General Hospital News: Kimberly McCullough Joins New TV Show

GH news reveals Kimberly Anne McCullough, best known for her role as Robin Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital, will be directing Fox’s straight-to-series order of Fantasy Island. McCullough first rose to fame with her role in General Hospital, a role which she began portraying at the age of 7, playing the character on and off from 1985 to 2001, with a brief stint in 2004.

In 2005, she returned to General Hospital as a doctor before departing in 2012. She continues to make guest appearances and signed a contract in 2013 to return to the series full-time.

But these days, McCullough is shifting her focus from a career in front of the camera on General Hospital to a career working behind it. Mostly, she focuses on directing.

Her first directing gig was on the short film Nice Guys Finish Last which starred Danielle Harris and her General Hospital co-star Lexi Ainsworth. Since then she has directed movies such as High School Musical: The Series, Fuller House, One Day at a Time, and The Connors, amongst others.

The General Hospital actress and director announced her upcoming involvement in the Fantasy Island reboot with a short teaser that revealed she would be serving as one of the show’s directors.

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General Hospital News – Kimberly McCullough & Fantasy Island Reboot Details

In an early statement, Fox described Fantasy Island as a “semi-anthology” series with “emotional, provocative stories about people who arrive with dreams and desires and depart enlightened and transformed through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.”

The series will act as a sequel to 2020’s Fantasy Island, which in turn acted as a prequel to ABC’s 1977 television series of the same name. While the 2020 feature film of the same name earned very poor reviews, it was a box office success, earning $48.5 million to its $7 million budget.

Roselyn Sanchez will play the descendant of Ricardo Montalban’s Mr. Roarke. The series is set to premiere on August 10, at 9 p.m.

Picked up in December, Kimberly McCullough and the series will follow a host of odd characters who arrive at the island to live their wildest fantasies but will depart enlightened and transformed through the island’s magical realism. It is said to be horrifying, provocative, emotional, and transforming.

Sanchez’s Elena Roarke sacrificed the love of her life in order to uphold the family’s legacy as stewards of the mysterious Fantasy Island.

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GH Spoilers – Production On The Fantasy Island Reboot Is Currently Underway In Puerto Rico.

“Wait… I get to have my feet in the ocean, at work???? Cue all-girl surf flick,” McCullough shared of the show’s filming location, with a picture of the crew in the water.

“Grati- Tuesday shooting on the sand in Puerto Rico is my happy place,” she also shared, after sharing a picture she captioned #workingmom.

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