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Current Talk '05 II / Re: THE "BIG SIX"
« on: December 05, 2005, 08:56:32 PM »Actually that's not true, we DO know. Frid's contract ran out sometime during the 1840 plotline and he only agreed to stay with the show if another, non-vampiric character was created for him, hence Bramwell Collins in Parallel Time. Well, we all know what happened after this plotline.
ABC made the decision to cancel DS near the outset of 1841PT, before that storyline really got going. And as we know, the ratings actually went up during 1841PT, so I don't think 1841PT had much if any impact on the decision one way or another. As we've discussed many times, so many different factors figured into DS' cancellation - Frid's growing boredom with "the fanging thing" and his desire to be allowed to play other characters (which I think was only right, considering that all the other actors were allowed to) was but one factor.