When the Cheshire emerges...

The biggest news of the day (in Australia): Days of our Lives is being canned by Nine. Yeah, Adam Scott won the US Masters and that's pretty awesome, but Days is leaving free-to-air television after 45 years. WOAH.

Daytime TV will never be the same again.

On free-to-air anyway... this is a real game-changer.


My history with Days stems back to countless holidays watching it with my yiayia at her house, getting caught up in what I thought were daring (and scary) storylines of how Marlena was possessed by the Devil and Stefano DiMera was wreaking havoc across all of Salem.

There was Kristen DiMera, who suffered a miscarriage in secret and pretended to still be pregnant with John's child to keep John away from Marlena. Oh, and Hope being brainwashed into thinking she was a princess.

After losing touch, I rejoined the storyline in  high school/uni years with mum - Bo and Hope's endless dramas were still ongoing with new kids popping up on the scene, and then there was the mega episode fast-forwarding about three-and-a-half years as Nine decided to get us closer than the four-year gap we'd always had from the US airings. Can you believe it, for the longest time we were FOUR years behind.

I kept up with it for a while, but eventually I let it go once again.

Now the days are coming to an end after 45 years. 45 YEARS. With any luck a Foxtel channel will pick it up like with The Young and the Restless - and what a furore that caused. My yiayia is yet to find out, and I know when my mum tells her she will be devastated (keep in mind that she wouldn't understand about 95 per cent of the dialogue because of her minimal English).

As will many mothers and (apparently) uni students. What will Nine's daytime programming become? What will free-to-air daytime TV in Australia become?

What will fill the void that was once our security blanket, there whenever we needed it?

For those who watch it: what's been your favourite Days of our Lives storyline?
(There are so many good ones *sniff*)

I think I might have to watch on April 26 when it apparently has its last day...