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Post by rambabe on May 24, 2011 19:00:44 GMT -5
www.tvline.com/2011/05/chris-meloni-exits-law-order-svu/May 24th, 2011 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. Hargitay’s own deal to return for Season 13 remains unaffected. Just last week, new NBC boss Robert Greenblatt told TVLine he felt the network was in “pretty great shape” as far as Meloni’s prospective deal goes, though he did allow for the possibility of SVU one day moving forward minus its two original leads. In fact, there was very recently talk that Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer) might join the series midway through the coming season to replace Hargitay. “Jennifer Love is somebody we’ve been circling,” Greenblatt told us, “but I don’t know that that is going to happen at all.” An NBC spokesperson had no comment for this story.
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Post by benstabler on May 25, 2011 3:15:04 GMT -5
Less Mariska and no Chris? That won't make it SVU anymore.
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Post by finaddict on May 25, 2011 8:38:30 GMT -5
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Post by oowsvu on May 25, 2011 9:24:47 GMT -5
not surprised nor totally upset...only complaints are that end of 12 was kinda dumb i mean ok he shot someone, been there done that and also apparently no chance for EO ever ok yeah ill get over that one eventually
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Post by finaddict on May 25, 2011 18:30:57 GMT -5
I would like to see Munch and Fin take a big role if Chris is out and Mariska is going to be a boss. Also bring back Diane Neal as ADA...
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Post by oowsvu on May 25, 2011 19:58:24 GMT -5
agreed completely...btw did you check out the poll for that on Kris and Shauna's site
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Post by finaddict on May 28, 2011 16:07:10 GMT -5
Yes I signed a petition on facebook to bing her back and also did the poll on their site.
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