GH In The News: The PC Press Club

[LeftPhalange]

ABC is not going to listen to anything fans have to say on a message board and will continue to let Ron do whatever he wants so I don't even know why they bother asking these questions.

[Chairperson Meow]

Clearly they are trolling us at this point. I say we fight back! Memewar!

[ch1]

I definitely view it as trolling.  I remember reading that board around the time they killed off AJ and they made a post about him and that set people off (I wish I could remember what it was).  Its like they enjoy poking an angry bear.

[dubbel zout]

It's probably something they have to do, i.e., there needs to be a poll every x days. I doubt they pay attention to the responses even if they're positive. They can just tell their bosses, "We got x hits for this poll," and it's about the question format, not the question itself.

[TeeVee329]

Um, weeeeird.

 

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/08/general-hospital-baby-daddy-crossover-kelly-Monaco/

[LeftPhalange]

Could they have chosen a more random show to do a crossover with.

[dubbel zout]

This Week with George Stephanopoulos? Otherwise, no.

[OnceSane]

Um, weeeeird.

 

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/08/general-hospital-baby-daddy-crossover-kelly-Monaco/

 

This may be the oddest thing I've read today.

[Francie]

Um, weeeeird.

 

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/08/general-hospital-baby-daddy-crossover-kelly-Monaco/

 

This is gonna be BIG! Big like when Tony Geary and Genie Francis had a cameo on top-rated network sitcom, Roseanne and she did a cross-over on GH, playing Jennifer Smith. Big as that, I tell ya!

 

We really, truly a sarcasm button, don't we?

 

This Week with George Stephanopoulos? Otherwise, no.

 

That? I would tune in to watch. Imagine the announcer's voice:

 

"Today on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. George sits down with head of the New York Accreditation and Licensing Bureau and asks, "Why hasn't General Hospital's license been revoked?"

 

And our panel, Dr. Leisl Obrecht, Franco, John McCain, and Spencer Cassadine discuss Syria, Israel, and other tensions in the Mideast.

 

Meanwhile, on GH, George can play Aristos Cassadine, the only Cassadine who actually looks Greek.

Edited September 8, 2014 by Francie

[TeeVee329]

I mean, "All My Children" and "Hot in Cleveland" did something similar, but that made sense because La Lucci had guest starred and been mentioned a bunch of times on "Hot In Cleveland" and had an established rivalry with Wendie Malick's character.

 

This is just...what?

[GHScorpiosRule]

I mean, "All My Children" and "Hot in Cleveland" did something similar, but that made sense because La Lucci had guest starred and been mentioned a bunch of times on "Hot In Cleveland" and had an established rivalry with Wendie Malick's character.

 

This is just...what?

 

Desperation works for me.

[Chairperson Meow]

I would welcome Roseanne any day.

[Tiger]

Luke & Laura on Roseanne and then Bar coming on as Jennifer Smith was so cool.  

 

But this?  Baby Daddy is a low-rated show on a cable network.  

 

If ABC really wanted to cross-promote, they would do something cool like have Prof. Annalise Keeting or Olivia Pope or Meredith Grey be in a scene watching GH and then exchange a line of dialogue with another character about the show, and then move on.   And then you could have say Sam and Patrick talk about watching How to Get Away with Murder or Scandal.    

[Chairperson Meow]

I'd love it if Dr O admitted she was a fan.

[LeftPhalange]

I'm pretty sure most of the people who watch Baby Daddy have no interest in ever watching GH and most of the people who watch GH have probably never even heard of Baby Daddy.

[Chairperson Meow]

A Pretty Little Liars cross over, I'd get behind, but their cast is smarter than everyone in PC. Though the infamous "Act normal bitch!" thing from A could come in very handy for like every character.

[jennifer6973]

If they were gonna have a crossover, they should have Chelsea Kane do it, since she was once on DWTS.

[OnceSane]

I'm pretty sure most of the people who watch Baby Daddy have no interest in ever watching GH and most of the people who watch GH have probably never even heard of Baby Daddy.

 

I've heard of Baby Daddy, but never had the urge to watch.  Okay, maybe once when I was bored & scrolling through Netflix I thought, "Maybe"...& then watched something else instead.

[OnceSane]

I brought this over from the Doppelganger thread:

 

 

Kelly Sullivan ex. Kannie has been cast on Y&R.

 

How long until GH snags yet another former Y&R actor?  A week?  A month?  525,600 minutes?

[Sake614]

Well, the great GH/Y&R cast swap continues. Kelly Sullivan has joined Y&R. On the plus side, at least she won't be back here. On the minus side, now I have to see her on Y&R :(

[Tiger]

Didn't she land some Nickelodeon show?

[jennifer6973]

Henry Danger

[ulkis]

I wonder if that's not a bit of a reaction to the Guza years, where there was an actor (Maurice Bernard, later Steve Burton) that was big enough to hijack the show.  Although I wouldn't say they "got" big, more they were "made" big.

 

I think Brenda and Sonny were genuinely very popular. I think he got big. Steve/Jason I think were made big.

[Tiger]

The Sonny/Brenda/Jax triangle was insanely popular in 96/7, as was Sonny/Brenda on its own. . I believe i was in sixth and seventh grade at that time and everyone at school was watching and talking about the show.

And then 99 hit and suddenly everyone was about Passions which I thought was dumb as Kiki. I stuck with GH and frankly I think of that year as the last of the shows golden age (93-99).

Edited September 10, 2014 by Tiger

[LegalParrot81]

I brought this over from the Doppelganger thread:

 

 

How long until GH snags yet another former Y&R actor?  A week?  A month?  525,600 minutes?

 

Y&R needs one more former GH actor to make the swap equal and then hopefully they'll be done. 

 

GH it's MS, BM, ER and MW

 

Y&R it's SBu, TR & KS.  

[jennifer6973]

I think Y&R needs to snag a couple more then that, because the last one they just took isn't really all that.

[Sake614]

While there are plenty of people I'd like to see gone from GH, I don't want any of them showing up on Y&R.

[Tiger]

I have a colleague who has watched y&r for years and HATES Stevie B's character and what Jill has done generally. I'm trying to find a clip of KSu's finest eyebrow wiggle acting to send her.

[Chairperson Meow]

Yeah, I have a friend who keeps asking me as a GH watcher to take Burton back. I told her no. I sent her the Stabbing of Cake clip. She about lost her shit.

[Chairperson Meow]

If anyone should be involved it's Bryan Craig. He's young and hot and is a baby daddy on the show. He'd appeal to the demographic.

[magnolia11]

I've got a friend like that too, Grrpants09.  She is despondent that we GH-ers get Billy Miller and she is stuck with Burton, and she keeps begging for a "reverse trade."  I keep telling her, "Nope, sorry, enjoy Steve Burton."  I haven't even discussed Kelly Sullivan with her yet.

[Chairperson Meow]

I just sent her Connie and Ewen discussing Connie's rape in the psych ward.

She called me names Uncle Sonny uses. I laughed.

[yowsah1]

I think Y&R needs to snag a couple more then that, because the last one they just took isn't really all that.

 

The first one they took wasn't all that, either.

[jsbt]

I wanted to post this old Karen Harris interview, from 2011, because I think it's relevant to both BTS and the past. It's three parts; the first is at the link, and the others are linked within.

 

I loved a lot of Karen Harris's work at Port Charles and also on GH, where she wrote for many years. I'd forgotten how many pivotal, famous scenes she wrote from my childhood - Lucky learning Laura's pregnant, Sonny and Brenda and the car. While she seems ambivalent about some of the changes on the show, I frankly think she's too close to the work and to Guza to be fully objective about what they wrought (and I think Michele ValJean has come off the same way in some press, if not moreso). Still, I always thought Harris was one of the best doing the best she could, and I think it's tragic that writers like her and ValJean aren't at the show anymore.

[Harmony233]

What year did Karen Harris write PC? I really enjoy the early years of PC before they went off the rails and started writing about vampires and stuff.

[ulkis]

So she did get fired. That's unfortunate. She was definitely their best writer.

 

I like how she said "I don't remember what I wrote last week. I think it had Dante in it though." heh.

[LegalParrot81]

 

Lucky learning Laura's pregnant,

 

I loved that entire sequence. Beautifully written, beautifully acted.

 

I think this interview tells us a lot about why this show is in such writing, execution and continuity chaos.

[mybabyaidan]

At the risk of outing myself....Well, actually not the risk...I am outing myself here....I used to watch Baby Daddy.  It was a guilty pleasure, and one of the leads, Derek Theler Is smoking hot.  Ok, now that that's out there in the world....

 

It is totally a random show to crossover.  But I am interested to see Kelly play a caricature of herself.  She is naturally funny, so I know she'll be hilarious.

 

They probably picked KeMo because she is one of the most easily recognized to non GH viewers because of DWTS.

Edited September 11, 2014 by mybabyaidan

[dubbel zout]

I think this interview tells us a lot about why this show is in such writing, execution and continuity chaos.

When she said the emphasis was in turning the scripts in on time instead of getting them right, that says it all. And the fact that they have only five days to write instead of seven. When the show feels slapped together, it's because it was.

[testardo]

I know Maybe Y&R can snag FrankenROn. That would be a plus for GH and US!

[jsbt]

According to Wikipedia, Harris headwrote PC from January to November 2000 (and apparently stayed on staff through '02, according to her interview?). I could've sworn it was a bit longer than that, but I remember really digging her run with the nurses' strike, etc.

 

 

 

I came back to ABC when they asked me to head write "Port Charles" after Lynn Latham left. Scott Hamner had worked with Lynn and he was there in the interim and then I came in. I brought in a co-head writer with me, someone from Primetime, but that didn’t work out so that's when Barbara Bloom came down from the tower. Julie Caruthers and I encouraged her to give up the tower and come join us in the trenches. And then I left there when they started doing the 13-week cycles.

 

So, before the vampires?

 

Before the vampires. I did the nurses' strike and all of that. That was my period. Jamal [Kiko Ellsworth] and Alison [Erin Hershey] were characters that I brought in. I had nothing against vampires and witches and I would have loved to have done that, but I just couldn't seem to wrap my mind around having them in Port Charles because I was so connected to the "General Hospital" side. It was hard for me to accept that Kevin [Jon Lindstrom], who I had been writing since he was Ryan [laughs], that Kevin and Lucy [Lynn Herring] were suddenly fighting off vampires and time travelers and all that. It was like, wait a minute. It meant no crossovers, which I wanted to do crossovers more. So, I left and [barbara Esensten and Jim Brown] were brought in. I had gone to work on a syndicated series. I went to work on "Highlander." I worked on "Highlander" and I worked on the spin-off "Highlander: The Raven" and I worked on a show called "Jack London's Tale of the South Seas." My other career was in basically syndicated action shows, once I left the network. They asked if I would come back and write scripts in between…I had a wonderful arrangement. ABC was very kind to me. I had a great arrangement where if I wasn't, and Julie made it work, if I wasn't writing on a series I could come back and write scripts for the show.

 

I think that last is where her occasional credits up to 2002 may have come from. She returned to GH in 2005 - I was unaware of her AMC stint the year before.

Edited September 11, 2014 by jsbt

[MSquared]

Wow, OT and sorry, but she wrote for "Highlander"?  Awesome!

[Harmony233]

Speaking of PC I was watching old eps like 97 and they had guza listed as an consultant that was weird lol.

[yowsah1]

I know Maybe Y&R can snag FrankenROn. That would be a plus for GH and US!

 

Thing is, I truly fear who they would bring in their place.  I remember when GH got shut of Megan McTavish.  People at the time were breathing huge sighs of relief - no one could be worse than her, we all thought.  Then Guza blew in and began his two-decade reign of destruction*.

 

The takeaway I got from that is, "it can always get worse.  So very, very much worse."

 

 

* - The writing went up on the wall when Guza took the one thing that McTavish had done right - CourAJ - and promptly wrecked it.

[jsbt]

They're not replacing them. Not unless the entire line-up falls apart around them and GH has more room to be retooled, or FV somehow goes overbudget, which will never happen. This team is it.

Edited September 12, 2014 by jsbt

[ulkis]

Thing is, I truly fear who they would bring in their place.  I remember when GH got shut of Megan McTavish.  People at the time were breathing huge sighs of relief - no one could be worse than her, we all thought.  Then Guza blew in and began his two-decade reign of destruction*.

 

The takeaway I got from that is, "it can always get worse.  So very, very much worse."

 

 

* - The writing went up on the wall when Guza took the one thing that McTavish had done right - CourAJ - and promptly wrecked it.

 

:raises hand: I thought Guza was better than McTavish, always. Even though I hated 95% of the stuff from 2001-2005, McTavish is imo definitely the worst writer GH has had from among Carlivati, Wolf, her and Guza.

 

Although if Wolf had been allowed to stick around I think he might have quickly overcome McTavish. (or slowly, since his pacing took for-freaking-ever.)

[Harmony233]

Mactavish didn't bother me.She was more boring than anything to me.I can name about 100 different things I hated about guza like the destruction of the vets.Guza to me was worse because he killed off legacy charcters and destruction of vets ect.RC GH is just a mess.

[ulkis]

Trust me, McTavish would have gotten there. I'm pretty sure there were plans to get rid of Jackie Zeman/Bobbie under her tenure and replace her essentially with Melissa Bedford, played by that actress from Another World.

[GHScorpiosRule]

I'm glad Wolf is gone because he's the one who came up with the great idea of having Lisa infect people with Robin's HIV blood.

 

And his lame "and then they come back!" or was it "But...they come back!" regarding Vets and characters that had been killed off, raising my hopes that Alan and Rick would have returned alive, and yes, at the time, AJ too.

 

Bloody liar.

[Harmony233]

Trust me, McTavish would have gotten there. I'm pretty sure there were plans to get rid of Jackie Zeman/Bobbie under her tenure and replace her essentially with Melissa Bedford, played by that actress from Another World.

Probally I'm sure however sadly I don't think JZ had a chance since JFP pretty much told Jackie and Kin nobody wanted to see old people kissing which was kinda ironic since Kin had just came off port Charles where he was a lead.One thing I will give RC and FV credit for is the older characters getting love.