This week in irony: ‘General Hospital’ shuts down due to coronavirus, but when will it be back up and running?
In what hopefully will not be a scary metaphor for the American health care system, “General Hospital” joins the list of TV and film productions that have been shut down by coronavirus pandemic. It ceased production starting Monday, March 16, and will be shuttered until April 10, but ABC doesn’t currently expect any interruption of the show’s broadcast schedule.
“Gh” is no stranger to medical crises on screen, of course. The series is set in the title hospital in the fictional town of Port Charles, New York. In 2006 the show even featured its own viral outbreak, during which writers killed off characters Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and Courtney Matthews (Alicia Leigh Willis). Few could have anticipated that an off-screen health crisis would have an even more drastic effect on the series.
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“Gh” is no stranger to medical crises on screen, of course. The series is set in the title hospital in the fictional town of Port Charles, New York. In 2006 the show even featured its own viral outbreak, during which writers killed off characters Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and Courtney Matthews (Alicia Leigh Willis). Few could have anticipated that an off-screen health crisis would have an even more drastic effect on the series.
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ABC also suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the time being,...
- 3/17/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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