https://tvline.com/news/days-of-our-lives-renewed-season-61-peacock-new-episodes-1235373512/#:~:text=Executive Editor&text=Peacock is putting more sand,the 10 most-watched titles.

Deadline: https://deadline.com/2024/11/days-of-our-lives-renewed-season-61-peacock-1236164834/

More to come per the TvLine article... 

Edited November 1, 20241 yr by te.

7 minutes ago, te. said:

Peacock only has around 1.2% of the market share and is really only beating P+ and Pluto TV. 

Mind you D+ only has ~2% and Hulu ~3%. So it's tight between non-Netflix streamers. 

 

This is the closest chart from June I could find from a quick Google: 

 

Regardless, something's gotta give eventually and these streamers will eventually fold into each other at least those with a pay tier that's losing money. I guess stuff like Tubi and Pluto might not since they're FAST, but at the same time Pluto is from Viacom and could just fold into being a free tier of P+...

Well, truthfully, neither Peacock nor Paramount+ were real stable in my usage of them until.. maybe two or three months ago, lmao, so maybe that caused some issues? Supposedly, Peacock added 2.8 million subscribers during the first week of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

And, according to Sportico (with citing to Antenna), Comcast stated that Peacock had 33 million paid subscribers in a recent filing. Again, not concrete. And Paramount+ is down 68.4 million (as of June 30, 2024).

THR - they lost 1/2 Billion dollars in the last three months, but the good news was that it was less than the $565 million they lost in the 3^rd quarter of 2023 - which means that they lose 2 Billion Dollars a year

Peacock Loss Narrows to $436M as Revenue Rises, Subs Jump to 36M on Paris Olympics Boost

October 31, 2024 4:06am

Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s entertainment unit NBCUniversal, grew its third-quarter revenue and narrowed its loss to $436 million from a loss of $565 million in the year-ago period,

Edited November 2, 20241 yr by j swift

Why don't they just put DAYS back on NBC? NBC isn't really broadcasting anything in the daytime, and the show still conforms to broadcast standards.  

Just now, Jdee43 said:

Why don't they just put DAYS back on NBC? NBC isn't really broadcasting anything in the daytime, and the show still conforms to broadcast standards.  

At this point, that'll never happen. The time slot went back to the broadcasters.

4 hours ago, Liberty City said:

At this point, that'll never happen. The time slot went back to the broadcasters.

Exactly. Affiliates control the slot now from my understanding, so the best NBC could do is offer it up as an alternative. Risk is its broadcast ratings would be even more awful because the national coverage wouldn't be great.

9 hours ago, te. said:

Exactly. Affiliates control the slot now from my understanding, so the best NBC could do is offer it up as an alternative. Risk is its broadcast ratings would be even more awful because the national coverage wouldn't be great.

Exactly, and if it's actively in the top ten on Peacock on a weekly basis, then it's clearly having substantial enough success that the platform is keeping it around. Yes, multi-year renewals were nice but this is one-year extension on the final year of renewal we're already in. It's a promising sign of things to [hopefully] come.

On 11/1/2024 at 10:55 PM, te. said:

This means DAYS will at least have survived four years on streaming and considering almost everyone thought this was just a way to dump the show before cancellation that's pretty good. I'd assume the biggest danger to it being cancelled at this point is Peacock folding/merging with another streamer and it doesn't fit with the new vision.

With that said, considering how much these streamers pay for eight episode series, DAYS producing so many episodes for a fraction of that sum and drawing people into the app on a daily basis must seem pretty good.

It's incredible bang for the buck and why I think CBS greenlit Beyond The Gates - soaps produce an incredible amount of content on a comparably shoestring budget. Plus, when Hollywood went on strike, the soaps kept going because of the separate contract.

I think if Peacock folded, the show has proven its value and would find a home elsewhere. That's the upside of streaming, you aren't locked into a timeslot and therefore not really locked into a 'channel'. 

6 hours ago, DaytimeFan said:

It's incredible bang for the buck and why I think CBS greenlit Beyond The Gates - soaps produce an incredible amount of content on a comparably shoestring budget. Plus, when Hollywood went on strike, the soaps kept going because of the separate contract.

I think if Peacock folded, the show has proven its value and would find a home elsewhere. That's the upside of streaming, you aren't locked into a timeslot and therefore not really locked into a 'channel'. 

Hopefully it never gets to that.

Days’ 60th anniversary falls on a Sunday next year, so no anniversary episode on the actual anniversary.

Then, in June 2026, we get to celebrate Queen Dee’s fiftieth anniversary!! 🥰 They better go all out  and bring back Eileen, Christie, Andrea, and Alison. Bonus points if they can somehow borrow Kirsten Storms and Jensen Ackles for a day. Tracey E. Bregman reprising Donna Temple Craig for a couple of episodes would be a great way to bring Marlena’s Don years into the mix. 

The top-rated show last week on Peacock, per new Luminate data: DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Season 60. Yes, a 60 year old daytime soap.

— Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) November 13, 2024

Its interesting to me that the show got a nice bit of press these last couple of weeks with Drake’s death, Day of Days etc and ended up becoming Peacocks top rated series. None of the streamers ever talk up the numbers for the soaps and I think its a shame because the shows are clearly performing well.