Katie Couric To ABC - "General Hospital" May Have To Go

[Markxxx]

Katie Couric and ABC television are on the verge of signing a $20 million deal, which would give Katie her own talk show, as well as significant involvement in ABC News – and the big casualty could be “General Hospital.”…

…ABC would also give Katie a 1-hour, 5-day-a-week syndicated talk show, that would begin in September, 2012. Our sources say … one option ABC is considering is giving its affiliates back the hour where “General Hospital” airs to make room for Katie. In other words, ABC would axe the third longest-running soap in history and the last one standing on ABC.

Full Story at TMZ

So what do you all think? ABC is already getting rid of two soap operas this fall and GH may be the last ABC to go.

[Larry_Mudd]

@Markxxx

So what do you all think?

I think that the operators of a website valued at over six million dollars ought to be able to afford to pay someone to spend more than a minute on a photo-illustration. Jesus Christ.

[control-z]

Not a good way to start, pissing off however many million viewers GH has.

And don’t we already have enough talk shows?

[SpoilerVirgin]

Soaps are dying. It’s sad for those of us who were fans, but you might as well lament the absence of rotary phones, or television westerns for that matter. Whether GH goes now to make room for Katie, or in the next few years doesn’t really matter. It will go, like all of the rest of the soaps.

[BigT]

@Larry_Mudd

I think that the operators of a website valued at over six million dollars ought to be able to afford to pay someone to spend more than a minute on a photo-illustration. Jesus Christ.

Agreed. Wow. That looks horrible.