General Hospital Happenings© 1999-2012
Warning: This page may contain spoilers.
Warning: This page may contain spoilers.
s and Spoilers
Recollections
As Kimberly McCullough has been preparing to say good bye to General Hospital, for the past two months she has been behind the camera interviewing some of her fellow castmates and crew. Left and below are my favorite interviews to date. WARNING: Some of the interviews may contain Spoilers. |
| Paging Dr. Drake! Rick Springfield will briefly reprise his role of Dr. Noah Drake for two episodes in March. Noah is back in Port Charles to comfort his son, Dr. Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson) after Thompson's on-screen wife Robin, played by Kimberly McCullough, makes an explosive exit. Springfield will be taping in late February. |
Van Hughes to help set up Kristen Alderson’s stay in Port Charles! Van Hughes is set to reprise the role of Cole Thornhart to help bring Kristen Alderson’s Starr Manning to the Port Charles canvas.
Alderson will make her GH debut the week of February 20. From the sounds of it, this is likely a very brief gig for him but no further info is available. |
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| GOING and GONE
Alyshia Ochse (Cassandra) has already taped her last scene on General Hospital! But Ochse isn't the only cast member who will be leaving GH in the coming weeks. According to SID, there are other newcomers who will soon see their characters departing from Port Charles. Rebeka Montoya has stated that her own character, Delores Padilla, is not among those slated to go. |
Jen Lilley to Continue as Maxie
 Kirsten Storms, who was set to return to the role of
GH's Maxie at the end of this month, will not be back as planned (see further below). Storms has been on medical leave since September. According to a statement from GH, “Kirsten Storms will not be able to return to GENERAL HOSPITAL as soon as originally hoped and announced. Jen Lilley will continue to play Maxie Jones for the foreseeable future.” |
| Kassie DePaiva (Blair Manning, OLTL) posted the following on her Official Website:
"I must say the ads and press release by ABC is a little misleading and I feel I need to clarify to all my friends, family and fans...wondering when I'm moving to Los Angeles. Frank Valentine, GH's EP, asked me to come out for a couple of shows in February and I'm thrilled. Not only will I get to work with a fantastic cast...but a little piece of OLTL will live on. That makes me very happy. And who knows where it will lead. Once the Mannings come to town anything is possible. I wish everyone at GH the best. No one loves daytime more than Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati and no one works harder than those two men. GH is in good hands and hopefully ABC will let GH live on! See ya'll soon in Port Charles!" |
UPDATE: Audition Script! CLICK
 General Hospital's new team is now looking to fill a new contract role. The soap is seeking
someone "18-24, very open-ended; looking for all ethnicities, just want a
'dynamic' actor with a 'strong presence.' " Stay tuned for more info as it becomes available. |
Ron Carlivati Says....
Excerpts of an interview from Michael Fairman with GH's Newest Headwriter, Ron Carlivati, regarding the ending of One Life To Live, and General Hospital. Why couldn’t they go back and revise the ending [of OLTL], once Prospect Park suspended their efforts to bring One Life online? RON: We actually could not go back and tape anything after the fact. The last tape day had already happened. There was no going back into the studio at that point. So then, as had been rumored, was there one alternative ending shot? RON: Yes, but more has been made of that then it is. We didn’t do that very much and really that came about when knowing certain actors were not continuing. With the story I wanted to do moving into Prospect Park’s platform, I wanted to go back and change something at the end of our show as another way to have another hook and another cliffhanger. So we went back and added that. Then once we knew it wasn’t happening it didn’t seem to make sense, so what we did was go back to the original version. I do want to say that on the whole, I feel it is a satisfying ending. I do know there are people that are upset that if only we had known this, or if only we had known that, and I have to admit yes, while there are things that I would change, on the whole it is the same spirit of the same ending that I wanted, that I hope will make the audience happy. OLTL fans received some exciting news the other day, in the midst of the sadness of this week when it was confirmed that you and GH exec producer, Frank Valentini are bringing over, Kassie DePaiva, Kristen Alderson, Roger Howarth and Michael Easton from One Life and transplanting them to GH. Obviously, first and foremost, | this is an effort to bring fans of OLTL
over to GH to help increase the ratings of the ailing soap. How come
this group from Llanview; the Mannings and John McBain, were chosen and
given a one-way ticket from Llanview, PA to Port Charles, NY?
RON: It is definitely something I thought about right away. I think that anything we can do to help GH and bring up the ratings and bring any more eyeballs on to the screen from OLTL, is absolutely the reason we should do it. I think creatively it makes sense. It will give OLTL fans an opportunity to get a glimpse of what happened after the finale. And what I want to say to the General Hospital fans is: This is meant to help enhance the show not take anything away from GH. It is a wonderful show and I would not be going there to write it, if I didn’t think so. It is a story and it is about weaving some of these people into Port Charles. First and foremost, it is about the people of Port Charles, and I will talk more about that when the time comes. I just want to say to everybody that may have concerns, that it’s all going to be good. |
A Bittersweet |
OLTL Stars To GH
Frank Valentini has announced that OLTL stars Kassie DePaiva (Blair), Roger Howarth (Todd), Kristen Alderson (Starr) and Michael Easton (John) are set to reprise their OLTL roles on GH and will report to the set later this month. "We have a very exciting story planned for the citizens of Port Charles, with Sonny Corinthos at the center of it! I am confident viewers and fans alike will be excited for the arrival of John, Starr, Blair and Todd. Incorporating characters from OLTL continues the legacy of the show as we weave them into GH." source:SOD |
CASTING NEWS
 As posted previously in Rumorville a few months ago, Tristan Rogers is due back on our GH screens in mid-February, and not for a short stint but for “the foreseeable future.” | GENERAL HOSPITAL'S FUTURE
At the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, ABC entertainment president Paul Lee was non-committal when asked about the network's plans for General Hospital, which may be canceled to make way for the Katie Couric talk show debuting this fall. "We'll have to make a decision at some point, but I don't know when," he remarked, adding, "We have not made a decision and we do not have a time frame for that." Lee described himself as "a fan of General Hospital." On Twitter, Nancy Lee Gran (Alexis, GH) suggested, "Now might be the time to twitter about how much you like General Hospital and that you think Mr. Paul Lee is very handsome. I know that I do." |
ON HER WAY BACK
UPDATE: Kirsten's return has been delayed. SOD is reporting that Kirsten Storms will return to Port Charles as Maxie at the end of this month and will begin airing in late February. A show spokesperson shared, "We are thrilled that Kirsten will be back to work in just a few short weeks. And we thank Jen Lilley for the wonderful job she did in Kirsten's absence." Lilley will continue taping for the next several weeks. Storms has been on medical leave since September. |  |
 | Nathan Parsons Heads Out?
The rumors and speculation over the past few months regarding Nathan Parsons (Ethan Lovett) being unsatisfied with his role at GH seem to be true. It appears that the actor may be leaving. It is such a shame too, with the Woman in White/ Wyndemere story just beginning to get underway. Julie Marie Berman ( Lulu, GH) during an online Twitter chat yesterday, stated, “I am sad about Nathan, but he wasn’t used right. His talent was wasted.” No official confirmation from GH as of yet, nor from Parsons, nor word on if there will be a recast or how this will affect Alyshia Ochse (The Woman in White), but the net rumors of her firing are already starting. |