NBC Reportedly Wanted to Replace Days of Our Lives With a Talk Show

[Marco Dane]

http://daytimeconfidential.com/2015/04/17/nbcs-broadcast-chairman-wants-to-cut-days-of-our-lives

[YRBB]

Wanted. As in the past (thankfully). The emails made it clear it was only one executive's stance and that, shockingly, DAYS still had support.

DAYS may survive yet.

[dragonflies]

Days may survive, only if their ratings/demos don't keep dropping like they are. They bought two years, which takes them through what, this year, maybe into next?

[CCCapwell]

Thankfully DAYS is part of NBC Entertainment where Bob Greenblatt is Chairman and Jennifer Salke is President.

Ted Halbert is Chairman of NBC Broadcasting where he oversees NBC owned and operated affiliates, where he

makes programming decisions for what shows the NBC owned stations air in daytime time slots but he does not

have any say in what NBC Entertainment chooses to do with DAYS as that is Greenblatt and Salke's division at NBC.

It doesn't surprise me Ted would push for other programming although considering DAYS is NBC Entertainment division's ONLY

program in daytime, as the 4 hour TODAY show is NBC News division programming, I expect DAYS to be renewed again when

the time comes.

[dragonflies]

I'll be honest, I will be shocked if it gets renewed for another season or two. The taping schedule on top of the horrible writing is killing the show

[titan1978]

The same Ted Harbert that Chelsea Handler basically portrayed as a fool in one of her books. Before they broke up. I have no faith in his abilities at all.

[DaytimeFan]

Ted Harbert is no joke. He has been a network television executive since the 1980s at ABC and later Comcast. It isn't to say he's brilliant, as we know only too well with Brian Frons many executives tend to fail upwards, but he's very influential. If he wants DAYS dead it will be.

[DRW50]

If Chelsea Handler doesn't like him he can't be all bad.

[soapfan770]

I know Days is in very rough shape but really who would stomach a 5th hour of Today?

[Gray Bunny]

Sad to think that sometime within the next 5-10 years, network daytime television will be a vast wasteland of endless chat-fests, regurgitating silly pop culture gossip that was already discussed on the morning shows (Today, GMA), as well as all the syndicated entertainment news shows of the afternoon and evening and on cable.

Or maybe they'll go back to re-airing reruns of their current sitcoms. Either way, it'll just be a cheap way to fill their line-up as they wait for the evening news and primetime hours.

[dragonflies]

LMAO

[Eric83]

I used to feel the same way but soaps are such cesspools of the same four headwriters bouncing around and same plain actors being stunt casted I don't even care anymore. I prefer online series. Maybe we'll get a sustainable, progressive daytime soap (with new scribes) on Netflix or Hulu in the next decade.

[cassadine1991]

Didn't we have that 2 years ago with AMC and OLTL

[gtru1981]

Soaps are just so BORING! They can't come up with fresh new ideas, it's like the same story lines from 30 years ago.

[Darn]

He said "sustainable progressive soaps", not whatever those things were...