She wrote that she wants this transition to go smoothly and said, "I have to also acknowledge the pain of knowing that characters we've developed, relationships we built and stories we planned are being handled by others. Still, my hope is that if you love GH, you'll continue to watch. You can morally support the writers AND keep the show [on] the air!" Needless to say, when it comes to industry strikes, daytime soap operas face little repercussions.
Besides "General Hospital," Deadline reported that other soap operas, including "The Young and the Restless," "The Bold and the Beautiful," and "Days Of Our Lives" will also rely on scab writers or other network employees for scripts during the WGA Strike. Referring to "General Hospital," Shannon Peace wrote on Instagram, "For the sake of the fans, I hope the show is in capable writing hands." Deadline states that striking writers will return to their jobs after the strike ends and work with whatever the replacement writers wrote into the plots.
Per Vulture, seasoned soap opera writer Ron Carlivati went on strike in 2007 while working on "One Life to Live." Speaking about his experience returning to work, he said that 50 episodes had been written without him. He explained (via Vulture), "And of course, they don't give them to you until the strike is over. And then they hand you this pile. And I had to read it to find out what was going on my own show."
Along with the WGA Strike, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) went on strike in July 2023. Despite this, your favorite soap opera stars, including those from "General Hospital," will continue to work due to the SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting. Under the Network Code, actors in soap operas must continue with production because their contracts do not expire until July 2024.
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