It’s by no means simple for followers to unexpectedly say goodbye to their favourite characters — and 2024 has featured an inflow of surprising departures from our TV screens.
In January, viewers discovered that Josh Stewart wouldn’t be reprising his function as William LaMontagne Jr on Felony Minds: Evolution. Stewart introduced the function of JJ’s (A. J. Prepare dinner) husband to life on the OG Felony Minds present earlier than coming over to the revival.
“[S]adly, my days of enjoying Will LaMontagne Jr. are over,” Stewart wrote by way of X in response to a query about his future on the present. “You guys have been the very best.”
Felony Minds, which aired from 2005 to 2020, adopted a gaggle of profilers who work for the FBI’s Behavioral Evaluation Unit looking down serial killers. Through the years, the drama noticed a number of shocking exits together with Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson and Lola Glaudini. The revival introduced again authentic sequence actors Joe Mantegna, Prepare dinner, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster.
One month after Stewart’s announcement, NBC introduced that Sam Waterston was stepping down from his function as D.A. Jack McCoy on Regulation & Order.
“The time has come for me to maneuver on and take Jack McCoy with me. There’s disappointment in leaving, however I’m simply too inquisitive about what’s subsequent,” Waterston stated in a February assertion. “An actor doesn’t need to let himself get too snug. I’m extra grateful to you than I can say. Regulation & Order’s persevering with and superb long term, together with its astounding comeback, is all because of you and to Dick Wolf, however for whose imaginative and prescient, persistence, perseverance, and distinctive mixture of artistic and enterprise abilities, none of this could have occurred. I really feel very blessed. I hope to see you all on the flip facet.”
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