General Hospital
Donna Mills Reveals Some More Intel On Her General Hospital Character Of Madeline Reeves!

Photo Credit: Getty Images
The highly anticipated debut of Donna Mills on General Hospital happened on last Friday’s episode of General Hospital and continued today on the ABC soap opera.
The Knots Landing favorite, who GH head writer Ron Carlivati and executive producer Frank Valentini, sought after to play the role of Madeline Reeves who is the mother of never-before-seen or yet to be seen, Nina comes to Port Charles and wants to get her hands on all of Nina’s fortune! She believes Nina’s hubby, Silas (Michael Easton) administered the drugs that put Nina into a coma 20 years ago, and so does Madeline’s son, Nathan West (Ryan Paevey)! Yup, that’s right!
Donna Mills spoke with TV Guide Magazine’s Michael Logan to give some insight into her new character and some of the back-story, and what to look for during her, for now, two month story arc!
Mills related on Madeline’s story: “As I read the scripts, I keep going, ‘Really? Really?’ Madeline believes Silas married Nina for her money and family name. He didn’t want a wife, he wanted a scholarship fund. Now he’s a successful doctor and doesn’t need the money.”
But as we have come to find out, Madeline wants the moolah,and Mills added: “She is feeling kind of paranoid. Her husband died and left her and her son absolutely nothing. All the money went to Nina. So now it’s Madeline’s mission to get Silas to give up that inheritance.”
As for Madeleine’s son. Nathan, Mills revealed: “She’s very happy that Nathan has chosen to avenge his sister and that he’s trying to pin it on Silas, but she doesn’t like that he became a cop in order to do it. Madeline considers police work a very lowly, undignified profession. It’s so beneath her stature! She’s very complicated. Very screwed up. And I can’t wait to unravel the mystery as to why her husband left her without a cent.”
So what do you think of the storyline that brings Donna Mills to the Port Charles canvas? Are you looking forward to seeing how this plays out? Let us know!
General Hospital
RATINGS: ‘General Hospital’ Shows Most Gains in Total Viewers Week-Over-Week and Up in Key Demo

The ratings are out for the week of August 24-28 for your favorite broadcast television soaps, and it was ABC’s General Hospital which added the most total viewers and planted itself firmly in third place in its battle with Beyond the Gates in the key demos of women 18-49 and 25-54.
According to Soap Opera Network, all daytime dramas were up year-over-year, and General Hospital was joined by The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful with gains in their total audience viewership, while Beyond the Gates was only slightly off pace for the ratings week.
Let’s take a look at what had viewers tuning-in, starting with General Hospital, who added +79,000 viewers. While still under the 2 million viewers mark (which they can hopefully return in the coming weeks) their overall tally was an average of 1, 935,000 tuning-in, while still up year-to-year +136,000.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
In addition, GH while actually down from the previous week in the 18-49 ratings share, they still out performed Beyond the Gates for third place. However, GH was firmly in third place for the 25-54 ratings share.
The stories that were featured for the week included: Anna’s (Finola Hughes) PTSD and struggle with painful memories tied to Cesar Faison, and her concocting a plan to get rid of Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) recording Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) threatening her, and later running into a severe threat from Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) regarding Kai (Jens Austin Astrup) and Drew’s (Cameron Mathison) shooting, and Drew enlisting Ava (Maura West) to gain leverage over Jack, which resulted in Ava drugging him, while Drew went snooping for the evidence Brennan had against him.

Photo: JPI
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Y&R remained in the top spot amongst all the soaps once again with 3,062,000 tuning in, and up +35,000 for the week, while year-to-year still showing strong gains at +231,000 viewers. However, while Y&R remained #1 for the 25-54 ratings share, it fell to #2 in the 18-49 ratings share behind The Bold and the Beautiful.
In story for the week, Nick’s (Joshua Morrow) sobriety in rehab was a focus, as was Victoria (Amelia Heinle) and Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) hitting the Jabot office couch and having sex for the first time, and Lily (Christel Khalil) and Billy (Jason Thompson) battling over control and ownership of Chancellor Industries.

Photo: JPI
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
B&B is continuing to be inch closer to Y&R for the top spot, separated by a little more than 300,000 viewers. For the ratings week, the series posted a total audience of 2,719,000 adding +31,000 eyeballs overall, and like Y&R, is up year-to-year in its performance.
The CBS soap now , now in its 40th season is +217,000 from the same time last year. In the key demos, The Bold and the Beautiful was in the top spot for the women 18-49 ratings share and number two for women 25-54.
In story, the major threat to Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Daphne’s (Murielle Hilaire) marriages continued as Steffy and Carter swore they would not tell their spouses that the two had a drunken hook-up. But as viewers know now, Steffy is pregnant!

Photo: CBS
BEYOND THE GATES
Beyond the Gates tallied an average of 1,611,000 total viewers for the week, up +72.000 year-over-year and down slightly in tune-in for the week losing just -36,000 viewers. The CBS soap came in fourth place in the key demos for the week behind General Hospital, with whom they are often trading places for the third spot.
In story, after Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett) was released from the hospital, Hayley (Marquita Goings) stuck to her plan, doubling down on poisoning him and even getting caught in a major lie or meeting with Randy (Maurice P. Kerry), as Vernon (Clifton Davis) may be on to her machinations.
The ratings report is generated from Nielsen (Live+Same Day Big Data + Panel) for the week of August 24-28, 2026
So, what did you think of the performance of General Hospital for the ratings period? Which daytime drama has you most likely to tune-in each day? Which has you tuning-out? Let us know what’s working, or not working for you in story, via the comment section below.
General Hospital
Kelly Sullivan Gives High Praise to ‘General Hospital’s’ Maura West Recalling When Ava Shot Connie (Exclusive)

It was just over 13 years ago on General Hospital when Ava Jerome (Maura West) shot and killed Kate Howard/Connie Falconeri (Kelly Sullivan) in an effort to keep her quiet from revealing that Derek Wells was actually Ava’s back-from-the-dead brother, Julian Jerome (William deVry). It’s a crime that somehow Ava never has quite paid for either.
The episode back aired on August 13, 2013 and viewers had to say goodbye to Kelly Sullivan who played Kate and her alter, Connie. In the story, just before she died, Kate/Connie scrawled the letters AJ in her own blood, initially making the PCPD and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) think that it was AJ Quatermaine (Sean Kanan) who did the deed.
Now, Sullivan recalled sharing scenes with the three-time Daytime Emmy-winning West, during a live conversation on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel. Kelly was the special guest talking about her recent return to the soaps in her new role as The Bold and the Beautiful’s Darcy Dylan.

Photo: JPI
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MAURA WEST
Speaking of her final GH scenes and working with Maura West, Sullivan gave her then GH co-star major props. “If you’re going to be shot by somebody (on the soaps), you want to be shot by Maura West, c’mon!”
Maura West debuted back in May 2013 as Ava, and Sullivan remembered when the As the World Turns favorite began on GH. “I remember when Maura West first arrived at GH. She walked in with this cute little bob (hairdo) and she’s just delicious,” shared Sullivan.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Kelly revealed more about Maura, adding “I think she’s amazing! I remember right before I left the show, someone suggested, and I would still love to do this with her, if she ever want to, but someone suggested that they wanted to direct the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire with Maura and I, where I would play Stella and she would play Blanche! Wouldn’t that be great?”
Speaking of the Ava/Connie showdown scenes, Sullivan expressed, “On television and on General Hospital specifically, Maura West is able to play a character who does the most horrendous things and you still care about her and that’s the mark of a really great actor. In other words, you’re able to be liked in the midst of the most horrendous things, and as a performer not shying away from that, and to just have the courage to do what’s on the page (in the script).”

Photo: JPI
KELLY SULLIVAN PARTING THOUGHTS AS SHE LEFT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Kelly also shared her sentiments when she walked off the set of General Hospital after her run back in August of 2013. “I really was honored. Every day I would go to work and I would say a little prayer, which is I want to do justice for my character, explained Kelly. “It’s between me and my character. I get to walk this path with her and to leave the show on that note, which is, I left every out there. I just gave it my all and again what an honor it was to play Kate/Connie.”
You can catch the full conversation with Kelly where she talks about her time on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless where she played Sage Warner and now The Bold and the Beautiful below.
So, do you remember the Ava and Connie scenes where Ava shot and killed her? What did you think of Kelly Sullivan’s sentiments about Maura West? Share your thoughts via the comment section. But first, watch the reveal where Ava recalls murdering Connie below!
General Hospital
Steve Burton Reportedly Signs Three-Year Contract with ‘General Hospital’

The question of will Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) stay awhile at General Hospital after his recent extended hiatus from the show earlier this year, has reportedly been answered.
TMZ via court documents obtained in Burton’s ongoing legal battle with his ex-wife Sheree Gustin, shared that Steve actually inked a new three year deal with the ABC soap opera back in June.
That is significant because it was June when Burton returned back to work as Jason. In addition, the court filing confirmed that Burton had already moved back to California from Tennessee.

Photo: ABC
STEVE’S HIATUS AND HIS RETURN TO PORT CHARLES
GH fans will recall, it was back in February of 2026, that Burton announced via his Instagram that he was stepping away from his role of Jason Morgan for short break and pointed to wanting to spend quality time with his new wife, Michelle Lundstrom Burton with whom he tied the knot back on May 17, 2025.
Steve expressed at that time, “I’m newly married and looking forward to spending some quality time with my family.” It was back on March 25 that viewers saw Jason carted away by the WSB after taking the fall for Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) who shot then WSB Director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes).
Burton returned to work on June 1, and due to General Hospital taping roughly six weeks ahead of air, made his on-screen comeback on the July 13 episode.
GOING FOR GOLD AT THE UPCOMING DAYTIME EMMYS
Then, Steve and his enduring fans got an extra special treat on the same day, when it was revealed on Extra that he was nominated for the upcoming 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series category.
Steve previously won in the Supporting Actor category for his work as General Hospital’s Jason in 1998 and as The Young and the Restless’ Dylan McAvoy in 2018.
Now with Jason and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship seemingly hitting the skids, plus Jason’s commitment to staying out of mob life to focus on being present for his son Danny Morgan (Asher Antonyzyn), what does the future hold for the fan favorite character? Stay tuned.
So, happy to hear that Steve Burton signed a new three year deal with General Hospital? Knowing that, what storyline would you like to see Jason get involved and with who? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section.
-
General Hospital1 week ago‘General Hospital’ to Rebroadcast Special Episode in Tribute to Anthony Geary
-

News1 week agoVivica A. Fox Exits ‘The Young and the Restless’ For Now to Film Netflix’s ‘Women Like Us’
-

News2 days agoJess Walton Memoir ‘The Young and the Rest of Us’ Set for Release in 2027
-

General Hospital7 days ago‘General Hospital’s’ Braedyn Bruner Reveals Her Daytime Emmy-Nominated Scenes and How Emma is Getting Her ‘Edge’ Back
-

General Hospital5 days ago‘General Hospital’s’ Bluesy Burke Marks 1 Year as Charlotte Cassadine: ‘It’s The Best Gift I’ve Ever Received’
-

News5 days ago‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Drops First Look 40th Anniversary Opening Title Sequence
-

Interviews6 days ago‘The Bold and the Beautiful’s’ Kelly Sullivan Talks Becoming Darcy Dylan, Who’s Melissa’s Dad, and Future Love Interest (Exclusive)
-

News3 days agoY&R’s Co-Head Writer Jamey Giddens, Ahead of November Stories and Scripts Debut with Dan O’Connor, Explains How Fall Tees Up Their Plans for Genoa City











Can’t wait to watch this story unravel, love Donna Mills.
I have to disagree. Nothing against the actress, but why would I care about any more new characters that come on, especially when they are here as part of a story that revolves around other new characters. All the while Sean Kanan’s AJ is gone. Do the majority of GH fans really want Donna Mills as madeline along with Silas and Nathan and in no time Nina taking front and center? Characters with no ties at all to GH history?
If the show thinks it needs Donna Mills, why isn’t she a Quartermaine relative, or a Spencer or somebody with ties to the show so that core GH characters could be incorporated? Because it’s not GH anymore. How may actors will be on to support Silas’s story and how much of the show is already devoted to it? And really, who cares? And what is Kelly Monaco’s role in this? She’s a mother who neglects her kid so she can scream Silas is innocent every five minutes and take short breaks to bang I a guy who looks like her father. She’s a GH vet who is part of Silas’s story, doing his bidding.
With AJ gone and the message that Quartermaine’s are too, and with the terribly unprofessional twitter rants of the head writer, I’m just about done with GH.
Donna so far has signed for only a 2 month story arc…but i like her!!! I love the mystery surrounding Silas…i am disappointed A.J. is gone…he and Carly had great chemistry and wouldve been great as the next Alan and Monica…
Even if you don’t quit watching GH, would you consider making room for DAYS?
long story
Loving Donna Mills from the first moment. That voice still gives me the tingles! Not sure how I feel about the plausibility of Nathan being Madeline’s son and becoming a cop to avenge his sister, but it’s a soap and I’ll go with it.
I really hate her so much she is a ugly bitch. Nathan is so lucky he is so happy about his own mom obrerght I know she is bitch but she had a nice heart about her own son
I think once Nathan, Sam and Silas find out that Mr. Reeves left everything to Nina, mama Reeves will become the more reasonable suspect in what happen to Nina and the murder of the pharmacist.
I thought the same thing, or she found Nina who had actually attempted suicide, and decided to frame Silas for Nina’s attempted murder.
It would have been nice if this story involved one single character that we care about. This regime is going off the rails with newbies, stunt casting, mobsters, and psychos. .. Cartini clearly has no interest whatsoever in writing the General Hospital we know and love. It is saddening and maddening, because they have broken every promise they made when they took over.
It is the lazy way because writing stories that involve crime families, criminals, mad scientists and the like has the drama built in, there is no need for creative thinking. Weaving compelling dramas based in real life and real life issues requires imagination and skill to bring to life fully fleshed out characters with real motivations and to do all this in an entertaining way, which is becoming a lost art in general, but in soaps most of all.
This is why blew it with AJ and the Q’s– the whole infighting over the estate could have been a gold mine of quality with the right writers, but in their hands it ended up being about relish, which became the butt of many of jokes for late comedians and the Soup. It is rather sad, but it seems there is an audience who likes this type of comic book form of drama, and I like it for a bit, but a steady diet of it is getting rather hard to take.
Britains Coronation Street is a lot like you describe: character driven drama that is more realisticly based on real life than our American soaps…the British have the imagination and skill that is sorely lacking in our shows!!! Coronation Street is now my favorite soap!!!
You don’t “relish” it! LOL
I hope she has some screen time with Leslie C., both played sisters on Love Is A Many Splendored Thing…Maddie could be Monicas estranged sister or something…Nathans father could still be Victor Cassidine…tie these people to the vets…especially to Monica who will eventually have less airtime now that A.J. is leaving…reveal Silas’s lookalike brother as the person responsible for Ninas coma or did Maddie try to knock off her own daughter for the money? Not sure if i want her trying to kill her own daughter for money unless Nina had a terminal illness and it was a mercy killing or Nina really triedto commit suicide…hopefully its Silas’s brother…but there is enough killing and attempted murders as it is which would be ok if this was The Edge Of Night!!!
Donna Mills only signed on for a two month story arc according to tv guides Micheal Logan…so i could be rightl..Madeline tried to kill her own daughter for the money but tptb hints they like her to stay longer and maybe William Devane as her allegedly dead husband…another one i suggested…hopefully if Donna stays it was Stephan Clay who tried to kill Nina!!!
I’m not understanding why in God’s name Silas has not brought up the possibility of it having been his brother who wrote and picked up the Rx. I hadn’t gotten around to watching again then, but my daughter has been watching all along and said they could pass for twins.
Well Brenda, soaps seem to like to dumbdown their characters…enough said!!!
Looking forward to this arc…Donna Mills is still smoking HOT!
get rid of Ava and make Donna Mills permanent.
Great idea!
I Love the character of “Ava” and Maura West. I say keep them both and place them in scenes with one another.
Ava is a much more interesting character than DM is playing any day.
I enjoy Maura West’s Ava also. The problem for me is that she has committed murder. Not to mention the shooting of Olivia. I need to see people who do unspeakable things receive their punishment for such and not have them get away with it (ala Franco). Her crimes need to be discovered and she needs to be sent off to jail (like Johnny Z), regardless of the fact that she has been a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale cast.
@Carol She’s been there two days! Do you know something we don’t?
They are killing off all the Q family, they were the heart of GH they were fun with all the in fighting.
This story line is all about revenge. We want Franco to be more fun and turn out to be a Q.
Loving Donna Mills as always!!
In two days she has out-acted every actor on that show. Maybe this mediocre bunch will learn from her. Just pissed that she came on and foiled my plan of giving up GH.
Watched Friday (not yet Monday), and was frankly underwhelmed by Donna Mills. Was not a “Knots Landing” fan, to be honest, but she just seemed too understated for me. Made Michael Easton (the David Duchovny of daytime) seem like Laurence Olivier. Get this girl som 5 Hour Energy!
a little shaky in the acting, yeah? I’m hoping she perks up 😉 This storyline isn’t all that exciting in itself.
Donna Mills has just begun, the best is yet to come..
It needs to build..
She has been on screen for about 15 minutes..
Soap stuff is not instant and Donna Mills will become vivid, I’m sure ….
(waiting for it 🙂
I know soap stuff isn’t instant, I’ve watched for 35 years. I’m just saying ….. I wasn’t terribly Impressed by her first appearance but hoping she starts to fit into the canvas. I’m not a fan of stunt casting usually but I do like Donna Mills as an actress and loved her as Abby on Knots Landing!
I absolutely adore Donna Mills, from her playing Abby Ewing on Knots Landing-one of the best primetime dramas. I am so happy that she agreed to come to Port Charles. Donna will definitely “up” the interest of this lagging storyline. I find Silas more interesting without boring, monotone, (always in black and white and boots) Sam. I find Sam very, very boring. Let’s bring some excitement to this storyline.
This could all be SO much more satisfying if James Nathan Reeves only THINKS his mother’s maiden name was West, when that was actually her first husband’s name. Her real maiden name is Bard, making her Monica’s estranged sister. Madeline escaped their poverty-stricken background by marrying wealthy Dr. West, only she left him for even richer Mr. Reeves, who ended up leaving her broke. Now, decades later and desperate, Madeline’s history with Silas has brought her to Port Charles, where she discovers her estranged sister has become one of the last-standing members of the Quartermaine family, not quite as wealthy as the Reeves, but significant enough for Madeline to mooch off of, placing her in contention with Tracy. But after all these years, not seeing Madeline since the 60s, can Monica forgive her sister’s abandonment of her and let her back into her life? Monica might just be vulnerable enough… if she loses AJ in the next few weeks.
This also makes Madeline, James/Nathan, and Nina extended family (in-laws) of the Quartermaines, bringing some life back into the family. Tracy might help Madeline scheme to regain control of the Reeves estate if Tracy thinks she can get a piece of it for herself as payment for her help.
LOVE this. BIG TIME.
Thanks! Since Ned has been gone, there hasn’t been a good “Straight man” to play off of the Quartermaines’ mania and Nathan West would fit the bill. There would also be the good plot point of him as a cop with an allegiance to his newfound family who usually operate under their own version of the rules versus the law that he’s been upholding as a cop for years.
It’s sad to think it didn’t occur to Ron Carlivati to go this route, as it wouldn’t just reunite Donna Mills with Leslie Charleson in a substantial way, but would allow Mills to enjoy fun scenes with Jane Elliot, whom Carlivati claims to love so much.
I hate missed opportunities, and this would have been a relatively easy way to both tighten and expand the canvas, and rejuvenate the Quartermaines, even slightly.
I can remember back in the 60s when I was a little kid, I watched the soap opera, Secret Storm. That is the first time I remember seeing Donna Mills. I thought she was so beautiful and so talented.
All these years later, she still looks fabulous. I’m glad she is now a part of GH even if it is only for a few months. Her character does interest me and I’m looking forward to see where this storyline is going.
On another note… even though we were asked to comment on Donna Mills, I can’t NOT comment about Sean Kanan (AJ) leaving. I feel that that idiots at GH really screwed him over….BIG TIME…. so sad he’s out….. 🙁
Wow I love Donna Mills as Madeline, she is a terrific actress. I Hope they offer Donna a contract role, she looks very hot for 73 years old.
You have always been a favorite of mine ever since I first saw those beautiul blue eyes of yours. You, as an actress stand at the top of my list.
p.s.: Keep up the great work on “GH”!!!
Donna Mills is a fantastic, talented actress. I only started watching GH for her.
Ryan Peavey is pretty damn fine too.
I love Donna Mills! She does not need more energy! Many of the actors on this show are constantly yelling, thinking that the more dramatic you are the better actor you are; not at all! Donna Mills gets her point across in subtle ways and I’m very glad she is not yelling and caring on like some of them do on this show.
I was hoping she was going to be the one backing Julian though instead of getting stuck in the Silas storyline. I don’t find him interesting at all. But would have loved to seen Donna act with Julian, Ava, and Sonny. But, maybe they needed her to spice up the Silas storyline, but not happy they placed her there. But, I will watch GH until she leaves!
Donna Mills is a welcome addition, IMO. Would love to see scenes with she & Jane Elliot as conspirators…or rivals for Fluke’s attention?
Also: has anyone thought of/suggested Susan Haskell as Nina? Could throw an interesting wrench into both the Carco AND Silam storylines…
I barely recognized her for all the ghoulish makeup. GH needs a new makeup artist. The older women are looking so much worse for the heavy black eye makeup. And what is with the phony sparkly eyes? Drops? BTW Anthony Geary should lose the makeup too. It’s starting to look like the Night of the Living Dead on that show.
This story line is predictable of soaps of yesteryear! Bring back the stories that made GH a true success! Mob wars, Sonny vs all wannabe mobsters. The new storybook is dated and boring. Stay on topic. Quit veering off subject like, as if you’re competition is still on television! Your writers were doung great, until the other soaps saud goodbye. GH is NOT liable in adhering to ‘soap protocol of the 80’s!”
Always good to see my former Taft high school classmate, Donna Mills.
Our class always watches for her and we share information at our quarterly luncheons.
Donna, you brighten every set you work on. Keep going, we’ll follow you.
Diane