Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So's The Whole Cast.

The whole current cast of the iconic soap opera Days Of Our Lives has been fired. The show will go on indefinite hiatus at the end of November, which means it may or may not return in 2020. It's one of only four soaps still on the air, and the only one left on NBC. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Considering the direction of soap operas and scripted shows these days, it wouldn't shock me if the show will be cancelled in 2020, and the days of their lives will finally reach the end.

And just to clarify, the cast has not been fired by definition of "fired". When people are "fired" by definition, they would have to do something very unlawful, very disturbing, or unethical. If anything, "laid off" is the proper term.

If Days gets cancelled, it will be the first daytime soap to get axed since the demise of "One Life to Live" - that soap was cancelled in 2012, and that was such a long time ago.

The last two daytime soaps to end - "One Life to Live", and "All My Children", each ended their runs on a disturbing note, including Erica Kane getting shot on the finale of "All My Children" and someone having been kidnapped on the "One Life to Live" finale. Sounds like a case of those series' writers venting their anger, since they would be out of a job.

Or, perhaps, setting up some following movies (made for TV or otherwise) to resolve the issues. Did Erica Kane die in that finale?

I know all my dearly departed grandmothers and similar folks would be tearing their hair out now, given all the Soaps disappearing. They thrived on them....

I realize a possible reason for the indefinite hiatus for production. Could it have to do with uncertainty of how long the Trump impeachment coverage might last? If so, I can expect other daytime programming to follow suit. Not just soaps, but game shows and talk shows as well.

I'm NO Fan of Soap Operas...but the way these shows are going...Soap Operas during the afternoon may be another dead genre, like the prime-time variety/sketch show.

Personally, the way the TV landscape is headed, it's going to be nothing but news, talk shows, and game shows on the big three networks on a daily basis.

Daytime soaps mostly appealed to grandparents and great-grandparents, many of whom are now deceased. I am thinking the entire cast wanted money the producers were unable to afford. If the cast were unionized, they would probably go on strike, but nowadays strikes fail.