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General Hospital Shortened Weekly Recap November 25-27, 2024: Lulu’s successful escape, Sasha now pregnant that could have a ripping affect between Michael, Drew & Willow and Ric all out to defeat Kristina at court for Ava

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Didn’t know this week’s GH show was rarely short due to Thanksgiving public holiday tomorrow (a repeat episode) as well as College Football Friday by the show’s network property ABC in the USA. But anyways what we did learn in this three-day week slate of episodes from Port Charles?

Lulu is at it again this time able to get out of the Turning Woods clinic as if she was finally able to start that old car going and there she goes from place to place.

Didn’t know someone who just got out of a four year coma was preparing for something else like the New York Marathon, even though it will take time for her liver to get back up and running. Yes, maybe she thinks she wasn’t feeling good from someone who has put her life in danger from none other than Cyrus Renault as if she thinks she was locked up in Cassadine Island. 

He was the one who exploded the floating rib a few years ago despite being a changed man now after he served some time in jail with his faith in god & the bible.

But again, Lulu is living in the spirit of Sam after all back in action following her successful transplant. For Sam, there was nothing wrong though following the donor surgery other than a drug overdose being mismanaged unfortunately as per autopsy review. 

Then Lulu successfully hitchhiked a ride with Cody Bell before not only she broke into her good mate Maxie’s house with James West in it but she also later eventually went around the Quartermaine estate via overhearing Gio’s violin practice sessions & now her son Rocco became the first person who recognised her once she entered the Q mansion.

Speaking of the Q’s, there’s more than just Lulu with not one but two new babies coming our way in Port Charles.

One is Finn’s brother Chase who fell in love with Brook Lynn once again in bed as they are more than certain now of having a baby together. Meanwhile, Michael secretly recorded Drew the other day about Curtis in order to let Curtis know about the real truth that would pretty much kick Drew out of the Aurora Media family business for good. But again, that may backfire because Sasha Scorpio is now pregnant following his one-night stand with her out from a bar lately – oh my!

As per announcement from other day about Chad Duell leaving the show as Michael, looks like Michael will be out of town for a while; but like we are about to see with Finn and Liz, the Millow show would be bound to end at the right time.

And last but not least, we got a court case up and running between Kristina v Ava following their heated exchange back in August – this resulted in Kristina with not only suffering a few injuries but also lost the baby she’s been carrying for sister Molly & her partner TJ Ashford. 

But there’s one man out there who has been stealing the spotlight with extreme force as if he’s speeding at 200mph and it’s Molly’s dad Ric Lansing who is representing Ava as her lawyer. 

So sorry for Kristina having to be so emotional for nearly the whole time but then the judge let Ric say anything that could possibly let win his case for Ava in order to get what he wants. I know, but don’t have much confidence there for Kristina to pull off there unfortunately.

Oh, also going into next week, looks like Molly is having a breakdown with TJ that could mark the end of their relationship together. Also, the custody battle still goes on with one of Sam’s kids and all Drew wants is for Scout to be with him despite not being around all the time – good luck with that. And for the minute, Lucky is still holding onto the lead with Liz’s heart –  there’s still some sections of the fanbase being utterly disappointed with this once pairing again even after no more Finn. I don’t know what more do they want other than Jason again but maybe just let her live happily ever after only with her boys.

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Thoughts on Chad Duell leaving General Hospital after 14 years as Michael Corinthos

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Also from this morning, another of General Hospital’s long-time acting talents will be leaving Port Charles soon — his name is Chad Duell who has been playing the role of Michael Corinthos over the last 14 years that goes back to 2010. 

Unlike Kelly Monaco, this was his decision alone as he will be moving onto the next chapter of his life, especially being a father for a year now to his little boy with his Brazilian partner Luana Lucci.

Although his time on the show has been met with scheduling issues in recent years when Robert Adamson – through Noah from The Young & The Restless – has been filling in for him at times including this year and also back in 2022 when he had health issues related to COVID at the time.

It remains to be seen if Adamson will be part of GH going forward permanently or have someone else replace Chad or even worse have Michael being written off like they did to Kelly Monaco’s Sam.

We all know what Michael is known for his angry overreactions every time things happen to him for the worse that affects his family the most including him being betrayed by Willow for falling in love with his uncle Drew – despite her mom Nina also in a relationship with Drew thanks to him being a congressman, so he can look and feel good now that he has won the election. 

He may also try to get him out of the Aurora Media family business for good in collaboration with Curtis but we also know he has been sleeping at least one time with another woman from one of his previous lovers in Sasha and looks like he could unexpectedly yet get another baby that she may be carrying after their one-night stand together lately.

But whatever that may be, looks like it’s the beginning of the end of Millow soon enough. Although not holding by breath just yet when whoever also works with Mattsson  will be thrown into the deep end for the viewers feedback if the show does want to keep Michael alive by someone else at some point. The same will go with Adamson if he goes wish to go full-time as he’s been with Willow’s Katelyn MacMullen a few times but not so much with Mattsson. For now, we wish Chad the best of luck on life after Port Charles & will also miss his videos with Sonny’s Maurice Bernard too who is his on-screen father.

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General Hospital Weekly Recap November 18-22: Who will look after Danny & Scout?, Lulu fighting straight out of a coma and the Ava v Kristina court case battle is now on

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So what did we learn this week (between November 18-22) on General Hospital? There’s more post-Sam drama even after her funeral like the custody battle to look after Danny and Scout. 

But one thing for sure is that Jason will be moving into the Quartermaine mansion after all to care both of her kids and so would Dante and his kid Rocco, so they can stay all in the one place together – no matter how rich that mansion is because at the end of the day, they’re all family.

How good & sweet!

So that leaves Drew out of the picture altogether as yes, he is related through Scout as the father; but then we also know he’s on thin ice for the all wrong reasons in recent months like his affair with Willow – despite being with Nina because her husband is his nephew Michael. 

Thank god, it’s not happening as Drew will be off to Washington DC very soon following his election win – but with no guarantees though, more on that later.

Meanwhile, someone finally woke up out of a coma after four long years in the spirit of Sam’s liver upon Alexa Havins’s long-awaited debut, and it’s Lesley Lu “Lulu” Spencer. The first person she has seen and heard though was her uncle Cyrus Renault who she did not enjoy talking to back then when he was running a crime syndicate and he was also behind that floating rib explosion back in late 2020. Sure, he’s a changed man out of jail since then over the last year or two thanks to his huge devotion to God, Jesus and the bible. 

But then she doesn’t know for sure just yet when she faked herself going back into a coma for a bit before she actually tried to make her way out of a clinic as if she’s in jail that a changed Cyrus actually arranged to help his niece get back into life. Like her mom Laura and her dad Luke, she did show extreme bravery like a true Spencer even though she fell herself on the ground once — as yes, things will take time to get back on track before she can find her way out physically. 

However, based on these preview photos for the show’s upcoming episodes, it looks like Lulu is back in action & smiling as a healthy adult woman once again. Okay yes, we can say all we want about Kelly Monaco but again, we hope she will get another acting job.

Speaking of the Spencer family clan, Lucky is still not sure whether if he wants to go back to Africa or not by sticking around a bit longer with Liz by his side. He will be reunited with Lulu any minute from now, as well as spending a bit more time via his child that Liz shares in Aiden. 

Also going back earlier, it also looks like Michael’s grand plans to expose Drew with Curtis may backfire when Sasha has a pregnancy test kit in her handbag after she finished having breakfast with her newly-discovered & extended Scorpio family like Felicia and Mac at Bobbie’s Diner, and she may be carrying the baby with Michael’s fingerprints on it off the back of their one-night stand lately. 

Looks like the Millow show is hanging in the balance after all finally in my opinion as who gets out first? Watch this space.

Elsewhere, it’s still a slow burner between Trina Robinson & another African-American person Kai Taylor. She’s still not impressed with how Kai has been making excuses after excuses with her favoured art project when he’s still an extremely gifted-talented athlete in College Football & has a 24/7 time table. He’s not that bad though as Josslyn is right, don’t jump the gun too soon — and they seem to have something in common together after all, which is them not being able to sleep that much.

Although again as always said with the current potential Liz and Trina love pairings, just gonna leave that there.

And the Kristina v Ava court case begins next week with Ric representing Ava as her lawyer while Alexis despises him for walking into her property earlier this week – despite him dropping off for the daughter they share together in Molly.

Will Ava go to jail for letting Kristina trip that piece of luggage bag and then got fallen off a window that resulted the baby’s death Kristina’s been carrying for her sister? or is it rather Kristina who shouldn’t gone to her first and then didn’t know something so worse after that fall?

Maybe the script Ava’s been practising might do the trick but Kristina though has been suffering for far too long that affected her loved ones both physically & mentally. 

We’ll find out soon enough that could either see Ava take over everything or Kristina walk away with maybe nothing including Molly or somehow victorious after all & Sonny able to look after Avery 100% with a safe pair of hands.

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General Hospital Weekly Review November 11-15, 2024: More Drew Cain madness, more competition up for grabs for a shot at love & one happy ending with Robert & Holly

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What have we’ve learned this week between November 11-15 on the General Hospital soap? I love seeing Robert reunite with Holly to make up lots of lost time before they head off overseas together after we’ve discovered lately that they’re parents after all to Sasha Gilmore aka Miss Scorpio. I, for one, would love to see the whole family get along together for one big occasion including Ethan if Sasha can at least settle her differences aside from her newly-discovered mom when Holly and Robert get back to Port Charles at some stage. For Diane, felt sorry for her but that’s soaps & sure she will get a new man soon.

Meanwhile, as everyone said, Drew got what he deserved with another punch to his face thanks to his twin brother “Stone Cold” Jason Morgan, all because he keeps on constantly banging on his nephew’s wife Willow while also in a relationship with her mom Nina. 

The good news that Drew is off to Washington D.C now that he won the election lately in place of the late senator Larry McConkey who unfortunately passed away a few months ago over a heart attack while out of town, so he won’t have to anything about it to Willow. However, the bad news is will this effectively end the marriage between Michael and Willow? 

For me personally, yes; but they’re both married remember with two little children together in Wiley and Amelia. It’s going to be difficult for them to go their separate ways unfortunately unless the show decides to do something about it and that would take a bigger effort to see them get divorced while they would have to settle for a child-custody agreement to spend time with their kids. Therefore, the Millow couple show will go on at least for a bit longer.

Plus, looks like Trina has a new man on her radar now and this time it’s someone similar to her African-American background rather than like the ever popular Spencer Cassadine – his name is star College Football Quarterback player (not soccer) Kai Taylor.

I know Trina looks irate who thinks he should take his academic work more seriously much like his athletic career. But hey, he’s a gifted-athletic star in the making whom everyone likes and surely, Trina at some point may as well get along with him or maybe not? We’ll see but looks like it will be a slow burner for a start before the lovebirds would potentially begin for both Kai Taylor & Trina Robertson where one is athletically gifted and talented and another is also talented but only in the academic side of things. I will not give my say on this though since I used to enjoy watching “Sprina” when I first watched GH back in August 2021 and still am everyday as hope is all well with Josslyn’s portrayer Eden McCoy.

Speaking of love, who is winning the hearts of Liz Webber-Baldwin also? Don’t know but looks like still Laura’s boy Lucky Spencer has the lead upfront, even though he still wishes to go back to Africa and Liz wasn’t thrilled every single bit about it – especially at the expense of Aiden whom they share a child together. 

Also judging by her character’s comments, looks like not all Liz fans are happy to see them pair up together again unlike once upon a time during the golden late 90s-early 2000s. There’s still some #FreeLiz hashtags across the board even when Michael Easton left as Finn several months ago as yes, Liz still got the lead in some parts. But again, maybe a Liason reunion with Jason would be more like it though as likewise with the Kai-Trina pairing, I’m just going to leave that there.

Going into next week in the wake of Sam’s death, there will be a funeral as well as Lulu finally out of a coma for the first time in four years following that floating rib place explosion. Will we also see the other Davis sisters Molly and Kristina get back on track together after all this in-fighting in recent times? I can see this for a start from the other day when Kristina brought a birthday gift for Molly at Bobbie’s Diner, but I’m not entirely sure when Molly’s dad is Ric and Kristina’s dad is Ric’s brother Sonny alongside Mom Alexis. 

This upcoming court case between Kristina v Ava (represented by Ric) will determine their fate as sisters together.

And oh, also good to see Isaiah Gannon there too who is set for a longer stay in Port Charles with some more love alongside the city’s Deputy Mayor in Jordan Ashford after he was offered a job at the hospital as a surgeon – despite operating on Sam alongside her brother & fellow surgeon Lucas lately to save Lulu.

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General Hospital Weekly Review November 4-8, 2024: Still more tributes for Sam, another set of love affairs & one warehouse explosion

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So what we did look back this week (November 4-8) on General Hospital? 

Everyone in Port Charles is still mourning the loss of Sam McCall even though her surgeon brother Lucas Jones felt guilty about it when he recently performed surgery on his sister to save Lulu with that liver transplant before things went horribly wrong after Sam died over a heart attack/cardiac arrest. But as we all know, this has already been tied up to her portrayer’s sad exit in Kelly Monaco – that’s all we can say. We still also don’t know when Alexa Havins will have her first on-air scenes as the recasted & now recovered Lulu, but it’s been a while since this announcement.

Sidwell is back after all this time in Port Charles to steal Sasha away because she’s related to her newly discovered mom Holly Sutton, so he can try get these diamonds back. Although he was happy to receive them when Jason Morgan came in on her behalf to save Sasha, there still wasn’t a lot of time left as he and his men set the timer up ahead of the warehouse bomb explosion. Yes, it did explode but fortunately, glad to hear that they’re both safe and sound as don’t know where Sidwell went with this. Like any other relationship, time will tell if Sasha will accept Holly for who she is so they can start over again as mom and daughter.

Meanwhile, looks likely than ever that it’s the end of Michael and Willow – despite having a good young family together with two little kids. She has been having an affair with Drew quite a while and yet another emotional breakdown after his daughter Scout lost her mom Sam, they decided to fall in love once again this time upstairs in the Quartermaine mansion. 

They think they’re trying their best to keep it to themselves but Michael did see this unfortunately with huge anger when he saw the clip off a baby monitor app. 

Lots of soap couples come and go remember, so keep an eye on this one soon enough. Maybe Michael would go back with Sasha amid rumours of Sasha carrying that new baby after their one night stand last week and Willow should go with someone else (please not Drew!).

And last but not least, great to hear that Dr. Finn – even off-screen – is doing fine with his daughter Violet over in Seattle after he completed his 90-day rehab program. Chase and Brook Lynn talked about this as now it’s a good time to finally start their own family with kids together.

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General Hospital Today’s News: Sasha rumored to be pregnant with Michael after their one-night stand earlier this week?

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Here’s another hot topic General Hospital fans have been speculating as of late and the question is will Sasha get another baby? Yes, she had one once before with Brando who was later killed by Heather Webber with a hook months later, but then baby Liam was so ill upon her giving birth before he was sadly passed away.

First of all, Sasha became so drunk along with Michael at a bar in one of the episodes earlier this week after they were both unhappy on the latest of their own respective lives. Then they both fell love in each other into bed overnight before they suddenly didn’t realise what they were doing once Sasha & Michael woke up the next morning. 

Time flies so fast doesn’t it? Despite the fact Michael was cheated by Willow for kissing his nephew Drew while Drew was still in a relationship with her mom Nina & Sasha can’t love Cody anymore because her new mom Holly said that they’re now discovered to be first cousins.

Since most soap couples come and go including Sam and Dante off the back of Kelly Monaco’s controversial exit the other day, with Sam now written off following surgery gone wrong for Lulu, it would be no surprise if Michael and Willow be up next – even though they’re both currently married & also have two kids together.

Yes, this is going to hurt the kids at least for a while but GH has been there & done that with other families before – so going to be a bit of a surprise if they’ll go with Michael and Sasha again this time as new parents to that new baby Sasha is rumored to be carrying. Their respective portrayers’ Chad Duell loves being a dad when his child was born earlier this year with his new partner from Brazil and so does Sofia Mattsson who has also been a mother for a few years with not one but two kids now.

Yes, at the end of the day, looks like Michael and Willow have ran its course thanks to their own affairs with other people as Michael to move back with a new Scorpio family member there in Sasha including an unborn child together – so make that a family of 3 + 2 more from Willow.

Time will tell over the next few days to weeks if and when Willow will eventually find out about Michael and Sasha’s one-night stand that would make her cry even more – despite Willow being so guilty with regret based on her interactions from Drew. 

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General Hospital episodes recap October 2024: Sad exit for one of the soap’s long-time actress with lots of surprises along the way

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Lots to process on what has been a huge month of October 2024 in Port Charles where we saw a couple of surprises that affects families the most, plus one widely-expected exit off the back of a controversial casting decision as we know it back in late August (two months ago).

First of all, it’s sad to see Kelly Monaco and her character Sam McCall go after 21 years on this set that goes way back to 2003 when Kelly came over from GH’s past spin-off show Port Charles via her previous role of Livvie Locke. Her character recently underwent surgery for Lulu who was seen as a viable donor with Lulu desperately needed a new liver in order to keep her alive following that floating rib explosion back in late 2020. For Lulu, she will be fine after being put in a coma over the last few years upon her successful liver transplant with Alexa Havins set to begin her shift any minute from now; but not for Sam unfortunately due to a heart attack/cardiac arrest following the surgery. Yes, it’s still sad but hoping Kelly will be back on our screens soonest whether it’s back on GH, another soap or even elsewhere on prime-time TV.

Who’s up next? Robert and Holly? With a new long-lost child they’ve had together in Sasha? Yes, that’s true in more ways than one when Holly recently turned up at the Quartermaine Mansion, with Sasha being so furious at her newly-discovered mom considering Holly abandoned her from the moment she was born while being tricked to believe her long-lost dad was dead at the time. The news also meant the unfortunate couple demise of Sasha and Cody as a couple together since they’re now revealed to be first cousins – more on Cody later. But for now, we finally know who Sasha’s parents are via the Scorpios.

Speaking of Cody, he finally revealed to the world earlier this week at a bar while drunk on what a horrible human being Drew Cain is, when Drew kissed his nephew’s (Michael) wife Willow not once but twice during early July while in a relationship with Willow’s long-lost mom Nina. Didn’t see that coming there but it’s hard to say this time around though since Michael & Willow are married with two little kids together in Wiley & Amelia.

Plus, Sidwell is still on the run when someone like Lucky should’ve ended him while escaping from his compound cell in Africa alongside Jason & Anna. But Sidwell’s portrayer Carlo Rota (foodie lover) hasn’t been doing the scenes in Port Charles just yet, so looks like he’ll stick around a bit longer (recurring basis) before his character will eventually meet his fate most likely from Sonny & Jason to protect Holly. 

Liz always still here everyday at the Hospital as head nurse while competition is still up for grabs from men to win over her hearts. Also, Heather Webber is free as a bird now from Pentonville jail at the grounds of her medical condition, even though she killed a few people two years ago with a hook. 

But the good news though is that she’ll move and stay far, far away from Port Charles as she’s off to Sedona in California with her son Steven – going to miss Alley Mills though who has been on our Aussie screens for many years via Bold and the Beautiful as Pamela Douglas much like Lois’s Rena Sofer as Quinn. And also going further West, Violet also moved there too in Seattle to reunite with her dad Finn who just finished his 90-day rehab, as good to hear that Finn has now picked up a new medical job. Now that won’t change anything to bring Michael Easton back on-set but maybe Violet as we wish them all well.

That’s all I can think of over the last few weeks from Port Charles on top of GH coming back to our Aussie shores lately that will begin on January 1, 2025 thanks to Network 10 who will be airing the episodes online. For now, roll on November with so much to play for over the next few weeks ahead of the final month in December 2024.

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Thoughts on General Hospital finally coming back in Australia starting on January 1st 2025 with Network 10 to air episodes online

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I didn’t know this day would come for General Hospital to air in Australia again and finally they will thanks to Network 10 who will be bringing the episodes to us online on-demand starting on Wednesday January 1st 2025. 

This is a show I personally enjoyed for years and still doing so today every time it comes out up-to-date online like YouTube and Dailymotion, even though the pictures we see may not have the best quality but still better than nothing though.

Yes, when 2025 arrives on January 1st, 10 will be able to make all other previous Season 62 episodes from early September to end of December 2024 available on demand, with new episodes coming in as they go from the original US broadcast. It remains to be seen though whether or not if the new episodes will be a few days old or same day as the original airings from USA (ABC) and Canada (CityTV).

I’m hoping it’s the latter but considering the show hasn’t aired in quite a long time, so maybe a few days old is where 10 will start with minimal risk & if that goes well at some point, then yes! Definitely same day episodes 100%. We’ll wait and see.

Other than that, I’ve been pushing so hard to have GH finally have it aired legally again in Australia where this show still has a knack of great fun while they have a good representation of Australian actors/actresses, as well as other actors/actresses who went on to become Hollywood and Prime-Time stars. 

But remember, GH is not on the same popularity when it comes to International interest & even Australian viewers on the TV alike too compared to Bold and The Beautiful & The Young and The Restless.

Although I probably like to give a shoutout to Neighbours who is still going strong and when they returned on the air last year also thanks to Amazon, love how they quickly formed a great connection with the US viewers and some of the Neighbours cast/staff even went to the Daytime Emmy awards too – not sure it was June this year or the delayed last year one (December).

I’m pretty sure both the network and the country’s strong history of soaps would be the key reason why they would like to try GH, having been content airing first-run episodes of Y & R and Days on 10 Play from earlier this year after the show’s previous contracts with Foxtel via Sony Television Studios & Corday Productions was expired.

Here’s hoping GH will go well this time on 10 online in Australia with the potential of same-day US episodes in the long run soon enough from the minute they air new episodes in 2025. For now, will still be catching up same-day US episodes online as said earlier above. Although if there’s something I want to look back, then definitely will go to 10 Play – another plus we don’t have unlike Canada’s CityTV & ABC’s Hulu at the moment unless you want to look at certain ship couples’ clips of course!

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Thoughts on The Drew Barrymore Show syndicated talk show staying on through season six until at least mid-2026 by CBS

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The Drew Barrymore Show has just been renewed for season six that will last at least the summer of 2026 by CBS today as season five will begin in two weeks time from now while you can watch her syndicated daytime talk show in the meantime on Network 10 & 10Play on-demand in Australia. Not surprising indeed since she’s so successful bringing her talents from acting to show business and now a talk show host when her own Drew show first began back in September 2020. 

Although Drew did address about her interviewing style today in the way she interviews people up close where she got some criticism as being awkward, but sure she will look to practice physical distance as this is something that is unique or her own rather than copying off one from someone else like Wendy Williams & Sherri Shepherd & the other likes of Daytime TV.

How will her talk show fit in when the upcoming CBS Mornings third hour show is expected to begin late next month? First of all, her show is syndicated under CBS’s control where some will be on CBS owned & operated local TV stations while the rest that isn’t CBS owned & operated local stations can be picked up elsewhere. With that being said, the show airs back-to-back in half-hour weekday episodes as they can either air back-to-back or split the two episodes throughout the day.

As it stands, some CBS owned local markets who don’t air Drew will most likely get the third-hour Mornings show including some other CBS affiliate local TV stations if they choose to do so. Now if you live an area where you can’t watch the third-hour show on TV while Drew is on, then there’s always the CBS News 24/7 streaming channel online. Not sure if the third-hour program will be live Internationally or be delayed throughout the day like NBC and ABC does with their own 3rd hour shows.

So there you have it, Drew is not going anywhere for another 1-2 years for now – even when CBS Mornings third-hour is set to arrive soon and they got a ton of other Daytime shows to air throughout the day.

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Thoughts on CBS Mornings finally launching a third hour show to rival NBC’s Today & ABC’s Good Morning America next month

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At last but not least, a CBS Mornings 3rd hour program will finally make it on the air by the end of next month when NBC’s Today has been doing this for a long time while ABC’s Good Morning America also had success with their own third hour show but at lunchtime (1pm) for several years now when they first replaced The Chew (a daytime cooking show) back in mid-2018.

This won’t affect CBS Daytime plans regarding their new African-American focused soap opera called The Gates who will still replace the soon-to-be-defunct The Talk show at 2pm weekdays, with their first episode beginning in January 2025 and it will go for an hour of each episode.

Who will be the hosts for that new CBS Mornings 3rd hour show? It’s expected to be one of the CBS Mornings’ main host Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz. We thought Dokoupil would replace the departing Norah O’Donnell for the Evening News job once the US Election is over this November but it looks like CBS will be doing things completely different where they will get a team of anchors onboard from across New York and Washington DC rather than for a like-for-like replacement for Norah. For example, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois will be co-hosting from New York with Lonnie Quinn providing weather contributions with Face The Nation’s Margaret Brennan playing a key role to Dickerson & DuBois from the nation’s capitol.

So a bit like employing three-person host strategy again from CBS Mornings but on evenings that will last 30 mins between 6.30-7pm as maybe they want to step back when it comes to the added costs of someone fronting the news with Norah wanting to take on a new challenge after a long-time hosting CBS’s Morning and Evening News programs rather than making more original reporting that is worthwhile to viewers nationwide & they would want to go with the latter option.

Also, what would the hour-long CBS Morning 3rd hour show look like? We don’t know for sure but expecting it will just be a quick recap of the news from overnight as if someone’s waking up that late & missing out the main show while adding a bit of a less serious feel from the main “hard news” one as if they’re replacing The Talk whose status is set to end this December.

And where we could tune in? It will be on CBS’s 24/7 News streaming channel which is free-to-view online straight after the two-hour CBS mornings block between 9-10am as well as on selected CBS-owned local TV stations & affiliates.

So it looks like for those CBS affiliate stations that isn’t owned by CBS, you can only view it online to begin with but you never know as it progresses over time like 6-12 months when you got Drew Barrymore’s show and other CBS Daytime programs to tune in throughout the day. I would suggest maybe the first 30 mins of the third-hour can be on CBS and the other 30 mins would be go to all of online and some CBS-owned local stations just like NBC does with their midday news bulletin called NBC News Daily where the main channel gets one hour at 12pm & if their viewers wish to watch the rest, then they can go online between 1 to 4pm. But that will be a long-term thing for CBS to sort out going into early next year for the 2025/26 TV season.

So there you have it, it’s been a long time coming for a CBS third hour morning show to make into air when they first looked at this back in 2012 under Gayle King with a medical-focused program called On Call & didn’t make it past the development stage. But glad it’s happening though as things will get a lot busier in the lead up to the election and the new year in 2025.

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