Help plan your favorite characters' exits from 'L&O,' 'CSI,' 'SVU …
It’s a tradition as time-honored as Law & Order’s "dun-duhn" and Horatio Caine’s sunglasses: Every now and then, network crime procedurals and/or ensemble dramas like to shake up their casts to boost ratings and revitalize their plotting prospects. And the end of the 2007-2008 TV season will prove no exception: Gary Dourdan is leaving CSI; Diane Neal and Adam Beach are exiting Law & Order: SVU; and Khandi Alexander is fleeing the ridonk world of CSI: Miami. If that’s not enough, Jesse L. Martin’s final Law & Order episode airs Wednesday, and Maura Tierney, who’s cutting way back on her ER workload, tells AOL Television that she’s been (unsuccessfully) begging the writers of her long-running hospital drama to kill off her character before the series ends its run.
I, for one, am glad to hear Tierney’s Abby won’t be paying the ultimate price for drama, because, let’s be honest here — isn’t it almost too easy for TV writers to enlist the Grim Reaper when it’s time to write off a character? Wouldn’t it be a greater (and more fulfilling) writing challenge for these scribes to tackle workplace exits the way they actually happen?
In fact, if SVU hasn’t already decided the fate of Neal’s ADA Casey Novak, how about this scenario? On a lazy Friday afternoon, Benson is catching up on some paperwork, when she hears the siren call of her email "ping," which turns out to be an announcement that Novak will be resigning in two weeks to pursue a lucrative gig at a private firm uptown. As Benson and Stabler spend the episode solving the latest "especially heinous" crime, they secretly plan a farewell pour for their coworker at a local pub. By episode’s end, the beer begins to flow. Toasts are made. A few tears are shed. Somebody makes an awkward plea to move the festivities to a nearby karaoke joint. And scene!
Tags: alexander, csi, khandi, leaving
May 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
People are in trouble because they paid too much for houses. No amount of loan tweaks will change that fact.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I know right! Jesus Obama you could stand up for yourself and do something!I mean, it’d be great if you called Hillary on her bullshit and as a result, enjoyed the largest margins over her in any poll since you joined the race.Oh wait.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The cops didn’t look like they were getting any satisfaction out of it, like so many cops in other videos do these days. It seems like a suicide precaution gone overboard and videotaped.We already know she’s lying about only weighing 125 pounds, so what else might be exaggerated?
May 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Yeah, the video is so obviously photoshopped.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Never seen that video before and its truly disturbing. Wish I could put it on loop on every channel in the US.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Guess you are hardcore ;)Good Luck!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Dude, the internets has made me so afraid of cops i piratically piss my pants when I drive past them. Thank god someone was filming the strip search otherwise no one would believe her story.