General Hospital
General Hospital 15,000th Episode Milestone Promo
Currently scheduled to air tomorrow on Tuesday, June 20th, is General Hospital’s 15,000th episode.
What we do know is that the standalone episode is centered around the character of Laura Collins played by GH icon, Genie Francis.
GH co head-writer, Dan O’Connor, previewed the episode in the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest on newsstands now.
Dan shared: “It’s a love letter to the fans, but also to the city of Port Charles. and Laura is also the Mayor.” He goes on to say that “Laura’s mayoral administration is rocked by a sudden and very muscular challenge.”
From the looks of the just released promo for the 15K celebration, the town bands together! Check it out below.
Share your congrats to GH for its 15,000 episode milestone, and if you are excited to see the Laura-centric story unfold, via the comment section.
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 for quite a while.
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 could easily be wrapped up in two or four hours instead of eight or more. I don’t know what the answer is but I hope that soaps don’t become the next victim of typically modern “all or nothing” thinking.
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 acting” not in a positive way. Since this interview I have gone down a rabbit hole of interviews with her and was shocked how negative she is about daytime. In one interview she bristles at “Knotts” being called a soap. According to her it was not. It was a Primetime Drama. She said the daytime shows go for caricatures and her show does characterizations.The list of negative daytime talk just goes on and on with her almost always taking offence at Knots being called a soap. Check out her interview on PBS called “primetime soaps”. She again says Knots was not a soap but a primetime drama!
She has spoken often about daytime being a great training ground post “GH” but in a Canadian talk show from 1982 with host Allan Thicke” says to her what a great training ground daytime is. She replies”no not really. You can fall into a trap doing a soap because they are so ponderous and are all about having another cup of coffee” He then says “so people are lying to me” She says”maybe they are afraid they”ll have to do a soap again like the actress who played my sister who is stuck in soaps and not advanced her career”!!I assumed she was referring to the wonderful Leslie Charleson.
All of this shocked me because I thought she was a friend of yours Michael and of Laura Wright and Genie Francis”
All of this from an actress who can now call herself an”Emmy Winning” actress because of a lowly soap!!
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.
General Hospital
‘General Hospital’s’ Tabyana Ali on a Potential Kai/Trina/Gio/Emma Quadrangle, ‘I Don’t Think That’s Impossible, But That Would Be Messy’
On recent episodes of General Hospital, music executive Simon Craft (Grady Eldridge) has been pushing and demanding that Trina (Tabyana Ali) and Gio (Giovanni Mazza) play up a faux relationship when they are onstage, or in front of the camera, to add to their allure as new recording artists to his label.
Simon knows full well that Gio is dating Emma (Braedyn Bruner), and Trina is with Kai (Jens Austin Astrup). It was apparent from the start, that Kai seemed a bit more comfortable with the “arrangement” understanding this was for business, and not pleasure, while Emma initially didn’t like the idea.
Now with Trina’s stalker story in full gear, and as fans eventually find out who is completely obsessed with the budding young singer, while initially seeming to be Simon that would seem to be too easy of a choice. But is GH toying with the idea that somehow Gio and Trina get stuck in a situation and one thing leads to another and they develop feelings one another, too?
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SIMON’S MANUEVERS
In addition, after Curtis (Donnell Turner) and Sidwell’s (Carlo Rota) beatdown at Pentonville, where everyone is accusing Sonny (Maurice Benard) of ordering the deed, will this find Gio and Trina on the same side, believing it’s Sonny, or will Gio end up sticking by his grandfather when by week’s end he was also questioning if he was telling the truth?
During a new conversation on the Michael Fairman Channel, Tabyana Ali shared her thoughts that if Gio and Trina were pushed closer together, what that would mean for their relationships with Emma and Kai, respectively.
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MUSICAL CHAIRS?
Pondering the soap staple, Tabyana exclaimed, “Oh, my goodness. Who knows? I mean, quite honestly, I don’t think it’s it’s impossible, but, oh, wow! That would be messy!” Ali added that its something that could be quite intriguing to play. “There’s a part of me that wants it to happen just to see, how does it play out? Right? Then, there’s another part of me that’s like, “You can’t do that to Emma and Kai.” That’s so wrong,” believed Ali.
However, Tabyana did admit a complicated love story wasn’t far from her mind. “Originally, I wanted something like a quadrangle. I really wanted that to happen. And if this is a moment where it could happen, I think that would be fun too.”
When asked to tease what’s coming up for Trina in the next several weeks, she offered up three words. Things for her will “(get) Suspicious, (be ) spontaneous, (and) very dangerous.”
So, do you think the GH writing team is teeing up a situation where Trina and Gio become more than friends and musical artists together? Would you be down for it, or be against it? do you like Emma with Gio and Kai with Trina? Share your thoughts via the comment section, nd in case you missed it, check our chat with Tabyana below.
General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sonny Tells Dante, “I Don’t Want a Son Like You,” While Michael Tells Brook Lynn to Bide Her Time Till Chase and Willow Have an Affair
On the Thursday, October 1 episode of General Hospital, both Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) had some things to say and what they had to say didn’t go over well with whom they were talking to!
Sonny had a confrontation with his son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna), while Michael leveled with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) over Chase (Josh Swickard).
GH is setting up a scenario where everyone is going to make it look like Sonny was responsible for having Sidwell (Carlo Rota) beat up in Pentonville; while viewers already know Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) were behind it.
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A VISIT WITH DAD
Now, Dante comes to Sonny’s house. He wants to know straight up from his dad if he ordered the attack at Pentonville. Sonny flatly denies any culpability or responsibility, but Dante refuses to believe him.
Dante informs Sonny he has video footage of Sully and Vito at the prison. Sonny explains to Dante he doesn’t know why Sully beat up both Curtis and Dante. Things escalated when Sonny was deeply hurt that Dante refused to believe him. Dante says he was disappointed that his father didn’t respect him enough to be truthful with him!
Sonny asks Dante to consider that he was being set up. He says all he did was to tell Vito to instruct Sully to keep a watchful eye on Sidwell, not to harm him. No matter what Sonny said, Dante continued hammering him with how he knew deep down, even though he said he left the mob, he had to finish off Sidwell for himself.
Next, Sonny explains everything he has ever done was to provide for and to protect his family. Dante fired back that he doesn’t want to deal anymore with Sonny’s half-baked truths. As the two men argue, Gio (Giovanni Mazza) shows up at Sonny’s front door and overhears Sonny losing his temper and shouting at Dante, “Get out of my house! I don’t want a son like you!” The scenes featured an excellent performance by Maurice Benard.
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MICHAEL THE MANIPULATOR
While this is going down, outside the Quartermaine boathouse, Brook Lynn opens up to Michael about living at the Q’s with Chase being there, since he only came back due to legal advice from his lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard).
Brook Lynn questioned whether they should get legally separate. Michael insisted that would be a big mistake. When she asks why, Michael tells Brook Lynn to bide her time until Chase and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) have an affair; then she’d have full custody of Phoebe.
An angered Brook Lynn pushed Michael into the water and accuses him of moving Willow back into the gatehouse with intent on putting Chase and Willow in closer proximity and sacrificing Brook Lynn’s family in the process. As the two cousins bicker, Chase shows up asking Brook Lynn if she is OK. Michael punctuates their talk with “You know, I’m right.”
CURTIS FIGURES OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SLAMMER
At GH, Willow visits Curtis (Donnell Turner) in his hospital room. Curtis wants Willow to get him pardoned and keep him out of jail, and in return, he will help her nail Sonny.
Next, Willow tells Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) she wants Curtis held for observation for three more days. He agrees to do so under one condition, that she understands that he may need to call in a favor from a congresswoman.
So, what did you think of how Dante accused his father and refused to believe Sonny’s answers? Is this the end of their father and son relationship for good? Is Michael the most manipulative person of all, except for Willow? Do the two deserve each other? Do you want Chase and Willow to have an affair? And what of Curtis? Does he have many redeeming qualities left? Share your thoughts via the comment section, but first check out the talk Michael had with Brook Lynn.
General Hospital
GH Alum Tajh Bellow and Y&R Alum Loren Lott Star in New Tiktok and Microdrama ‘Love Island’ Spoof
Two soap opera alums very familiar to fans of General Hospital and The Young and the Restless are paired together in a new short-form digital series from none other than Issa Rae’s production entity HOORAE Digital.
Look for Tajh Bellow (ex-TJ Ashford, GH)) and Loren Lott (ex-Ana Hamilton, Y&R) as part of the cast of The Compatibility Experiment, premiering on October 14, 2026, exclusively on TikTok and its companion microdrama platform, PineDrama.
In the video teaser, it appears that Bellow and Lott play a couple, Kelvin and Camila, set in a Love Island reality show-esque environment trying to win the one million dollar cash prize, only what could go wrong?
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The Compatibility Experiment loglines share that it brings a fast-paced, relationship-focused reality check—much like Love Island with a twist. The show takes a participant’s current relationship, introduces them to a potentially more compatible partner, and forces them to navigate the differences with life-changing money on the line.
The new series is part of a groundbreaking content deal between HOORAE Digital and TikTok to develop premium short-form storytelling. The ensemble cast also features; Ayona, Reggie Luck, JaNa Craig, Tosin Morohunfola, Jessica Jacoby, Georgia Warner, and Nick Cassidy.
General Hospital fans know Tajh Bellow for his performances as TJ Ashford, and who earned two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way during his run. Bellow took over the role in 2018 and last appeared on the ABC daytime drama series in December of 2024.
Loren Lott first appeared as Devon’s (Bryton James) sister Ana Hamilton on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2019; making a brief return in 2024. She has continued to perform on the stage and screen with recent credits including: Bel-Air, Cherish the Day, and All American: Homecoming.
Check out the trailer for The Compatibility Experiment below and let us know what you think of its concept and if you are glad to see Tajh and Loren again? Hoping they might return to daytime in their GH and Y&R roles at some point in the future? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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