SOAPnet Prescribes a Spin-off for General Hospital Fans

As detailed in TVGuide.com's Soaps News column, the SOAPnet channel has greenlit General Hospital: Night Shift, a spin-off of the long-running ABC serial featuring some of the daytimer's characters in contained, single-episode stories. (But no vampires. Yet.) Same characters? Inconsequential stories? Sounds like just an extended promo, if you ask me. But our Daniel has the deets.