‘General Hospital’ Writers Tease ‘Volatile and Sexy’ Port Charles in 2025

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It’s astir to vigor up successful Port Charles.

General Hospital co-head writers Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte aren’t holding backmost erstwhile it comes to their imaginativeness for the long-running ABC soap.

The brace are teaming up for the archetypal clip aft the amusement replaced Van Etten and erstwhile co-head writer Dan O’Connor past year. It past hired Korte and seasoned soap writer Patrick Mulcahey, but Mulcahey’s tenure was short-lived, and Van Etten soon returned.

The brace teased fans with what to expect from General Hospital portion they’re astatine the helm of the writers room, calling their mentation of Port Charles “volatile and sexy” successful an interrogation with TV Insider published Wednesday, January 15.

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“It’s an unthinkable responsibility. We indispensable grant the show’s past and the audience’s emotion for it, arsenic good arsenic the enactment of each those who preceded america — each portion creating caller communicative to situation and turn its characters,” they elaborated. “We’re privileged to constitute for specified a talented cast, galore of whom person embodied their roles for decades. It’s humbling. We enactment regular to gain and support the spot of our assemblage and colleagues.”

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Van Etten and Korte added that they ne'er halt bouncing ideas disconnected of each other, and sometimes, the crazier the better.

“We support the ambiance harmless for voicing immoderate idea, adjacent the ludicrous ones. Sometimes erstwhile we rein it in, the ludicrous thought is the astir breathtaking one,” they said. “There are times erstwhile our ideas are successful conflict; but successful those circumstances we person abstraction to speech it done and find communal crushed specified that we tin proceed successful a absorption that speaks to the characters and to the larger canvas. We perceive 1 different retired and ne'er consciousness handled.”

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Van Etten and Korte person a combined 35 years of acquisition successful the General Hospital writers room, and Korte feels their longevity and moving narration volition service them successful their existent roles.

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“I could not inquire for a amended collaborator and penning spouse than Chris, who brings truthful overmuch creativity, enthusiasm and acquisition to the task,” she said. “I anticipation that my past with the amusement enables maine to recognize the characters, to perceive their voices clearly, to grant their analyzable past and to way disconnected that past arsenic we determination them forward.”

As for Van Etten, helium called it an “honor” to enactment with Korte, adding, “She has a dependable hand, abundant empathy and an awesome imagination.”

General Hospital airs weekdays connected ABC and tin beryllium streamed connected Hulu.