Soap opera productions have shut down out of precaution during the coronavirus pandemic, so “General Hospital” star Nancy Lee Grahn, who has played lawyer Alexis Davis on the ABC serial for more than 20 years, has taken to the web. On March 20 she and co-host Kaore Bonell shared the first episode of their at-home talk show “Soaps in Quarantine” where they interview colleagues James Patrick Stuart (Valentin Cassadine on “Gh”) and Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Summers on “The Young and the Restless”). Watch above.
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“We’re all sitting home with nothing to do, and because we’re actors and writers and performers, we don’t have an audience, so we need to do this or we’ll go mad,” Grahn explains. They discuss, among other things, whether soaps should address Covid-19 on-air when they go back in production. “I was reading Twitter comments,...
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“We’re all sitting home with nothing to do, and because we’re actors and writers and performers, we don’t have an audience, so we need to do this or we’ll go mad,” Grahn explains. They discuss, among other things, whether soaps should address Covid-19 on-air when they go back in production. “I was reading Twitter comments,...
- 3/21/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Daytime Emmys 2020 called off due to coronavirus: ‘It would simply be irresponsible to move forward’
The Daytime Emmy Awards will not be going ahead as scheduled. The 47th annual event honoring the best in daytime dramas, talk shows, game shows and more had been scheduled to be handed out over the course of three nights from June 12 to June 14 (two Creative Arts ceremonies followed by the main event). But even with the awards three months away the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences isn’t taking any chances given the rapid spread of the coronavirus around the world.
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NATAS chairman Terry O’Reilly said in a statement, “Given our concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic, we have decided that we will not be staging the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena this coming June. As there are so many unknowns right now with the flow...
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NATAS chairman Terry O’Reilly said in a statement, “Given our concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic, we have decided that we will not be staging the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena this coming June. As there are so many unknowns right now with the flow...
- 3/20/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
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The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the entertainment industry into turmoil, shuttering a number of TV shows from late night to daytime. That includes the ABC soap “General Hospital” — and let’s hope that’s the only hospital closure we have to worry about. That reminded me of the time when “Gh” itself dramatized a viral epidemic. In 2006 a highly contagious encephalitis tore through the town of Port Charles, killing Dr. Tony Jones (Brad Maule). If you’ve got time on your hands due to business closures and social distancing, relive his heartbreaking last scenes above.
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Maule joined the cast as Tony in 1984 and played him for more than 20 years before he was killed off in the fictional epidemic. One of his most famous storylines came in 1994 when his daughter Bj was critically injured in an accident and...
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Maule joined the cast as Tony in 1984 and played him for more than 20 years before he was killed off in the fictional epidemic. One of his most famous storylines came in 1994 when his daughter Bj was critically injured in an accident and...
- 3/18/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
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In what hopefully will not be a scary metaphor for the American health care system, “General Hospital” joins the list of TV and film productions that have been shut down by coronavirus pandemic. It ceased production starting Monday, March 16, and will be shuttered until April 10, but ABC doesn’t currently expect any interruption of the show’s broadcast schedule.
“Gh” is no stranger to medical crises on screen, of course. The series is set in the title hospital in the fictional town of Port Charles, New York. In 2006 the show even featured its own viral outbreak, during which writers killed off characters Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and Courtney Matthews (Alicia Leigh Willis). Few could have anticipated that an off-screen health crisis would have an even more drastic effect on the series.
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“Gh” is no stranger to medical crises on screen, of course. The series is set in the title hospital in the fictional town of Port Charles, New York. In 2006 the show even featured its own viral outbreak, during which writers killed off characters Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and Courtney Matthews (Alicia Leigh Willis). Few could have anticipated that an off-screen health crisis would have an even more drastic effect on the series.
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- 3/17/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
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