Starting Monday, ABC soap “General Hospital” will be written by scabs and “fi core” writers, meaning union members who have forfeited voting rights, etc but will will still be part of the Writers Guild when the strike is settled.
“GH” writer Shannon Peace announced on Instagram today that her last episode aired last Thursday. She has no idea whether the interim writers have continued her stories, as well as the other staff writers’, or if suddenly everyone will start doing weird things.
No one from “The Young and the Restless” or “The Bold and the Beautiful” has announced anything but it’s likely this has already begun over there on CBS.
Writers from the soaps have been on strike since it began
on May 2nd so their scripts were written before that date. The soap actors are not on strike as they are signed to a different contract.
As for “Days of our Lives” on Peacock, they film months, not weeks, in advance. So “Days” has shot through the fall. Next week they’ll acknowledge the death of actor John Aniston when his character, Victor Kiriakis, dies in a plane crash, I am told. They were smart to get this under the wire.
