General Hospital Cancelled?
Every year the networks does somethign very stupid like cancel a good long running show. With the latest news about GL, is General Hospital next?
About General Hospital
General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the day and on SOAPnet each weeknight. It is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, having been taped at The Prospect Studios (formerly ABC Television Center West) and the Sunset-Gower Studios, as well as the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It becomes the second longest running soap opera in the country, after As The World Turns, on September 18, with the cancellation of Guiding Light. General Hospital also holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, with 10 wins.
Set in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York, General Hospital debuted on April 1, 1963, the same day that rival network NBC launched its own medical daytime drama, The Doctors. General Hospital originally aired for a half-hour, until the network expanded it to 45 minutes in 1976, and then to a full hour in 1978. The serial was created by soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, a husband-and-wife team.
Launched in 1963, the show initially focused on the professional and personal lives of Dr. Steve Hardy and Nurse Jessie Brewer at General Hospital in an unnamed large city. Storylines ultimately branched out to cover the relationships of various families in the city, which by the 1970s was referred to as "Port Charles." Port Charles was described in the show as a sizable city in upstate New York, resembling Buffalo. The 1981 wedding of Luke and Laura, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis, was the most watched event in daytime serial history.