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I think it partly ran out of steam due to costs. Licensing all the music had to be pretty expensive and you could tell in the later seasons. With a break of all these years, I think they could find good cases again. Danny Pino is well known and has been on a lot of things, so bringing him back to the reboot makes a kind of sense. I didn't like his personal stories, at least near the end, the Elissa one in the early seasons was pretty good. My guess is that in the reboot, if it happens, Scottie would be more of the Stillman character, in charge of the unit, and bringing it into being a unit because of his experience in Philly. That would make him a secondary character, not the focus. Shows tend to want younger actors in the main roles and Scottie would a transition character fro the old show to the new one. Basically, I think it could work, IF they get the music and if they get the kind of writing that they had in early seasons. They have had a rest period, so I think it could be pulled off.

For the most part I agree. Scotty got a bit more focus than I would have liked. I was more interested in Kat Miller and her daughter. The only Lily story I really hated was the "You must forgive your father who left you with an alcoholic, neglectful mother and made NO effort to save you or your sister".

I think one of the reasons this feels less like copagenda than other procedurals is that the whole premise of the show is that the cops screwed up the first time. Oh, sure there were the occasional cases where the victim was believed to just be a missing person, but most of the cases were cold because the cops just missed things. It was also pretty realistic about what kind of victims get overlooked, poor people, marginalized people, and victims of powerful people. Yes, I was sure that the cases would fall apart once a lawyer got involved and most of them would never have been solved it the murderer had just kept their mouth shut and not confessed, because there usually wasn't a lot of actual evidence left. I didn't mind the suspension of disbelief at the result because the final montages are so damned moving and so well done. Plus the show cared about the victims, not the murderers or how the cops diligently solved the case of a person with a picture on a white board. We saw the victims and their killers as fully rounded people. That doesn't happen in most police dramas.

I will say, I think that was supposed to be part of the storyline. How no one on the squad trusted her and then they would grow to. It's hard to judge with so few episodes. I do agree that a romance with Scotty would have been a big mistake, but again, the back story seemed to be that she had been involved in a sexual harassment case before, so a seeming romance with Scotty could have been a plot point to deal with sexual harassment issues. I had seen her in other things and she was fine as an actress. She didn't blow me away or anything, but she did a good job. She has gone on record that Moonves continued to tank her career. She would get a part, including on a daytime shows (she won 4 daytime emmys, so she isn't a BAD actress) then suddenly would be fired. Co-stars always said she wasn't hard to work with, so the "she was difficult" excuse is unlikely to be true. They said she was professional, on time, knew her lines, wasn't a diva. In 2018 she retired from acting, but has returned now that Moonves has retired. She would be told a part was written with her in mind then told not to audition. I do love Traci Thoms on the show. She was a great addition. I just can't judge what Sarah Brown would have done if given the chance.

You also don't need a Roku to use the App. Also, Rokus can be really inexpensive, so you don't have to subscribe to HBO Max. I like the Roku interface for my TV.

You'd think. In Ohio you couldn't get a no fault divorce until 1974 and even then, there were hoops to jump through. The parties had to come to a complete agreement, or live apart for a specified period of time. So in 1977, a lot of people would have been under the impression that divorce was hard, and therefore unusual and there was a stigma against it.

For being so upset because the victim was "one of our own" the police really did a half a**ed job of the investigation. They didn't look at the guy's cell phone data and the case wasn't that old. They obviously didn't talk to all the witnesses. Heck, they didn't even go a great job on the autopsy. This is one I really felt shouldn't have been unsolved.

Message from Marilyn Milian

The People's Court and Judge Mathis Cancelled After Decades on Daytime TV It's the end of an era.

The entire series is also on the Roku Channel. You don't need to have a Roku to watch, either. It's streaming, so you can choose when to watch.

The thing is, the defendant was right legally, dogs are property and you can't sue for more than the dog is worth, just like you can't sue for repairs over the value of a car. If he had paid nothing, I think JM would have given the plaintiffs most, if not all, of their vet bills as punitive damages. The reason most dog bite cases get money is because the defendants don't know their rights and don't claim that all they owe is the price of the dog. I admit, I would have dinged the guy because the Lab was dog aggressive, but the thing is, the man wouldn't have been the one on the hook, the daughter would have and I don't think JM wanted to make her feel any worse than she already did. It was a weird, close case with a defendant who knew what he was doing. JM tried to get the plaintiffs to say they wouldn't have continued treatment for their dog if they hadn't known the defendant wouldn't make good, because then they would have had a case for relying on his word to pay. I'm sitting here with my sweet 9 year old beagle next to me, so I relate to the plaintiffs. JM's hands were tied by the law.

Oh come on! JM already knew! I'm sure it was in the filing somewhere. We know both sides file statements ahead of time. As a certified Little Old Lady, myself (not in my 90s, but still), I can guarantee the plaintiff decided to throw the Little Old Lady card on the table. She made damned sure the "I'm legally blind card" got played too. JM let her have her 15 minutes of fame and get a chance to be primped on national TV. I was a little surprised that the contractor wasn't allowed to correct their work, but the defendant talked about not being able to get the right spline quickly, so that could have factored into the decision. Really I wouldn't want to not be able to open my windows if I was told "we can't get to it for 3 weeks". I wish, if that were the case, it had been made clearer, but that was part of what I gleaned from the case.

He wasn't penalized for cheating. His agents accepted her $350 and called it even. Then he didn't do anything for a year meaning he acted as though it was fine. The defendant had no reason to think she owed anything more. If he had come back right away and said he wanted more, he probably would have gotten it, but to wait for a year and then spring it on her isn't fair and so he lost. I don't understand why new GF's father suddenly decided to get involved and threaten the defendant, the new GF went whining to daddy for some reason. The defendant is well out of the relationship because the dude is NOT worth it.

I think they didn't mention that he didn't pay the fee. Or they said they waived it as a good faith gesture and she took that at face value.

Tia just posted on Facebook, it looks like shooting is starting up again.

I watch Pitbulls and Parolees over on Animal Planet and I follow Tia Marie Torres on Facebook. She says that the switch to Discovery+ has a lot of shows in limbo. P&P hasn't filmed since December, hasn't been canceled, and hasn't been given any word on when or if filming will start again. She said the P&P was doing well ratings wise, but the Discovery/ other channel mergers had everything up in the air. I can't find anything saying Chopped is canceled. So maybe between the Discovery merger and launching new Chopped series, OG Chopped is in limbo. Or they are holding episodes for some reason.

Maybe, but Chopped is pretty popular, and they have commissioned 2 spinoffs for Discovery+. It's possible they cancelled the Mothership, but there have been no notice about it and reruns are going strong.

Not listed at 9:00 next week either, according to my DVR guide. Maybe they ran out of new episodes and are putting up series that still have new ones?

A lot of times it isn't just the musicians. The record companies are a big stumbling block to use of music. Frankly, I wish that copyright law had been amended to set up reasonable payment for rebroadcast in any form of shows using licensed music. The creators of the show used the music for their creative vision, and they should be allowed to have that vision available to the public. It will never happen and deciding a fair, reasonable rate that won't break the bank for rebroadcast would be a difficult needle to thread.

The crack about living with mold was uncalled for, however, I took it more to mean that she hires people to clean her house so she doesn't know the elbow grease it takes to get rid of mold.

Yeah, my impression was the defendants either didn't care about replacing the fence, or didn't want to pay to replace it. They figured if they dragged it out log enough the plaintiff would either give up, or do what he did, pay for it himself. I would have made them pay for half even with the gap, because their recalcitrance is what caused all the issues.

Roku Channel has the original music as well. It's great being able to see these again.

Maybe not, but having a job is relevant to Douglas, so I'm fine with that. Judge Marilyn lives in Florida, a COVID hotspot and would have to travel to New York, where things are under pretty good control. Under NY law, she would have to quarantine in order to shoot in the court room. So, Zoom it is for the foreseeable future. I don't know where Judge Mathis lives or where the show is shot, but I'm sure quarantine restrictions play a big role in deciding how to bring these shows back.

E!News is reporting it was a car accident

I think that on THIS house the time pressure was for getting it on the show. They only showed to realtors, instead of prospective buyers, so the house wasn't on the market. Now they might just leave the wood unpainted, but with this flip I felt that things were going to be finished before they actually put the house up for sale.