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radcliffe · Tunnelhelfer Beiträge: 54

Zitat: Aino

Verstehe ich das jetzt richtig, dass die Serie im Grunde gestoppt wurde, weil Linda aufhören wollte? Das damit die Quoten runtergingen, kann ich mir vorstellen, das Problem gibts ja relativ oft in der Fernsehgeschichte.

Aber weiß jemand zufällig, warum Linda keine Lust mehr hatte? Ich meine dass ein Terminator-Filmdreh zwar eine Serienpause rechtfertigt, aber ein ganzer Ausstieg oder gingen die Quoten schon vorher runter und Linda wollte rechtzeitig "abspringen"...?

Unter diesem link klick mich! findest Du interessante Behind-The-Scenes Informationen (in Englisch).

Und hier noch ein Auszug aus George R. R. Martin's Notizen von derselben Seite zum Ausstieg von Linda:

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Tue Mar 08, 1994

Anyway, that was how the 12-episode third-season came about... alas, what neither the network nor Witt Thomas realized as they argued over episode orders and time slots was that the comrpomise finally reached would cost us Linda Hamilton.

Linda -- for those of you who have never heard this before -- was never especially happy on B&B. She was a feature actress. She did not want to work in television. She found the 121-hour-a-day schedule of a one-hour dramatic series to be grueling. She had accepted the role of Catherine in the pilot because (1) it was a brilliant script, and (2) nobody in Hollywood thought B&B had a prayer in hell of being picked up to series. When the pilot tested through the roof and the series WAS picked up, suddenly Linda found herself contractually committed for five years when what she really wanted to do was make movies.

Also, she very badly wanted to get pregnant. She had been trying for years. Having a child was very important to her, and -- for obvious reasons -- it was not something easily fit into the B&B plotline.

The 12-episode order gave Linda a way out. Once past their first season, network TV shows tend to get picked up for a full season or not at all; the contracts reflected that. Witt-Thomas had the contractual right to hold Linda for three more years, but _only_ by paying her for a full season's 22-episode order. The network, however, was only going to pay Paul and Tony for 12 episodes. To hold Linda, they would have needed to pay her for 10 episodes they did not film. And of course, if they did it for Linda, then Ron and Roy and Jay Acovone would have been well within their rights in demanding the same thing. Linda, in short, had the studio over a barrel. They had no way to compel her to come back... and by then she was pregnant, further complicating the situation.

After intense and sometimes acrimonious negotiations to which I was not party, it was finally decided to let Linda leave as she wished. In return, she agreed to give us ten days of filming to allow us to write her out of the show. That was it; ten days of work, no more. That schedule helped to dictate the plotline of TLBL.

The decision to kill the character of Catherine rather than recast was, of course, ours. I have spoken about that before and I will not go over it all again. Perhaps it was a mistake... but I doubt that a new actress in the Catherine role would have worked either. I think perhaps we were doomed from the moment CBS ordered 12 instead of 22.

"Ein Pferd hat vier Beiner, an jeder Eck'n einer. Drei Beiner hätt', umfallen tät'!"