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I saw that the episode following Lucas crashing Sami’s lethal injection hit 50k views in barely three days. That’s probably 10% or more of the entire Peacock audience for Days right now, which is pretty impressive! I bet if they actually started dropping the older stuff from the '70s, '80s, or '90s, they’d see numbers like that constantly.

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2026/08/04/days-of-our-lives-digital-score-album-released/ If anyone's curious, there's a new Days soundtrack available for streaming. I checked out a few tracks, and to be honest, they're not bad at all. The suspenseful tracks are particularly impressive. I must admit, with 98/99 episodes now on YT, I really miss the background music from that era of Days.

Yahoo News“Elle” Creators Explain Why “Days of Our Lives” Plays Suc...The team behind the series tells PEOPLE about the inspiration for those soap opera referencesInteresting insight into why they included Days so heavily in the new Legally Blonde series. Ryan Gosling, John Oliver and now this. Days is definitely making its way around modern pop culture this year!

I've been trying to figure out if that's true ever since I heard it on that podcast. I've always wondered what could be missing? First off, what does a season mean for soaps, is it from September to September? So, I guess that means episodes from September 1966 to September 1967 are lost? The show has shown flashbacks from that season over the years. The first was in 2010 during Alice's memorial episodes when Marie came back and they flashed back to a scene that I think from the context discussed was from October 1966. Last year, for the 60th anniversary, they aired a scene that I believe was from Laura and Bill's first date in December 1966. Then they aired a scene with Tommy (Mark) and Marie from what I think was fall 1967, so maybe the early part of 1967 is lost, which would be terrible since that covers Susan's trial for murdering David and the start of the Mickey/Bill/Laura storyline. It's just really strange because Ken Corday mentioned in several interviews during the 2010s that the entire run of Days was intact and digitized. Since he would have paid for the digitizing, I feel like he's a more reliable source. I had a quick chat with super Days historian @JAS0N47 awhile back, and he seemed just as puzzled as the rest of us. Fingers crossed that everything exists and will be available for all of us to enjoy soon!

I'm really liking what I've seen of him too. We haven't seen him in any heavy emotional scene’s yet, but he's doing great with what he's got. Honestly, it's probably the best recast the show has done in years

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/john-oliver-reveal-days-of-our-lives-soap-opera-guest-appearances-1236798077/ I feel this is going to be very cringe (which is clearly what Oliver wanted). I am shocked he's airing so soon! Seems Days filmed his scenes and will edit them into episodes filmed months ago, which I think is the first time they've done that since they moved to their advanced filming schedule a decade or so ago.

Honestly, if it costs money to fix, they probably aren't going to do it. A lot of those '70s and '80s episodes have live music that would be super easy to edit out, but they just don't want to pay anyone for the work. It's probably just an intern with zero editing skills dumping them on YouTube lol. They might go that far if they ever launched a paid platform for the show, though.

I’ve always assumed the main reason they’ve never really attempted to re-air these episodes is the music rights. We all know residuals for actors and production people are literally pennies, but those music rights are expensive. Pretty much since 1970 through the 1990s popular music was a huge part of Days. I feel like probably half the 1980s episodes have some pop music in them either in the background or front and center in the episode. It’s really tricky. They would have to mute a lot of scenes I feel.

They finally uploaded an episode from 1998! An episode surrounding the killing pool story. https://www.youtube.com/@SoapsDaily/videos Wonder if it will be random or if they'll eventually go the B&B route and upload full seasons.

It was quite peculiar how everything unfolded. Numerous websites share the Top 10/Top 15 rankings of streamers weekly, and I would say that until around the middle to late 2024, Days consistently ranked in the top 10 on Peacock from Monday to Friday. Then, all of a sudden, it just stopped trending completely. It didn't slowly tapper off, it just disappeared and as far as I know, it never regained its popularity. I found it strange that the show didn’t trend during significant events like Doug's memorial, John's passing and memorial, and the 50th anniversary. All of these were highly publicized events. I would assume that fans tuning in during the summer of 2024 would have watched again. Not to imply that a significant number of viewers didn’t stop watching due to the show’s decline in quality; I recently stopped watching it daily myself. It feels like Peacock may have made some adjustments. I recall one of the individuals who posts the streaming charts mentioning before the show vanished from the rankings that Days was trending in the morning but not in the afternoon. They also had a second Peacock account where Days didn’t trend at all during the same period. Once again, I’m not defending the show’s quality because it’s quite poor at the moment, but I can definitely see Peacock not wanting Days to feature in their top 10 to redirect viewership to other programs. NBCU has never fully supported Days, similar to other networks that tend to look down on soap operas, even though these shows have historically been more financially successful for them. These networks wouldn’t even exist today without the revenue generated from them in the past. An interesting point to note is that Peacock recently announced it will finally turn a profit this year after six years. https://deadline.com/2026/06/peacock-profit-nbcuniversal-streaming-matt-strauss-1236939081/ This is largely due to NBCU holding the rights to nearly every major sporting event in the past year, including the Olympics and the Super Bowl. However, I think we can’t overlook the fact that Days has contributed to the streamer reaching this point, where it could become increasingly successful year after year. Hopefully NBCU won't overlook it as well.

I just got my hands on all 14 of the Soaps and Serials Days novels from the 1980s. I've given up on the current Days for now, hoping these will help fill the gap. Has anyone read them? They appear to cover the show's early days all the way to when Mickey discovers the truth about Mike's paternity. I'm curious to see if they align perfectly with what I've learned about that period in Days history.

What a boring mess that promo is, and this is the summer and early fall.....yikes. Like holy DiMera! I get the show sees value in having a villainous family front and centre, especially one spawned from one of the show's most well known characters, but this is really overload. I've said it before, without Joe Mascolo or Eileen Davidson, this just doesn't work. DiMera corporate and back from dead stories are boring and overdone. It was all Carlivati did for 8 years, did they not fire him for change? Like just burn the DiMera's to the ground, I wish Lexie would go Gwen Alden on them all! Like just kill them one by one. Instead we'll probably see her argue with Theo and EJ about how the DiMera company should change for multiple episodes, it won't of course, then we'll watch her slowly die again while everyone screams and beats up on EJ. And I assume we'll be getting another DiMera...the one hiding the "Easter eggs"? 😵‍💫 Awful. The few other things not tied to the DiMera's....like snooze town. I assume Johnny and Chanel will have a crap load of boring scenes whining about their love and worrying about her cancer and the baby, and they'll all end up fine in time for their 2027 exit. That love scene will probably be one of the 2 or 3 times we'll see Lani and Eli between Summer and Christmas. I assume Sarah and Xander will just have a bunch of angst and shouting and Xander will continue to sleep with Gwen while Sarah and Brady continue to keep the sale of ambien down amongst Days fans. And this summer is the 50th Anniversary of Marlena???? All we see from her is a scene telling Xander to get over Sarah and another of her with her family in the pub. I assume she'll get the same treatment everyone has gotten in the past 5 years for anniversaries, some scenes in a random episode, sitting around a table at the pub or bistro remembering 5 or 6 key moments with everyone saying awe and how sweet everything is. I get the show has a 0.99 cent budget and shoots 5 episodes a day, but there has to be more compelling stories than this? Like read a history book on Days, look to the 1960s and 1970s when the show had a small budget but told compelling stories. Even if they copy the story word for word into the scripts today, it would be better than this.

He co-head wrote with Dena Higley from Fall 2016 until Summer 2017, right before RC joined. A significant amount occurred during that period, with plenty of story developments, to be honest, I believe many of those stories were more his influence than Higley's. I think Higley lacked creativity and often made poor story choices. I was more engaged during that period. I would say it was a mix of old school soap with a dash of action/adventure. Kind of how I think the show should be approaching things now. They just need to slow down their production schedule so they're not 10 months ahead :/ You can find weekly recaps from that period on Jason47's fantastic site: https://www.jason47.com/days/synopsesweekly9.html

That's precisely how I feel. The show seems to be caught in a rut right now, in my opinion, due to the current cast of characters and the rapid pace at which everything is filmed. Until those aspects change, it won't make much difference who the head writer is. I must say, I really enjoyed the end of 2016 through 2017, even though Quan was co-head writing alongside Higley, I felt the show made significant improvements after the whole Griffith mess. The Orpheus/Clyde/Xander storyline, the Greece storyline with Stefano/Shane/Carrie/Austin, the plane crash with Paul's jungle fever, the return of Eric and Valerie, and the introduction of Eli. I believe it set the stage nicely for Carlivati to take over in the fall. Hopefully Quan can help make the show less dull.

This ^^^^ that would have been great. It makes no sense Johnny being so shocked and angry after finding out about his conception last year, but being totally fine being in charge of a company owned by the side of his family that tortured the other side of his family for decades.