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More information to fill the lists for cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012. And this one comes as a big sigh of relief for soap opera fans after a brutal last year that saw the cancellations of One Life to Live and All My Children. But now, ABC renews General Hospital for the fiftieth season. Now that´s a milestone!
When the show starts airing in 2013 it will mark a fifty years uninterrupted run for it. It is the longest-running U.S. soap opera currently in production.
The renewal for General Hospital comes on the heels of GH drawing 2.26 million viewers for the week of March 26, a up a tenth from the previous week.
I usually do the whole What is the show about, with the plot synopsis, but let´s face it… if after fifty years you don´t know what is it all about, you will never catch up; and also, there have been so many storylines that I could not possibly list all of them in this article.
What do you think? Are you happy that General Hospital got renewed for season fifty? Let me know in the comments section.
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YEAH! We are thrilled! I have watched One Life to Live and General Hospital since they started and tho I liked OLTL the best and was crushed that ABC would cancel 2 great soaps in one swoop… I am thrilled they finally saw the light that making that decision was not the best idea and best not to repeat the wrath of loyal viewers so soon again by canceling GH.
GH was getting stale but with the infusion of bringing on the executive producer and head writer from the ill-fated OLTL, GH is not getting a much needed boost. The new team has brought back many fan favorite actors and renewed old storylines from the past, and with the addition of several former OLTL actors/characters being brought onto GH, jilted fans are finally getting some of what they’ve been missing since the January cancellation of OLTL. Wouldn’t it be nice if they added some characters from AMC for those fans too!
I don’t think ABC really thought soap fans would boycott their network, especially not in droves or be so vocal all over the web and social networks. I don’t think their daytime lineup could take a final blow of us leaving for good if they took GH off the air. Many of us are watching nothing but GH right now because of AMC and OLTL being canceled.
As a final note, we the fans of ABC network soaps all want Agnes Nixon, our soap creator from heaven, to get back the rights to her soaps All My Children and One Life to Live so that she and we can one day see our favorite characters again thriving elsewhere since ABC isn’t using the shows anymore and the proposed going online in January was a flop! We still want our shows! But for now, it is great that we still have one ABC soap left and it’s going on to it’s 50th year and that is fantastic news!
Thank you ABC!
correction in my comment, in the sentence “GH was getting stale… GH is not getting a much needed boost. ” should read “GH was getting stale but with the infusion of bringing on the executive producer and head writer from the ill-fated OLTL, GH is NOW getting a much needed boost.”
Very glad G.H. is staying! I was about to start shopping around the other networks to sample their soaps. And contrary to Christies comment my sisters and I were thinking of boycotting ABC. Enough is enough!