What led Franco, who got his start on the prime-time comedy 'Freaks and Geeks,' back to the smaller screen? A source says he simply wanted to give soaps a try, and thus reached out to ABC's 'GH.' That Franco and Burton, his soon-to-be on-screen nemesis, share a manager is pure coincidence.

Well if that's the case, I applaud him for not being narrow minded. I just wished he'd consider joining a soap when the industry had better quality.

Franco's guest stint will be a nice test for those of us interesting in the ratings. We know that GH will get a ratings bump initially, but can the 2 month presence of a movie star sustain the ratings increase for more than the first week. I have no clue.

We've all done that in college.

Speak for yourself. No graduate student worth their salt sits in class asleep, head back with their mouths open. No professor takes you seriously after that.

Franco's guest stint will be a nice test for those of us interesting in the ratings. We know that GH will get a ratings bump initially, but can the 2 month presence of a movie star sustain the ratings increase for more than the first week. I have no clue.

Speak for yourself. No graduate student worth their salt sits in class asleep, head back with their mouths open. No professor takes you seriously after that.

OK, relax.

I'm also interested to see how the ratings move with his appearance. Brian Frons is shitting bricks and creaming in his pants right now.

Speak for yourself. No graduate student worth their salt sits in class asleep, head back with their mouths open. No professor takes you seriously after that.

True for grad school but as far as undergrad, let's just say that if he's sober in that picture he's far ahead of the way I spent most of my junior year.

Man ABC is just a circus these days!

JJ and JF announced within three days. O. M. G. GH is now on my DVR again.

Brian Frons is shitting bricks and creaming in his pants right now.

Not a mental picture I wanted

Tony Geary's prostate just exploded.

LMAO DeeeDee

JJ and JF announced within three days. O. M. G. GH is now on my DVR again.

Tony Geary's prostate just exploded.

Nathan Parsons: (knock-knock) Tony? Are yew in there? Tony? Remember me? Nathan? Nathan Parsons? You said I was the best actor yew've evah worked with. You said it was a flamin' relief to finally work with somebody who knew what he was doing and could act. You said Ethan was Luke's true son, not like that Lucky bloke. Tony! Why won't you do scenes wiv me anymore? You're always busy hanging with Jonathan. Or that Franco fella. I'm so bored! Natalia's sweet and all but it's like squeezing water from a stone trying to get her to emote. Tony! Please! OPEN THE DOOOOOOOOOOOOR!

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Wow, nice great for GH, even if it's short term!

Say what you want about GH, but the show has been watchable lately. Things are not as bad as they were a few years ago, hell a few months ago. I'm looking forward to this. My other main soap, Y&R is in shambles, so it's nice to see GH has been at least somewhat entertaining me lately.

Wow..this is insane!! James is great so I can't wait to see him on GH. It's too bad he's not going to be a Cassadine, instead he's going to be involved with Jason. That kinda sucks.

Tony Geary's prostate just exploded.

OMG! LMAO!!!!

Holy effing crap! James Franco from the Spider Man movies, that James Franco????

Of course he will, and he'll be ruined

Anything that has to do with Sam, Jason, Sonny and the mob is crap. I bet Jason kill him in the end

Tony Geary will be a mess. LOL! I am sure that he will get a few scenes. He will be thrilled to work with Franco. He can happily bad mouth the soaps and their fans to Franco.

Nathan Parsons: (knock-knock) Tony? Are yew in there? Tony? Remember me? Nathan? Nathan Parsons? You said I was the best actor yew've evah worked with. You said it was a flamin' relief to finally work with somebody who knew what he was doing and could act. You said Ethan was Luke's true son, not like that Lucky bloke. Tony! Why won't you do scenes wiv me anymore? You're always busy hanging with Jonathan. Or that Franco fella. I'm so bored! Natalia's sweet and all but it's like squeezing water from a stone trying to get her to emote. Tony! Please! OPEN THE DOOOOOOOOOOOOR!

LOL! Good to see that you still having some fun with this, I thought you might have gone all serious after your earlier post.

I don't know how he has time to do this, He just finish three film and filming two others in Europe.

According to Michael Logan, he is only taping 3 days, October 30, November 6 and November 13, and the scenes will be spread over 2 months. How much can he on?

http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/james-franco-to-guest-star-on-general-hospital-2641.html