TV Line: NBC Boss Addresses Days of Our Lives Future

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TV Line: NBC Boss Addresses Days of Our Lives Future; 'It's Not Going Anywhere'
Topic Started: Jan 6 2013, 02:46 PM (9,180 Views)
dc cubs	Jan 6 2013, 02:46 PM Post #1
Posts: 2,653 Group: Contributor Member #3,598 Joined: February 23, 2009	http://tvline.com/2013/01/06/days-of-our-lives-renewed-cancelled/ Quote: It appears the sands will continue to flow through the hourglass for the foreseeable future. Addressing the fate of its only daytime soap, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt expressed confidence that Days of Our Lives would remain on the air beyond its current contract cycle, which expires in September. “I think Days is going to stick around,” Greenblatt told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena. “I don’t know that I’m at liberty to say that officially yet, but it’s not going anywhere.” Days currently ranks last in the ratings among the four remaining soaps, averaging 2.3 million viewers. It recently tied an all-time in women 18-49 (0.7).



AFaithL	Jan 6 2013, 02:48 PM Post #2
Posts: 3,260 Group: Elite Member Member #3,369 Joined: January 18, 2009	Yay! Go Days!



lysie	Jan 6 2013, 02:55 PM Post #3
Posts: 28,040 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	I feel like the headline should be: Days Most Likely Not Cancelled.



nickyj12345	Jan 6 2013, 02:55 PM Post #4
Posts: 541 Group: Members Member #10,222 Joined: August 19, 2011	So excited that I get to continue seeing Marlena/John/Kristen/Brady on my screen (in theory) for the foreseeable future!



michr544125	Jan 6 2013, 02:56 PM Post #5
Posts: 1,099 Group: Elite Member Member #11,532 Joined: February 18, 2012	That's strangely worded. "I think". But I hope it's true and they are just waiting to give official word. Edited by michr544125, Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM.



psychofan	Jan 6 2013, 02:57 PM Post #6
#1 Fan of Daytime Psychos! Posts: 1,410 Group: Elite Member Member #58 Joined: June 14, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera General Hospital Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Passions Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Nashville Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Desperate Housewives Current Soap Rankings 1.) GH 2.) DAYS 3.) Y&R 4.) B&B	No matter how much I hate Days sometimes, I can't help but love it as an entity. I may complain about it and hate the majority of storylines, but the day they announce it is cancelled, I am sure that I will be a mess!



Will&Sonny	Jan 6 2013, 02:58 PM Post #7
Posts: 835 Group: Members Member #12,670 Joined: November 2, 2012 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives (runner-up: Y&R) Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives (runners-up: ATWT, Sunset Beach, OLTL, Y&R)	I'm not surprised, since I never expected it to be cancelled, but it's always nice to have confirmation...even if this can barely be called "confirmation". It sounds like a more official statement might be coming soon, though.



lysie	Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM Post #8
Posts: 28,040 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters.



nickyj12345	Jan 6 2013, 03:10 PM Post #9
Posts: 541 Group: Members Member #10,222 Joined: August 19, 2011	lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. Are you sure you want that? We had headwriters that appreciated the history of the show with a horrible sense of pacing - and were replaced with Tomsell, who wouldn't know the history of Salem's denizens if their lives depended on it. I'll take reasonably compelling, plot-driven stories with excellent scripts for now. Let's ride this horse as long as we can. We all know that Corday is going to freak out momentarily when Days stays in 4th place and replace Tomsell with a cigar-smoking monkey.



esp13	Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM Post #10
Posts: 3,707 Group: Elite Member Member #676 Joined: December 20, 2007	lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. I don't know how to feel about that. It seems like everytime we wish for new screenwriters, we end up regretting it one way or another. People hated JER and we got Hogan. People hated him and we got Dena (way worse). People hated her and we got MarDar (differently bad). People hated MarDar and we got TomSell (differently bad). I don't love TomSell by any means, but their brand of bad is far more tolerable to me than previous regimes. If I had even a tiny bit of hope that we'd get somebody that was actually better, not just differently bad, I'd be all for it. But my bigger fear is that we'd get somebody who's particular brand of bad was even worse.



salempc	Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM Post #11
Posts: 79 Group: Members Member #1,006 Joined: December 26, 2007	nickyj12345 Jan 6 2013, 03:10 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. Are you sure you want that? We had headwriters that appreciated the history of the show with a horrible sense of pacing - and were replaced with Tomsell, who wouldn't know the history of Salem's denizens if their lives depended on it. I'll take reasonably compelling, plot-driven stories with excellent scripts for now. Let's ride this horse as long as we can. We all know that Corday is going to freak out momentarily when Days stays in 4th place and replace Tomsell with a cigar-smoking monkey. A cigar-smoking monkey would do a better job than Tomlin.



lumifan4life	Jan 6 2013, 03:15 PM Post #12
Posts: 857 Group: Members Member #11,702 Joined: March 24, 2012	salempc Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM nickyj12345 Jan 6 2013, 03:10 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. Are you sure you want that? We had headwriters that appreciated the history of the show with a horrible sense of pacing - and were replaced with Tomsell, who wouldn't know the history of Salem's denizens if their lives depended on it. I'll take reasonably compelling, plot-driven stories with excellent scripts for now. Let's ride this horse as long as we can. We all know that Corday is going to freak out momentarily when Days stays in 4th place and replace Tomsell with a cigar-smoking monkey. A cigar-smoking monkey would do a better job than Tomlin. And as a fan of characters I never get to see because of TomSell's unbelievably ridiculous bias and favoritism, I hope for new writers too.



am103	Jan 6 2013, 03:19 PM Post #13
Posts: 1,226 Group: Elite Member Member #6,167 Joined: January 17, 2010 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives	Yay for Days (probably) not getting cancelled! I think I would be devastated if Days went off the air, especially now that we finally have Eileen Davidson back. I don't want to give her back to Y&R, lol. I would keep the script-writers. I think they do a fantastic job. As for a head writer, I wouldn't mind another change. We really need someone in there who really knows what they're doing. My biggest complaint with TomSell is the lack of a rooting interest. Corday always tells us that the rooting interest is there, but I don't think he's watching the same show we are. This much is clear in the EJ/Sami/Rafe triangle. It's not necessarily the stories I can't stand, it's the lack of rootable characters.



Matt	Jan 6 2013, 03:23 PM Post #14
Classic Soap Fan Posts: 13,041 Group: Contributor Member #214 Joined: August 5, 2007 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Another World Twitter ID kyleo71	Every head writer or producer has a bias towards certain characters or actors based on the stories they want to tell. People only have a problem with it if it's not in the favor of the characters they want or have their own bias and favoritism for.



lysie	Jan 6 2013, 03:25 PM Post #15
Posts: 28,040 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	esp13 Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. I don't know how to feel about that. It seems like everytime we wish for new screenwriters, we end up regretting it one way or another. People hated JER and we got Hogan. People hated him and we got Dena (way worse). People hated her and we got MarDar (differently bad). People hated MarDar and we got TomSell (differently bad). I don't love TomSell by any means, but their brand of bad is far more tolerable to me than previous regimes. If I had even a tiny bit of hope that we'd get somebody that was actually better, not just differently bad, I'd be all for it. But my bigger fear is that we'd get somebody who's particular brand of bad was even worse. With legitimate change comes hope. TomSell wasn't a legitimate change, so there was no hope there. But someone actually different could at least make me hopeful again.



ShaneDOOLFan	Jan 6 2013, 03:34 PM Post #16
Posts: 390 Group: Members Member #963 Joined: December 24, 2007	I say Lorraine Brodderick would be a good choice, keep Tomlin and Whitsell as writers. they know the history of the show.



esp13	Jan 6 2013, 03:35 PM Post #17
Posts: 3,707 Group: Elite Member Member #676 Joined: December 20, 2007	lysie Jan 6 2013, 03:25 PM esp13 Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. I don't know how to feel about that. It seems like everytime we wish for new screenwriters, we end up regretting it one way or another. People hated JER and we got Hogan. People hated him and we got Dena (way worse). People hated her and we got MarDar (differently bad). People hated MarDar and we got TomSell (differently bad). I don't love TomSell by any means, but their brand of bad is far more tolerable to me than previous regimes. If I had even a tiny bit of hope that we'd get somebody that was actually better, not just differently bad, I'd be all for it. But my bigger fear is that we'd get somebody who's particular brand of bad was even worse. With legitimate change comes hope. TomSell wasn't a legitimate change, so there was no hope there. But someone actually different could at least make me hopeful again. That's a fair point, I suppose. But, what constitutes legitimate change? Somebody truly new, or just another recycled failure? That's my fear. I guess, at this point anyway, I'm in the devil you know category. A month from now, I might not feel the same way.



leela46	Jan 6 2013, 03:44 PM Post #18
Posts: 258 Group: Members Member #505 Joined: October 30, 2007	Matt Jan 6 2013, 03:23 PM Every head writer or producer has a bias towards certain characters or actors based on the stories they want to tell. People only have a problem with it if it's not in the favor of the characters they want or have their own bias and favoritism for. Thank you. I don't know why people think that Tomsell are something unusual. All writers have their favorite characters they like to write for. Also no matter who the HW is, the producers and network are going to want to focus on younger characters. I don't like Dannifer but I do find the show a lot more watchable now than it was under Higley or MarDar.



JamaicanBeauty7	Jan 6 2013, 03:44 PM Post #19
currently having a moment Posts: 4,088 Group: Elite Member Member #8,796 Joined: March 10, 2011 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of Our Lives Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Scandal Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Roswell/Buffy the Vampire Slayer	This is good to hear, considering that they can't make any "official" statement that Days is sticking around until (I heard) March.



lysie	Jan 6 2013, 03:47 PM Post #20
Posts: 28,040 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	esp13 Jan 6 2013, 03:35 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 03:25 PM esp13 Jan 6 2013, 03:12 PM lysie Jan 6 2013, 02:59 PM I hope this means Corday will be able to bring in new headwriters. And if he does, I hope he keeps the scriptwriters. I don't know how to feel about that. It seems like everytime we wish for new screenwriters, we end up regretting it one way or another. People hated JER and we got Hogan. People hated him and we got Dena (way worse). People hated her and we got MarDar (differently bad). People hated MarDar and we got TomSell (differently bad). I don't love TomSell by any means, but their brand of bad is far more tolerable to me than previous regimes. If I had even a tiny bit of hope that we'd get somebody that was actually better, not just differently bad, I'd be all for it. But my bigger fear is that we'd get somebody who's particular brand of bad was even worse. With legitimate change comes hope. TomSell wasn't a legitimate change, so there was no hope there. But someone actually different could at least make me hopeful again. That's a fair point, I suppose. But, what constitutes legitimate change? Somebody truly new, or just another recycled failure? That's my fear. I guess, at this point anyway, I'm in the devil you know category. A month from now, I might not feel the same way. Well, the only true recycled failure they could bring back would be MarDar. So no, I wouldn't consider that legitimate change, lol.



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