The long-running NBC daytime soap was rumored to be on the chopping block earlier this month after the network signed Fox News alum Megyn Kelly and offered her a daytime news program. But on Wednesday, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt cautioned soap fans that the fate of Days hasn’t been settled yet.
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Days Of Our Lives, which marked its 50th anniversary this season, has been renewed for next season, which will be the long-running daytime drama’s 51st. The pickup, which may include an option for an additional year, keeps NBC in the daytime soap game as Days is the last remaining afternoon drama on its schedule.
It’s looking good that the sands in Days of Our Lives‘ iconic hourglass will continue to flow. NBC is hopeful that it will successfully renew its contract with surviving soap, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last November.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — An actor on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” was arrested in suburban Phoenix after trying to punch a bartender at a hotel bar, authorities […]
NBC has ordered two more years of daytime drama, Days of Our Lives. It will continue through September 2016. The Emmy-winning daytime drama will celebrate its 50th year in television in November 2015.
NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” took the gold for drama series at the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The win marked the first time since 1975 that the sudser has won the top prize at the Daytime Emmy fete — and only its second drama series nod in its nearly 50-year run on NBC.
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors say they’ve charged a former “Days of Our Lives” actor with selling cocaine out of his Agoura Hills home. Spokeswoman Jane […]
NBC entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt had expressed confidence that the long-running soap, which hits its 12,000th episode this week, would stay on the air.
Some of the cast members of ABC’s recently canceled daytime dramas All My Children and One Life To Live may get new soap gigs courtesy of Sony TV. The studio is planning to bring in a number of actors from AMC and OLTL to join its two daytime dramas, NBC’s Days of Our Lives and CBS’ The Young & the Restless.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actors from “Days of Our Lives” are helping to rebuild homes for families still displaced by Hurricane Katrina. On Wednesday, the cast of the soap opera […]
In a welcome bit of news for the daytime soap opera segment, NBC will announce today that it is renewing its only daytime soap, Days of Our Lives, for two more years.
