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Are they only doing “This Is Zit” (This Is It? As in no more except “Best of” episodes?) episodes this season? It sure seems like it. I want new stuff. But with Dr. Lee, not the new UK dermatologist. I don’t get why we have to have UK-based clones of, like, Dr. Pimple Popper & Say Yes to the Dress when we already have perfectly good versions of those shows featuring Americans as the doctor & bridal consultants... & we already have 2 US-based versions of Say Yes to the Dress (just counting the Kleinfeld & Atlanta versions, not the mass wedding in Central Park version).

From Carlotta’s Corner.com: ‘Hawaii Five-0’s Katrina Law Says Filming Finale ‘Super-Emotional’

I thought I saw, once upon a time, on a PBS (of all networks) special about ice cream (The Great Ice Cream Show, I think it’s called—it’s a pretty old special, but gets rebroadcast every now & then) that Frusen Glädjè & Häagen-Dazs were invented by either the same guy or people in the same family.

At this point, I’ll be happy with a reunion TV movie in a few years. I think Lenkov’s too busy with his hopefully remaining 2 shows (CBS hasn’t announced the fate of either MacGyver or Magnum P.I. yet) to think about a reunion movie or anything else right now. But they did say they wouldn’t continue with Danny having another partner.

From Primetimer: How Aaron Sorkin Would Approach Today’s Candidates in the Current Presidency

From TV Line: New Amsterdam Casts Hawaii Five-0 Vet Daniel Dae Kim As New Doctor

It would be easier to do with the characters who have functions besides working with Five-0, like Kamekona, Cousin Flippa, Larry Manetti’s lounge singer character Rick(?), Jerry the conspiracy theorist, & Noelani—all of whom have already appeared on the new Magnum—plus HPD Sgt. Duke Lukela, & maybe Max Bergman, who haven’t appeared there yet, than it would with characters specifically part of the H50 team (except Jerry). That may also be a moot point—transferring characters to the new Magnum. We still don’t know if the new Magnum’s been renewed or not (though they were renewed pretty early in the “renewal season” last year).

Regarding the bolded: Peter Lenkov was never involved with Lost (I checked his Wikipedia page). Daniel Dae Kim, Jorge Garcia, & Terry O’Quinn (perhaps others from H50 that I can’t remember), however, were all stars of the show during most/all of its run. Considering Junior just came back from a mission or training, or something, when he & Tani made love in the back seat of whosever car that was, overlook ing that beach area, I think he’s probably still in the reserves or has some other status that still allows him to be called up when necessary, so he shouldn’t have to re-enlist.

Judging by this pic posted to Twitter (a sawhorse from Eye Productions [connected to the show]) advising people of no parking in the area during certain hours on Monday, March 2nd, it looks like filming ends tomorrow.

The Law & Order finale, “Rubber Room”, wasn’t a retirement party for Lieutenant Van Buren (although I think the actress was leaving the show whether it was renewed for another season or not). She was having financial problems because she was being treated for Ovarian Cancer & Detective Lupo, a detective working under her, decided to throw her a surprise fundraiser to help with her medical & other bills related to the Cancer treatment. She saw an Email about it on another detective’s computer & told Lupo that if he respected her, & respected her privacy, he’d cancel the fundraiser. After she went back into her office, he said screw it, he wasn’t canceling it. And he didn’t. While she was at the party, she apparently got good news from her doctor that the treatment was finally working (we didn’t see/hear the doctor’s end of the conversation; this is just based on how Lieutenant Van Buren looked & acted during, & after, the phone call—as if she’d gotten good news about something).

From TV Line, here are 2 articles where Alex talks about Ep 150 and Possibly Leaving H50 After Season 8, Due to All the Stunt-Related Injuries He’s Incurred and His Directorial Debut and Being Amenable to Returning for Season 9 After All Posting these mostly as a reminder of how much earlier we could’ve lost the show than Season 10.

As of yesterday, they were still filming the finale as far as I know.

But didn’t Junior tell her where to go/stop? I thought he did.

OK... So I just watched the ep where the bride, who was a belly dancer/paralegal, made this big deal outta having a detachable halter neck for her dress. Vera, the alterations head, made her 1. Then the bride(zilla) complained because she’d spent $1300 she claimed she didn’t have on a medallion piece that was supposed to be part of the detachable halter neck. She then complained, & complained some more, claiming she couldn’t afford the medallion (or maybe it was the halter neck Vera made for her, by this point), until she got the female owner of Kleinfeld to give her a credit on whatever it was. A) If she wanted that medallion incorporated, she should’ve given it to Vera to include in the halter neck, which it didn’t appear to me that she did (Vera seemed surprised when she started talking about it). B) Her wedding was the 1 shown at the end. She was wearing the halter neck Vera created for her, without the medallion she bitched so much about not being in the halter neck.

From the Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Interview with Dennis Chun (Sgt. Duke Lukela/Son of Kam Fong, the Original Chin Ho Kelly) About the Series’ End

Regarding the bolded: I’m reasonably sure Season 9 (& subsequently this season) was the season he came back for after not being certain he was coming back so he didn’t get injured enough he couldn’t do active things with his younger children & eventual grandchildren. A number of others have pointed out we got 2 more seasons than we were expecting, thanks to those stem cell treatments & I remember thinking it would be kinda sad if the show ended with Season 8 because Beulah Koale & Meaghan Rath would only get 1 season each to experience this (their first season was Season 8). They ended up getting 3 seasons, so I’m happy for them.

Not ill, per se. In the earlier seasons Alex preferred to do his own stunts rather than delegate them to his stunt double. As a result, he incurred a lot of injuries, including some damage to his shoulder & his back (I think herniated discs). He takes/took his position as the lead seriously enough that he wouldn’t take the time off from the show to have the injuries repaired properly between seasons & risk keeping any of the crew behind the scenes, especially, off work longer during the hiatuses if he needed extra recovery time from surgery, etc. He also relied too heavily on pain meds, which resulted in his having to go to rehab towards the end of Season 2 (& miss being in the crossover storyline with NCIS: Los Angeles) in order to get help getting off of the pills. Alex’s back issues, in particular, became so bad that he almost quit at the end of Season 8, saying he wanted to still be able to run & play with his youngest sons (his stepson, Spike, from his wife Malia’s previous marriage & his & Malia’s son, Lion, who was born during the second season as I remember)—he also has an adult aged son, Saxon, from a previous relationship, who was living in Australia at last report (though Saxon did live with Alex, Malia, & the younger boys in Hawaii for awhile around the period when Lion was born, & he attended a private school in Honolulu)—&, once he had them, his grandchildren. Happily, after he made that comment, Alex apparently found stem cell treatments somewhere on the Mainland US (I think in San Francisco), which were apparently successful in alleviating enough of his back problems that he said in a later interview, before Season 9 was announced, that he thought he could now return for a ninth season of the show because of those treatments (I don’t think this season was mentioned then). I don’t know if the treatments stopped working or if Alex has just decided not to press his luck where his physical health’s concerned any longer. But I respect his decision. And it does seem it was his decision not to come back which ended the show (both his & Scott Caan’s contracts are/were up at the end of this season).

Regarding the bolded: The press release announcing the series finale, which has been linked to individually & quoted in other articles announcing the series is ending this season (if not in the Media thread, they somehow ended up in ep threads), said they gave thought about continuing the show with Danny getting a new partner, then decided it probably wouldn’t work. OK I just looked again & you said why couldn’t they just have Steve retire or whatever, & have someone other than Danny take over Five-0? If they decided not to continue the show with Danny & a new partner (despite all the Scott Caan/Danny Williams detractors out there, that was always gonna be CBS’ first choice), perhaps because Scott was burnt out, wouldn’t accept their offer(s) & was ready to move on (he does have a family, including a 5-year-old daughter, in LA) or perhaps because they couldn’t guarantee the same chemistry would be there between Scott/Danny & a new partner as exists/existed between Alex & Scott & Steve & Danny both, they likely weren’t gonna do the show with somebody besides Danny running Five-0 either. The existing audience would probably like/accept the show with Danny but no Steve much better than with no Steve & Danny.

@Brian Cronin also posted it upthread.

If she is, they don’t have her locked in yet or else they’re keeping it a surprise. The press release announcing the end of the series (which was also quoted, pretty much in full, in the Deadline article posted in the Media thread... I think) mentions James Marsters, William Sadler, & Mark Dacascos returning for the finale (& aren’t all their characters dead?), but that’s it. NO mention of Michelle Borth/Catherine. And I think there are only 2 more press releases left to publish. I recently heard they were only doing 22 eps this season, not the usual 25 they have been, & I’ve posted the press releases through & including ep 20. So there are apparently only 2 more to post, including for the finale.

At least we get to see Frank 1 more time. That’s always good, even though his part seems to have gotten smaller over the seasons (but I guess that’s because of Jimmy Buffett’s pretty extensive touring schedule more than anything else).

I haz a sad too. And so do a lot of other fans/people. I was honestly not expecting this. Especially since they recently announced the casting of that new guy who was supposed to be a regular if the show got renewed for next season (which it sounded like it would). This feels like a gut punch. It’s like when CBS suddenly announced the ending of The Good Wife during the Super Bowl a few years ago.

Early 1970’s. Probably 1972.

She did. I actually appeared on her daytime talk show, which was called The Lee Phillip Show (she didn’t use the last name Bell professionally then), during 1 of my March of Dimes promotional trips to Chicago, back in the day; I also have her autograph in 1 of my autograph books from that period. She did 1 of those shows that either was considered part of the local Noon news—on CBS Channel 2 in Chicago—or which aired immediately after the local Noon news.

Kal Penn, according to his Wikipedia page, was actually the Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, not a Speechwriter, during the Obama Administration, from April 7, 2009 through July 30, 2011. He took time off from this position between June 1, 2010 & November 15, 2010 to film A Very Harold and Kumar 3-D Christmas; he left the position permanently on July 30, 2011 when he was offered a role in the CBS show How I Met Your Mother.