General Hospital News. Gotham Season 1 Episode 11 Download Kickass here. Jane Elliot (Tracy), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Finola Hughes (Anna).

Maura West (Ava), and Michelle Stafford (Nina). What changed? Hughes: We now have an evolved executive producer, Frank Valentini. I started out my soap career on GH, then left for several years, and when I wanted to return, they didn’t want me. I couldn’t get my ass back on the show until Frank took over. Grahn: For years, Jane and I were the only older women on contract, and they weren’t working us. It’s a fact that the previous regime at ABC Daytime . And the ratings went down.

Stafford: I hate that women should have to talk about age. To me, it’s a non- issue. But it is an issue. Rare is the actress who can stay busy into her forties, fifties, and beyond—daytime, primetime, anytime—which makes what’s happening at GH something close to a miracle. Grahn: Things didn’t change on our show until Vicki Dummer took over . She and Frank and our head writer, Ron Carlivati, are age- blind.

And now the ratings are up. Hughes: They find older, powerful women sexy instead of something to fear.

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When women are in charge at the network, it doesn’t become a question. Elliot: I’m not so sure about that. Over the years, we’ve had several women running ABC Daytime and executive producing GH, and they were quite male- centric. They were very busy sucking up to the guys on the show and would dismiss the rest of us. West: Now we have Nancy playing a high- powered lawyer and Finola is the Port Charles police chief.

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Hughes: Uh, excuse me. Our female audience doesn’t want to see women being victims. They don’t want to watch women fall apart. You can only feed people that crap for so long. It’s such a tough world right now.

We want to watch survivors.