‘Days of Our Lives’ Switches to NBC’s Peacock

An era is coming to an end at NBC.

days of our lives, the longest-running entertainment series the network has ever aired, will leave the network in September. It will make its new home on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform starting September 12.

NBC will fill vacant vacancy by Days NBC daily news, an hour-long show hosted by Kate Snow, Aaron Gilchrist, Vicky Nguyen and Morgan Radford. Members will also have the option to add local news by the hour.

“This programming change will benefit both Peacock and NBC and reflects our broader strategy of leveraging our portfolio to maximize reach and strengthen relationships with viewers,” said Mark Lazarus, president of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, in a statement. “In a large percentage days of our lives With audiences already watching digitally, this move allows us to build a loyal fan base of the show on the air, while enhancing the network’s daytime offering to partners and customers with an immediate opportunity for live programming.

library episodes days of our lives broadcast on Peacock, and the service also hosts two miniseries (with subtitles beyond Salem) last year.

The series, produced by Corday Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television, is in the midst of a two-season order that will run through the 2022-23 season. The upcoming season will be the 58th, making it the second-longest-running drama in American television history after ABC. General Hospital. days will happen guiding lightwhich also ran for 57 seasons in the fall.

days was the least watched of the four-day dramas on the broadcast network last season, averaging about 1.7 million viewers a day on NBC (an average that doesn’t include any increase in airplay). That’s about half of the best soap opera, CBS’ young and restless (3.47 million), will be drawn daily. Converting some of those viewers into Peacock subscribers (or keeping their business) would be a boost for the streamer, whose paid subscribers were steady at 13 million (with 28 million active accounts) in Q2.

Executive Producer by Ken Corday days of our livesand Albert Allari is executive producer. The head writer is Ron Carlivati.

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