TVLine Items: General Hospital Exit, Billions Return Date and More
Peter August has officially checked out of General Hospital: Wes Ramsey‘s nefarious character is dead, not “dead,” Soap Opera Digest reports.
The erstwhile Henrik Faison memorably fell down the stairs during a heated June 3 confrontation with Finn.
Ramsey, a veteran of Guiding Light, made his GH debut in 2017, appearing in over 330 episodes.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Showtime’s Billions will return for the back half of Season 5 (consisting of five episodes) on Sunday, Sept. 5 at 9/8c.
* Lance Reddick (Bosch, Fringe) will star as Albert Wesker in Netflix’s Resident Evil series from Supernatural showrunner Andrew Dabb. Rounding out the cast are Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph and Paola Nuñez.
* Constance Marie (Switched at Birth), Benito Martinez (The Shield) and Vincent Rodriguez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) have joined One Day at a Time co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett’s Amazon Prime romantic comedy series With Love, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Disney+’s animated series Monsters at Work will now premiere on Wednesday, July 7, with new episodes dropping weekly. Watch a new trailer for the Monsters Inc. spinoff:
* AMC+ has released a trailer for its six-part revenge thriller The Beast Must Die, starring Jared Harris (Chernobyl) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight). The series premieres Monday, July 5 on AMC+ (and Monday, July 12 at 10 pm on AMC).
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I really like Wes Ramsey. Saw GH on at the gym the other day and kept stopping Schitt’s Creek to watch his scenes. I was impressed that they actually had him climbing to a “helipad” which I’m guessing was just the roof of their soundstage.
He was also good on Days – gosh, a decade ago. Always wanted the twin they said he had to come to town. :)
Thank goodness about Wes Ramsey. He might be a very nice guy, but I couldn’t stand his character!! Glad he’s gone.
Yes! But they could have had a better ending than they did. I wonder if they are going to recast the character and have him show up with a new face.
Agree 👍 After all this time & havoc that was a very lame ending if it holds true.
Maybe a good twin who was held captive.
I agree that ending was horrible. I was looking forward to a murder mystery. I’m a sucker for those.
I agree didn’t like him
If Peter really is dead then that leaves a lot of stories unfinished. Of course this is a soap opera so they can wiggle their way around it. I’m wondering if a recast is coming.
Wes Ramsey if a great actor and person but his character of Peter but i could stand his character. Glad he’s gone.
It’s great to see Vincent Rodriguez III’s name show up attached to a new show. I always enjoyed Constance Marie when I saw her, too. Santa Barbara? One of the soaps. And then American Family. She was always really good. Glad to hear Peter/Heinrich is really most sincerely dead on GH. It was a one-note character that just needed to GO.
No one is ever really dead on an American soap, Sad!
I was over the Peter August character on GH. Good luck to Wes Ramsey.
The Young and Restless needs to cast him as Noah. Nick and Sharons son.
Not going to mourn Peter August’s demise, either, but I wonder if that was that the last we will see of him. Will he pop up alive once again, only to be killed off in a more “theatrical” (soap opera-ish) way? ‘Cause getting pushed down the stairs and being stashed in a closet some place in the hospital is the sort of death you write for a day-player.
He’s in the elevator shaft. Remember the scene with Anna pushing the elevator button and there seemed to be an issue?
Maybe he will come back at least 2 or 3 more times like Roger Howarth….enough is enough. Be gone!
I personally am hopeful Peter is gone, I didn’t like his character
Great job as Peter, Wes!!! Good luck in your future!!! Laura Wright is a lucky lady!!!
Peter is dead so Maxie should get her baby back from BLQ.
Without Peter what is going to happen to Chase? I really love Chase & hope he’s not about to leave the show.
All they have to do is realize they swabbed the wrong man for the test. Finn is not the father. Cyrus tampered with the paternity test so the results came up true for Finn as father. Chase is Finn’s brother.
His character was to good to have a cheap death like that needed to be fixed
Cannot believe Peter’s body has not been found in stairwell in G.H. people always use stairs when elevator takes too long. It’s been two days , someone must have used the stairs.
the stairs lead to the roof, so maybe not. But I thought Finn and Elizabeth moved him. Glad that Peter is gone, but I will say Wes is a great actor to get every single person to hate his character.
Nobody that I know hated his character because he’s a good actor. We hated his character for several reasons.
One: he’s a bad actor which was highlighted when he was in scenes with actors who acted circles around him. The recent scenes with Kirsten are a great example.
Also hated because the character and backstory are not good and he is not a good villain. AND because several other characters had to be written completely out of character to prop this character up.
One example, you’d have no idea Anna DeVane is a super spy if you have been watching.
Another, they turned Maxie into an idiot. She refused to believe Spinelli and Robert when they warned her about who he was and kept making excuses.
totally disagree with your post He currently has over 19.5 k likes on most recent instagram post that he applauds Kirsten for her performance and many are for him and wishing him well and commenting on how he, too, is a great actor so what numbers are you using to prop up your statement that he was a ba actor. Rather he was a great actor that made us all hate the writers creation of a one note villain. I just hope they recast him as a good or gray character and bring him back and only bring him back as Peter briefly tho he can go out in grand style as the victim of a murder that the majority of PC and fans could have done
Bring Wes Ramsey back!! Please!!
Damn leave Peter August alone.he kept the show from bn boring..damn him an Nall would of bn a bad ass couple.yall taking off all the good ppl.take off Anna she boring.laura bye bye..syrus should stay..yall letting go all the bad ppl dat made the show good…