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General Hospital New Archives: 2000
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January 2000 Nine-Year Run Ends for Burton After nearly a decade in Port Charles, Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) will bid farewell to the fictional town on January 17th, 2000.

January 2000 McCullough, Prinze Split According to published reports Kimberly McCullough (ex Robin Scorpio) and Freddie Prinze Jr have ended their four-year relationship.

January 2000 Brown Might March On The last twelve months have been crippling for GH as they have not only lost some of their most talented young actors in Emmy winners Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer), Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio) and Steve Burton (Jason Morgan), but also incurring the ire of faithful fans by sacking favorites Lisa Cerasoli (V) and Julian Stone (Jerry Jax). Now, GH is faced with the possible loss of two-time Emmy winner Sarah Brown, who is rumored to be thinking of departing GH when her contract runs out in March. Seeing the success of Jackson on "the outside" has encouraged others to spread their wings and move out into prime time and the silver screen. ABC executives have been courting Brown like a love-sick suitor, doing nearly anything to get her to stay beyond March.

February 2000 Lucky to Be Young The moment GH fans have anxiously awaited for nearly a year has arrived as Lucky Spencer finally re-emerges as an onscreen persona. Since Jonathan Jackson (ex-Lucky) first announced his impending departure early last year, the debate has been hot and heavy over how both his exit and return should be played out. Anthony Geary (Luke) went on record to say that if Jackson were not to play Lucky, he'd prefer the character be killed off. Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth) expressed her dismay at Jackson's choice to leave, but said she fully understood that his talent should be given a chance to grow in venues other than daytime drama. General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr. promised last year that the story would continue to run behind the scenes after all the pre-shot footage of Jackson as Lucky had been used (his last appearance was in late May) and would arc for about a year.

March 2000 "Mikkos Cassadine" Has Died Actor John Colicos, General Hospital's Mikkos Cassadine, died Monday in Toronto at the age of 71.

March 2000 Jackson Out as Skywaker Jonathan Jackson has been officially cut from the unofficial list of Anakin Skywalkers.

March 2000 Rae is GH Bound For those of you who have been following the bouncing story line, Linda Dano (Rae Cummings) will be arriving in Port Charles (on the GH side) on March 31 and will stay through April 25. She will be spending time on GH's sister soap, Port Charloes, from April 15 through April 26th.

March 2000 GH, ABC Dominate SOD Awards It was quite a night for GH and all of the ABC soaps. General Hospital took five Soap Opera Digest Awards --- plus two GH alum also went home with awards.

April 2000 Reunited... At Last?! That is the question on everyone's mind on Friday, as Luke and Laura are reunited with their son Lucky after a year apart. The search for Lucky culminates at a place from the Spencer's past - The Triple L Diner (once owned by Luke and Laura).

April 2000 Nichols Speaks Out Just before the Soap Opera Digest awards, Stephen Nichols participated in a very candid and charming pre-awards show chat in which he revealed the following:

April 2000 Rademacher Will Not Re-Sign Straight from the horse's mouth: Ingo Rademacher will not renew his contract when it expires this summer. The announcement comes after months of speculation.

May 2000 GH Online Special Report: Contract Talks While Carly fans are breathing easy these days since the news that her portrayer Sarah Brown re-signed with General Hospital at the eleventh hour; it is not certain how long Brown will stick around (a year, maybe). The decision-makers at GH were willing to bend over backward to keep her (and her hot new romance with Sonny) alive in Port Charles. Within hours of the deadline, an offer was made which allowed Brown to pursue outside projects, and pair her up with long-time dream co-star Maurice Benard (Sonny).

May 2000 GH Loses Family Member Wednesday, May 17th's edition of General Hospital was dedicated to the memory of Kimberly Ann Robinson. She was 29.

May 2000 GH Shatters Another Emmy Record When a General Hospital star's name is announced as the first Emmy recipient of the evening, you have to get a feeling that things are going to go pretty well.

June 2000 Steve Burton Returns to GH True enough, it was officially announced this past week that Emmy Award winning actor Steve Burton will be reprising the role of Jason Morgan on General Hospital for an initial period of six weeks. His first airdate will be Friday, August 25.

July 2000 Ingo the Titan Ingo Rademacher will join the ever-growing cast of Titans, a new primetime soap slated to debut on NBC this fall.

August 2000 Is Marcil Returning? Ingo Rademacher's (Jax) final on-air appearance is slated for August 28th. But as Rademacher leaves, might the door be left open for the return of another well-liked character?

September 2000 Healy Speaks Out About Firing Forget everything you've read in the tabloids. Patricia Healy was "not suicidal" after being dismissed from General Hospital in July.

September 2000 Guza, Bennett Leaving GH Ingo Rademacher will join the ever-growing cast of Titans, a new primetime soap slated to debut on NBC this fall.

October 2000 Is Maurice Benard Leaving Again? With Ingo Rademacher already gone, many General Hospital fans are abuzz that the show may be losing more of its hunk factor.

October 2000 Unofficial Search for New Writers Begins Though ABC has not officially acknowledged that General Hospital head writers Robert Guza Jr. and Meg Bennett are leaving the show, the network has already begun its search for their replacements.

October 2000 Are Juan's Days Numbered? Fans of Juan may be getting some bad news soon. It appears that rumors are circling that Michael Saucedo might be on his way out.

November 2000 Poll: GH Viewers Wouldn't Miss Juan Rumors have been circulating that Michael Saucedo's (Juan) days on General Hospital may be numbered. Fans, however, don't really seem to care.

November 2000 GH Places African-American as New Head Writer Michele Val Jean has been elevated to the position of head writer of General Hospital. She replaces Bob Guza, Jr. and Meg Bennett, who tendered their resignations this past summer and left their positions as co-head writers recently.

November 2000 Maule Bumped from Contract Role After 17 years, this could be the end of the line for Dr. Tony Jones.

November 2000 One Star Signs, Two Stars in Doubt The status of several fan favorites remain in a certain amount of doubt as rumors swirls. Soap Opera Central's GH Online has gathered the latest news on the contract talks and presents them to you here to help you keep up to date on all that is going on.

November 2000 Executive Producer Riche Will Leave General Hospital's executive producer, Wendy Riche, has decided to end her tenure atop ABC's highest rated daytime drama at eight years. She will depart in January 2001.

December 2000 GH Making Contingency Plans For Brown Departure The status of several fan favorites remain in a certain amount of doubt as rumors swirls. Soap Opera Central's GH Online has gathered the latest news on the contract talks and presents them to you here to help you keep up to date on all that is going on.

December 2000 Marcil Address Return Rumors You've probably seen the tabloid and internet reports that Vanessa Marcil (ex Brenda) is ready to return to General Hospital. The reports are correct... to a point.

December 2000 B&B Actress May Arrive in PC In September, Soap Opera Central reported that Bobbie Eakes (ex Macy, The Bold and the Beautiful) was reportedly ready to join the cast of General Hospital. Since that time, though, the rumor has faded away and it looked like the talk was nothing more than hype.

December 2000 Burton Will Return in January In what can only be called a change of heart, Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) has decided to return to General Hospital.

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