General Hospital Spoilers: Billy Miller Gets Recurring Role on Ray Donovan Season 5 – Is He Leaving GH?

General Hospital Spoilers: Billy Miller Gets Recurring Role on Ray Donovan Season 5 - Is He Leaving GH?

General Hospital (GH) spoilers reveal Jason Morgan (Billy Miller) might be leaving GH for a plum new role on Showtime’s hit drama Ray Donovan for Season 5. With Miller’s expanding acting opportunities on prime time, GH fans must be wondering if he will leave General Hospital permanently for prime time.

Ray Donovan is a massive hit for Showtime and Miller’s role is a great one. He’ll play Todd Dougherty, a cop and brother to Maureen Dougherty (Tara Buck), Terry Donovan’s (Eddie Marsan) fiancée. Terry is not exactly a catch given his serious medical issues and his dodgy family.

A good bit of the action on Ray Donovan takes place in the Donovan’s gym Fite Club. It would be incredible to see Billy Miller in the ring there with the Donovans since Miller is a skilled boxer in his own right. No matter what they have him doing, Miller should impress in the Season 5 role.

General Hospital Spoilers: Billy Miller Gets Recurring Role on Ray Donovan Season 5 - Is He Leaving GH?

What’s really important to note about Miller’s casting is this could open up an expanded role for him on the Showtime fixer series. Liv Schreiber, who plays the title character Ray Donovan, is rumored to be leaving the show at the end of Season 5 because he’s got film projects.

However, Ray Donovan producers plan to keep the show going without the title character and that means opportunities for new leading characters – and Miller could land a permanent role if he wows producers with his role in Season 5.

Ray Donovan showrunner David Hollander told The Hollywood Reporter, “My first priority is to dream up a really gorgeous year five, to make sure it delivers a show that, should it live for a sixth, seventh or eighth season, will be satisfying to the audience and artists.”

General Hospital Spoilers: Billy Miller Gets Recurring Role on Ray Donovan Season 5 - Is He Leaving GH?

With that in mind, Hollander and his writers will be looking at how to take the show in new directions. As Maureen is set to marry Terry, Miller’s character Todd could land a recurring role. Miller should play well off Tara Buck, whom you may know from True Blood as ditzy Fangtasia bartender Ginger.

But would Billy Miller walk away from General Hospital? Perhaps. In his contract negotiations, he’s demanded flexibility to take time off for other projects but if he lands a full-time successful prime time series, the real question is why would he stay at GH?

Jason Morgan has been killed off before and could be killed again or, better yet, since Steve Burton (ex-Jason) is now available, GH could simply replace new Jason with old Jason. This would probably be more acceptable to long-term GH fans than killing off Jason or recasting with an unfamiliar actor.

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