General Hospital
General Hospital 15,000th Episode Milestone Promo
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The hearings are back tomorrow, so don’t bet your soul that ABC will actually be airing this episode, just yet.
If such a thing does happen, I would suggest that they release the episode anyway, so it can pop up at the normal time on Hulu and abc.com and allow affiliates to air it either in real time on a digital subchannel, or air it at 3:00 AM, which is how they used to handle pre-empted episodes.
They likely switched to doing national preemptions because in the long run it saves money. “Budget guru” Valentini then has less episodes to deliver saving $ spent on the non-contract staff and production. Similar reasons why they went to repeat episodes on major holidays.
If it does air Wednesday instead, it would be the third delay since this episode was originally supposed to air last Friday.
Network brass, not Valentini, make the decisions on what airs when.
Hi Rodd—-broadcast tv is owned by the government–
That’s why we get it free-
Anything to do with government/congress/whatever is preempted by the government.
So I had a rerun today, again! Not the 15,000th episode. So very disappointed in ABC
Looks like fun. And how about some love for 15K episodes’ worth of escapism, fun, drama, and great acting over the decades. The fire in Maura West’s eyes; the catfights; the murder trials; the longevity of great Genie Francis; the deaths of beloved characters; the lights shining on Billy Miller’s and Josh Swickard’s hair. I know soaps are silly to a lot of folks but I’ve gotten so much joy and necessary flights of fancy since my childhood that I say “so what?”. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.
The problem is too many people don’t like it, so they don’t watch and the ratings continue to drop. How can a show like GH survive with its ridiculous storylines when there is so much other excellent television streaming. GH’s audience is slowly dying off and it is not gaining new fans. It’s a reality. If the genre is going to survive, it needs to start competing with the streaming series by presenting realistic, well-written storylines.
You are correct in saying that soaps need to step up their game on the writing department. As for the ratings continuing to drop, that pace seems to have leveled off significantly. The saving grace for daytime is the major erosion of primetime ratings. Some nighttime shows now pull in roughly the same amount of audience as GH. Daytime talk shows are also not the ratings gold they once were. With OLTL being the last show leaving the air 10 years ago and NBC being committed to DAYS with limited edition streaming series, the genre may be a holding pattern… Read more »
I get your point, Steven, and I agree that some plots are preposterous. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. Granted I get weary of how dimwitted the police are on EVERY soap and the endless ‘whose baby is it’ tales. But I’ll tell you that, while a lot of touted programming on streaming channels is good, an equal amount is extremely violent, mean-spirited, demonic, sadistic, and preponderant with endless conspiracy puzzles that I lose interest in. I watched INVENTING ANNA, THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, THE UNDOING, MARE OF EASTTOWN…I just find them repetitive, too long, and have plots that… Read more »
Yes, Soaphound! GH is the best show out there! I love it and can’t wait to watch it everyday.
The BIG problem is — speed..
The soaps are still in the ’70s.. They have never evolved.
The stories go on forever..
Younger people grew up on speed, middle-aged people luvin and needing speed etc..
When things are slow all are upset..the soaps are extremely slow-
Fact; the soaps are still in the ’70s.. They have never evolved.
Soaphound, now, that’s the spirit! A very nice tribute.
Jamesj75
I agree with you. Soaphound’s always on the ball!
This is off topic but since Donna Mills was on the show and can now call herself an emmy winning actor because of the show. She has constantly bashed daytime threw out her career. In an interview just put up on youtube “called pioneers of Television”. She really knocks the genre in this 2022 interview. She says that daytime is not a good place to make a career because if you stay too long it ruins you for other things because you are just doing it off the top of your head. She also calls “daytime a stylized form of… Read more »
Greg
Very interesting and believable. I’d always had that feeling about her, that she was above everyone else. A lot of actors knock the daytime shows and the people working their asses off making them but they are WORKING steady making good livings, not sitting around waiting for an agent to call with a possible part for someone’s aunt or grandmother. I loved Knotts and when it was over and Syndicated, I watched it every morning, so I guess it could then be called daytime with rest of the Soaps.
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DAYS and GH Alum Tyler Christopher Arrested for Public Intoxication
Daytime Emmy-winner, Tyler Christopher (ex-Nikolas, GH; ex-Stefan, DAYS) was arrested for public intoxication at the Burbank, California airport, this past Friday, on May 26th.
According to the Burbank PD and reports obtained by TMZ, Tyler was arrested after they found him asleep and on the ground at the American Airlines terminal. The officers noted that Tyler displayed clear and objective signs of drinking. They also reveal he was unable to care of himself.
Christopher, who remains a fan favorite as the former Nikolas Cassadine on GH and Stefan DiMera on DAYS has opened up and discussed his battle with alcoholism in the past. Last year, he appeared on former GH co-star Maurice Benard’s You Tube series, State of Mind.
Photo: NATAS
Tyler was released from police custody following his airport arrest, cited, and will need to appear in court at a later date.
Back in 2019, the popular actor was cited for two counts of misdemeanor public intoxication and landed in jail for two days, following an arrest in Indiana.
Share your thoughts on this latest situation for Tyler in the comment section below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Who Will Turn Out to be Trina’s Biological Father … Curtis or Taggert?
This week’s episodes of General Hospital are set to deliver some needed results and some bombshells. First, Victor’s will is read, but, in true GH fashion, the evil Cassadine delivers his reading via a videotaped message of himself in a return appearance by Charles Shaughnessy,
Meanwhile, Trina (Tabyana Ali), Curtis (Donnell Turner) and Portia (Brook Kerr) have all been awaiting the DNA tests results to prove that Trina is the biological daughter of Curtis, not Marcus Taggert (Réal Andrews) .
At the same time, Curtis is moving back in with Portia, after his lip lock with his ex-wife, Jordan (Tanisha Harper).
Spencer (Nicholas Chavez) and Trina are at the center of both storylines, because Uncle Victor probably left something behind for Spencer, while Trina will be dealing with the fallout from the DNA results.
Photo: ABC
Watch the latest GH promo below.
Now weigh-in, who do you think will be revealed as Trina’s true father? Curtis or Taggert? Share your theories via the comment section below.
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