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 . . .
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40. vickie lee hunter said,
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL DAYS OUR OUR LIVE. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING TH SHOW SINCE 1972.THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE SHOW ARE LIKE FAMILY . I TAPE THE SHOW EVERYDAY SO I CAN WATCH THE SHOW WHEN I COME HOME FROM WORK. IT IS THE ONLY SHOPE I WATCH AND ENJOY. YOU KNOW IT IS GOOD WHEN YOU HAVE WATCHED TH SHOW FOR OVER 30 YEARS. PLEASE DONT’T CANCEL THE SHOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT I WOULD WATCH AND ENJOY AS MUCH AS I ENJOY DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
39. taylorblue said,
What will I do without days? I have been watching it since I was 17! There will be nothing better than that show.
38. Heather said,
I have been watching DOOL for 20 years and my children are viewers also. Please do not cancel my favourite show on TV. I cannot go a day without it and PVR it everyday!!!
37. Jenn said,
Nooooooooooooo! Days can not end! I TIVO it every single day, and it’s the only soap I’d ever, ever watch!! I’m 26, and I’ve been watching since I was 12! I have a ton of friends and family members who all LOVE the show & still watch all the time! PLEASE don’t end the show!! My great-grandmother watched DOOL every day- and I planned to watch it my whole life.
36. Jackie said,
I have been a loyal viewer of Days of Our Lives for 25 Years. I don’t know what I would do if it went off the air. My kids watch it with me now and will very likely be the next generation of viewers. It has to continue.
35. Angela Hamlin said,
Please do not cancel days! I’ll go crazy w/o it. I wont know what to do w/o it! Please do not discontinue it.
Ive been watching since Frankie and Melissa were dating and competing with his brother Pete. In the 80’s!!!!!
Its the only one I watch!! Please dont leave us hanging?????????? :)>smiley face! -Angela-NM
34. Tammy said,
Please don’t cancel the show! I’ve been watching the show for about 16 years. Thats the longest I’ve ever watched a tv show. It makes me going back for more. The show is just getting started again since the Dimeras are back. The cast is unbelievable. I’ve met some of the people on the show and they were great! So I really really hope you don’t cancel the show or I will be dissapointed.
33. Gwen said,
Please do NOT cancel Days. I can remember being in preschool and “pretending” to be napping, but really watching Days with my Great Grandmother, and my Nana, who baby-sat me, back in the 80’s. (It’s nice to see Kayla and Steve back!)
I started really watching on days off of school, and holiday breaks in the mid-nineties. The first story-line I remember well was when Marlena was posessed. I think that has become a classic one, especially for us “younger” (early 20’s) viewers, who started watching off and on in our early teens.
Some story lines, like the Island” thing a couple years ago, were rather difficult. It was just too long!
Some of the older, “classic” characters should get some good storylines again of their own, and not just be supporting the younger ones- Victor, Doug, Julie, Maggie, etc.
I really miss the old Belle (Kirsten Storms), Chloe (Nadia Bjorlin), and old Shawn (Jason Cook).
I think addressing some situatins that we can relate to would be a good idea, as well as some traditional soap lines.
Fertility complictaions(repeated miscarraiges for instance) when and if Belle and Shawn finally get married and decide on a 2nd baby; Marlena surviving breast cancer after John’S situation ends (also going on too long- I almost keep forgetting what IS going on with that…); Kate finds out she’s in enormous financial debt, and gets a wake-up call, and has to live with Sammy and Lucas, and finally grows up; Bo and Hope’s daughter has Autism or Aspberger’s Syndrome, and they learn how to treat it; EJ maybe really isn’t a DiMera, after all– and ends up with Billie; Celeste and Victor have an affair, and a mid-life surprise- a baby; Will gets in with the wrong crowd and ends up getting arrested repeatedly, and gets a girl pregnant…
Willows baby isn’t Shawn’s- it’s Phillip’s. He softens with both her, and Shawn and Belle, and helps Willow straighten out her life, so they can raise the baby in a stable family.
32. TERRI said,
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL DAYS OF OUR LIVES! THERE IS NO OTHER SOAP OPERA THAT CAN COMPARE TO DAYS. I’M IN MY THIRTIES AND I’VE BEEN WATCHING FAITHFULLY SINCE I WAS ABOUT FIVE. MY GRANDMOTHER AND I TALK ABOUT IT SHARE STORIES ABOUT IT. WE TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. SO PLEASE DON’T CANCEL DAYS!!!! NBC WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REPLACE IT. YOU WILL DEFFINTLY LOSE RATINGS. SO I BEGGING YOU NOT TO CANCEL DAYS. IT’S GOT A GOOD STORYLINE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. I SET MY DVR TO RECORD EVERY SHOW. I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL I’M DONE AT WORK JUST TO GET HOME TO WATCH. ONCE AGAIN PLEASE SAVE DAYS
31. tammy said,
please do not cancel Days. I have been watching it for years. I have become addicted to it and its characters.
30. Alli said,
I have been watching Days since I was seven. My mom was always watching it and got me hooked. I would definately completely feel isolated without watching Days. It is like a daily routine!!!
29. sarah said,
I too have been watching the show since I was a child. However, I feel that they are almost asking to be cancelled. The show has become so ridiculous it is unbelievable. I wish they would go back to the storylines that they used to and stop changing all the characters. I want to enjoy watching Days again!
28. mildred witherspoon said,
you crazy if you cancell Day of our life, It the onlt soap I watch
27. Matthew said,
Don’t get rid of Days of our lives. I love this soap. I would love to see baby Claire grow up, and Theo. I would be saddened if this soap was no more. So Please Please, Don’t get rid of this Soap
26. Bradley said,
I’ve been watching Days for over 20 years I don’t care if it gets canceled or not. This new head writer has improved it but has a long ways to go to ever be as great as it once way. The show may never recover from the disasterous Jim Reilly years.
25. jennifer said,
Don’t cancel Days….. it just needs some major help with its story lines it is getting a little chessy but I love it. I used to watch it with my 70 year old grandmother when I was little and she know that I watch it and she constantly asks me what is going on in Salem That is so cool b/c that is one of the things that I have in common with her!!!!!!!! Please say Days!!!!!!!!!
24. Lynn said,
Oh ****!! What will daytime TV be without “Days.” This show has saved my sanity over some particularly stressful years while taking care of my elderly father suffering from progressive senile dementia. I love this show and its wonderful cast. Please leave DOOL on the air. Negotiate the darn fee. If NBC can come up with the money for shows like Entertainment Tonight and America’s Got Talent and the truly terrible Apprentice, surely “Days” can be funded.
23. PaTTY said,
Well…since the mass exit of a few of my favorite characters, I will not be extremely bothered if Days were to be cancelled.
Let me share my “Days” story: I began watching Days in college as I was earning a living as a waitress. During our “after the lunch rush” break, all of the other waitresses would demand that we turned on Days in the bar. I made fun of them as well as the storyline. At the time, Marlena was possessed. Well, I soon moved on from my waitressing job. I was a poor graduate student without the luxuries of cable television. My mid-day break allowed me to come home and eat lunch. Days was on the television. I was interested in what had happened to Marlena for some god-awful reason. I actually watched an entire episode BY MYSELF!!
What had happened??? Have I become as shallow as the other morons that actually watch this show on purpose?? Then, I watched it again the next day. One day, I actually overheard some of the students I was teaching discussing Days, and I found myself chiming in!! WTF????
Then I saw Austin Peck. Yes, his acting was mediocre (this was back in 1995/1996) to say the least. However, I fell for his statuesque body and gorgeous face. I had an epiphany: women must watch soap operas because they would never encounter any men that display the beauty and kindness of the “hunks” on a soap in real life. My expectations of men, as a result, became unreasonable.
Time had passed. I became a “when I have time and I happen to be home I will watch days” kinda gal (btw…I hate the term “gal”…but, I felt compelled to use it). Austin left. Jason (Sean D.) came. He was several years younger than myself…but had an innocence about him. His smile kept me coming back for more. Still, I only watched occasionally.
My life became more routine…the soap network was born…Days was much easier to tune in to. I began to watch more frequently….Jam spears kidnapped Sean….Sean was still very hot…Belle’s face changed several times….Chloe came and went….Georgia was alive and her name was Chelsea….Austin returned and then left me again…and now Jason is gone.
Now, I am a professional. I am a Biochemistry professor. I also play classical guitar. My friends as well as my boyfriend have mocked my infatuation with Days. I suppose I too have mocked this “addiction”. Days leaving is exactly the rehab I need…
22. steven said,
days of our lives been on 1965 to 2007 so its a great show why to u want to take it off the air? take off one of the soaps not days ok
21. steven said,
days of our lives been on 1965 to 2007 so its a great show why to u want to take it off the air?