Thomas Gibson (aka Hotch) fired from Criminal Minds

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/thomas-gibson-criminal-minds-firing-previous-incidents-1201836799/

"The actor was fired by “Criminal Minds” producers ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios following an internal investigation of an on-set fight in which Gibson allegedly kicked writer-producer Virgil Williams during production of an episode that Gibson was directing."

I'm not okay with physical violence and given this was the second time, I'm glad that ABC and CBS made this decision. Still, I'll miss Hotch on the show.

Comments

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

Except he was defending himself... Virgil is a huge giant douche and a bully and from witnesses he was coming after Thomas. It's not the first time Virgil's had problems either. He had issues when he worked on ER in 2006. Other people at CM have said he's a bully and boasts all the time how he's an MMA fighter. Not to mention he makes sexist comments and jokes about rape (how it's okay, etc). So Virgil isn't a saint in all of this. Frankly it got blown way out of proportion by him and I'm glad Thomas is looking into legal options.

[liliaeth]

Honestly, considering the role Gibson has on the show, as compared to Virgil, I'm going to assume that Gibson had a lot more against him than just those two altercations he got in.

White men like Gibson tend to get away with a lot of crap, and it takes a lot before a studio would dare fire someone at Gibson's level. So if they did fire him, and especially this publicly, in a way that will give the writers a lot of trouble in writing him out, they must have really wanted to get rid of him.