NBC's lone remaining daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, is marking its 55th season this year, but, due likely to declining ratings, among other things, the network is suspending production of the series at the end of the month.
The classic intro, spoken by MacDonald Carey for so many years, certainly rings true here:
Episodes are taped as much as 8 months in advance. In other words, what you're seeing now was recorded back in March, for example. The cast and crew have been released from their contracts, per Yahoo!, but there is always the idea of everyone being brought back, provided they'd accept pay cuts in their new contracts.
It's not like Sony or NBC-Universal-Comcast are hurting for money, but these are the times we live in. A likely solution is to reboot, move the show off NBC proper if everyone returns in 2020, and over to the incoming Peacock streaming service, which I'm told is meant to be free for all, but we'll see.
Soaps are a dying breed, with only four on the air now in daytime, and who's to say Sony won't also listen to a request from CBS to do the same with the other soaps they own, The Young & The Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful? All we can say is, stay tuned.
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