Not a big shocker or really news but Frank Valentini with his girly blind item twitted a few minutes ago.....yes he will be playing Jason.

It's a complicated reaction. On the one hand I think Billy Miller is a talented actor and possibly incapable of playing the "old" Jason, the emotionless killer Steve Burton enjoyed. Hammy or not, he is too active a performer for it and at his best he can be very vibrant. So I think/hope they will finally reboot the Jason character - make him a mix of his Quartermaine past and his latter-day self and right the moral scales of the character a bit. That is the only way Jason can ever return and function on this show in a healthy way, no matter who he's played by. Jason Morgan is a dead zone and his extermination from the canvas was absolutely necessary. I also suspect he may have great chemistry with Kim McCullough. If they return him to the role of unrepentant mob enforcer and Sam's husband it will all be for naught.

OTOH, Miller is clearly not going to sign for too long without a score of outs. And in the end I think GH remains too focused on big 'gets' and big stunts vs. telling decent stories with their existing longtime cast. They're always dancing as fast as they can - look at what we did! Look at who we hired! Look at this twist! Look at this gag! The problem is with most of this these days there is no actual storytelling.

It also still doesn't excuse killing A.J.

Oh, the lulz.

Just hope he can live up to this brilliance

Oh, the lulz.

Just hope he can live up to this brilliance

LMAO! Remember the "brilliant" scenes on the bridge? And Howarth wonders why he can't find work elsewhere.

I guess the Primetime career hasn't panned out?

Makes me wonder about his former castmate Elizabeth Hendrickson and whether she can make a go outside of soaps or should we expect an announcement down the road of her going to Days or GH too?

In what role? Please let's not resurrect the bullshit spec of her playing NuRobin. That was complete fiction drummed up by crazy fans. GH will never recast that role, for very specific reasons pertaining to their trying to keep that longtime audience hooked on this endless storyline. But more to the point, Frank Valentini has always preferred the originals where possible. I believe FV wasn't even in favor of recasting Marty Saybrooke on OLTL for Dena Higley in 2006, and was only really interested in when it was possible they might have landed Sarah Brown (and Susan Haskell had turned Higley down).

You won't hear me speculate on what specific role, especially when it comes to GH. I don't even watch that show.

Sounds like Billy got a great deal from GH, cause I read he turned them down several times before.

Sounds like Billy got a great deal from GH, cause I read he turned them down several times before.

GH gave him everything YR refused.

I hope he doesn't suck.

Too late.

For once, dipshit, close your [!@#$%^&*] mouth when you smile. Sheesh.

I barely watched Y&R but loved him on AMC. He will be put into the current best storyline on the show so I'm not looking at this as a negative

GH has a "current best storyline"?

It's a complicated reaction. On the one hand I think Billy Miller is a talented actor and possibly incapable of playing the "old" Jason, the emotionless killer Steve Burton enjoyed. Hammy or not, he is too active a performer for it and at his best he can be very vibrant. So I think/hope they will finally reboot the Jason character - make him a mix of his Quartermaine past and his latter-day self and right the moral scales of the character a bit. That is the only way Jason can ever return and function on this show in a healthy way, no matter who he's played by. Jason Morgan is a dead zone and his extermination from the canvas was absolutely necessary. I also suspect he may have great chemistry with Kim McCullough. If they return him to the role of unrepentant mob enforcer and Sam's husband it will all be for naught.

OTOH, Miller is clearly not going to sign for too long without a score of outs. And in the end I think GH remains too focused on big 'gets' and big stunts vs. telling decent stories with their existing longtime cast. They're always dancing as fast as they can - look at what we did! Look at who we hired! Look at this twist! Look at this gag! The problem is with most of this these days there is no actual storytelling.

It also still doesn't excuse killing A.J.

Except for the part about BM being talented -- he was "a'ight" on AMC, IMO, but he soon wore thin with me -- I totally agree.

I don't think he's exactly the second coming of Douglass Watson or anything, but I do think he has some things he's very good at, all of them the opposite of Steve Burton's Jason Morgan. I also think Y&R got lazy with him and decided he could do one thing very well and kept him at that. Soaps today, desperate and uncreative, do that with popular performers all the time, and most of those talented performers respond to it and get stuck in those ruts as well (or in the case of Michelle Stafford, it's a combination of the show and her own preferences, IMO). But I think Miller, while not exactly Sir Laurence Olivier, can do good work. Better than most of the leading men currently populating GH, certainly. The question is the writing and how they reinvent the character.

I saw one of these the other day with Liz instead of Sam and I wish I could find it now because it just made me SMH.

I saw one of these the other day with Liz instead of Sam and I wish I could find it now because it just made me SMH.

Was it this?

Whoever did the photoshop did a good job on it. I wonder if Liz's vagina will perk up again towards Jason. Nikolas who?