I see that you only report the ratings when gh is on the rise. Where were you when they kept hitting lows 3 weeks in a row?

OK..
here is the bad thing=

”Numbers are based on Live+Same Day ratings. Courtesy SON”

— on live — viewing..

I, as probably a million others do not watch ”live” or same day ..

I am not in the numbers counted 🙁 whaaaa I don’t count 🙁

(imagine the numbers if ALL/EVERYBODY was actually counted..

Bad writing and cheap sets are taking their toll.

days is done! i havnt watchd a full episode in months! their only saving grace will be kirstens return except she s only around for a couple of weeks and there s been next to no promotion for it!
the only storylines im midly invested in is jj and paige, teresa/ brady , and maybe paul and sonny
everything else is ff
days needs some serious 911 if its going to make it to 51. geez

I only watch on days with Serena, Eric, or Theresa. The rest of the show is terrible.

Days best story is Sonny/Will/Paul and unfortunately the only interesting story…unfortunately its too much of a good thing and dominates the show with nothing else waiting in the wings for us fans to look forward to…as for the rest of the show, you have unappealing newbies in unappealing stories…Eve/JJ is a draggy goin nowhere story that could be so much better had Jack been there…Melanie sleepwalks through her storyline and is a complete fail paired with Brady…Teressa’s baby story needs Kristen stat…show needs new characters to refreshen a show but it needs its vets and core family more…bring back Shawn and Belle…or have Shawn missing and have that the reason Bo has been gone—he is searching for his missing son who is witness to a murder…bring back Melissa who has kept a big secret from her cousin Jen…Jens late husband Jack is the father of Melissa’s grown son Nathan…bring back Jack yet again and turn him and Jen into the next generations Tom and Alice…it is possible!!!

I’m very sorry to hear this. I enjoy Days very much, I like the characters and stories. They don’t abruptly stop stories and leave you hanging. The scenes look alive and complete. I understand many long time viewers are dissatisfied because they feel the show’s history is not honored. Since I’ve only watch for a year, I cannot comment on that. I’m sure that would frustrate me if I’d invested decades in watching the show and long time characters development. Since I don’t know anything about the history, I’m just enjoying what I see now. I certainly hope this does not mean that Days is in danger of cancellation.

I do have some suggestions. Give Eve a man to divert her attention from her daughter’s boyfriend. Kassie DePaiva is wonderful. Give her a strong man to work with and you will see magic. The elephant statue thing went on way too long. (You really wasted Melissa Archer. She can do a great job given an storyline with legs.) You should have brought this Zander guy in much sooner. I hope Zander will assist Victor in taking down Clyde. Bring back Kristen. (I do realize Eileen Davidson is a very busy woman.) Rafe needs a storyline. Please develop the relationship between Adrienne and Lucas. And I’m sick of that Nicole. She’s nothing but trouble. She screwed over Eric and now she’s giving Daniel grief. She’s in everybody’s business. A brash character like that does come in handy so I don’t want her gone. Just don’t focus on her so much. I would also like to see Hope and Aiden get involved in a major story. I like them together. I suppose they will be featured when her missing husband shows up for the 50th anniversary. More than that, maybe they could work together on some major crime story.

I’ve been a true fan of DOOL forever, hope NBC doesn’t pull the plug on it, as even though a character or story line doesn’t work, it is entertaining to watch, the actors are true at heart and I will keep tuning in as I always have over the years..

The Sonny/Will/Paul triangle is the only interesting story playing out at the moment and even that storyline is a mess because it’s most important character, Will, is played by an actor who can’t act. Guy Wilson is a horrendous actor and it is unforgivable that he has been subjected upon the viewers as along as he has. The producers need to buy out his contract and get him off the the show before he drives away the show’s remaining viewers.

The show is so boring which is really sad considering how exciting it was in the 80’s & 90’s. I’m afraid even Eileen’s arcs can’t help if the writing is crap. If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage!!!

I actually like some of Days current storylines in addition to Sonny/Paul/Will. I feel bad the the strongest part of the story, Sonny, is leaving. Normally that wouldn’t end a show, but Days is barely hanging on as it is!

I really like Aiden & Hope, but they’re rarely on. I feel like he should be in many sl’s right now, esp since he’s dating Hope and he’s a lawyer. Him & Hope are so charismatic together or apart.

I actually like Molly Burnett a lot so I’m bummed she is leaving, too! I don’t really care for her & Brady together, but it’s not the worst pairing ever. That would be Eve&JJ! Make it stop!!!! Not only does this sl need to go away & fast, I think boring, boring Beige Paige needs to go as well. How can you justify her taking JJ back after all of his trysts with her mom? I like the actress, but I can’t look at Eve now w/o thinking how horrible she is. Who do you pair her with? I think she has to go as well.

Always thought Brady & Theresa belonged together. Love the actress & think she should get MORE sl. Also love Nicole. Not sure who’s idea it was to make Nicole a victim and a back-burner character but fix it fast!

Love the actor who plays Chad, though he seems more Paul’s speed than Abbi’s. That boring Ben or whatever his name is this week & his child rapist dad must go!

1 more thing: Please STOP putting Dr. Dan in every storyline!!! He’s obnoxious & a snob! JJ’s life is only as much of his business as he allows it to be. He needs to step back. Next he will be in the elephant sl since the diamonds are in his fireplace. No doubt he’ll probably be right in the middle of Theresa/Brady baby sl. Mark my words!

Not happy we’ve lost Wally Kurth on GH but Days offered him a contract. It seems they are going to bring back some big, past couples which I think is great. So sick of the random hookups on this show.

I have never watched DOOL..
but
I have read/seen a great effort to save it..
trying new things and bringing in different peoples, cast etc..
At the least they come across as caring and trying to save DOOL ..

Wish it the best ..

1 more thing is if there’s anyway at all they can film closer in than 5 or 6 months that would be great! Also, if there was a place for fans to voice opinions, like on Days FB page. On GH’s page they do have a place for regular comments. GH used to take polls regarding current sl’s. I’d wish all 4 soaps did it, but Days definitely needs to! Let’s save all of our soaps!!!

DAYS is in trouble. It is hard to get through an entire episode. I haven’t watched lately,a complete snoozefest. DAYS is filled with a lot of bad writing right now. I think they waited too long too make a writing change. It won’t be till August till the new material shows up on screen. There’s been little to no promotion of Eileen Davidson’s appearance. I think the 50th is the final chance to save the soap. Renewals up next year. A decision will probably be made on the future of the soap by the end of the year.

I watched Days for years, and I’ve seen my share of bad writing, but never have I seen the actors give up- and that is what has changed for me. It looks like everyone is just phoning it in, they sound more bored than I am watching them. I think something has gone down behind the scenes– perhaps they heard the show will not last pass the 50th so they lost heart I don’t know. All I know is a really bad story or dialogue can become bearable if the actor is trying to lemonade out of lemons, but when they stopped caring then why should I? I don’t blame the actors for the state of the show, but when it affects their performance to the point I can see the decline I know the show is in deep trouble. I will watch because I want to support the genre, but if daytime was really solid with a lot of soaps on the air I wouldn’t give this one the time of day anymore.

I enjoy DAYS and it is hardly done. It lacks an immediacy and some recent stories lack drive. I sense powers that be did not know what to do after Sami and EJ’s departures. There is plenty of talent and some good stories and rich history. Let’s drop the six-month lead time and fly off the cuff some, and focus on vets.

Serena does not come across sincere…or interesting! Give JJ And Paige a serious chance….truth and all.
Also Daniel and Jennifer. Have some true blue happiness that won’t blow up in their faces. There’s plenty of that to go around with Eve, Clyde and Kate, Chad, Serena and Eric. Too much weighing on the relationships going south on this soap. I’ve watched it for decades. And still want it to continue for decades more!

Days is such a “downer” show and it has been for a while now. Nobody is ever happy, everybody is always depressed and crying or comforting someone who is crying and sad or angsty or otherwise generally miserable and/or unhappy. I get that there needs to be that type of drama but soaps are supposed to balance that out with lightness, intrigue, fun, excitement, etc. Days is not a fun show to watch right now and that’s why large swaths of viewers are turning away.

I don’t want to watch a show about a bunch of miserable unhappy people and I don’t know why anyone would. I want to watch a show about people striving for something – not always successfully and with plenty of bumps in the road but at least people who get out of bed every day with a purpose beyond just reacting to the next round of misery sure to come their way.

The show is rubbish without Sami and EJ last big bump was when EJ died in Sami’s arms since then nearly every week been low and i never remembered Days demos to below 500,000 in women 18 to 49 for so long its been nearly two months they been stuck in the 400,000’s. This show needs to fire the most the cast and bring back Ali and James, Blake and ED ones that made the show so great in 2013 to watch.

Days needs to adjust the shooting schedule, to adjust what isn’t working. Eve & JJ, Nicole & Daniel and just about everything else, except the Will/Sonny/Paul storyline. It’s fine to change the head writers and staff, but it won’t matter if you won’t see the changes for six months and by that time, NBC has given up on the show and cancelled it.

Guy Wilson
Shawn Christian
Melissa Reeves

have to go!

they just suck the life out of Salem

I’ve have said it before and this information proves it….Whenever Days focuses on the gay storyline, the ratings drop! What further proof due you need? Many Days fans never wanted a gay storyline in the first place. They went ahead and did it anyway and used two main characters from two of the prominent (relative to the show) families to tell the story. That was was the second mistake – to use characters from the main families. Now the audience hates the storyline. You can write and air it, BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE PEOPLE WATCH IT!!!!!!!

Days should have listened to the fans from the get go and avoided the gay storyline. However, I am also aware that NBC has a say so in what goes on in Salem. I have long suspected that NBC was the driving force behind have a gay storyline on Days. If so, the could have forced the storyline on Corday Productions. Regardless of what the true circumstances were, the outcome is clear – the fans don’t like it!

Now, in order to get rid of the gay storyline, you have to get rid of two main characters from two main families….Characters who fans would greatly appreciate and support as straight characters.

It is not lost on me that the powers that be a NBC are doing whatever they want regardless of what the viewers think about it or are willing to watch. So, let them live with the consequences! I am sure their revenue from advertisements will continue to dwindle as long as they keep pushing homosexuality. How long can that network survive with dwindling revenue?

As a side note, I am still waiting to see how the transgender storyline on CBS will affect the ratings over time. I am also interested in seeing whether or not CBS will be as dogmatic in their support of unpopular stories as NBC has been. I don’t even watch primetime TV on the four major networks anymore, with the exception of DWTS… I think I read an article last year in one of the Entertainment trade magazines, that said revenue from advertising was down for the four major networks. I expect that trend to continue as long as they remain crosswise of the viewership.

I think of ratings dips or risings differently. Who cares? Our soaps are iconic; we lost soaps that were terrific. Networks turned away for economic reasons. I urge my soap peers to avoid posting negative comments. Network directors are looking for reasons to save money. Story lines change and eventually viewers will like them better. Lastly remember soap characters are like our friends. We don’t walk away if they are not perfect. Stay with the soaps. Soooo much better than other programming. Stop the virus called negativity.

They need to shut down filming for four month so that way they don’t film so far in advance; that’s their downfall and they don’t get the proper time to fix the story. That’s their downfall; they can’t keep filming so far in advance.

DAYS is fixing to come to an end if they don’t do something………….This is worrying me!

The whole problem is simple to solve. Ken Corday needs to be removed! He said in interviews that he wanted the audience mad! And well it worked no one wants to watch a show that makes them mad! They watch it to get away from real life. And who in their right mind hires writers that were fired before the writers that we’re just fired were brought in? I have watched for over 20 years and I’m not surprised one bit by the ratings.

Days is in deep trouble and is probably in a race against time, sad to say. Those are ratings akin to what Guiding Light got circa 2008-09 (perhaps even worse) right before CBS/P&G pulled the plug. Like many have noted, it’s absolutely asinine and antiquated that they have filmed the show at least 4-6 months in advance, and it could end up being the fatal blow. The upcoming 50th anniversary is probably going to be the final chance to try to save the show, as the new writers’ material will be airing by the start of fall. I hope I turn out to be wrong, but I personally think they waited too long to make the change. Sony has made such a mess of this once iconic show, and NBC executives surely can’t be happy. Very sad.

I have been watching the show for many years, but stopped cold turkey a few years back when Dr.Dan, Jennifer, Melanie and newbies started taking over. Now with the Sonny/Paul/John story I am back watching but that is the only thing that keeps me tuned in. The rest of the show is dreadful. I think that’s what’s wrong, they only have one good story and when that is not on the show is awful. I couldn’t sit through both Monday and Tuesday’s episodes. You need to focus on the vets if you want to keep the ratings up. Bring back Shawn and Belle, have your storylines revisit history, bring back fun characters like Calliope and Nancy Wesley, update your sets because they are really ugly and cheap looking. Look at what Prospect Park did for All my children and follow suit. They were on a budget but made the show look great. Bring back Salem Place instead of the cheap looking Horton Square.

I love DAYS. And for all the fans who love DAYS, please watch live on TV or same day DVR! Watch consistently every day and you’ll be rewarded…4ever.

I have loved and watched Days for years. They have been in storyline slumps before, but this is an all time worst. First, why is Stefano only filmed in a room by himself? Does the actor refuse to film more frequently? Second, why did Alison Sweeney really leave the show? They really need her. Third- why don’t they pair rup Rafe with someone, put him back on the force, and give him a storyline? Also- they need to do something about the JJ and Melanie story. He is interesting but the story has played on too long, it’s kind of grioss that he slept with her mother TWICE, and there never seems to be a dramatic payoff. Plus the actress is SO boring and she cannot act. speaking of which. The gay storyline is interesting, but GuY Wilson is truly terrible to watch. It is a great story but watching him try to act is almost unbearable. I love that they have given Adrienne a story, buy I wish they would do the same for the legendary Deidre Hall. She is the only one on the show with real star power, and they never use her anymore- and every time Will calls the foever youthful Deidre Hall “grandma” I wanna through the hourglass at my television screen. Also, they need to change the baackground music. There is too much of an electronic sound in the music, and it sounds waaay too generic. They also need to look athe production schedule. They may be saving money by shooting five months in advance. However, in the long run it is just not working. The advance filming leaves no opportunity to fix things that are clearly not working.Finally, they desperately need some real storylines with credible drama. They need writers that understand soap opera and the importance of writing arcs and episodes that keep viewers guessing, which in turn compels them to tune in each and every day. I love Days and ai hope Corday can fix this mess before it is too late.

Ratings started a slow downward spiral shortly after Chandler Massey stopped airing. The downward trend picked up even more after James Scott and Alison Sweeney left. Now as a storyline featuring the worst “actor” (a term I use loosely) Guy WilSon has been front and center the ratings just keep plummeting. When will the producers and management start reading the comments on their face book page and listen to their viewers who used to watch the show and state over and over again that they can’t stomach the non acting of Guy WilSon and do something about recasting Will Horton. What they have is not working, he has been given more than enough time to figure out this role and how to act and he still hasn’t. A main character and a main storyline and it is awful because the actor can’t do the job. The new writers might be able to help but until they get some decent actors to do the stories ratings will just continue to drop.

I think DOOL will get a big makeover to save it..
They are trying by bringing in ”new” writers and ideas. new stuff..

CBS.. B&B and Y&R
ABC.. GH
NBC.. will not let their soap go (bad business..

Days of our lives has been difficult to watch for many years . This soap needs a return to romance , emotion . Bring back the favorites : Patch and Kayla , Kim and Shane , Jack and Jen …You need the action , the mystery , the adventure . The show needs to be lively again instead of being so rigid and so often predictable with the stories. The writers need to inspire themselves from shows like The Young and the restless . Days needs to be more like The Young and the restless . It needs that style , that depth , that substance . Use and preservation of the vets on one hand and a few new characters on the other but once again new characters with depth and substance with a complete and well defined sets of dimensions. Needs to tell socially relevant stories too . To put it simply i would say to the writers to please ” Young and restless ” your ” Days of our lives ” .

I started watching Days when I heard Kassie DePaiva was coming. Wow. Even the great Kassie DePaiva couldn’t save that nutso character she has to play. What is wrong with the writers of DOOL ? Almost every female character they portray is either a stalker or sex starved, or just plain unbelievable. Case in point:

Nicole: Since Dr. Dan told her to take it slow, she has constantly called, texted, or showed up at his door. Are you kidding me? A beautiful woman like that has to come across as the most desperate excuse for a woman?

Eve: Really. She spends her whole day either running after her daughter or her daughter’s boyfriend. She needs to get a life and find a man, not a boy.

Melanie: Oh please. How old is she? 12? I could play the drinking game with how many times we are subjected to the cutsie looks. All she needs to do now is start batting her eyelashes.

Jennifer: Another one who needs a life. What mother makes it her life mission to control their children’s love lives????

Theresa: I love Jen Lilly. However, the character she portrays has the lowest self esteem of anyone I have ever seen. That scene where she gazes longingly at Nicole and Xander says it all.

Of course, every character should have some flaws, otherwise they wouldn’t be interesting. But these charaters are at the farthest end of the spectrum.

I can’t blame them. I shut the show off during the lets kill Jack, and stick every women with the doctor Forgot his name . Loved him as Mike on ATWTs but DOOL has sunk with GH.

I have watched Days for years. I am not gay ** do have friends that are. They are great people. Quit showing them in bed together. I will not expose my Grand children to this. This has helped your rating go sown in our area.

It’s very sad. Some of the stories aren’t that good, some of the actors aren’t that good, but it’s not horrible. I don’t like Guy Wilson as Will. I don’t like Paul as John’s son. Why is Rafe relegated to managing a bar? The whole Jordan-Clyde-Ben story and characters are awful. Killing EJ was bad too. Lucas and Adrienne don’t look good together. It just gives me the willies seeing them in bed and together. Maybe because they are long-term characters/actors. I don’t know, but they just don’t match. There are a lot of things that need to be fixed. I hope that they are doing that.

Horrible writing and lack of interesting stories make Days a very BORING soap to watch. I stopped watching when EJAMI left, but started again about 6 weeks ago. It is just AWFUL in my opinion. I stopped watching again and this time for good, unless they being back EJ. The lack of Dimera family has left a HUGE VOID. Chad is NOT the answer, especially alone.

I haven’t watched in weeks-ton of episodes on my DVR that I have no desire to watch. Saddens me; because, two years+ ago-I was an avid watcher when Kristen returned the first time.

Days fans I would not hold my breath at Dena Higley & Josh Griffith turning this around. Dena has written for Days before these are recycled writers. Also why don’t you read about how she did damage to OLTL wrote for them 2004/2007 ask Erika Slezak who God bless her had the love for the show to be honest about it. Daytime needs a breath of fresh air some new blood. Guiding Light’s ratings were 1.7 and they were axed Days are 1.6. . As for the storylines you don’t want grandchildren seeing why are they watching daytime dramas? I have not watched since we had Marlena going around as the Devil. Good Luck to you but I think this is Days Swan Song!!

This is a shame because DAYS is on fiyah right now!! I live in Canada and the show airs a day ahead so I just watched Tuesday’s episode. No soap does emotional fallout better than Days. The writing was sophisticated and emotional and hearkened back to classic soap opera. No gunshots….no violence…no evil twins….just pure melodrama at its finest. And the acting…..Deidre Hall was sublime and understated but so powerful. This show has its groove back and is in fine form as we head towards the 50th.

Days needs to be Cancelled!!!!!!! Awful Soap Opera, castdont have chemistry together.. One look at it, no interest in this crumble set unwatchable show 🙂

Wow I haven’t watched days in years I have a friend that is a loyal fan of this show and they did tell me that besides one storyline on the show the rest is not good Just reading these comments I had no idea they filmed 5months in advance wow. Now I’m a huge B&B fan and there scheduling is only like 2months which does give the show enough time to pull the plug on something if it isn’t working which they have done in the past. Yeah I don’t want to speak for other people because this soap is obviously still very important to people but they need to stop filming at least for a few months so they can work out what needs to happen to get the soap back where it should be. Even if I’m not a dedicated viewer of DOOL I still want it to do well there are only 4 soaps left. Y&R , B&B are fine but I have to admit over the last few years I’ve been worried about DOOL & GH I actually thought they might cancel GH at one point so I’m glad they didn’t but DOOL needs to make some changes it would seem

They need to keep exciting characters and stop pushing the bores (Jennifer, Paige, Hope, whatever Hope’s boyfriends’ name is) down our throats! They need to do anything they can to keep Serena and Sonny! The Sonny/Will and Eve/anyone scenes are the best and most exciting. they could do so much with an exciting character like Serena too. It’s time to keep moving and if a character (Jennifer or actress Melissa) isn’t working, change it! I’m ready to stop watching myself!

DAYS has since went up and GH went down.

Have not watched very much in awhile, so not sure of everything that is going on, but ”popped’ in for a short time the other day when I happened to be home – the Hope/Aiden scene was cute (Aiden is adorable), Lucas and Kate were good, Nicole and Daniel had some sizzle, Rafe is so handsome and well suited to run the club, and Victor is always good – he is an anchor. With all of this said, some of the characters and actors can give some good soapy stuff, so it is now up to the writers to give them storylines that make you want to watch. Look forward to the Days 50 celebrations, but concerned they may not be renewed after that is over. Come on Days we are pulling for you to step up to the plate and give us the romance and intrigue that will make us want to watch again.

Days over exposure of the dreary lackluster and constantly popped Daniel while turning it back on characters that had character and the very concept of romantic stories killed ratings as did the producer who disses the super couples

To increase interest in the show, Days could challenge its writers to create the Sonix articles which Will supposedly wrote about Sami, EJ, Chad, and Paul Nurita. Why not? It could be fun. Days could publish the fabulous articles on its website, with supposed permission from Sonix. Since it’s fiction, the articles could be as scandalous as the writers want to make them.

And of course, for heaven’s sake, pay whatever is required to bring Chandler Massey back to the show.

Shows that got cancelled, like All My Children, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, all had prominent gay storylines towards their end, similar to Days and if this kind of story is a contributing factor to dismal ratings – I am really disappointed because there aren’t strong characters as Bianca Montgomery, Luke Snyder or Will Horton on Australian TV.

What hurts days of our lives is casting changes. It was hard to watch for a while when all the old characters where written off or quit. The new characters have no real ties to salem. I have been watching days for at least 30 years. When the old characters come back they have no storylines or they only make brief appearances. Don’t bring them back for just a month if they don’t have any intentions of staying don’t bring them back at all, as it is disheartening to fans. Or recast their roles. What about Drake the character of John black is half written. Fans were on the edge of their seats waiting to see were he came from and exactly what his ties to stephano were. How many years ago ? Also the story of Ej and Abby and the pregnancy scare. Really odd writing. I mean why bother if their was no story connected to it, or will I be dead before its finshes.

Also, you need to think about the fact that their are not as many house wives as their uses to be. Most family’s have 2 working parents. I have to watch through the abc app. I wish days came on at night. I Don’t want to see my favorite show canceled.