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And as of Jan. 12, Stephanie Sloane just made her instagram public with a copy of the TVGuide header soapsteph (Stephanie Sloane) Jan. 12, 2024 First post of a new era! I couldn't be more excited about my new gig as TV Guide Magazine's soaps expert. #bb #days #gh #yr #tvguidemagazine

Bobbie's soapcentral bio Born July 8, 1957 Bobbie was 16 when her daughter, Carly, was born. Bobbie's birthday was acknowledged on-screen on July 8, 1996 Carly's soapcentral bio: Born on November 5, 1973 Was said to be 22 years old in July 1996 Felicia's soapcentral bio (birthdate not listed) Felicia first arrived in Port Charles in 1984 disguised as a boy while on the hunt for a family heirloom that Frisco Jones had in his possession. I think she was supposed to be around 17-22 then? Maxie's soapcentral bio: Born on October 31, 1990 Birthday revised to October 31, 1986, when she was aged to 16 in 2002 Graduated from high school on June 9, 2005 Birthdate confirmed as October 31, 1986 in Maxie's patient files [Jan 26, 2022] Basically, Felicia was about 8 years younger than Bobbie. Felicia married the younger brother Frisco, and Bobbie married the older brother Tony. Felicia and Bobbie were friends and thought of themselves in the same generation as each other despite the age difference. Carly was only about 16 years younger than Bobbie, so Carly is about 8 years younger than Felicia. Carly and Felicia aren't that far apart agewise but ... Felicia thought of herself as Anna's contemporary. Carly would have seen herself as in a different generation than Anna.

Ron was referring to all the nonunion writers' episodes being done airing in April, and then his stuff starting to air in May. He was simply promoting his own writing as being better than nonunion writing. Nothing about kicking into high gear, just him claiming the show would be better. Y&R has Josh Griffith who is both headwriter and executive producer. He fired most of his breakdown writers a few months *before* the writers strike began. Griffith was has been nonunion since the 2007-2008 strike, so he simply kept on writing as usual. The only change would have been some unknown nonunion scriptwriters, but he continued as headwriter. Bottom line is that Y&R seems the same during strike as before & after. B&B has Brad Bell who is both headwriter and executive producer as well as the owner of his show. Bell remained in the union so didn't write during the strike. However his ongoing associate headwriter went ficore in 2023, and continued writing as a nonunion writer during the strike, so there wasn't much change. Especially with the EP remaining the same. B&B did have nonunion scriptwriters and nonunion breakdown writers, so you'd think there would have been changes, however any changes would have been less noticeable since B&B is a 30-minute show (episode length about 18 minutes plus commercials), Plus B&B often repeats scenes/dialogue from episode to episode, so changes just not that noticeable. The only real strike differences were in GH and DAYS.

Yeah but they had a whole scene Thursday where Carly and Felicia specifically talked about being from different generations, yet connected because Bobbie and Felicia were best friends. Felicia talked about how Felicia and Bobbie were married to the Jones brothers, they were sort of like sisters and became best friends. Plus one giving the other's daughter her heart. Felicia talked about resenting Carly for stealing Tony because Tony was Frisco's brother - so what Carly did hurt the entire Jones family. They talked about Maxie resenting Felicia's long absence but forgiving her. And Bobbie resenting Carly stealing Tony but forgiving her. So then in Thursday's episode Felicia decides to forgive Carly. It was a really great dialogue about deep issues from the past that needed to be addressed, although I think it might have gone better in a separate episode. I loved the dialogue and Laura Wright did well, But it would have had so much more historical power if it had been Sarah Joy Brown in this Thursday conversation. Oh well. Here's the scene: https://www.facebook.com/generalhospital/videos/2033861780318061

January 11th is "National Human Trafficking Awareness Day". January 11th is "National Human Trafficking Awareness Day". Really! I wonder if the show knew or if it was more serendipity? And January is now an awareness month on the topic. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/outreach-material/national-human-trafficking-prevention-month-toolkit-2024 To get help from the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH), call 1-888-373-7888 text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733). TTY: 711 trafficking hotline Chat in English https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/chat trafficking hotline Chat in Spanish https://humantraffickinghotline.org/es/chat Resources in English: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/find-local-services Resources in Spanish: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/es/directorio-de-referencias

BJ and Lucas *did* know each other. He was the younger brother. (Ryan Carnes played Lucas this week and as teen/adult. Lucas was played by different actor as a child. But same actress this week as played BJ as a baby and child) Clips: Twitter embedding is temporarily broken but click on these tweets and you'll see: 1) https://twitter.com/jelevision/status/1745526090565624183 2) https://twitter.com/jelevision/status/1745562179477082395

Edward and Lila were on the hospital board. Supposedly (per an unverified source) Steve's huge portrait was originally in the hospital boardroom when he was chief of staff. This would explain why these three portraits are large, perhaps they were moved from the boardroom to the wall at some point? The second row is doctors (well Steve was a doctor but see above) and the last row is nurses.

The things that happened when filming: The "Kelly's" sign breaking in the storm and Elizabeth volunteering to paint a new one. And Elizabeth presented the new sign at the end of the two memorial episodes. Specifically the dialogue said that the sign broke in a STORM. And in real life when they filmed this, Laura Wright said that at the end of filming the two episodes, the cast went outside and there was a beautiful rainbow over the studio. The GH account posted a picture.

Someone did a comparison clip on twitter. Kristina Wagner said "Brighton was Barbara Jean!" yesterday -- in exactly the same way 29 years ago that she said "Not Barbara Jean!" when she heard about BJ.

I won't type the name of the dailymotion site that died here. And please don't do that! because we want it to stay up. but if you look at the same person's other sites for the other soaps, those have links to the replacement days page. Do Not type it. Please. Thanks. (There are bots that go out looking for such things so that's why we don't want to type the URL or name) He/she/they always sets it up in such a way that you can find a link on one of their pages to their other pages of other shows - so if one of their sites goes down, you can always eventually find a link to the replacement. Sometime it says "link-to-name-of-other-show". sometimes it says "my other sites". But look around and you will find it. The replacement days page is up now, and that's how I found it.

Of course Edward and Lila are there as hospital board members. I read somewhere today in an unverified source, that the larger picture of Steve Hardy as Chief of Staff was originally in the hospital board room? Anyone know if that's true? If so, the top row makes sense. The rest of the photos seem to be by job and not seniority. Second row is doctors, and bottom row is nurses. Comparing the March 2023 and January 2024 wall of photos, I don't think they added more paneling. I think they moved the nurses' photos all over one slot to the left, to make room for Bobbie.

Interview with Brighton Hertford (who played BJ as a child, Now appearing as ... the reporter from Amsterdam ... ) (no spoilers, nothing about what happens in the episodes at all) https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-brighton-hertford-on-her-deeply-meaningful-general-hospital-homecoming/ Interview with Lynn Herring about seeing Brighton Hertford again Also spoiler-free. https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-ghs-lynn-herring-lucy-on-reuniting-with-brighton-hertford-ex-b-j/

Burton says in that ABC7-Chicago interview (the video above that @dragonflies posted) regarding Jason's return: “All I know is I’m buried in a cave in Greece somewhere, I don’t know! That’s all I know.”

March 2023 Edward Quartermaine, Steve Hardy, Lila Quartermaine Rick Webber, Tony Jones, Alan Quartermaine, Gail Baldwin, Britt Westborne Jessie Brewer, Lucille March, Amy Vining, Epiphany Johnson January 2024

Well it was neither Jason, nor Luke. The contact was someone we hadn't seen before. The entire multinational search/rescue/relocation of the trafficked woman (USA, Netherlands, Canada, USA) by Felicia and Carly.... took place over several Port Charles days... but within the single episode January 11th. (At the end Maxie asked Felicia if she was tired from her days of travelling and Felicia said no). They made it sound yesterday like a longterm storyline was coming -- and it was -- but it was all within a single episode. I don't care that it was fanciful or maybe implausible. It was beautiful and poignant because of the .... NO SPOILERS wait til you watch it, it will make sense This episode was me just suspending belief, not worrying about details, and just being in the moment and watching, and feeling amazement and appreciation ... due to well... no spoilers.

Alan Quartermaine has been on the wall for years, but Stuart Damon died in 2021.

Quoting someone: they (meaning the show) had had months to prepare for this. Oh okay I had assumed the post was referring to the writers. Reading it differently as the *show* having had more time to prepare, hmmm. well. I suppose Frank could have ( possibly? in theory? ) worked on the memorial during the writers strike, I get what some are suggesting. But I think there was a general assumption by some viewers that there would be ... an understanding that nothing would be written until after the writers strike ended. It seemed to be a hands-off thing, nobody wanted it said that the Bobbie memorial was written by scabs. (Yes I know it's just an assumption, but anyways). I suppose Frank *could have* obtained a variety of flashback clips *during* the writers strike, without writing/organizing anything. And then he *could have* had the clips ready to show to the union writers after the strike ended Sept. 27, to see if they wanted to use them. (that is *if* Frank wanted to do that) And I forgot about Varni, who knows what his interference may or may not have been.

I agree that the *actors strike* was irrelevant. But the context of my post was in reply to the ones before it. I was replying to someone who said Jackie died months before the writers strike. I was reminding them that Jackie died *after* the writers strike began (and suggesting that maybe they were confused by the timing of the actors strike).

The writers strike began May 2. Jackie died May 9. The actors strike began July 14.

Producer N'Neka Garland died in March. Jackie died in May. Too many deaths in the past year or two.

Jackie died during the writers strike. The strike concluded at the end of September. Writers began work at beginning of October. This was filmed in early December. So this was written and filmed in two months. And that included time to arrange for Brighton and Carnes to appear.

Him talking about coaching women to lose weight, I just can't. There's nothing objectively wrong about it .... but I just can't.

Nothing from SOD for Bold 2024. SOD uploaded the other soaps Jan. 3, Jan. 4, and Jan. 5; so I think it would have appeared by now if they were going to. So far, there's only tvinsider for Bold, which is an exact copy of what you already posted from the mag.