DESJIA (PRONOUNCED) DEJA.
7. Val said,
Do not cancel days, bring back some of the older cast members like Vivia and Lawerence Alamain. Put on more love scenes. I have been watching days since 1982 the cast members are like my family. it would be a shame to see it end.
Val.
6. Beverly said,
I have been watching this show since Susan killed David. I remember all the stories that the show has had. Where is Bill and Laura anyway? The were good together. Julie has a brother Steve. What has he been doing? Also Julie is a grandmother.Doug sure could sing let him sing at Maggies restraunt.That needs to be picked up a bit. I want to see Sami happy with Lucas. John and Marlena are great together and shows that when two people love each other like they do any kind of problem can be solved.
5. Beverly said,
I have been watching this show since Susan killed David. I remember all the stories that the show has had. Where is Bill and Laura anyway? The were good together. Julie has a brother Steve. What has he been doing? Also Julie is a grandmother.Doug sure could sing let him sing at Maggies restraunt.That needs to be picked up a bit. I want to see Sami happy with Lucas. John and Marlena are great together and shows that when two people love each other like they do any kind of problem can be solved.
4. amanda stamper said,
I have been watching the show since I was 5 with my mom and i feel i cant live with out my daily enter tain ment
3. Natasha said,
I have watched this soap for as long as I can remember. I remember laying in my bed for nap and hearing it going in the living room. I agree with all the above. There are many reasons Days of Our Lives is shrinking in the ratings department. The biggest reason I hear other people speak about is, Days does not tackle real issues.
Reality is a huge part of TV now days. When you watch a soap, part of you wants to feel some type of connection with the situations. Passions draws you in with Ethan and Teresa, but even that story line is wearing itself out. If I have to sit through one more “almost finding out the truth, oops its dream” situation again. Im “flipping it off” and I mean that literally.
Days needs real story lines.Oh and Thank God Carrie and Austin left. They make me sick. They bore the **** out me.
Great things to happen to days-
Write a pregnancy in for Sammy. Make it Lucas’s baby.
Bring in a love interest for Victor!
Tackle breast cancer issues by having Kate turn up with it, letting viewers see a softer realer side of her while drawing in viewers who may or may not be survivors themselves and raising awarness.
Not entirely crazy about the new Sean either.
Bring back Eric.
Recast Mimi and hook Eric and Mimi up.
Make Will have an ordeal with drugs in some way that leads to Sammy and Lucus reconsiling and her ending up pregnant.
Keep Frankie , hook him up with Billy.Get her in some hot water where she needs his protection. They would be a the couple to watch!Dont get rid of Frankie, he is hot we all love to see him. Hes new eye candy for the show.
Sick of Bo and Hopes ****. Hope is annoying. hook Bo up with Billy. Have Bo and Billy sleep together and end up pregnant and have Bo commit himself to her , not wanting to have this child end up like Chelsey.
Tackle real issues.Eating disorders,HIV,Cancer,finding “love” on the internet,
Bring in someone new and have them win the lottery and change the wind in the town.They can bring in a new business to the town. Which will create a different look on the set.Change is due. Constant turmoil is boring. Drawing things out for months is crazy. We all want to see real issues.We want to relate to these people. That is why we love Lifetime. Take stories from headlines, see how you can stir them into the Days Plot Pot. This show is to great to go away.
2. Lisa Hunt said,
I have been watching days since my early teens. I even scheduled my college coures around the daily show. I too feel it is the ONLY soap worthy of watching these days. Now that there is a new writer I hope to see more locations shot and better story lines for the characters. The actors are wonderful but does there have to be so much chaos with all the characters at the same time.
Lisa
SODA (Save Our Days Advocate)
1. E.J. P. said,
Please….PLEASE DON’T CANCEL “Days of Our Lives.” I have been watching this shop since the mid 60’s. It’s the only soap I feel worthy of my time. I know all the cast and would feel so-o-o lost without this daily program. The actors are excellent and what’s more, the writers have improved dramatically over the past few years. I stay glued to the TV set while Days is on because of the mystic and intrigue of the show.
Believe me when I say, “you would wound thousands of viewers by cancelling ‘Days.’” My friends and I talk about what’s happening on “Days” when we go out to eat and people around us think we are talking about our family. Well, in a way, all the actors of “Days” have become family. If you need a signed petition to keep this soap opera on, I will be glad to head-up a campaign and get as many signatures as necessary to keep “days” alive forever.
EJP