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ls317 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:46 AM
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NBC will pull reruns of" Law and Order" if Thompson makes it offical
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 11:48 AM by ls317
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/07/18/2007-07-18_if_fred_runs_hell_be_out_of_lo_reruns.html


LOS ANGELES - If Fred Thompson makes it official and throws his hat in the ring for President, NBC will pull future reruns of "Law & Order" featuring the actor after Sept. 1, executive producer Dick Wolf said yesterday.
The former two-term Republican senator from Tennessee recently asked to be cut from the show, leading to speculation he'd run for the White House.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:46 AM
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1. Damn one more reason to oppose his candidacy
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:49 AM
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2. They should just pixelate his face and hire Paul Ruben to re-dub his dialog

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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:53 AM
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5. The Pseudo Ann Coulter episode would be a comedy classic
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 11:54 AM by YOY
Especially when Fred was drooling over her.

And he would have to be sitting in Chairy half of the time.
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sueh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:49 AM
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3. Cable channels that show the re-runs...
Wonder if they'll have to pull them, too.
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ls317 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:52 AM
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4. good question
I do know that Bravo,USA, and Universal are part of the NBC family
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:35 PM
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21. No, according to Wolf
he felt that the cable reruns will not be effected.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:59 AM
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6. That's a lot of freaking episodes.
Wonder if those episodes will ever be shown again, or if they'll even be available on DVD anymore.

Not that I dig Thompson, but I know there are some really decent episodes that he's been in. It'll piss me off if I can't see them again.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:05 PM
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7. It's going to cost every actor and writer who worked on those episodes.
They will all be screwed out of residuals now. That really sucks.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:13 PM
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8. Wow, you're right.
Hadn't even thought about that.

Selfish asshole.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:14 PM
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11. That's life in the big city.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:17 PM
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14. No, that's probably a lawsuit waiting to happen
Contracts are contracts, and depriving people of income simply because an actor gets into politics could very well be a breech of that contract.:shrug:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:19 PM
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15. I bet you a star for a DUer that there's no lawsuit that isn't summarily dismissed or withdrawn.
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 12:19 PM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: Claiming breach of contract, that is.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:24 PM
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17. Can't make that bet
I do know that at least the main actors in most TV shows have the residuals from X number of reruns built into their contract. Who knows, perhaps NBC will simply settle with the other actors, perhaps not:shrug:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:28 PM
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20. Okie.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:39 PM
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23. Elizabeth Rohm and that last ADA person
will be most effected, as ER was only on one season without FDT. The other ADA that replaced her only lasted a year or so--so if she was to get residuals, it would be a big blow to her. Also to Dennis Farina, who also was on only during the FDT years.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:24 PM
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18. that was my first thought too...
nt
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Skarbrowe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:46 PM
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24. That was my first thought. Wondering if that would happen. nt
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:13 PM
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9. Thank god we've got TNT and USA. Phew! *That* was a close one!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:13 PM
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10. Didn't we have to put up with all those terrible Swartzenegger movies...
When he ran?
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:16 PM
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12. That is a very stupid interpretation of the equal time rule

I've never heard him campaigning for the presidency on Law and Order.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:16 PM
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13. No worries..they can go right back
inundating us with them when he gets his ass whipped.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:19 PM
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16. As well as they should.
If I recall, when Ronald Reagan was the nominee in 1980, stations wouldn't air any of his old movies. Which was a good thing in so many ways.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:27 PM
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19. They sure didn't pull Arnolds capers on TV when he decided to run.
TV was swamped, absolutely swamped with his films.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:51 PM
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26. They stopped Reagan's movies during his campaigns
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:56 PM
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29. It has been done before
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 12:58 PM by ben_meyers
But the rule has been applied to television and movie stars in the past.

During the 2003 gubernatorial race in California, television stations dropped all Arnold Schwarzenegger movies out of fear that showing them would require them to give countless hours of free airtime to all 134 other candidates for governor.

Stations also dropped "Bedtime for Bonzo" and other Ronald Reagan movies during his campaigns for governor of California and president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802174.html

Also when Jesse Ventura ran for Mn gov he had to give up his radio talk show.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:39 PM
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22. Never fear, TNT will continue to run Law & Order 16 hours a day.
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teamster633 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:50 PM
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25. Yup.
Today's first episode is only 10 minutes away.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:53 PM
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27. Thank God! Thompson absolutely ruined that show.
.........
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:54 PM
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28. Which is why he's being so coy.
He's wandering around collecting money and getting residuals for the multiple showings..

Oddly, I never really even paid much attention to him on the shows. He's not even in the episodes all that much..

I wonder if the cable channels that run the show are afilliated with the networks and will have to abide by the ban as well..
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katamaran Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:57 PM
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30. My aunt thinks he's a real D.A. and is tough on crime
My deliciously white trash aunt (who I have never liked) told my dad a few weeks ago that she supports Fred Thompson because he's tough on crime and is an excellent district attorney. After my dad started breathing again, he told her that she was wrong, and that he was a lobbyist turned redneck senator who didn't do a damn thing in office. She kept defending him, saying she has seen courtroom footage of him on TV.

I wish I was making this shit up. But so many people see him that way.
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 01:03 PM
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31. Good thing he didn't run in 2004, that would have wiped 1/4 of NBC's programming.

BTW- it's completely disingenuous to do this and act like the last fives years of him on the show hasn't been one big commercial.

The fact is NBC isn't willing to give equal time.
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KAT119 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 09:48 PM
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32. YES!!
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 10:01 PM
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33. I don't see how there would be many episodes to pull.
The new season starts sometime in September anyway, doesn't it? NBC doesn't usually show reruns from previous seasons. The cable channels do but the article says those reruns won't be pulled. Maybe I'm missing something. :shrug:
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