Twenty of the current contract cast members have been with the show, off-and-on, since at least Guest cast members have included Elizabeth Alley. In late , the show reintroduced actress Eileen Davidson in the role of Kristen Blake DiMera after a fourteen-year absence. In mid , the show debuted new characters such as JJ Deveraux and Theresa Donovan to appeal to younger viewers.
In celebration of the soap's fiftieth anniversary in , several cast members returned to the soap, including Peter Reckell , Stephen Nichols and Penghlis. The co-creator and original executive producer, Ted Corday , was only at the helm for eight months before dying of cancer in His widow, Betty , was named executive producer upon his death.
She continued in that role, with the help of H. Wesley Kenney and Al Rabin as supervising producers, before she semi-retired in Corday semi-retired in , and later died in , her son, Ken, became executive producer and took over the full-time, day-to-day running of the show.
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The first long-term head writer, William J. Bell , started writing for Days of Our Lives in and continued until , a few years after he had created his own successful soap, The Young and the Restless. He stayed with the show as a story line consultant until During the late s and early s, many writing changes occurred. In the early s, Margaret DePriest helped stabilize the show with her serial killer story line.
Later head writers, such as Sheri Anderson , Thom Racina , and Leah Laiman , built on that stability and crafted story lines of their own, temporarily bringing up ratings. Many writing changes occurred after Laiman left the series in and would not become stable again until James E. Reilly started with the show in His tenure, which lasted for four-and-a-half years, was credited with bringing ratings up to the second place spot in the Nielsens. Other writers who succeeded him, such as Sally Sussman Morina and Tom Langan , failed to keep the ratings success, and another writer turnover continued until Reilly returned to the series in Five-time Daytime Emmy winner Hogan Sheffer was named head writer with great fanfare in October , but lasted less than 16 months with the show, with his last episode airing in January Former head writer Dena Higley 's first episode aired on April 23, On May 18, , Dena Higley was fired.
Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell were hired for the position. The change took effect on February 16, In August , reports stated that Higley would be taking a leave of absence from the show. In her place, Sony would be sending a writer from The Young and the Restless to help Griffith with the transition.
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The writer was later revealed to be former head writer Beth Milstein. In February , several days after the show was renewed for another year, Soap Opera Digest exclusively reported that Griffith has departed the show as head writer with Higley remaining; they further revealed that script writer Ryan Quan has been promoted to replace Griffith. According to the report, Quan was given a new title of Creative Consultant, while Higley was let go all-together. In addition to Carlivati's appointment, it was also announced that Anderson would return to the soap, sharing the role of Creative Consultant with Quan.
For its first three years on the air, Days of Our Lives was near the bottom of the Nielsen ratings, and close to cancellation. However, its ascent to the top was rapid; as the TV season ended, it became an effective tool of NBC, which attempted to dethrone daytime leader CBS. Due to the success of the program, it expanded from a half-hour to one hour on April 21, This expansion had followed the lead of Another World, which became TV's first-ever hour-long soap on January 6, three and a half months earlier.
Further, Days of Our Lives' new starting time of 1: However, this first golden period for NBC daytime proved to be short-lived, as Days of Our Lives' ratings began to decline in Much of the decline was due to ABC's expansion of its increasingly popular soap All My Children to a full hour, the last half of which overlapped with the first half of Days of Our Lives By January , the network, in a mode of desperation more than anything else, decided to jump headlong against AMC and moved the show ahead to the same 1: However, the entire NBC soap lineup was in ratings trouble.
The "supercouple" era of the s, however, helped bring about a ratings revival, and the — season saw Days of Our Lives experience a surge in ratings. It held onto its strong numbers for most of the s, only to decline again by , eventually falling back into eighth place. In the mids, however, the show experienced a resurgence in popularity and the show reached number two in the ratings, where it remained for several years before experiencing another ratings decline beginning in , the year that Days of Our Lives became NBC's longest-running daytime program upon the cancellation of Another World.
Throughout the s decade , Days of Our Lives and all the other remaining network daytime serials have witnessed a steady erosion of viewers, mainly due to vastly altered viewing habits induced by cable networks and alternative genres such as reality and talk shows on minor network affiliates. The show, which was averaging a 2. In an April interview with Soap Opera Digest , executive producer Ken Corday commented on the ratings decline of the previous months, "If I don't pay attention to the ratings and what the viewers are saying, I'm an ostrich.
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I have not seen a decline in the ratings on the show this precipitous — ever. I've never seen this much of a percentage decline. Days of Our Lives had finished the television season with a substantial increase in viewers 3. It was the 2 daytime program behind The Young and the Restless in the much coveted demographic.
During the first few months of the season, Days of Our Lives increased its average household rating to 2. It was only one point behind the 2 daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful , and has beat that soap on several days during the season. In , Days of Our Lives continued to increase viewership, reaching as high as 3. A substantial increase in viewership such as Days of Our Lives has had lately also bucks the viewership trend in daytime dramas, which had declined since the s for all other daytime drama series.
Days of Our Lives was the only daytime drama series to increase in viewers between and and had reduced its operating budget, making it a profitable asset to NBC's broadcast line-up. However starting in , Days of Our Lives started to lose ground significantly to the point that it sometimes occupied the last position among all soaps for both total viewership and the women demographic.
The cancellation of All My Children on ABC combined with the return of several cast members allowed a brief resurgence of Days of Our Lives in October , but ratings soon declined again. In December before the cancellation of One Life to Live , Days of Our Lives recorded three consecutive weeks of new lows in the women key demo category, [94] [95] [96] [97] and again another consecutive three weeks of low ratings in the same demographic during March—April As of , Days of Our Lives generally ranks 3 among the four daytime soap operas on the air when it comes to the total number of viewers surpassing only General Hospital.
Some Central Time Zone affiliates carry it at noon with the main Eastern feed, such as Green Bay, Wisconsin 's WGBA-TV , which uses it as an alternative to programming what would likely be a low-rated local newscast against long-established local competition. However, the program received schedule and station shifts with the start of the television season.
With the cancellation of Passions , Days is now NBC's last remaining daytime soap opera, as well as the network's last remaining daytime program. End of season number of metered viewers listed as a Nielsen share in millions and ranking against other soap operas from the first broadcast to the reporting week of August 24 to August 28, Throughout Canada, Days of Our Lives currently airs either at 1: In Barbados the show was very popular, though it ran several years behind the U. In , the channel dropped the series.
Currently it airs at 3: In Australia, Days of Our Lives was initially broadcast on the Nine Network from March 25, , until April 26, , when the network axed the show based on a commercial decision. A New Day , which summarized four years of storylines and caused mixed feelings among regular viewers. On June 17, , Days of Our Lives resumed to Australian viewers free and on-demand through Sony's Crackle service, as well as across Crackle's web apps on mobile devices, connected TVs and game consoles.
In order to bring TV viewers up to date, Arena screened ten catch up episodes, each presented by Days of Our Lives cast members, from April 1 to April 14, , featuring key story lines missed during the month Australian television hiatus. Originally airing weekdays on TV2 was shifted to TV One in , where it was put in a 2pm time slot.
The soap was approximately five seasons behind the NBC season due to being preempted by holiday and sporting programming. Despite a national petition from fans Days of Our Lives ended on May 19, On February 27, , nearly three years the series' final broadcast on TVNZ, ChoiceTV announced their decision to pick up the series; the series began broadcasting on March 11, , weekdays at 1: Broadcasting began with the series' 46th season —12 , meaning the show would be only 18 months behind the current NBC season in the US.
ChoiceTV also re-airs the last five aired episodes shown as an omnibus catch up edition each Sunday, beginning at 9 AM NZST, when due to government broadcasting restrictions [] are shown without advertisements. By December 20, , ChoiceTV had removed the show from their schedule for summer hiatus.
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However, the series resumed airing on February 10, [] from episode 11, Channel 5 aired episodes of Days of our Lives in the United Kingdom from March to April , eventually pulling it off the air; network executives deemed its audience of , viewers as too low a figure. Days of Our Lives became available to viewers again in the United Kingdom in ; CBS Drama ended the run after relegating the show from daytime to 1.
Almost unmodified since the show's debut in , the title sequence of Days of Our Lives features an hourglass, with sand slowly trickling to the bottom against the backdrop of a partly cloudy sky, [] as well as the trademark voiceover, "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives. Thomas Horton from the show's premiere until the actor's death from lung cancer. At intermission between and , his voice would also say "We will return for the second half of Days of Our Lives in just a moment".
The only major visual change to the title sequence was in when the show began using a CGI animated hourglass and backdrop. Beginning with the November 8, episode, there were slight changes to the coloring of the sky background in the sequence now being displayed in However, there was very little change in the sequence's appearance from the version. The show has had many high-profile fans. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Days of Our Lives disambiguation. Present cast Former cast. Days of Our Lives cast members. Days of Our Lives producers and writers.
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