NBC current unit to rule over daytime

[Toups]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798008...yid=14&cs=1

Hmm........interesting!!! Hope this is good news for DAYS. Maybe NBC will decide to keep DAYS afterall?

[PhoenixRising05]

Wow...this may be good news.

I mean, this position I would think only oversees Today and Days. I can't see this person oversee game shows and talk shows since all there is to that is selecting them and putting them on a network.

I guess this is pretty good news. I can't see it being bad. It shows NBC still has interest in daytime, if anything else. Doesn't mean it necessarily concerns Days but at least there is an in between Corday and company can go to now.

It looks like something may be up with Days/NBC. I mean, a new VP announced a month before the Days status is announced, the writing team as a whole being axed, the weird casting news...something is up.

[JackPeyton]

honestly, i may be trying to find something where there is ntohing but...

i dont see this as anything BUT good news for days.

if NBC is trying to build a daytime lineup, i dont see them getting rid of the one thing peole know. how else would they promote other shows in the daytime? i dont see them trying to build something based on nothing, and without days nbc daytime is nothing.

this, plus the recent cast cuts, and the writer cuts, with a slashed budget (and, IMHO, ed scott can make that work), i can see NBC keeping Days.

[JackPeyton]

i dont know about that, maybe NBC is trying to build a daytime lineup again for the first time in years. ABC has LIVE!, the view, amc, oltl, gh, (most markets) oprah. cbs has 4 soaps, nbc has days. so i can see them trying to build up a daytime lineup of talk shows, game shows, etc around days.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I honestly just think it's a way to incorporate their "dwindling" daytime division under more direct leadership. It means nothing for the future of DAYS. It looks like they've merged their daytime division with another division of the network, which isn't promising news IMO.

[Ryan]

Yep A-man. This doesn't make me want to jump with glee...then again I AM just a little bit bitter about the things that have been going on with DAYS lately....

[Y&RWorldTurner]

^Yep, all they've done is expanded Bruce Evans' duties at NBC and their daytime division is now merged with another division of NBC, which isn't the case at rivals CBS and ABC. As I said before, it's a call for more direct consolation of NBC's network divisions, which isn't news to be happy about.

[UKBoi]

Aren't we all a litttle bit, Ryan...if this news (along with the overhaul in writing team and firings) had come months ago when the show was sucking really bad, then it would be a different case, but the last few months have been fantastic and it seems like they're now just dismantling the show piece by piece.

Also, this now means there's nobody who's got the best interests of the NBC Daytime lineup at heart. If someone was in charge of daytime, they'd be fighting for the daypart because their job relied upon it. Now that DAYS is being looked after by the same people as the primetime lineup, it's going to be way low on their list of priorities.

[PhoenixRising05]

Well, I am trying to be optimistic and think this announcement combined with the recent decisions at Days is a bit too coincidental. Yes, they are merging divisions but still. At least now someone is an in between for Days to go to.

I don't like the decisions at Days either but I still want it to survive. Watching this show for as long as I have, there have always been bad times and stupid decisions but it's still my show at it's heart. Every show makes dumb decisions and while I am not just going to accept it (hence why I am campaigning for change and for the show), it's not going to stop me from enjoying the show regardless of who is writing and so on. I will miss Hogan greatly but it is what it is. I don't like Higley but who knows. She may not last long when the strike ends or may surprise us (doubtful but still). I mean, for me, there is nothing else to do. I'm not just going to quit watching a show I grew up on so I will take whatever good news that we seem to get and I kind of see this as good news.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

The way I see it, as long as Zucker is in charge of NBC-Universal, DAYS and the soap genre in general doesn't have a prayer for existing on the NBC network passed 2009. This is merely a move to instill a more direct consolation of network divisions for NBC, since daytime isn't their stronghold, so they're merging it with another division to cut costs and red tape.

[Khan]

Frankly, I don't know if I could regard this as good news. If all NBC has in the way of a daytime lineup is DAYS and "Today" (the latter of which is actually controlled by the NBC News department, if I'm not mistaken), then what is there to oversee?

Of course, if NBC is committed to keeping DAYS alive, then perhaps, they want to work w/ the show directly.

Again, who knows? I just hope DAYS fans don't interpret this to mean they can relax.

[Adam]

I see it as a temporary structure making way for DAYS all but confirmed cancellation in 2009. I wouldn't read anything positive out of this. Consolidating the daytime division with an already existing division, not a good sign.

[AddictedToSoaps]

I see it the same way. It's all leading up to that news that DAYS fans have been dreading.

[DaytimeFan]

I agree. As far as I can tell this is just a way of wrapping up NBC Daytime into a nice little package that can be buried swiftly. I feel for DAYS but at this point, the show just seems like it's winding down just like 'Another World' did back in 1999. I don't really know how to describe it but there was an atmosphere to AW in its last year, perhaps it's something I've only noticed most in retrospect, that just registered as "This Is It, Farewell"

Finally, anyone else find it ironic that DAYS might end almost exactly 10 years after AW? Coincidence? Or a larger plan to phase out NBC Daytime?

[David V]

Even in its final year or two, AW wasn't in the "critical condition" state that most cancelled soaps were prior to cancellation- namely P&G's two previous cancellations, namely Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow.

Firstly, AW was rating quite a bit better than the bottom-rated soap (there was always a fair gap in those days between the bottom-ranked soaps and the rest) whereas SFT and EON each had fallen to the bottom of the chart by the end of their run. Secondly, it had not been dropped by a large number of affiliates unlike those two.