There’s no need to worry about Days of Our Lives being cancelled right now. In May 2021, the venerable soap opera was renewed for two years by NBC, through the 58th season (2022-23). How long will Days continue after that? Could it move to the Peacock streaming service as an exclusively online series? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
Premiering on November 8th of 1965, Days of Our Lives is set in the fictitious Midwestern town of Salem. It revolves around the members of the Brady, Horton, and DiMera families — along with their friends, enemies, and lovers. Castmembers include Lucas Adams, Lamon Archey, Lindsay Arnold, Camila Banus, Brandon Barash, Brandon Beemer, Nadia Bjorlin, Raven Bowens, Tamara Braun, Bryan Dattilo, Mary Beth Evans, Dan Feuerriegel, Billy Flynn, Galen Gering, Stacy Haiduk, Deidre Hall, Jackée Harry, Drake Hogestyn, Jay Kenneth Johnson, Lauren Koslow, Martha Madison, Eric Martsolf, Marci Miller, Stephen Nichols, Emily O’Brien, James Reynolds, Suzanne Rogers, Sal Stowers, Alison Sweeney, Josh Taylor, Paul Telfer, Robert Scott Wilson, and Arianne Zucker.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
You can see how the ratings for the four soap operas compare here.
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Note: Days did not air during NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.
For comparisons: The 2020-21 season of Days of Our Lives averaged a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 female demographic with 1.70 million total viewers.
Raw data courtesy Soap Opera Network.
What do you think? Do you still like the Days of Our Lives TV series? Would you like to see it cancelled or renewed for additional seasons?
*8/2/2022 update: Days of Our Lives is moving to Peacock in September.
I have watched this show for 30 years and I am so close to turning it off for good. The writers must think that the watchers are really stupid uneducated morons. The devil storyline is SO stale and monotonous ENOUGH already!! It’s bad enough that prisoners’ are left in an office where people cope and go as they please, and arresting and putting the police commissioner on trial without a real investigation in a matter of a few weeks? I realize this is TV and all fiction, but some of these things are so ridiculous it makes it more than… Read more »
Memo to the one person using 666 different aliases to demand my removal from Salem…. Without me, Days is about masks, dopplegangers, brainchips which make people believe they’re somebody who died decades ago (another one of those is in the works, by the way) and idiotic recasts who bear ZERO resemblance to who they’re supposed to be. (i.e. that abominable fake “Eve Donovan” or that bug eyed freak who looked nothing at all like “Diana Colville”) And don’t even get a Devil started on the waste of airtime known as “Leo Stark”… or how they’re going to use him next.… Read more »
They can quit devil soon its getting so stuipd,enough is enough
Remove devil storyline. Been watching since 1965
Get rid of the devil story line!! So stupid!! Are your writers so hard up for another story line that they cone up with the devil? I love Days, & have watched it from the beginning, but I’m seriously thinking of not watching anymore!!
Agree, agree, agree! The devil thing may be the end to Days.
I just turned off Days. I won’t be watching for a while. I’m sick sick of the idiotic devil story line and Chloe and Brady, and Allie and Dupree. Enough already.
I am sick f the devil story line. Nothing good happens. Get rid of the evil story line and get a Christian writer or have him stop this story line.
Agreed totally!
The devil storyline is ridiculous!!!!! I also don’t like girls kissing girls or Ciara and Ben’s talk about not stressing the sex of their baby%!!!
I’m changing to GH!!!! At least their storyline are sensible!!!!!!
Get over the girls kissing the girls and the boys kissing the boys and the men kissing the men because, guess what, that’s real life. The freaking devil syndrome, the Doctor Rolf “fixes,” and the masks are theater of the absurd, pure camp, science fiction. DUMB and overplayed.
Agree it’s time to end the devil disguise it’s no fun it’s disgusting it is not days of our lives and I agree with the others who are saying it’s time to call it quits for me.
I have been watching Days since I was a teenager and I am now 62..I have never stopped watching Days but I am ready to do that now..the Devil crap is beyond disgusting and so is the girl kissing crap..and I have waited years for Nicole and Eric to be together and to have it end was a huge mistake.. I tape days and end up fast forwarding through most of it…time to give up on it
I have watched Days for decades……. Lately the story lines have been awful. I don’t want to watch Nicole sleep with every guy in Salem and I don’t want to watch two young ladies sleep together. Please hire talented writers. I understand that these topics are commonplace in today’s society; however, I don’t want to see them on my soap.
I don’t like the “devil” story line. It’s unrealistic. Go back to the original stories of infidelity and/or business espionage !! Hahaha!!!
I’m seriously considering giving up watching this trash.
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You need to drop this story lineof the devil, very ridiculous and is bringing the show down. Other story lines are getting very boring. Good way to lose viewers if you continue with this story line.
I will not watch this wonderful show until the devil is gone. Good way to lose viewers
I love Days of our lives have watched for many years but the part with the devil is awful and needs to be replaced with something more interesting, it’s bringing the whole show down and making it ridiculous and it’s my favorite soap but don’t like to watch it much anymore
Have to agree