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Steve Burton Shares He Starts Taping Back at General Hospital “Next Week”
One of the most highly-anticipated returns this winter and early spring will be that of Steve Burton when he reprises his signature soap role of Jason Morgan on General Hospital.
Following Burton’s announcement at the end of the General Hospital: 60 years of Stars and Storytelling special on ABC on January 4th, the series made it be known that Jason’s return would be imminent.
Now on the January 31st episode of the Daily Drama Podcast hosted by Burton and Bradford Anderson (Spinelli, GH), at the top of the show, Steve revealed he starts “next week” back at GH, although the Daytime Emmy-winner said he did not have an exact start date.
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Anderson also shared that he is working next week at GH, but was not sure of the scripts or his scenes yet. Burton also stated that before going back to tape new episodes he needed to get a haircut in order to slip back into the role of Jason.
When viewers last saw Jason, it was back in November of 2021 when the character was presumed dead following the collapse of a tunnel.
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In addition, since Burton’s GH return was made official, there has been a head writing change. Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte are in, while Chris Van Etten and Dan O’Connor are out, making it all the more intriguing of just how the writing team will craft Jason’s story going forward.
So, excited to know that Steve Burton will begin taping new episodes as Jason next week at GH? What storyline would you come up with to explain Jason’s survival from the collapse of the tunnel and where he has been? Comment below.
I would like to see more of Jason Quartermaine than Jason Morgan. Carly would just not understand, but after all these years, Sonny would get it. Monica will be more than thrilled.
Just how often do we get to see Monica?
The timing lends credence to the speculation Chris & Dan were let go because of their plan for Jason’s return. Burton’s taping next week, which indicates Jason will be on screen early/mid March (exactly when Pat/Liz material is scheduled to air).
Hoping the new writers will write off Drew. No offense to the actor I think he’s wonderful and I love his Hallmark and GAC movies but this Drew was becoming totally unlikable.
Couldn’t he play stone cold on Y & R again or keep playing stone cold on DAYS? He is an awful actor! Gah, not looking forward to him taking over the show again. Aside from the equally hard to watch actor who plays Drew, the show has been great in his absence. So much screen time for old favourites! I’d hate to see it be all stone cold all the time again.
Better than “all Nina all the time” which is why the last two years of GH have been such a toilet spiral.
My guess is that the hired gun who’s been going after Sonny, Anna and Ava is a brainwashed Jason, working for that bad guy from the WSB and Pikeman, and previously captive of Viktor Cassadine. The giveaways have been all the comments about the assasin’s skills and inside knowledge. My guess is he’s missing his shots because some part of him doesn’t want to kill Sonny.
According to that idiotic “brain mapping” story from 2017 – which they came up with to explain how Jason’s memories ended up in Drew’s brain – Jason cannot be brainwashed, due to the fact that his multiple previous head injuries has left his brain in a similar state to a hard drive with damaged sectors that cannot be “over-written”.
Now on the other horn, Drew still has all of those Jason memories in his head. So he would have the knowledge of Sonny’s island and all of the secutrity protocols used there already stored in his head.
And many mortals have observed that something has been “off” with Drew ever since he recovered from the prison beatdown he suffered at the hands of Cyrus’s paid inmate thugs. I’m thinking something was knocked loose in his brain which might have somehow reactivated his previous brainwashing.
If Jason still has that tarot card in his pocket from his last trip to Cassadine Island, he might be the only one who can fix his brother’s brain, when he finally makes it back to Port Charles.
I forgot about the details of that stupid mess from 2017. Maybe I just forwarded past that. I bet the writers forgot too. My money’s still on Jason. I am deeply dreading this whole thing.
I hope they make Jason a really bad guy. It would be beyond Steve Burton’s limited acting ability to play anything other than the one character he plays on every show, but it would be more entertaining to see Jason go bad.
Jason is also Married to Carley but no one seems to be mentioning that.
Well not really…
They did have a wedding, but it wasn’t a valid marriage since Sonny wasn’t so dead after all.
Yay yay
If you watch one of the recent daily drama podcast with Burton and Bradford Anderson, Steve indicates that he is going to retire in a few years with his role on General Hospital. So it sounds like this is going to be his acting swan song even if it is for a few years he mentioned three to four years
Is anyone really ever “retired”?
I love that Jane Elliot has returned, love that Leslie Charleston shows up when she can…
And mostly.. the paycheque must be welcomed
Realistically, I doubt GH itself will be around 5 years from now, so that being the case, I believe Jason will be around for the remainder of GH’s existence.
Very true… and some days.. I wonder if anything will be !
You’ve been casting the death knell for GH for years (appropriate for your screen name). When Frank took over in 2012, few would have guessed GH would be around 12 years later.
It’s still pulling in respectable numbers for daytime, is a valued lead-in to most affiliates early news programs and Frank remains a wizard with the budget – refreshing and building new sets over the last 4 years.
Because of the unique ownership structure (the same Disney/ABC division produces, distributes and airs GH) there’s no extra hands in the kettle like the other 3 soaps. The recent primetime special – not airing in the summer or a dead Friday shows the network is still committed to the show.
ABC/Di$ney seems to be on board… for now. They had the primetime special, the change in head writers, bringing Jason back, all of these things do point to at least a short term commitment to reverse the toilet spiral of the last two years.
But on the other horn, we have the rumors that Di$ney is looking to sell off ABC entirely. Hell forbid somebody like Zaslav & Malone end up with the network and they start cutting any TV show that involves any sort of writing or acting and replaces it with reality dragonshit, as they have done on almost every channel involved in the Warner/Discovery fiasco. Even if it’s not that drastic of a takeover, you might still end up with a new regime that doesn’t have a lot of love for a show that’s over 60 years old, from a genre which is nearly extinct. They might switch it to Hulu only (much like Days moved to Peacock) assuming there’s still a favorable relationship between ABC and Hulu under whatever this new ownership situation is. Hulu itself might merge with “Disney+”, since that seems to be the streaming outlet for Di$ney’s content outside of the US & Hell. A “stream only” model might alienate some of the show’s older audience, as there is some percentage of that demographic who are still on the “technophobic” side of things, despite the fact that streaming video is very much a mainstream practice in 2024.
Very happy if people are happy that still watch the show! But give me the late Billy miller anytime I will never watch this show again the treatment of him I will never forgive you are the biggest idiots fake people I have ever known and trust me I know them all
Excuse me the show did nothing to billy Miller he left on his own ,he wasn’t a child,some fans need to stop treating their favorite actors like children
Believe it or not, there’s a small faction of mortals who think there was a “conspiracy” by Maurice Benard, Steve Burton, and others to force Billy Miller off GH and ruin his life. A Devil has tried to reason with such folks on another website, and they still push this theory.
The reality of course, is that Billy wanted to take his chances on a prime time career. Nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, it’s just that his timing could not have been worse. He left GH in 2019, having lined up recurring roles on the Apple TV series “Truth Be Told” and the USA Network show “Suits”. The Apple show was an “anthology” model, so they only needed him for the one season, and “Suits” pretty much fell apart after Meghan Markle quit the show and ran off to England to marry some ginger kid named Harry. Billy thought he would get a new gig in the next “pilot” season. Which he very well might have… except that was 2020. And nobody made new pilots after March of that year. And by the time things were “back to normal” in the TV industry from that, then you had the two strikes in 2023 which effectively shut everything down again. Except for – ironically – the soaps, because the actors were on a different contract.
A Devil won’t speculate on the reasons why Billy didn’t try to come back to GH (as he would have fit the character far better than Mr. Hallmark does)
I do wish for success of any actor that is discovered thru daytime and then leaves to try to find greater success elsewhere… history shows it is only a few that do achieve great success, I have admiration for the long term actors that make daytime a solid career.
It is those actors that make the 4 remaining show what they are… still entertaining regardless of how poor some may feel of storylines at times, we all keep watching.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Jonathan Bennett Receives 3 ‘Critics Choice Real TV Awards’ Nominations for Hallmark Series, ‘Finding Mr. Christmas’
Many things are coming up roses for Jonathan Bennett! On the heels of the news that he is set to debut this month in the role of Joe Fitzpatrick on General Hospital, who is rumored to be a new love interest for Lucas Jones (Van Hansis), comes the news that Bennett’s reality series, Finding Mr. Christmas has received 3 nomination for the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
Bennett’s Hallmark Channel series finds itself in tough competition alongside fellow nominees: RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV), Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix), Survivor 50 (CBS), Top Chef (Bravo) and The Traitors (Peacock). In addition, Jonathan himself is nominated for Best Show Host and the series participants as the Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series.
The Critics Choice Association (CCA) revealed the nominees for the eighth annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards on Thursday, which recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Winners will be announced online at CriticsChoice.com on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 9:00am PT/12:00pm ET.
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Taking to his Instagram to celebrate the nominations, GH’s Bennett, enthused, “3 Critic Choice Nominations! I’m so proud of the FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and to be in the company of all the legends in all these categories is so surreal! Congrats to Hallmark Channel and to our nominated cast and nominated show and everyone who made this magical show possible. This is crazy! This gives FMC 6 Critics Choice nominations in 2 years. Not bad for a little show on Hallmark Channel. What are your thoughts on our show?” Jumping first into the comment thread was one of his new GH co-stars, Dominic Zamprogna (Dante) who expressed, “Yeah buddy!!!🔥🔥”
In the series, Bennett, the host and co-creator spends eight weeks guiding 10 aspiring actors through a series of “festive face-offs” and acting challenges alongside actors like soap opera notables, Hunter King (ex-Summer, Y&R) and Alison Sweeney (Sami, DAYS). Along the way, they develop their skills and a bond with one another. The show, which is available on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Plus, highlights LGBTQ+ representation with openly gay contestants vying to be the next Hallmark star.
It should be noted that Traitors received the most Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations with 6 nods, followed by Dancing with the Stars with 4.
Bennett is very familiar to daytime fans having started his career as JR Chandler on All My Children in 2000-2001, before landing the part of Aaron Samuels in the motion picture, Mean Girls in 2004 starring Lindsay Lohan, which would become his breakout performance.
You can check out the full list of Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations here.
So, excited for Jonathan Bennett’s General Hospital debut this month? Have you ever watched Finding Mr. Christmas on Hallmark? Let us know via the comment section below.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Kelly Thiebaud on Britt and Cassius Sibling Drama, But Who Will Ultimately Blow His Cover?
On the April 30 episode of General Hospital, Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) had some choice words and warning for her brother Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) who has been masquerading as his twin, the very dead, Nathan West.
As the story has unfolded, viewers learned that Britt knew all along that when “Nathan” showed up in Port Charles seemingly resurrected with a missing 7 years of his life unexplained, that Cassius was taking his place.
Now in developments on today’s GH, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) is figuring out that this guy pretending to be Nathan is someone else, and Cassius learns from Britt, that Joss is not just a ditzy sorority girl as he claimed, but a WSB agent! The moment stuns Cassius. Are the walls about to close in on him and his charade?
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Daytime Emmy winner, Kelly Thiebaud spoke to Soap Opera Digest, about the story point and getting the opportunity this time back at GH to work with Ryan Paevey, when she hadn’t had the chance to before.
BROTHERLY LOVE?
Thiebaud expressed on sharing scenes with Ryan Paevey, “It’s just been so wonderful to have him back and to actually work with him! When he first came onto the show (as Nathan at the end of 2013) I was kind of heading out — it was right towards the end of my contract, so we didn’t actually work together a ton. It’s been really refreshing and so much fun to really spend time together and get to know each other and work together. I think we have really great on-camera chemistry and banter with each other. I really enjoy working with him.”
With the stakes at an all-time, Thiebaud explained how she views her on-screen alter-ego’s involvement with her more hot-to-temper sibling and why Britt revealed the truth about Josslyn to him. “People finding out about Cassius would expose what she’s involved in and what she agreed to do,” explains Kelly “And now Josslyn is digging around, and she’s connected to Carly (Laura Wright) to Jason (Steve Burton) and that whole dynamic! It’s messy!”
BRITT’S MURKY FUTURE
Britt has currently also reached her breaking point with Jason being carted away by the WSB, Rocco (Finn Carr), the child she gave birth to, shooting Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) to protect her and Jason, Marco (Adrian Anchondo) being killed after trying to help her, and Cullum holding over her head getting her Huntington’s disease medication to control her symptoms, while blackmailing her into finishing the research on her father, Cesar Faison’s, final project. Thiebaud summed it up best for Britt right now, sharing, “It’s been a really tough time for her.”
So, who do you think will be the person to blow Cassius’ cover? Will it be Britt herself? Josslyn? Liesl? Brennan? Nina? Lulu? Rocco, Maxie, Cullum or someone else? Let us know your pick in the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Michael Reveals His Plan to Set Up Chase and Willow to Have an Affair
After the Wednesday, April 29 episode of General Hospital, it’s clear outside interference and other circumstances are set to blow Chase (Josh Swickard) and Brook Lynn’s (Amanda Setton) marriage sky high, as Michael (Rory Gibson) reveals his plans to entrap Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and use her relationship with Chase to do it!
In story, Michael dropped by unexpectedly to Carly’s (Laura Wright). A plotting Michael reveals his plan to nudge Willow and Chase into having an affair. Michael hopes it would create both a political and personal scandal, where Willow would lose her seat in congress. In the scenario, she would be having an affair with her ex-husband, while taking care of her supposed disabled husband, Drew (Cameron Mathison), who cannot speak and is confined to a wheelchair, which in turn will look horrible for Willow’s character.
Carly asked does he really want to destroy his cousin, Brook Lynn’s life in the process? Michael goes in on Chase’s holier than thou attitude, and says he is going to set-up the circumstances that would lead Chase and Willow to betray their spouses, and hit the sheets together. Michael swears to Carly what the two of them do is up to them, but he’s going to go on the offense with this.
MICHAEL HAS BACK-UP
Later, Jacinda (Paige Herschell) is talking with Charlotte (Bluesy Burke) at Crimson and how much she dislikes Willow because of what she has done to Michael. Just then, Michael shows up and tells Jacinda privately, he’s figured out a way to fight Willow. Looks like Jacinda might work with Michael to bring down Willow and use Chase as the person to do it!
At the hospital, Lucas (Van Hansis) tells Josslyn (Eden McCoy) that Carly is cheating on Jack, but he doesn’t know with who. Josslyn suddenly flashes back to the moment she found her mother harboring a fugitive, Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), in her attic, and as figured out that her mother is sleeping with him. She heads out.
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BRENNAN IS ABOUT TO LEARN ABOUT CARLY
Next thing you know, Josslyn has showed up inside Jack’s (Chris McKenna) hotel room at the Metro Court and when he enters his room, he is shocked to find her there. He lays into her for not keeping his distance and that Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) will have no problem killing her if he knows she’s WSB. Josslyn fires back that he is only concerned about that because his relationship with her mother depends on her being safe. But then, she lays the boom, and tells Jack, Well, you’re too late. You already lost her.”
LULU GETS A GLIMPSE OF CASSIUS’ TEMPER
In addition, Lulu (Alexa Havins) sees a different side of “Nathan.” Since she is unaware that the man before her is his twin, Cassius Fasion (Ryan Paevey), he tells her that Rocco (Finn Carr) blabbed that he shot Cullum to Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), and now he thinks they should send him away to stop him from talking to everyone else. This concerns Lulu, who rails at Nathan for telling her what to do with her son and that she isn’t going to abandon him. With “Nathan’s” outburst at her on the matter, will she finally get a clue this is not the man she thinks it is?
So, what do you think of Michael’s plan to push Willow and Chase into an affair? Will it work or backfire? Do you think Joss will reveal that Valentin is the man sleeping with Carly to Brennan, which will send him in a rage? Will Lulu continue to be clueless about “Nathan?” Weigh-in via the comment section below. But first, take a look at the GH video tease for today’s April 30 episode.
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