I reckon they’ll definitely have Beyond the Gates then too when it starts. That’ll make them the home all of the US soaps.
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Yet they don’t really care about the Aussie soap they continue to part fund.
Speaking of, Neighbours has been moved to next to the US soaps on 10Play.
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Iconic Soap General Hospital Is Coming To 10 Play.
Make An Appointment From Wednesday, 1 January 2025.
Happy New Year soap fans! You asked, we delivered.
10 Play, the home to the biggest soaps in the world is about to get even bigger when classic U.S. soap, General Hospital joins the line-up on New Year’s Day, 2025.
From Wednesday, 1 January, the longest-running American soap opera in production arrives on 10 Play, joining a host of soaps straight from the U.S. including The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful.
First broadcast on April Fool’s Day in 1963, General Hospital recently celebrated its 60th anniversary and has aired over 15,000 episodes following the lives of the Corinthos, Quartermaine and Spencer families, and all the other residents of the fictional town of Port Charles, New York. The series holds the record for the most Daytime Emmy Award wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category with 17 wins to date.
Over the years, General Hospital helped launch the careers of many stars including Demi Moore, John Stamos, Jack Wagner, Mark Hamill, Rick Springfield, Ricky Martin, Amber Tamblin, Emma Samms, Jonathan Jackson and Richard Dean Anderson.
Fans of General Hospital will be in soapie heaven as we drop a backlog of episodes and add new episodes as they air in the U.S.
To kick off the new year, you’ll be able to catch-up on Season 62 episodes of General Hospital on 10 Play, with new episodes arriving within days of the U.S. broadcast.
General Hospital.
Arrives Wednesday, 1 January 2025 on 10 Play.
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Has this been available more recently in Australia? Can only find old broadcast details from years ago.
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Not for a very long time.
I find this page really helpful.
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Perhaps 10 should create a new channel - 10 Soap?
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Or rename 10 Peach to something better…
And air the soaps there, because i doubt four different soaps would fit in the lineup on the main channel.
5pm: Days
6pm YR
7pm: Bold (fast tracked)
7:30: Neighbours
8PM: General
Surely it wouldn’t be too hard to add the soaps to Peach.
Why not change 10 Peach to 10 Gold.
Then you’d have 10 Bold and 10 Gold, and you market it as 10 Gold - all the golden classics.
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Is this another Soap Foxtel has now lost?
Well no because they haven’t had it for years.
Really? Who had then? I thought Foxtel had the rights?
As the article above states, it left Foxtel in 2011.
I don’t think Foxtel or anyone had the rights to GH in the last few years, but t]Fox did have YR and Days.
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I think in the old days in aired on 9 for some time then moved to 10. Then it reappeared on Fox then disappeared again.
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General Hospital is an American soap opera that first aired on the Seven Network in Australia from 1968. Later it was aired by the Nine Network from 1983, with episodes five years behind the US. By the late '80s, the show was in a slump, and left Australian television soon after but did remain on regional stations. It was revived in 1990 by Network Ten placed in many different time slots such as 11:00am, 12:00pm, 3:30pm and 5:00am. It remained in this timeslot when until 6 June 1997 where it was taken off the air. It was revived again in 1999, lasting less than a year. General Hospital was picked up by Foxtel in 2004. After running for several months on W, the show was moved to FOX8, before being pulled altogether in December 2005. Fans in Australia lobbied hard to get it back. General Hospital returned to Australian television on 5 July 2010, again on W, at 12:50 pm and on its time shift channel W2 at 2:50 pm, with episodes ten weeks behind after the US.[44] W dropped the show on 17 June 2011
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