Though One Life to Live is poised to sign off tomorrow, four of the characters from the cancelled soap will live on. They’re moving to General Hospital, the network’s sole-surviving soap opera.
Kristen Alderson (Starr), Michael Easton (John), Kassie DePaiva (Blair) and Roger Howarth (Todd) will begin shooting their first General Hospital scenes at the end of this month when production resumes. General Hospital kicks off its 49th season on April 1st. It’s the longest-running network soap still on the air.
Of the news, executive producer Frank Valenti said, “We have a very exciting story planned for the citizens of Port Charles, with Sonny Corinthos at the center of it… Incorporating characters from One Life to Live continues the legacy of the show as we weave them into General Hospital.” Valenti and head writer Ron Carlivati moved to General Hospital last month after One Life to Live wrapped. They replaced Jill Farren Phelps and Garin Wolf.
For the time being, General Hospital will continue on ABC. However, there’s no guarantee of how long it will keep going. General Hospital, like all of the network soaps, aren’t cheap to produce and have seen their viewer numbers dwindle.
This week, ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee noted, “I am a fan of General Hospital, but we have not made a decision on its future and don’t really have a time frame for it either.”
In the fall, Katie Couric starts her own daytime talk show on the network and there has been much speculation that her new series will end up taking General Hospital’s place on the schedule.
What do you think? Do you like that OLTL characters are coming to General Hospital? Do you think General Hospital will be cancelled before the end of the year?
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I love general hospital it’s my favorite I was depressed when it’ll was cancelled the people were like family to me mr Paul ler abc president please keep gh I will not watch Katie she’s nothing like Oprah she’s just greedy for money it’s all about the loot
I swore that I would not watch another soap opera ever again. Once One Life to Live and All My Children were canceled. I was extremely upset and felt like we were let down. However, if some of the characters OLTL are moving into General Hospital, I’m all for it. I don’t watch General Hospital as often but, I will now! I just wish it would be possible to moved them to Soap Net and not cancel. My mother began watching, All My Children and One Life to Live when she was in her 20’s. I began when I was… Read more »
Please do not cancel GH it is my favorite show. As for Katie Couric, she sucks! She bombed on the evening news show she was on. I will not watch her show and have not watched the show the replaced AMC, nor will I watch the one that is replacing OLTL.
Again, please do not cancel GH! Leave us something to watch during the day.
Please oh Please bring them all to GH if you can. I will miss them all!
General Hospital is my favorite soap, I used watch all 3 soaps with my MOM, who is no longer here, and watching the ABC soaps keeps me close to my MOM, so taking them off 1 by 1 is hard for me, I’m glad that some characters from One Life to Live or living on,but if they would have just knocked them down to a half hour, nobody would had to lose their jobs, and we would still have our SOAPS. Stop with all the reality, we have enough in this world, sometimes, people just want to get away and… Read more »
I should have mention, you would not bring back Genie Francis and was unable to keep Jonathan Jackson which is the best.
I truly believe that the break up of Jason and Elizabeth, killing off the Q’s is a great part of loosing veiws, not to mention it so much volience in the real world and to have the charater of Sonny get away with so much killing, things he does. Who gives him the right to take over AJ son when he was not much better in fact worse then AJ and more recently Jax is a good Father and interferred with his relationship to his daughter. Then there’s Jason with his crime and marring the woment who stood by and… Read more »
I missone life to live already. I am thrilled that some are coming to general hospital. I really hope that they come as their old characters.
I like my soaps. We have to many reality,talk and dr and cooking shows. What is it with everyone that they can’t have a good old soap opera to relax. Women and some men even enjoy them. I started as a small child listening to soaps as my mom ironed clothes on the radio. Now I do the wash and fold clothes and do work that can be done where Iam watching OLTL and General Hospital. I am glad to see some of the OLTL stars will still have a job. I am not going to watch the Chew or… Read more »
One Life to Live… <3 I loved that show. I loved All My Children. I was ne'er a big fan of General Hospital. I don't think it will last much longer, but I hope it does, and I guess I'll watch it more, now, since some of the OLTL characters are gonna be there.
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please bring back my show im 44 yrs old ive been watching one life to live for more than 29 yrs when i was first pregnet with my son who now in feb 14 will be 30yrs old .i was a loyal fan what about fans like us that wated every day for our soaps to come on i left the young and the restlers to see one life to live and now there gone im happy im going to see them in general hospital but are they going to be the same people the mannings in or there going… Read more »
Please bring back OLTL. It was the only show I watched other than the news. I planned my whole day around this show. I am devastated. I will watch GH, but it will not be the same.
I don’t think the net work really knows how many people really relied on watching the shows. It was the one part of the day you could lose yourself and really get into the plots and couldn’t wait for the next day and heaven forbid it’s friday and there’s a cliff hanger! I really hope something can be put together to put them on again or even on another network or online, i guess for now I will have to watch my faves on general hospital, but it sounds like that show may not last much longer either !. very… Read more »