Katie Couric Talk Show Deal to Be Announced Monday?

Wouldn't be shocked in the LEAST!

Bye GH

ABC will want this on all the abc afiliates and to do so will give the afilaites the 3pm EST slot that GH occupies. Just watch.

I'm so sick and tired of Katie Couric that I can barely stand it!!!

Seriously! They are going to have freaking talk shows from 7am to 7pm including local news. It's way to freaking much and it's all going to be the same shit. If I want a 24 hour news channel I'll watch CNN Frons!

As a former fan of atwts/gl, I can tell you that when the decision is made then the decision is made. I thought I read where gh did not have to replace gh to cancel. 3:00 could be given back to affiliates. So where they put the show will depend on their decision of keeping the 3;00 slot or returning it to affiliates. Time will tell. I don't really think the same people who watch amc/oltl would go to gh unless it was a completely new show. To watch gh, you have to like the Sonny/Jason characters.
All others are irrelant. There is a chance, Katie's new show will not affect gh though. We will see. ....I guess the verdict will be in on Monday. I have to admit I am a little surprised at this news. This is sooner rather than later so maybe that will be good news for gh fans.

FLOP.

Why don't they just plug her in at the 4pm slot Oprah used to occupy? People are used to having a talk show on at that hour.
I'd give it a try if it wasn't pushing out a soap.

Goodbye, GH.

Who cares anymore. If not Katie it would only be another ill-fated show.
GH is done.

The end is nigh.

In my area, since Oprah has ended, the news is aired from 4-7pm. Three hours for news is ridiculous. I am so sick of news shows and reality tv. I mean really, whatever happened to VH1 and just simply playing music. The show that existed 5-10 years ago is so different from the show now. I think the idea that ABC has for changing the daytime lineup is going to backfire big time. The shelf life for these shows are about to expire. I give it a couple of more years ar best. Everyone thought Myspace was the second coming and look where they are now. Facebook is about to have a shelf life as well. I am in my mid 30's and my peers are sick of all these shows. We want a whole different programming than what is being aired for the most part.
I for one will not watch the Chew, Katie Couric or anything except GH on ABC.

"General Hospital" is dead? GAWD, I am gonna miss Brianna Brown, the best soap opera psycho babe since Cynthia Watros.

Katie Couric? LOVED the bitch. Was hoping for Katie Vs. Sarah Version 2.0.

~ Kevin in downtown Tulsa

GH is dead regardless of whether Katie has a show or not. One has nothing to do with the other.

Renegade_Killerbee,

I enjoy your posts, but I don't think Brianna Brown is ANYWHERE near being as magnificent as my darling Cynthia Watros. Not even in the same ballpark. I find Lisa to be tremendously boring, contrived and unoriginal. And I think Brianna is a mediocre actress, even on her best day.

Wanna talk great psycho babe?? Cynthia Preston, GH (Faith Roscoe), Kristen Blake, DAYS (Eileen Davidson!) and Allison Perkins, OLTL (Barbara Garrick!) come to mind for me, not Brianna or Lisa. I can't wait until this LOSER leaves Port Charles PERMANENTLY!!!!

I stopped being a regular viewer of GH the moment Sonny started to take over the show. I was fan back in days when Ceaser Fasion would make those returns from the dead and followed it through the era of it's Public Service Announcement storylines. But then I was also watching the other 2 soaps on the network. for me when I tuned out of AMC the rest would follow. Generally whatever network had my favorite soap I usually followed the rest until 2000. Then it was 3 soaps (Y&R, Passions, Days) and eventually 4 (Y&R, Passions, Days, ATWT) and then I would switch one soap out when one of my favs left or it got boring and add in a new one if I could.

But like I said now that Booza is gone I going to start watching as soon as the new HR's episodes start to air.

Even if she does end up on syndication meaning Oprah's old timeslot in many areas, (not here in Chicago), it will be another show, ABC wants out of soaps!

Yikes. Jill and Garin need to start planning their endgame.

Heard Rumors JFP May Be Out & to be replaced by a former male EP known for a long line of successful soap gigs. In fact if proven true and he comes to GH this will be not long after leaving his most recent soap gig

Any guesses?

Gross. Her smile is so creepy.

I don't really care. Katie's salary was reportedly $15 million (per year)over the last five years and it had been about $7 million per year(reportedly) during her "Today Show" years. Katie will still be fabulously rich whether we watch or not. If those reported figures are anywhere near accurate, then Katie won't care whether we watch either, but she will probably do better in the talk show arena than hard news.

Appleridge you wouldn't happen to be referring to Paul Rauch would you?

Thats The RUMOR I Heard Yes

Wow, ABC claims soaps are too expensive and now they want to enter into a mega million dollar deal with a wanna be celebrity claiming to be a journalist. Where are they saving any money? Confusing to say the least. If I want news, I will go to CNN, not ABC daytime. ABC = (Another Bad Choice)

did i miss the part where KC is a proven ratings draw?

was my understanding her ratings on CBS were bad.

Get it guh!

I just can't wait for Monday just for the sole fact of the internet losing its collective shit (and Primetime Emmy ballots are online that day too!).

And I doubt that rumor is anything but that. I know ABCD downfall has been misuse of $$$, but that would just add to that fact. You get a cheap writer to close a show, but want to hire a Paul Rauch? Does not compute, but does anything over there does anymore?

I just don't think Katie Couric has the appeal of being the "everyday woman", and this is why the show will not do well. There's a reason why she bounces from network to network...she is out of touch with people, she is not as engaging as she used to be, when trends and tastes were different. I for one can't wait to see everything blow up in the face of ABCD and DISNEY(that ages old evil with the facade of goodness).

It's possible that both Katie and GH could exist on ABC daytime, right? I cannot imagine that these network execs really think they do not need at least one soap on in the daytime.

gosh, so many nasty, vicious comments about KC, it isn't her fault that ABC is doing to their soaps and think this is abit unfair but understandable. If I was KC and ABC offered me 15 million I think everyone would jump at the chance. I like KC but I do understand fans of GH not being happy. Once the axe comes down it is final and I read ABC isn't going to sell any of their soaps to no network probably being scared of viewers not tuning in to their new programming for their daytime. All the networks are trying to reprogram people on how and what they watch. There will never be the loyalty to no major network as with soap fans those days are gone. This could be a struggle for each the networks for many years to come and not have true hit. This would be poetic justice. It is so sad to watch a genre so well loved and be going out with such a whimper. As a die hard fan it is hard anymore to watch what is left on daytime and say we probably lost the fight. I have been going to YT, putting in the best order as possible and watch everyday "my stories" for my soap fix. You know what I am enjoying these storylines once again and finding soaps I never watched like "Loving" and truly liking this little soap very much to my surprise.

ABC may be in for a shock when the ratings for The Young and The Restless start to climb. That is exactly whats going to happen when all the ABC shows are gone. Then they are going to turn around in a few years and want to reinvest in soaps again. Has anyone seen the extended promo for the Cane and Lily storyline on Y & R? It is classic soap opera, Genie Francis and Tristan Rogers are tearing up the screen over there. GH could have had these two back and could have been had their ratings soar if ABC would only invest in their soaps rather than destroy them. A true bunch of MORONS at ABC/Disney, they have gold and are throwing it all away.

I loved "Loving". At the very least, ABC should put the soaps on DVD by decades. I'd buy "Loving" in a heartbeat!