NBC announced today that it picked up Days of our Lives for a 55th season aka through the 2019-2020 season.
Just like Stefano DiMera, this soap opera constantly rises from the dead over and over again. Just when it looks like NBC is ready to pull the plug, it miraculously comes back to life and does better than expectations. For example, the daytime drama was up 4% last season while its biggest competition is down in the ratings. Impressive for a show that is older than most of us.
How old? They aired their 13,500th episode in 2018. That is a lot of weddings, divorces, babies, deaths, murders, affairs, tears, illness, people coming back from the dead, demonic possessions, love triangles, questionable paternities and unknown family members to write about. Yet, they still find a way to do it and make it entertaining. If they didn’t, then we would still not be watching the show for 53 years and counting.
The show about the Bradys, the Hortons and the DiMeras living in Salem turns 54 in November and it does not look a day over 25! But then again, in soap years, you age rapidly until you are out of college and then time slows down to almost a crawl. Am I right?
In 1966, John J. York and his 5 siblings took a family photo together. Now 52 years later, they decided to recreate it when they were all together for the holiday. How did they do? I think they were pretty spot on since, especially the two babies are a lot taller than they were when they were kids.
Yesterday on Jeopardy, they had a category called General Hospital. Then Alex Trebek announced that the cast of the soap opera would be reading the answers. Therefore, you would think that the actors would be asking questions about their daytime drama. They were not.
Instead, the series’ most popular actors including Steve Burton, Nancy Lee Graham and Maurice Bernard wanted to know what medical terminology they were talking about.
I thought this would be an easy category for me because I have watched GH on and off over the years, but it was hard because I don’t anything about medicine.
Having said that, I hope that the game show makes this a regular category. The cast really did seem like they were having fun and I had fun watching them.
On May 23, 1978, fans of The Young and The Restless were introduced to Paul Williams. Forty years, Doug Davidson told his fans, “You all are so wonderful. I so appreciate your support and kindness and love. Thanks for a fabulous career.”
When someone asked him if that meant he was let go, he told them, “It seems so.” Then he told another fan, “It does hurt, to be honest.”
It really does. Out of all of the actors on the show, he has been on the longest. Then to be discarded like this is inexcusable. Especially him. I watched Y&R for a year and he was my favorite character on the daytime soap. Which is why he has been on the show for so long. Everyone likes him.
Y&R has been suffering in the ratings recently, and getting rid of the veterans is going to hurt them even more. Executives think you can get rid of the old timers without any repercussions, but you cannot. One daytime drama cleaned house and tried to skew younger. When their ratings tanked, all of a sudden all of those fired actors found themselves back on the job.
Soaps are not a young person’s show anymore. Therefore, you cannot ignore the viewers if you want to have some.
Hopefully, CBS will realize their mistake and rehire Doug Davidson.
Before Rebecca Herbst had the gentle touch as a nurse on General Hospital, she loved the gentle touch of Banner Toilet Paper. How precious is the 7-year-old in that 1984 commercial?
