According to TVLine's Michael Ausiello, Paget Brewster is leaving Criminal Minds at the end of the season to pursue other projects. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details from Brewster herself regarding her reasons for leaving the show at the end of the season:
“After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it’s time for me to move on,” Brewster (whose Minds’ deal expires in May) said in a statement to our sister site, Deadline.com. “As much as I will miss my Criminal Minds family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.”
Per Deadline, Brewster’s decision to leave came after CBS and ABC Studios denied a request she made to enter pilot season with the hope of landing another half-hour comedy project. Last year she was cast in NBC’s My Life as an Experiment, which did not get picked up to series — paving the way for her to return to Minds this season (something Brewster was not entirely happy about). ”I had another year on my contract that I didn’t know about,” she recently told TVGuide.com, “so I had to come back! I said, ‘Hey, I kinda want an apology and maybe a raise.’ And they were like, ‘No, we’ll sue you!’ The whole thing was, unfortunately, a mess. It was dumb.”
In the article Michael Ausiello also mentions that Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore and A.J. Cook, have already signed new deals for a potential Season 8.
Link to the full article:Criminal Minds Star Paget Brewster Leaving
My thoughts: I'll definitely miss Paget Brewster next season, because I do like her character. However, Brewster leaving isn't the end of the world to me because Hotch, Dr. Spencer Reid, Garcia and Morgan are my favorite characters. If one of them left the show, I'd be really sad.
“After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it’s time for me to move on,” Brewster (whose Minds’ deal expires in May) said in a statement to our sister site, Deadline.com. “As much as I will miss my Criminal Minds family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.”
Per Deadline, Brewster’s decision to leave came after CBS and ABC Studios denied a request she made to enter pilot season with the hope of landing another half-hour comedy project. Last year she was cast in NBC’s My Life as an Experiment, which did not get picked up to series — paving the way for her to return to Minds this season (something Brewster was not entirely happy about). ”I had another year on my contract that I didn’t know about,” she recently told TVGuide.com, “so I had to come back! I said, ‘Hey, I kinda want an apology and maybe a raise.’ And they were like, ‘No, we’ll sue you!’ The whole thing was, unfortunately, a mess. It was dumb.”
In the article Michael Ausiello also mentions that Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore and A.J. Cook, have already signed new deals for a potential Season 8.
Link to the full article:Criminal Minds Star Paget Brewster Leaving
My thoughts: I'll definitely miss Paget Brewster next season, because I do like her character. However, Brewster leaving isn't the end of the world to me because Hotch, Dr. Spencer Reid, Garcia and Morgan are my favorite characters. If one of them left the show, I'd be really sad.
