Will ABC ax General Hospital to make room for Katie Couric's new show?
When Conan O'Brien began conversations with TBS in the spring of 2010, he had one condition that was non-negotiable: he would consider doing a show for the cable network only if the man whose time slot he would be taking over, George Lopez, stayed on. Word is TBS had been considering cancelling the modestly rated Lopez Tonight at the time but, in their quest for O'Brien, they decided to keep Lopez and moved him to a different time slot. ABC was in a similar position in its pursuit of another former NBC star, Katie Couric, giving her the 3 PM time slot occupied by the soon-to-be-only surviving ABC daytime drama, General Hospital. The difference is that the network wouldn't commit to GHl continuing on the network when the Katie Couric show launches in fall 2012.Jacked from Deadline
"We are not announcing the cancellation of General Hospital," Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney/ABC TV Group said today, but also added, "It is important to look at daytime like we do at primetime -- it really is about eyeballs, and we will go with the shows that have the most viewership."
2 comments:
Nooooo....Katie Couric better watch her back cuz if she is the cause of GH going off the air millions of college students, housewives and unemployed people will be pissed!
Nobody wants to see her at 3pm anyway. Cheap ass networks could save some money and pay the actors and stop overpaying these boring talk show hosts.
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