That Port Charles Show

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Valentin is so fucking hot.

Missing DeVry already (sob).

I'm about three days behind- what happened with Julian? Did he fake his death and go underground?

I am here!

Want to see Daddy Julian go at it with Lucas! Or at least a drunk Michael and Chase hook up.

GH is so vanilla.

Gregory Harrison is still so hot. He looks more like ME's brother than his father. Maybe if they really do make Chase Finn's son, then Chase and dad can have a go.

^meaning GH, not ME. Yuck.

I think the Jackie thread finally locked up.

Right you are, R10. It got an extended life because we picked up a few extra new posters toward the end. Number of posters x 8 is usually when it shuts down.

I'm a little behind, but I understand Sasha had a big day on Friday? I was so hoping Cyrus was going to get her strung out and run her as a high-priced yacht girl. After he strong-armed the Haunted Star away from Lulu, of course.

I♥️WdV.

How did Ava’s daughter end up with the necklace? I hadn’t been watching until Genie returned.

When Ava and Avery went to the cabin for a getaway (same cabin Nelle hid out at), Avery wandered away in the middle of the night and she found the necklace. IIRC Ava didn't see the necklace and Avery hid it away in her backpack.

Thanks R14

Nelle being Nina's daughter is so stupid.

I loved Nelle at first, but her story arc got dumb and annoying. She should've been the daughter of Karen or Hannah or AJ out for revenge.

So they're really killing off Lulu? So exciting. Her first death! Every member of the Spencer/ Cassadine clan has died or been presumed dead at least once. Nicholas did it twice, and I think was killed off 3 times.

Maybe when they resurrect her, Julie Berman will return.

^^I think Laura was killed or presumed dead three times.

Will DeVry makes me hard......down there.

R19 I thought he made you moist. Which is it?

He makes me hard in one place and moist in another. I love William de Vry!

I like Chad Duell and his dick of death.

Is the Floating Rib going KABOOM! this week?

We can't we get a scene of Chad Duell in the shower, like we had for the hot cop two weeks ago? At least an image of the Great Bulge in the towel?

I hope before he leaves, Julian will fuck Valentin.

I think we got the explosion last week with Alex's near miss on Anna and Valentin. Unless the show is trying to spend its special effects budget before year-end, I don't think we'll see another explosion for a while

Not Susan Moore’s Floating Rib! No. Alice Grant used to go there wearing her tattered coat.

Okay you core DL GH'ers. Trivia question going wayyyy back. How did Lesley Meet Rick Webber? A long-forgotten character introduced them. A character that was center-stage when she was on, then disappeared never to be heard from - or heard about! - ever again. Apparently even more obscure than Pat, Bobbie and Luke's sister.

Alex Quartermaine?

Is this NuLucas a recast or just a temp?

Terri Arnett?

Yes R31. The completely forgotten older sister of Rick and Jeff. I'm surprised this character has never been mined for offspring. Is Elizabeth aware she even has an Aunt? I wonder if Becky Herbst even knows. lol

I remember Terri Arnett! She used to play the same song, again and again, on her little electric piano and sing along. Was it "For all we know, we may never meet again?" She was in love with a doctor friend of her brothers, who had a wife in a sanitarium, as I recall.

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Maybe it's a temp r30 who filled in while Ryan was busy with another project.

New Lucas is WAY hotter than old Lucas! Keep him, Miss Frank.

who is New Lucas?

I think Terri was in before her brothers as well. Her doctor friend was an actor stolen from The Doctors. I can’t remember his name. And his wife was Julie Toland from OLTL. I’m too lazy to look up the actor’s and character’s names.

New Lucas, C. J. Thomason, is an old Lucas. He played Lucas form 2002-2003. I wasn't watching with any regularity then so I don't remember him.

I think there’s another explosion this Friday.

Terri was mixed up with Dr .Nick Dante (Gerard Gordon ) . He had a sister Dr. Gina Dante ( Anna Stuart) . She ended up with Dr . Gary Lansing . I want to say his brother Howard Lansing, was played by Daniel J Travanti .

It’s still so bizarre to me that Liz Webber has been on 23 years and they never established a real family for her.

Daytime Confidential claims that the Lucas recast is actor Matt Trudeau while other sites says it's C.J. Thomason. DC also claims that the recast is not a temp.

Temp Brook Lynn is done taping. I really enjoyed her in the role. More than AS actually. She had more chemistry with her costars IMO.

Why wasn’t Miss Valentini wearing a mask in the pic of the Brooke Lunn actress?

The temp Brook Lynn grew into the role. AS can take her time coming back

Do you think that Chase will claim to be the daddy of Brook Lynn's baby?

Brook Lynn shouldn't expect her new Quartermaine heir to live off child support from a PC detective salary, she needs to come back to PC, march into the office of the current ELQ chairman and demand to get PAID!

You all should really be tuning into THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, television’s number one daytime drama. Kay, as played by me, Scoche Marin, already has the glow of pregnancy. This will develop into an umbrella story for the entire canvas. Every character will be connected to the love child of Nicholas Newman and Katherine Shepherd Reynolds Chancellor Thurston Sterling Murphy.

Liz should have a family on this canvas! I’d love to meet her mother who abandoned her. Played by a name soap diva! Or her adventure seeking father. And of course a revamped Doctor Sarah Weber to continue the sibling rivalry dynamic.

I’d even take Steven Lars back! Or Budig as faux sis!

I hate Budig. Never got the hype.

What about Heather? I wouldn't mind her back for a while. I would love for them to bring on ES, OLTL's Viki, for scenes with Franco. What ever happened to the actress who played Brooke on AMC? She was one of the few AMC actresses I could tolerate.

Will Luke return for Lulu's funeral? What about Lucky?

I think Robin Mattson has retired according to Kin Shriner.

Did gay Kin ever do Luke (Tony)? Genie was working with 2 gay men.

Tristan / Scorpio a gay too? Ian Buchanan/ Duke is. What other GH males?

Not me!

Kin can do way better than tony. Yuck.

Mo stammering and sputtering his way through scenes and it's obvious when he forgets his lines.

I don’t understand the hospital takeover angle if Cyrus is connected to the David Hamilton story.

Peter has NO ASS but the rest of him looked particularly delicious today.

Tears in MW's eyes yesterday in last scene with WdV

Tears in WdV's eyes today in last scene with NLG.

ER unable to muster any real tears in her last scene with GF because she's pissed.

GF will be giving a master class in crying next week.

I can’t warm up to Genie.

I won’t miss ER but damn, who did WDv piss off to get this exit storyline?

What is going on with Rebecca Herbst’s hair?!?

WdV must have coughed in Frankie's face to get this storyline. It's going to need to be a hell of a redemption to get past this one.

Still can't believe that we're going to have to watch Laura grieve over another "dead" child. Hopefully, it's just Lulu in a long, long coma

R65 I ask the same thing everyday. It looks like it went through a shredder. Just awful. She needs to chop off the ends ASAP.

R66 There are rumors they’re recasting Lulu. IDK. Julian is gone so they don’t need to worry about a redemption story. But holy shit.

If Lulu dies, are they going to at least bring back her brother Lucky for the funeral?

What about Luke? Will he show up? Or maybe that's why Tracey is returning to town.

Jane Elliott is coming back.

They didn’t even ask Miss Geary back.

I will tune out after de Vry leaves. The hottest man by far on GH. Who else is there?

Ryan Carnes - oh wait he’s gone too.

Yeah GH is lacking hot men. old man Burton not cutting it.

I loved Lucas Jones' (Ryan Carnes') first bed scenes with boyfriend Brad a few years ago. He was so obviously a bottom. I didn't think the daytime show would go there (it was always ambiguous with Days of Our Lives and One Life to Live gay couples). But the scene was directed such that Lucas Jones couldn't wait to pull Brad on top of him. I was just waiting for Lucas to pull his legs up in the air.

R71 Mo

Michael and Chase are bland BUT If we saw them go at it maybe collectively could be watchable?

MIchael has sexual chemistry with the men on the show... they should just go there

Mo and Steve Burton are still virulent, vital men in their prime and will be more than enough to satisfy all of the audience's needs.

Word on set is that there is not a dry pair of panties in the house when Mo and Steve are doing scenes 💪🍑💦

Virulent? Is it a mandemic?

I love Mo &Steve

I’m still employed!

Just finished catching up on a week's worth of episodes.

Show is firing on all cylinders. Great November sweeps payoffs. Storylines moving nicely and keeping me involved. Don't know when the last time I enjoyed a GH November sweeps so much!

Really helps to have a good villain. Show has needed a Cyrus Renault character for a while. One that can really pose a threat to Sonny, The Good Mobster.

It'll take some adjustment to NuLucas, but I like the actor so far. He looks rather like a young Gilles Marini . I guess Ryan Carnes is getting lots of other work and has limited availability for GH. That would explain why the Wiley-reveal in February felt so rushed -- Carnes only had a few days available to film them.

The weakest actor in the cast continues to be Marcus Coloma. His attempt to have Nikolas be big and bad claiming he had Ryan stabbed in prison was laughable. Don't understand why he hasn't been replaced by now. Is he giving Frank blow jobs on lunch break?

You are the weakest link Goodbye homox

Not a SB/Jackal fan but did watch this episode with Jeff Kober. JK says towards the end Cyrus was supposed to die awhile ago but they like his work so they continue to write for him and are pretty much letting him do what he wants with the character. The mandatory MB stroking was done by both hosts and guest.

I think Howarth is worse than Coloma. I can’t even take Franco’s tumor storyline seriously because RoHo can’t let go of the clown act.

I agree with R84 .

We know Roger Howarth is capable of better performances, when he is motivated by the material. We saw what he could do during his first few years on OLTL.

We don't have any evidence that Marcus Coloma is capable of better performances. What we're seeing from him may be as good as it will ever get.

I hate Franco so much. Such a boring, pointless character.

Bring back Tyler as Nik and Ryan as Lucas!

Roger Howarth makes me all hard down there!

Howarth does have a strange sexiness about him. I imagine him to be an animal in bed. Weird face, good body, fine ass. Nutty personality. Yep, gets me hard, too.

Of course that dumb ugly Alan Sarapa from twitter managed to put ugly chipmunk toothed Eden McCoy into his best category. Eden is nice to him. Alan Sarapa is not objective. Asshole.

Tyler is never returning.

Last heard on the Floating Rib's jukebox:

The Blasters

The Smithereens

TNT, by ACDC

Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights

Ava thinks that Nik arranging Juilan to get out of town is a good idea?

LMAO @ Sonn'y reaction to Dev's death. "Damn it!" as if he just stubbed his toe.

Sonny's*

Bad acting all around today including Genie and the confession scenes with MB. Bad, bad day when Emme gives the best performance. Geez.

Is Lulu going to have a delayed reaction to her head injury, a la Natasha Richardson? Or just be "sent away" for her safety?

Maybe Lulu will just walk into a room one day and there will be an old-school - "The part of Lulu is now being played by..." and we'll have our nuLulu

I’m thinking she doesn’t die, leaves town and comes back with a new face. I’m not sure why WDV gets to talk about his exit while ER can’t.

Lulu hasn’t worked since JMB left. Could see Dante and Maxie falling in love as they mourn Lulu! Both of those actors need a viable romance.

Maxie, needs a one way ticket out of PC. Getting rid of Lulu is a good thing, getting rid of Lulu and Maxie would have been a better thing.

Temporary recast of Taggert starting mid Dec.

Part of me is wondering if Julie Marie Berman IS returning as Lulu and they've somehow kept it under wraps. I could see JMB and her husband needing the money due to the pandemic, and it would explain how secretive Emme is being about her exit, as opposed to Will DeVry. It would be pretty dumb to kill off a legacy character like Luke and Laura's daughter, so I'm starting to think they might have recast .

Genie has worked primarily with Emme so it will be interesting to see her work with Julie, if she is coming back.

GF and ER always seemed off in their scenes. Maybe I just got spoiled watching her and JJ. I’d welcome another actress other than JMB. I cannot stand the character and hated both JMB and ER but I get that Lulu *should* be on canvas. There is speculation that ER is returning as recurring though.

Maxie and Dante would be hilarious just for their size difference alone.

Are there any former OLTL actresses who might fit as Lulu? FV does like his OLTL alumni.

The Jen Rappaport actress had a similar look, but who knows now.

Miss Victoria Sleestack is the new LuLu.

R108 God no. Jessica Morris was horrific. Probably worse than Emme. I wouldn’t mind Stephanie Gatschet.

Should I, Scoche Marin, play the new Lulu?

They need to rethink the Spencer daughter character before just recasting with just anyone. ER was a name from Y and R and a disaster.

ER would’ve been better as a Maxie recast. KSt needs to retire.

Um, where's the pizza?

Genie looks old. What happened to her?

R115 She suffers from a rare condition where she's 58 years old.

If she cut her hair, lost weight and had better wardrobe she’d look years younger.

Genie is a mess! Bad hair, too much weight, bad wardrobe.

R116 Nancy Lee Grahn is 64 and she looks much better than Genie at 58. I’m shocked that Genie is only 58. Wow!

New ad campaign touts GH as TV's Longest Running Drama. It 57.5 year longevity on TV now beats the previous record held by Guiding Light's run on TV

Sorry GH but you are actually number 2.

AMERICAN TV's longest running drama. Coronation Street started in 1960

R121 I was about to point that out.

Oh, Damn! Genie is a 58 year old mother who doesn't have pieces, bleach her hair or get botox??? Cancel her!

If you think what's lurking under Laura Wright's extra large caftans is a body made by Peleton, think again.

Sorry but Genie looks terrible!

They don’t style her hair, her makeup is drab and her wardrobe is from dressbarn! Hideous!

R126 That is the problem. LC(Monica) is like 17 years older than GF, she is no longer great looking but they do style her. She and Genie look like contemporaries instead of Monica being a contemporary of Laura's mother.

Jane looks amazing.

Is this going to become a regular occurrence of Jane Elliott returning every year for the holidays? I'm not complaining, it's a great gift to the fans.

Some days Genie doesn’t look horrible. Then the next day it looks like she didn’t wash her hair. And the wardrobe is awful. I would think she could do something about the way she looks.

Any chance they will replace this miscast Nik actor with someone with some presence and acting ability?

Did you see Brando and Sasha's scenes today R131? NuNik is the least of GH's problems.

I only watched the last ten minutes today. Stumpy repeatedly poking his finger at the guy's head was hilarious. Does he think that makes him look tough? It makes him look, well, ridiculous. He wouldn't know how a mobster behaves in any universe. Genie Francis brought tears to my eyes not once, but twice in the episode's scenes when she is being cheered up, once when she hugged Robert Scorpio and the other time when she hugged Tracey. She kills it!

I'm only up to the Monday 11/23/20 show. I was really disappointed. I thought Lulu dies. She's fine and healthy as a horse by the end of the episode. He boyfriend dies and Dev dies, big deal, two characters that no one even knew were still on the show.

Any rumors to give hope that something else takes Lulu and quickly and even better takes Maxie along with her?

Why are they all touching each other when they shoot in El Lay, covid capital of the nation? Yeah, they get tested regularly but still. Testing is only a snapshot in time.

Another casualty this week as someone steps between Epiphany and the hospital pizza delivery

I appreciate FV deciding to recast Lulu if that’s what is going on because ER was absolutely horrible but how on earth do we still have KSt?

And I’m okay with MC as NuNik tbh. I do wish they’d get him out of the Ava bubble. I want to see him interacting with NLG and GF. Nik should’ve been at Alexis’s intervention.

You know, if GH was intent on killing off a few utility players to bring down it's budget, instead of blowing up the Floating Rib, it could have done something important. It could have come back with a Covid storyline and killed the characters off that way.....starting with Mike, (which would have made perfect sense).

And if they had really wanted Cyrus to come of villainous, they could have just made him a Trump supporter. Just have him wear a red MAGA hat.

The rumors have been that six actors were let go. We know of four, WdV, ER, Dustin and Dev actors. Who are the remaining two?

I think Brando's on that list. He's a decent actor and it seems they tried hinting at his different backgrounds and pairing him with different characters, but nothing's stuck. This last ditch effort with Sahsa didn't help

Carly and Sam in my dream world.

The last last ditch effort for Brando was with Maxie today. Embarrassing.

I'm in the minority, but I like Brando.

Genie was fantastic today. But wow, a long term facility after only a few hours in a coma? They’re really rushing this exit.

Hey, her contract was up.

Looks like MEK will be getting more screen time, I like the surprise twist.

r146

what twist?

^Colonel Tad Sanders and Cyrus know each other.

Knowing one of Sonny's villains of the month, like Cyrus, isn't a good sign for long-term screen time. Looks like number 6 is Colonel Tad.

Hope MEK met his actor's insurance minimum this year. Doesn't look like he'll back next year.

I feel some retcons coming. I’ll bet Cyrus is related to Laura.

The one who plays Josselyn looks like a chipmunk.

Or Colonel Tad, R150 - one of the magazines pointed out the Gordon/Martin thing months ago.

Cyrus is the “dead” son of the man Laura killed.

Cyrus seemed genuinely concerned about Lulu when he was talking to Laura. And he really seemed to want to find out about her in the scene before. And he seemed emotionally hurt when Laura slapped him. It is all weird to me and I hope they don’t screw up Laura’s past with this. We had a COVID presser in Michigan so I missed the last half of the episode that might have explained his behavior.

Gray is Laura's bio dad's last name.

Do some of the actors still have ABC contracts over there? Or were those finally thrown out?

The moron Alan Sarapa from twitter thinks that Cyrus and Laura are bro and sis. Fucking idiot.

I’m worried about Becky Herbst. She’s clearly wearing a wig. I hope she’s okay.

R157 I thought Cyrus wanted to bang Laura.

WdV looked so fuckable in what, I assume, were his final scenes.

Sonny and Jason were laughably bad when they were trying to intimidate Eli. Stating the obvious, I know.

This thread was locked (at least for me) for a few days. Is there a new one?

When Sonny was poking him in the head?

Any DLers going to pay $49 to watch Burton and Bradford's Holiday Party?

Musical Guests: JPS and M@rcus C0l0ma (Nik).

SB always hustling his fans.

LOL. Yes, R161. What was that all about ?

The funny part is that people will actually pay Burton. It’ll be a big success.

No Scott Reeves at the party R162 ?

Wonder why they don't get Ingo and his music partner to perform?

R163 According to MB, he poked the actor in the head during rehearsal, Frank liked it and told him to do it while taping.

I wonder what this means for GH

This doesn't bode well for GH. You know it'll be the first to go if they clean house.

Who knows? GH has been on cruise control for 15 years as they bled viewers; they should have been in overdrive to stay relevant.

Maybe new network leadership and feedback could be a good thing? Maybe...?

They still need to find something else to air in the timeslot that they think is going to do better. I don't think Tamron Hall is lighting up the daytime audience right now

The recent character exits on the show are likely part of these Disney cut backs and another reduced budget for the show.

Bye bye GH. Vicki Dummer was a supporter of the show. Rut roh.

The cast has been bloated for a long time, though. Maybe running "leaner and meaner" is the right way to go. The writing definitely seems sharper lately. Focus on a small stable of actors that can really deliver the goods, and then give them some real meat to work with.

I agree with (173). Smaller cast. Focus the show. Create couples and stories we care about!

I don’t exactly want GH turning into B&B with only three cast members but they could easily cut ten characters and be fine. They have so, so much deadweight and major balance issues.

Vicki's exit doesn't have anything to do with GH staying or going - an executive doesn't have that much power. GH does very well on ABC's app and with streaming numbers and ABC 100% owns the show. A probable future for the show is on Hulu as a 1/2 hour serial (to cut production costs in half). Compared to most primetime shows, GH is incredibly cheap.

Yeah, an online soap. We know how well that worked out for OLTL and Prospect Park.

r176 Oddly enough, cutting a show's run time in half does not reduce the budget by half. A 30 minute GH would not be half as expensive as a 60 minute GH. Many other cuts would have to be made to reduce the budget by half.

[quote]I don’t exactly want GH turning into B&B with only three cast members

Hummm. I wonder which three characters they would focus on if they did that? Which three would get all the screen time?

R179 I pulled that number out of thin air but immediately regretted it when I hit ‘Post’. lol.

[quote] Yeah, an online soap. We know how well that worked out for OLTL and Prospect Park.

The problems with OLTL and AMC, were it was too early to try it and Prospect Park didn't have a history of producing soaps. ABC could keep producing GH as they have the knowledge. Also, if you remember OLTL and AMC did extremely well on iTunes and Hulu, Prospect Park just didn't know how to make it work. With ABC/Disney owning Hulu outright now, they could make it work much more easily.

[quote]Hummm. I wonder which three characters they would focus on if they did that? Which three would get all the screen time?

Numero uno:

R178 - you are absolutely right...IF GH kept the same production model.

If they only went to 30 minutes and bulk filmed six months out of the year (sort of like what Port Charles did and what Days does), they could cut the costs in half because they are only, essentially, filming six months out of the year (for that matter, they could keep it an hour). It's the salaries and studio time year round that eat into things.

But would the quality talent stick around for only half their salary?

GH is not going anywhere you nervous nellies.

With commercials, GH is only a 36 minute show right now. Not filming 6 minutes a show is not going to cut their production budget in half

It's in Maurice's contract that ABC can never cancel GH.

Disney/ABC will be under financial pressure until the parks are fully reopened. It's likely that WdV and ER are currently on extended leaves rather than being outright fired

New thread for when this one craps out, which should be around 200 posts:

Posting on this old thread because "Meet Me at the Tan-O" is locked now.

New thread:

Tristan Rogers was showing big black cock porn on his social media. He’s had a bad week. Did Wes Ramsey hack him after Tristan said he was miscast? Such drama behind the scenes at GH!!!!

r191

what????

Laura hacked into Tristan’s account or revenge.

Wes Ramsey must really lay the pipe down right.

Wes Ramsey has my vote for the Emmys!

What's this about Laura Wright yelling at people on Instagram?

Has NoBalls Valentini commented yet???

R196 She was scrolling through comments on the GH Instagram page and replying to people who talked about Peter/WR and those who said he’s only on the show because of her and her pull. She deleted her comments though.

Laura gives Wes blowjobs! Think about that.

Peter's a boring character, but Wes Ramsey is hot. I'd love to be in a Peter/Valentin sandwich.

So, is Franco dead or not?