Scott Reeves (Steven-Lars Webber) has been put on contract for General Hospital. So we can look forward to seeing lots more of Steven in the future, no doubt trying to pick up the pieces of his sister Elizabeth's shattered psyche.

The Reeves family currently live in Nashville, Tennessee. No word on whether they will officially relocate. Fans of Reeves' wife Missy would love to see her return to Days of Our Lives.

Ted King (ex-Alcazar) will be appearing on CSI: Miami on Monday evening, February 8, on CBS. (Doublecheck your local listings.)

It's always great to see the wonderful Mr. King in action, so don't miss this!

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ABC affiliates are busy planning for the exit of Oprah Winfrey in 2011 and rearranging their programming. The LA Times states that The View may swap its time with General Hospital.

It is, however, thought that General Hospital has been in its 3 p.m. time slot for so long that a change "could severely hurt the show."

Audiences (and their DVRs and Tivos) may follow GH to a late morning time slot, but I can't see anyone putting up with The View at 3 p.m. Everything about The View says "morning" to me - the discussion of the headlines, the different segments. It's set up so that people can move in and out of the room while it's on.

GH audiences don't necessarily watch the show at 3 p.m., where I'd be surprised if a lot of people DVR or Tivo The View. Many viewers nowadays see GH when they come home from work. Some even store it up for a week and watch it on the weekend or on SoapNet.

No matter when people watch GH, in the end, I think that for many, General Hospital is associated with its time slot, and I don't think another show will work there. As one of the last soaps standing, ABC shouldn't take foolish risks with it. What does everyone else think?

Right now, I'm in General Hospital. Not the one where the doctors flirt at the desk and Epiphany yells at people, where Nikolas arrives for board meetings, and Elizabeth freaks out as Lulu and Lucky berate her. No, I'm in the real deal.

As all too many of us know, hospitals are filled with sick people. In my own case, I came in believing I had pulled a muscle, until it became from bad to bowled-over unbearable. The first doctor I spoke with said it sounded like a kidney stone because women describe kidney stones as "having a baby." I said, "I'm having Rosemary's Baby."

It's four days later. I've had a part of my body removed, and, a little less medicated at the moment, I've given some thought to hospitals real and unreal. Our TV General Hospital has lots of doctors hanging around. In reality, doctors go from floor to floor once they are inside the hospital. My team was paged all day and never answered. Not everyone is Robin Scorpio or Patrick Drake. Doctors have the glamour roles on television and in a real-life hospital setting. One goes through a lot of residents before seeing the actual doctor.

Hospitals have a lot of other people not utilized on our . We're used to Elizabeth and maybe one or two other nurses doing everything, but there are all kinds of technical people here for the equipment, for the medications, for CTs, for ultrasounds, for the emergency room; there are physician assistants, and there are nurse's aides. And every one of them seems to do his job because he wants to, with great kindness and dedication. That's pretty similar to our General Hospital, don't you think?

So our TV General Hospital could use a lot more staff and, if it were true to a hospital, a lot more pain. That would be tough to do, because it's hard to tallk when it hurts. Frankly, I like our General Hospital just the way it is. For me, it has the basics - like this place, it's bright, it's friendly, filled with caring and devoted people. It also has something else going for it. It's a fantasy.

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