The only form of media more endangered than magazines is soap operas. Today, ABC announced that daytime mainstays All My Children and One Life to Live will go off the air in September and January, respectively. James Franco's playground General Hospital will be the network's only remaining daytime drama.

Let's see just how many of you have reached the "James Franco Saturation Quota." He popped up on General Hospital today once again to make yet another sinister phone call from his room of one-armed self-portraits.

Today, James Franco returned to General Hospital an the artist-murder-social-experiment once again. After a bomb explodes in Sonny and Brenda's limousine outside of their wedding, Jason gets a call from the sister Franco asking if he "enjoyed the fireworks." Spooky!

Soap lovers, get happy: Oprah used an entire episode of her "Farewell Season" to reunite some of Daytime TV's best.

"There are things you can do in soap operas that you can't do in films," explains Franco after Ellen brought up his less-than-serious side of acting on General Hospital. However, he failed to explain the mustache he was sporting.

Today, James Franco's character was chased up a flight of stairs—waving a gun and laughing—and fell off a balcony to his bloody death while a drag queen spoke the lyrics to Gary Jules' "Mad World." This isn't edited.

This afternoon marked James Franco's return to daytime and it was not to be missed. Not because it was good—by any means—but because he played a bum with a toy monkey and a "will entertain for food" sign.

James Franco's favorite things are soap operas, queer film roles, performance art, drag queens, and sleeping in class. He talks about his new project combining four of those five in this new interview from (where else?) L.A.'s Gay Pride festival.

Big news!—in what could be the slowest news day ever—General Hospital has given themselves a new opening credits sequence in honor of their 46 years on air.

Or is it James Franco's General Hospital experiment? Either way, his arc for the past two months has kept stay-at-home moms and the unemployed entranced. But Franco's role is more than just a cameo—it's a conceptual art coup.

Today at Gawker.TV, a Florida State player completely freezes during a game, behind the scenes of OK Go's video, the Iraqi shoe-thrower dodges a shoe, PostSecret video confessions, and James Franco mucks up a scene on General Hospital.

Quick, get to a TV! General Hospital starts at 3pm and you don't want to miss a minute of Hollywood A-lister James Franco's historic role on the show. Here's a little bit of context so you won't be totally lost.

The Yale Daily News that came out on Friday (we know, we're late) is decorated like a retro teen mag for their interview with James Franco. Oh, and Hollywood's gayest actor is considering moving to New Haven for his PhD!

When sometimes Columbia/NYU student James Franco was thinking about his next project, at what point did he think, "I know: a soap. Eureka!" Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is really going to happen. Thank God for DVR!