I hate to break this to all of you housewives who watch “Days of Our Lives” but it seems that the town of Salem just lost Marlena (aka “Doc”) and John. Yes, the show’s most popular actors, Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn, got the axe on Wednesday. Sources say it won’t be long before soaps disappear altogether.

This is rough news if you watch the show, I’m sure. Worse is that ironing your husband’s work shirts while chit-chatting on the telephone during afternoons will never be the same.