DAYS OF OUR LIVES Moves to Peacock From NBC on September 12

[Faulkner]

[GLATWT88]

The platform is gonna be dead before Days even makes it on there

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[Vee]

Reminds me of a terrible old commercial jingle: "$1.99, are you out of your mind?!"

[Soapsuds]

Makes me want to cancel my subscription and sign up again in mid to late September.

It's obvious they are desperate. I'm surprised they didn't do .99 cents.

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[Vee]

This, the DAYS move and the just-announced Halloween Ends simultaneous streaming release with theaters are all moves to desperately shore up the service.

[Soapsuds]

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[teplin]

Oh, I don't know if I'd characterize it as "desperate." Hulu offered a 99 cents a month deal last December (following a $1.99 a month deal the Xmas season before). They have a heck of a lot more subscribers than Peacock.

I think this and the Halloween Ends news are positive for DAYS.

[TEdgeofNight]

Someone correct me but I haven't seen ANY mention of DAYS OF OUR LIVES in Peacock's bid to lower their price and get eyeballs to their network. Days is as good as dead. There isn't any cross promotion and no mention of Days coming over from NBC. The vast majority of Days viewers will just think that the show was cancelled and not know that it is on Peacock, who is not promoting the show. This has been handled so badly from the start. Bye, Days.

[dragonflies]

HULU does this every year for Black Friday

[Errol]

 

It's desperation. HBO Max is doing something similar through the end of October as well. Both need subscribers. Both are hemorrhaging money for their corporate owners, although Peacock is in a worse position than HBO Max is. At least HBO Max is getting rebranded by next summer and will be merging with Discovery+, double pumping the content available and long-term expectations from Warner Bros. Discovery. 

Peacock needs to build a successful service ASAP because once their Disney deal is up in 2024 they'll be without the extra income from Hulu which is far more successful than Peacock. The removal of NBCUniversal-owned content off of Hulu to Peacock is being done to drive up subscriptions which makes sense but people aren't subscribing fast enough.

[Vee]

Speaking of poor HBO Max which has been shat on by Discovery, it gets better/worse over there:

 

[Taoboi]

Well that's sad to hear since I saw the trailer to DON'T WORRY DARLING last night and immediately was looking forward to it. 

 

BLACK ADAM...not so much...DC's whole movie schedule suuure has turned into a real clustrerfrell hasn't it? 

[dragonflies]

HBO MAX Is in trouble cause the asshat they hired is getting rid of everything, they're like billions in the hole cause of this guy 

[Soapsuds]

So has anything been said about the move to peacock on days? Now would be the time to say something and add the $1.99 promo for peacock. 

What are they waiting for?

Edited August 24, 2022 by Soapsuds

[Vee]

It's apparently because of all Discovery's added debt since the merger, not that WB was making brilliant choices beforehand. What a disaster.