James Franco joins General Hospital -- a soap opera. Huh?!?!?

[RobertScorpio]

Franco is supposedly playing a nemesis of Jason's, which probably means he'll be a decent, honorable, law-abiding citizen... and therefore must be killed because he could ruin Sonny and Jason's lives.

You are so right...

GH was over for me when Robert came to GH/NIGHTSHIFT a year or so ago and they did that tribute episode 'in his mind'...for me, that was the end of General Hospital...

Rob

 

[Colonel Green]

And it's dying because the scripts & characters are unrealistic,

Wrong.

The scripts have always been unrealistic; people don't care. What's killing soaps in America is a combination of changing demographics and economics.

unlike British soaps (Coronation Street, Emmerdale & East Enders),

How many times a week do those air new episodes?

I can't speak to the other two, but I'm pretty sure Coronation Street puts out 5 eps a week.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

And it's dying because the scripts & characters are unrealistic,

Wrong.

The scripts have always been unrealistic; people don't care. What's killing soaps in America is a combination of changing demographics and economics.

Not in England, or South America, I'd wager.

unlike British soaps (Coronation Street, Emmerdale & East Enders),

How many times a week do those air new episodes?

Same amount of time their American counterparts do. And they're all successful because they're not unrealistic bullshit with plastic people (last time I checked.)

Elizabeth Taylor did "General Hospital" back in the "Luke and Laura" days, BTW. She was a huge star, of course - she just liked the show.

More power to her.

So did Sir Ian McKellen on Coronation Street, as a fraudulent so-called writer. But I don't think that it was stunt casting, though.