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General Hospital-related news from 2004
It's impossible to keep up with all of the twists and turns from the world of soaps. Luckily, Soap Central has archived all the General Hospital news from 2004.
Here are the news stories posted on Soap Central during 2004 that focus on General Hospital or past and present GH performers. To read any of the articles listed below, simply click on the appropriate link. To access articles from other years, click here.
January 2004
It may be about two weeks late, but General Hospital fans have been given a belated Christmas miracle. General Hospital execs have done an about face and decided not to release
John Ingle (
Edward Quartermaine) from the show.
January 2004
As first reported by Soap Central month, General Hospital newcomer
Lane Davies (
Cameron Lewis) will exit General Hospital sometime in early 2004. ABC has now confirmed the actor's departure.
January 2004
Nearly a year after her surprising and unheralded exit from General Hospital,
Kristina Wagner (
Felicia Jones) is headed back to Port Charles.
February 2004
February 2004
With the sudden and unexpected departure of
John Ingle (
Edward Quartermaine) from General Hospital, the show's casting department has hurriedly cast veteran performer Jed Allan as the new patriarch of the Quartermaine family.
February 2004
Despite what you may have read elsewhere on the Internet, Kimberly McCullough (
Robin Scorpio) is
not returning to General Hospital.
April 2004
When General Hospital co-head writer Charles Pratt, Jr. revealed last month that the character of
Lois Cerullo would soon be returning to Port Charles, many GH viewers had high hopes that Rena Sofer would return to reprise her Emmy winning role.
April 2004
General Hospital insiders are hinting that the show wants to bring back a fan favorite character from its recent past. Exactly which character isn't known, but that hasn't stopped some fans from speculating.
April 2004
According to network sources, Megan McTavish has inked a deal that will allow her to continue on as head writer of All My Children. McTavish served previously as head writer of General Hospital from 2001 to 2002.
May 2004
May 2004
Three-time Emmy Award winner Sarah Brown will join the cast of As the World Turns this summer in a new created role. Brown is best known for her work as
Caroline "Carly" Benson Corinthos on the ABC soap General Hospital. She joined the show in April 1996 before exiting the role five years later.
May 2004
Anna Lee (
Lila Quartermaine), an actress whose acting career spanned 70 years, died Friday, May 14th. Lee had been ailing for the past several months and died at her home near Beverly Hills with son Jeffrey Byron, 48, by her side. She was 91.
May 2004
June 2004
The soap world has lost another of its stars. 52-year-old Gerald Anthony (ex-Marco Dane, One Life to Live and
General Hospital) died on May 28, 2004. The details of his death were not released.
August 2004
Former
General Hospital star
Kin Shriner (ex-
Scott Baldwin) will join the cast of The Young and the Restless later this summer. The move puts an end to what turned out to be a pretty intense battle by several shows to snag the actor.
August 2004
August 2004
Mary Beth Evans appears to have had a change of heart about setting up shop in
One Life to Live's Llanview. Just two weeks after the announcement that the veteran soap star was going to appear on the ABC soap comes words that Evans will remain in place on CBS's As the World Turns.
August 2004
His addition to cast was part of what many media outlets called a "raiding" of former ABC talent by CBS execs, but without much story for his character,
General Hospital's
Réal Andrews (
Walker Daniels) has been let go from As the World Turns.
September 2004
Though an ABC spokesperson declined comment, whispers are getting louder in some General Hospital circles that three of the show's veteran performers are on their way out the door.
October 2004
Could General Hospital's Aussie heartthrob be headed out of Port Charles? No one's saying, but in a recent interview,
Ingo Rademacher (
Jasper Jacks) hinted that he'd gladly trade in the hustle and bustle of his Hollywood life for relaxing time on a ranch Down Under.
October 2004
After months of speculation and countless rumors, a spokesperson for General Hospital has confirmed that Emmy winner
Maurice Benard (
Sonny Corinthos) has re-signed with the show.
November 2004
Robin Mattson's (
Heather Webber) short-term run on ABC's General Hospital has come to and end. According to a show spokesperson, the actress is slated to tape her final episode later this month.
