'General Hospital,' Soap Operas Using Temporary Writers Amid Strikes
General Hospital and more soap opera writers “face a unique conflict” during the WGA strike as many are being replaced by temporary scribes to keep the genre alive.
“Starting next week, the show will be penned exclusively by scab writers, which is heartbreaking,” General Hospital writer Shannon Peace explained via Instagram on Friday, July 21. “Daytime writers face a unique conflict during strikes.”
Peace, who has been a breakdown writer on the series since 2021, continued: “We hate to see our characters and story lines handed over to ‘writers’ who cross the picket line.
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