“Criminal Minds” will make Paget Brewster a series regular for Season 12, TheWrap has learned.
As previously announced, Brewster is already set to guest star in multiple episodes of “Criminal Minds,” reprising her role as SSA Emily Prentiss. Her first episode is tentatively scheduled to air Oct. 12.
“We’re all so excited to have Paget with us full time,” said Erica Messer, the show’s executive producer and showrunner. “The BAU family has definitely missed her, on screen and off. Having her back on set has been great, it’s like she never left.”
Brewster is represented by UTA and The Burnstein Company.
Brewster is the latest casting change for the popular CBS procedural, although this one was at least voluntary. Back in July, Thomas Gibson was axed from the show after an on-set incident with series producer Virgil Williams. For his part, Gibson said he booted the staffer in retaliation after the man became “aggressive.”
CBS and production company ABC Studios then dropped the following bombshell: The man who had starred on all 255 episodes of the procedural would not be coming back to “Criminal Minds” after all following an initial sentence of two weeks suspension.
The physical altercation wasn’t Gibson’s first strike: Click here to read a comprehensive timeline of how it all went down. It also better details the beef between him and Shemar Moore, who bailed on the series after 11 seasons.
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"Criminal Minds" star Thomas Gibson, who got the boot from the CBS show following reports that he kicked a writer on set, isn't the only small-screen star to say "sayonara" on the heels of controversy.
John Amos claimed that he was fired from ground-breaking 1970s comedy "Good Times" after clashing with producers over the direction of the show. Amos' character, family patriarch James Evans, was subsequently killed off. Nothing funny about that. Damn, damn, damn.
Mackenzie Phillips was fired not once, but twice, from the sitcom "One Day at a Time" (1975-74) as the actress struggled with substance abuse.
Janet Hubert was replaced in her role as Vivian Banks on "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1993, amid reports of serious tension with series star Will Smith.
Lisa Bonet, who played second daughter Denise Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," returned to the series in 1989 after starring in the spinoff "A Different World," but was axed due to "creative differences."
Nicollette Sheridanclaimed in a lawsuit that her "Desperate Housewives" character, Edie Britt, was killed off in 2009 after she accused series boss Marc Cherry of assaulting her. The legal saga over the firing has dragged on nearly as long as her tenure on the series.
Charlie Sheen got kicked to the curb from his "Two and a Half Men" gig in 2011 following a string of bizarre behavior, including insults aimed at series boss Chuck Lorre. As revenge, Lorre killed off a Sheen stand-in with a piano during the comedy's series finale.
Isaiah Washington was shown the door on the ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy" in 2007 after allegedly hurling a homophobic slur in castmate T.R. Knight's direction.
Another Shondaland alum, Columbus Short, said bye-bye to his gig on ABC's "Scandal" in 2014 amid claims that he committed domestic violence, though he later attributed his sacking to cocaine abuse.
TBS canned CeeLo Green's reality series "The Good Life" days after Green pleaded no contest to a felony charge of giving a woman the drug ecstasy.
After more than a decade as Aaron Hotchner on "Criminal Minds," Thomas Gibson got the boot from the CBS show in 2016 following reports that he kicked a writer on the series while directing an episode.
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Gibson is the latest television actor to get the heave-ho after misbehaving, but he’s certainly not the first
"Criminal Minds" star Thomas Gibson, who got the boot from the CBS show following reports that he kicked a writer on set, isn't the only small-screen star to say "sayonara" on the heels of controversy.
