Posted on 11/12/2019 2:51:45 PM PST by Beave Meister
The long-running daytime soap's future is in flux, though it will continue airing for the remainder of the current season. The future of NBC's daytime soap Days of Our Lives is in doubt after the entire cast was released from their contracts.
The 55-year-old drama — the longest-running entertainment show in NBC's history — will go on an indefinite hiatus at the end of November, although enough episodes have been banked to play out the rest of the 2019-20 season.
NBC and Sony Pictures TV, which distributes the show, declined comment. Calls to producer Corday Productions were not returned.
Corday, which carries the contracts with the cast, made the call to release the actors. Days of Our Lives was renewed for 2019-20 in January; should it be picked up again, production would likely resume in the spring — but the cast would have to negotiate new contracts. Sony Pictures TV and NBC had been in talks for another season when Corday released the cast.
Corday also sued Sony earlier this year, claiming the studio hadn't put forth its best efforts at distributing Days of Our Lives. The claim said Sony made a decision to "eliminate any competition to its wholly owned series The Young and the Restless. … In the annals of Hollywood television, it is difficult to identify a distributor more guilty of blatant conflict of interest, deceit, perfidy, and abuse of market power."
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I have never watched it so that makes two of us. Hahahaha
Probably......but I think the only episodes I watched were when I was home sick from school back in .....a long time ago.
I didn’t know Soap Operas were still a thing.
Dunt-dunt-dunnnn!!!
Oh the drama!!!
Yes, and there is still General Hospital.
Me three.
Oh no. What is Joey Tribioni going to do??!!
Oh dear...I know a gal with Alzheimer’s who watches ‘her program’ every day when she walks her tread mill! She’ll have a tough time understanding the changes.
Aren’t all the characters gay by now?
Roy Thinnes was on a very early episode of GH.
I’m sure it’s all gayed up by now. I was in a restaurant that was playing General Hospital and a man was telling some guy that he better let the man’s son know the guy was cheating on him and leave town or the man would wreck some ****.
Yeah, he was taking people’s pulses and shooting them if they didn’t have one. It never got old seeing them turn red. I suspect Luke and Laura were aliens.
Even Erica ???
And for malformed little fingers.
Yes.
The Young and the Restless (Star of show: Victor Newman)
The Bold and the Beautiful (Star of show: Brooke Logan)
Days of our Lives (Star of show: Marlena Brady)
General Hospital (Star of show: Sonny Corinthos)
They are crucial, crucial classics.
We need soaps.
I love soaps.
My 80 yr. old neighbor watches “her shows” every day and plans her other activities around them. I have to ask WHY???
The scenes all seem to be of one man, one woman discussing their relationship.
I have no idea;)
I was just wondering why we should care?
She can always watch episodes from ten years ago. She probably won’t notice the difference.
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