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Date Posted: Saturday, May 28, 05:22:02am
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: kntpin04-nas-01-s17.cinergycom.net / 216.135.24.17
Subject: No!! Say it ain't so SVU!!

From Pam Spaulding:

Disaster - Chris Meloni leaving SVU
http://www.tvline.com/2011/05/chris-meloni-exits-law-order-svu/

My beloved duo of sex crime fighters Eliot Stabler and Olivia Benson is getting tossed in the ashcan...TVline:

Chris Meloni will not be reporting back for duty when Law & Order: Special Victims Unit launches its 13th season this fall, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Protracted talks between the actor - who has played Detective Stabler since the NBC crime drama's 1999 debut - and studio NBC Universal broke down on Tuesday, says a source. Franchise creator Dick Wolf is said to already be searching for a big name to bring in opposite the series' female lead, Mariska Hargitay.


The reports are true, Ice T confirms:
http://twitter.com/#!/FINALLEVEL/status/73216135331454976

And the news gets worse - Mariska Hargitay, who recently adopted a child, is reducing her airtime next season, and NBC is floating the idea of bringing in...Jennifer Love Hewitt. Gawd almighty is that a bad selection.

I know the regular L&O had a revolving door of cast members over its lifetime, but SVU's writing was more character-based, so losing the two leads will be devastating. Chris Meloni...sigh, we'll miss you madly.

Note to Dick Wolf and NBC - if you are going to bring in new people, don't go for retread stars like Hewitt. Reach deeper into the talent pool than that. Go for character actors like you did the first go-round. Jeez, bring Casey Novak back with badge or something (oh wait, they did that on L&O: LA already, lol).

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[> We were watching Harold and Kumar (the first one) and I was thinking of Chris. -- AS, Sunday, May 29, 06:15:38pm (NoHost/173.180.119.118)

Yeah, that's the problem with the long term tv shows we get used to....I prefer the English set-up for that very reason since many of their shows have a more-or-less fixed end date, like LoM and Ashes did. Even Doctor Who, with their constant changes of lead actor, which makes for less attachment and more enjoyment since you never think of things as being permanent.


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[> [> Did you ever watch Dr Who from the 60s, 70s, and 80s? -- Lij, Sunday, May 29, 09:21:27pm (kntpin04-nas-01-s10.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.10)


Most of those Doctors were in over a hundred episodes. That's enough to get used to. Plus the old Doctors sometimes showed up in episodes with the newer Doctor. One show when Tom Baker was the Doctor was named "The Four Doctors" because they had the three of his prior incarnations in the show.

BTW... does it mean anything that the only other show I saw Tom Baker in was an old Law & Order where he played a drunken bum?

But Baker as a Doctor brought an almost Sherlock Holmes - like character to Dr Who. He was pretty good. And I think Baker was the Doctor in more episodes than any other person.

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[> [> [> Back when there were fewer networks and actors had fewer choices. -- AS, Sunday, May 29, 10:30:46pm (NoHost/173.180.119.118)

I watched bits of Who eps here and there on CBC but the cheesy SFX and storylines never hooked me on the show.

I'd still rather have three or maybe four really good seasons of a tv show than have an abomination like House or most any other long running drama out there. I can't think of any drama over time that didn't get stagnant. The short seasons and eye for quality that we see with the better Brit shows is a much more satisfying way to go, at least for me.


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