ABC/Disney hammers another nail in the GH coffin

[andredimera]

Apparently the greedy corporate bastards posted this over at some FaceBook page.....

Happy Tuesday GH Fans!

We’re letting you know first - beginning MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, we’re moving into our new time slot at 2:00 p.m. ET|1:00 p.m. PT|CT on ABC. You'll be able to catch all the intrigue and excitement of Port Charles one hour earlier! We equally excited about
General Hospital's 50th anniversary on ABC next year.

Share this news with your friends and family and make sure to tune in to General Hospital every day.

This completely BLOWS. And I don't just mean in the whole context of making it look even MORE like OLTL and not General Hospital. No it's worse than that.... In a big chunk of the country - the entire West Coast and the Chicago area I'm sure of - this happens to be the same time that Days of Our Lives is on.

When you have only 4 soaps on the air, forcing two of them into direct competition is STUPID. Especially when it's the only two I've ever really watched on any long term basis.

The excuse given will be to accommodate the new Katie Clueless show, of course. But it's a syndicated show, and NOT on the ABC network schedule, so ABC affiliates should not be mandated to move other programs around for her benefit.

[jackaled]

I am not thrilled with the move to 2:00 one of the reason GH was
the soap that I watched daily (for all these years) was because of the timeslot 3:00 always seem to fit into my schedule. 2:00 is hit or miss for me.


I will still be keeping an eye on how well the ratings for GAA cuz I still
believe that if that does well and GH doesn't improve it ratings at some
point in the near future GAA is the replacement show for GH (I know alot
of people believe GH is saved etc but I am not buying that.)If GH makes
it to its 50th we will be lucky..after that all bets are off (I still think if GAA
does really good GH could be gone before its 50th) and it will be interesting to see how the ratings are affected by moving it to 2:00 cuz I do think it will have some effect on the ratings.

[andredimera]

And apparently now FV is tweeting (I don't participate in that annoyance, so just repeating what I saw elsewhere) that a "new opening" is going to debut tomorrow.....

I can only imagine how horrible it's going to be, and probably dominated completely by non-GH characters. Even one of them is too many, in this case.......

[andredimera]

Good God Almighty... now that I've seen that thing, it's worse than I could have imagined. Looks like something that a 12 year old threw together in 5 minutes on a 10 year old computer.

[jackaled]

I am glad you could actually SEE it..I noticed looked away for a min
and it was over..That was the fastest opening I have ever seen..I don;t
really even know who was in it..Guess I will have to stare at it on Monday
to notice.

[didjanoit]

Anyone else thinking that the opening is meant to accomodate the hybrid show, and to make GH less recognizable to older fans? That was my first thought, that they don't really want us to be able to tell that GH is on the tv, that's why no music that is relatable to GH, and the grouping of characters rather than individual faces we would know. JMO