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Thomas Gibson Suspended From Criminal Minds
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After a physical altercation with one of the shows producers on set. His future on the show is now under review. It seems like actors on these long running shows do this to get out of their contracts. George Eads did something similar on CSI.
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He will be off for two episodes and will not able to direct an episode this season as previously planned as well.
George Eads was suspended for several episodes on CSI after an argument with a producer. However he didn't kick them.
Eads and Jorja Fox got the swelled head disease and demanded more money not long into CSI, then came back with tail between legs when they realised the TV world wasn't falling over itself after them.
If he took a long run up before punting the guy(?) then sure, he deserves all that's coming.
But if it was just a tap, or he was aiming for the bin and missed and caught the guy by accident, then they should both just shrug it off and get back to work.
He'd hardly be suspended if it was an accident.
I remember that - Eads' altercation with one of the producers happened a few years later as well - it's probably a large part of the reason why he left and wasn't invited back for the final episode.
Didn't he push her or something?
It did seem weird that he was suspended and then when he returned, he announced it would be his final season. Apparently he never returned for the final episode because he felt his character's story was told in his last episode. But you never know what to believe these days. Most of it is kept hush hush just to avoid an actor's reputation from being harmed. Like the mysterious hush hush reasons on why Patrick Dempsey really left Grey's Anatomy.
I don't know - it was actually a pregnant female writer, not a producer.
I do wonder if we'll ever hear the real reason Dempsey left Greys.
Yes, apparently he pushed her.
I think we will, maybe once Grey's is off the air. Quite a lot of shows tend to have their secrets spill out once they are off the air.
Wow it must have been a lot more serious than reported.
I guess the guy needs help.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3736468/Criminal-Minds-star-Thomas-Gibson-FIRED-kicked-executive-producer-suspended.html
Kill Hotch.
Exactly. Have a dead body on the floor and you can use any lookalike actor if you don't show the face. Or just say he was killed off camera. Given all the serial killers they have faced over the years easy to blame one of them.
No Hotch no show!!
My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't have thought this is a decision that the studio would take lightly.
It may have been the excuse CBS and ABC were looking for to get rid of him, as with Clarkson hitting the producer on Top Gear allowing the BBC to sack him.