Although it wound up airing a day after the official 50th anniversary, yesterday’s special episode of GENERAL HOSPITAL had fans — and the Twitterverse — buzzing. Why? Well, let’s look at just a few of the highlights!

While your typical primetime drama is lucky to last long enough to air 50 episodes, the ABC sudser GENERAL HOSPITAL today will mark a truly epic milestone as it broadcasts its 12,785th. As our friend Richard M. Simms, executive editor of Soaps In Depth magazine says, “That’s 12, 302 more episodes than LAW & ORDER
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Over the past few months, GENERAL HOSPITAL fans have been rocked by one revelation after another, from Jason’s death to A.J.’s return… and of course, the moment when Duke ripped off that rubber mask to reveal that he was actually Faison in disguise. And the man who has been behind all of those shocking twists
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When our pals over at Soaps In Depth tweeted on Friday that they’d spoken to Tristan Rogers, we suspected that there was something good coming down the pike. The only question was whether the daytime superstar would be returning to GENERAL HOSPITAL — where he played bad-guy busting, woman-wooing World Security Bureau agent Robert Xavier
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If you’re a soap fan — or follow folks on Twitter who are — you no-doubt know that this morning, the Daytime Emmy nominations came out. And as always during award season, the biggest buzz is not necessarily about who’ll win… but who didn’t make the cut. Certainly this year is no exception, with more
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It turns out everything’s better when done mash-up style… including commercials. Our favorite so far has to have been the downright brilliant ad used to advertise the release of COMMUNITY’s first season on DVD. But this week, a new challenger has stepped into the ring thanks to a celebrity-fuelled, catchy-as-all-get-out ad ABC’s been running for
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Best News, Daytime Division: We’re not sure which was greeted with a louder cheer… word that THE REVOLUTION had been axed or that GENERAL HOSPITAL would be sticking around at least long enough to celebrate its 50th anniversary.   Biggest Negotiating Tactic: Having trouble getting your stars to keep their salary demands in check? Start
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After having suffered more blows than a professional boxer, soap fans finally had a reason to celebrate yesterday when ABC announced that its only remaining daytime drama — GENERAL HOSPITAL — would live to see another day while THE REVOLUTION would be getting the axe. While this means that the sudser will live to see
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In February, NCIS celebrated having filmed 200 episodes over the course of 9 seasons. And kudos to them… but today, THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL — the youngest of the four remaining daytime soaps — celebrates its 25th anniversary. Just to give this accomplishment a little perspective, let’s imagine that NCIS manages to hold on
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Biggest Shocker: We hadn’t even gotten over Dale’s death when THE WALKING DEAD hit us with [Spoiler Alert!].   Television’s Most Wanted, Daytime Division: After watching ONE LIFE TO LIVE’s Blair bond with GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Carly while comparing marital war stories, it became clear that the Port Charles-set sudser needs to sign Kassie DePaiva to
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