Here we go again....

[leathers.livejournal.com]

Yahoo! News is reporting that Mandy Patinkin is being released from his contract and will not be returning to Criminal Minds for the 2007-2008 season.

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[2balive2day.livejournal.com]

damn! you beat me too it, lmao. i found out from TVGuide.com though.

[leathers.livejournal.com]

I just happened to look further down in the community, it was reported as well a couple of days ago on other news sources...so its not new news really... :/

Still and all its sort of par for the course for Patinkin, didn't he do the same thing at Chicago Hope?

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I'm a little surprised, I must admit. Gideon is just a vital, such a main character. We'll have to see how it goes.

[leathers.livejournal.com]

Certainly he's one of the mainstays but at least on the surface the PTB don't seem overly concerned over losing him. Other series have lost major characters at inopportune times (John Ritter's unexpected death when he was on 8 Rules comes immediately to mind) and have still managed to solider on. Depending on who they manage to cast as a 'replacement' for Gideon it might work, if the character is enigmatic enough it should work one hopes.

If they put some 'fluff' character in though it could all go south pretty quickly. Guess we'll just have to wait and see if it all works out for the best. He will certainly be missed, surely.

[daft-thing.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

[hobbits-friend.livejournal.com]

that's so depressing :(
I hope they find a good replacement!

[crazy-10.livejournal.com]

The replacement is definitely NOT going to be able to replace Mandy. CM just isn't going to be the same anymore...

[nu-doru.livejournal.com]

For real?
This is for certain... dammit...
I love Mandy as Gideon... I wonder what happened?