Perhaps because ABC owns General Hospital outright, the network sometimes doesn’t announce if their sole surviving soap opera has been renewed for another season. (They didn’t make an announcement about the 2016-17 season.) Of course, they’d certainly let us know if the show had been cancelled. Will GH survive to see a 55th season (2017-18)? How will it do in the ratings? Stay tuned.
Debuting on April 1st of 1963, General Hospital revolves around the loves, lives, and deaths of the people of Port Charles, New York. The current season’s cast includes Vinessa Antoine, Maurice Benard, Teresa Castillo, Tyler Christopher, Matt Cohen, William deVry, Chad Duell, Sonya Eddy, Jane Elliot, Kathleen Gati, Nancy Lee Grahn, Carolyn Hennesy, Rebecca Herbst, Roger Howarth, Finola Hughes, Lisa Lo Cicero, Billy Miller, Kelly Monaco, Ryan Paevey, Haley Pullos, Brytni Sarpy, Kirsten Storms, Robert Palmer Watkins, Maura West, Laura Wright, and Dominic Zamprogna.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available. You can see how the ratings for the four soap operas compare here.
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For comparisons: The 2015-16 season of General Hospital averaged a 0.75 rating in the 18-49 female demographic with 2.77 million total viewers.
Raw data courtesy Soap Opera Network.
What do you think? Do you still like General Hospital TV series? Would you like to see it cancelled or renewed for additional seasons?
Get rid of it. The new story lines sucks just like the new Jason I hate it I used to watch every day but the stories just keep getting worse day by day. Time to move on this soap opera is dying.
I have been watching the show for 30 years..Started watching at age 12. PLEASE keep this wonderful show on the air! All I ask is that you keep political topics/themes out of it. It is not fair to viewers to try and push an agenda. It would be great to have Steve Burton back. Many blessings to all of the cast/crew/writers at GH! Lets go for many more years!
Please keep general hospital going it’s the best I love all the characters. It’s my favorite I wish I cud meet them in person one day I really love the show cuz my mom used to watch it when she was alive may she rest in peace . I hated when they took one life to live off but merged some characters into general hospital.
Love GH it is the best soap always moving fast
Great actors and great writers that’s why it got best soap
I vote to keep GH on air! I’m a faithful viewer for years, over age 55 & still love the show as do many of my senior friends!
I’ve watched ABC soap operas since the nineteen seventies early seventies with my aunt. I was crushed when all my children went off the air I was crushed when One Life to Live went off the air but you still left General Hospital and I was able to work that please do not take our last so far away from us
All of you who want GH cancelled, just don”t watch it. I lot of us love it and don’t want to see it go. Please ABC don’t let the other networks have the only soaps. I don’t watch them (I know how to use the remote) but I do watch GH. Come on, with all the re-dos of popular TV series why not keep an original?
I’ve warched GH for almost 40 years. It doesn’t matter if the current plot doesn’t suit me. There are usually 4-5 plot lines going st once and I enjoy most. And no matter what, I enjoy this show. I’ve watched some ridiculous things on GH (Casey the Alien, the Ice Princess storyline with Elizabeth Taylor as Helena Cassidine vowing to freeze Port Charles!), and enjoyed them so I guess I’m more tolerant of Lulu demanding custody of Charlotte than other people. Just leave GH alone, ABC. You took away AMC and OLTL – don’t touch GH. And while you’re at… Read more »
Please, dnt take general hospital off the air!! I’m in a wheelchair & stuck at home …. I got attached to General Hospital in the late 70s, then I watched AMC & OLTL… when y’all got rid of AMC & OLTL, I was heartbroken, but knew I still had my GH… it’s there to watch when I’m in pain & need a place to go to ….. plz dnt take that place away! I cnt stand the othr daytime soaps!!! Marlana sucks & she’s a horrible actress, she Nvr changes! I stopped watching anything except ABC soaps since the 80s!!… Read more »
I have watched GH for years and years, and while one expects soaps to be ridiculous, I finally draw the line at Lulu wanting (demanding) custody of Charlotte, when her connection is the accidental discovery of her genes ONLY. Statements like “they cant take my child away” are too much!
General hospital is one of the most watch soap opera’s it would bd ashme if it did not contiune
If it the most watch why is it rating so loe
Please bring Steve Burton as Jason Morgan so I can watch
Something new lol . My bad
Please cancel this show . It’s time for something it’s been on the air since 1965 .I’m sorry to say this but it only the people from 50 -70 who are afraid of it getting cancelled rating are rating . I think the best time to cancel because the original actors need to retire . Wake up ABC and stop wasting money .
Please do not cancel general hospital…I have been watching this show since I was in 3rd grade.. it’s the only thing I have left to watch on TV that I love….I can’t wait to get home from work and watch my DVR show of general hospital….I am 56 years old…Keep this show…
PLEASE keep GH on the air ! I have been watching this show since 1965! I used to hurray home from school to watch this with my Mother ! I now DVR it every day and watch it every evening . I was extremely upset when All My Children was ripped from the air ! The two shows were the all time favorites!
My favorite on tv. I have watched for years. Hated it when you cancelled all my children. Yes not always able to watch it each day but always record and watch that evening. Please leave our favorite shows alone and KEEP ON GENERAL HOSPITAL