Well, I’ve just finished watching the season 2 premiere of the SoapNet  series General Hospital Night Shift. I just don’t get what they’re trying to accomplish here. The main characters here seem to be 3 characters from General Hospital. There are one or two cast members from Night Shift’s first season but for the most part it’s all new faces. Jagger arrived in Port Charles, he hasn’t been on General in so many years I forget how long it’s been. One of the characters they kept from the first season, Dr Julian, has been recast with someone who looks and acts nothing like him. Robin and Patrick are moving forward with the pregnancy storyline that’s occurring during the day, so obviously there is show carryover. So far I just don’t see the point. Any GH fans out there? What are your thoughts?

I just saw a commercial letting me know that the SoapNet series General Hospital Night Shift premieres its second season tonight. I’m confused. Last year when the series began the network said the storylines of General Hospital and General Hospital Night Shift were separate and that viewers wouldn’t need to watch both. As a regular viewer of General Hospital I found that last season many things made no sense. I’m wondering how they’re going to manage things this season. Once again several General Hospital actors will be pulling double duty, so they’ll probably need some energy pills. Robin, Patrick and Epiphany are the only main GH characters that I know of, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Jason and Spinelli appear on Night Shift again. I hope it’s better than season one, if not I may not watch.

You’ve probably seen the use of medical diagnostics on tv shows like Law and Order and House, as well as on other shows including soap operas. In this case I’m referring to a diagnostic imaging test called a cat scan. They never show a character having any type of reaction to the contrast that is sometimes injected for that test. Some normal reactions to this contrast include experiencing a funny taste, a warm flush of the face or body, sensation in the bladder and nausea. Can you imagine the character of Nikolas Cassadine on General Hospital thinking that he peed on the table when he recently went through all of that testing?  Maybe they don’t mention it because they’re afraid viewers will be distracted from the storyline or something.

When the SoapNet channel introduced General Hospital Night Shift earlier this year, it was stated that they wanted the show to stand on its own, and that viewers would not have to watch both shows for things to make sense. Characters were to overlap but most stories wouldn’t. Well now that the Night Shift season is over, the powers that be have carried over a couple of storylines. How can some storylines and not all be carried over? Patrick and Leyla romancing carried over. Lainey’s father was still murdered, and we saw that character carry back over to GH as well. Dr Julian and Dr Archer both have appeared on GH. Nurse Jolene murdering patients to help an hmo take over carried over to GH. They did not attempt to carry over some ridiculous stories, such as Jason performing community service at the hospital. On GH Jason was in jail at that time, so that would be hard to carry over. I think the show was disappointing and served no useful purpose.

Let me start by sharing with you shows I currently watch every week. I have a season pass set up on our living room Tivo for most if not all of them. Tivo’s season pass allows the viewer to schedule all or just some episodes of a tv series. This list doesn’t include what we watch occasionally, anything we watch on a whim , movies or news - it’s just current recurring series.
Soaps. I only watch ABC soaps. All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital.
Comedy. Til Death.
Drama. Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, ER.
I just started watching these shows this season. Some are new, one is not. Two and a Half Men, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Big Love, Burn Notice, The Dead Zone.