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News for the week of 27-Apr-2015

by Carol Banks Weber

In a win that surprised no one, Tony Geary (Luke) took the most coveted prize of the Daytime Emmys Sunday night. The “Outstanding Lead Actor” was joined by Maura West (Ava), “Outstanding Lead Actress” and Chad Duell (Michael), “Outstanding Supporting Actor.” As for the rest, GH was shut out. Go over to CBS for the list of winners.

Congratulations to the winners of the Friday night Daytime Creative Emmy Awards, held at Hollywood’s Hilton Universal City Hotel. They include casting director Mark Teschner, special guest Donna Mills (Madeline), and achievement in makeup. Mills won in a three-way tie (yeah, WTF?) with Y&R’s Ray Wise (Ian Ward) and B&B’s Fred Willard (John).

Before the Daytime Emmys, Laura Wright (Carly) talked shop with a friendly member of the soap press — Michael Fairman. In his April 19th interview, they went over her selection of a submission reel (Carly turning on Franco, which Michelle Stafford said to go for), her amazement at fellow colleagues in the actress category (she really thought Gina Tognoni/Phyllis, Y&R, would win based on a two-minute reel she saw), and the honor of playing Luke Spencer’s mother in the anniversary show.

“It was nice for me to feel like an actor. I have been playing a daytime female character for 24 years, and it’s my life and I love it. After I finished the anniversary episode, I thought that now I have actually played a character, and it was something so foreign for me,” she explained. “I feel like I wanted to honor those women who were in that situation. How many women were terrified and had no way out? In that time, you were supposed to go back to that man. There was no hope, and there was no help. The kids had to watch it all go down. I think that is why this also really affected people, because it seemed so real. I have to say Ron Carlivati wrote a pretty accurate description of what went on in 1963 in many households.”

Read more about the nuts and bolts of filming the anniversary show in such a finite time frame.

Gossip for the week of 27-Apr-2015

by Carol Banks Weber

Is Ava on or off the show? Maybe the writers had to hold off on the final verdict until they knew for certain that portrayer Maura West really did want off, or a Daytime Emmy win sealed her value. Word is, she did, and it’s done. The shot Silas gives Ava is a fatal one. But head writer Ron Carlivati supposedly admitted in the media recently that he faced a challenge he wasn’t sure he met in writing Ava off. In other rumors floating around, he might’ve even kept hope alive by having that shot contain merely a sedative while Silas secretly injected Ava with the cancer antidote via her daughter Avery’s donation.

It will appear that Anna fatally shot Duke at the Nurses’ Ball. But he’s very much alive and in hiding, as a part of some elaborate ruse.

Maybe Avery’s biological dad is Morgan after all. Another DNA test turns up the truth. (Silas might’ve tampered with the first one, to protect Ava.)

Rebecca Budig (Hayden) may have filmed her last scenes.

At the Nurses’ Ball, Elizabeth and maybe Patrick both discover Jake’s true identity, but keep that information to themselves out of fear of losing what they have — Jason will revert back to Sam, whether they truly share chemistry or not.

Jillian Bowe and Jamey Giddens of Daytime Confidential reported on breaking news last Wednesday about some rumored ABC Daytime ordinance against any of its cast appearing on a rival network — CBS’s The Talk — in relation to the Daytime Emmys. Here’s the deal, as they laid it out: “ABC is allegedly preventing General Hospital stars from appearing on The Talk’s Daytime Emmy After Party! For the past five years, CBS Daytime’s The Talk has pre-booked nominees from all three network daytime soaps to appear on their special post-Emmys episode. ABC is reportedly refusing to let any of their actors participate this year.

“Industry speculation is that ABC doesn't want their stars on a rival network at a time when The Talk has been besting The View in the Nielsens on a frequent basis. The Talk and GH are timeslot competitors, however, that never stopped ABC from allowing GH actors to appear on the rival network’s chatfest in years past.”

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