General Hospital
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.
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.
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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).”
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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!
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.
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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.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?
On the Friday, September 11 episode of General Hospital, Jason (Steve Burton) and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship becomes strained to potentially the point of no return.
Things take a turn when an unglued Britt having been traumatized by almost being killed by Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) asks Jason to back her up with the PCPD when she reports Anna for attempted murder.
However, Jason told Britt, he can’t. Jason shares that he does not believe Anna would have gone through with shooting her. Therefore, Britt was not in any real imminent danger. Britt is flabbergasted and hurt that Jason is refusing to tell the police what he actually witnessed for himself on Mount Emerson.
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BRITT WANTS BACK UP FROM JASON
Jason counters that he can’t believe that Britt would want Anna punished. or sent to prison, or a mental facility after the trauma she endured while being locked up and mentally tortured while at Wyndemere.
He asks Britt, “How could you even say that you want her locked up or prosecuted for what she did when you knew she was being held prisoner and you did nothing to save her?” Britt is stunned by Jason’s response.
Coming up, official General Hospital spoilers share that on the upcoming Monday, September 14 episode, Jason confides in Carly (Laura Wright), while Britt is stung. In the video preview that aired at the end of the Friday, September 11 episode for this coming Monday, Britt says to Jason, “You don’t believe me. Do you?”
General Hospital head scribes, Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte previously teased in their fall preview of the soap, “Britt and Jason have come a long way and fought a lot of enemies to be together. But the most stubborn obstacle to their happiness isn’t without, it’s within. Decisions Britt made to stay alive while under Cullum’s thumb will come back to haunt her and may prove too difficult for this unlikely couple to survive.”
So, what do you think will happen? Will Jason and Britt break-up over Britt’s lies and Jason’s unwillingness to report Anna’s crime against her? Do you want Jason and Britt to go their separate ways? If they do, will Britt become romantically involved with Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) ? If so, who do you pair Jason with? Anyone? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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