After Gerald McRaney, Jericho Loses Another

in Television

Michael Hinman reported on Saturday the sad news that Pamela Reed (Gail Green) won't be coming back for any more episodes of Jericho, beyond the seven new episodes that recently wrapped production after the shows unlikely resurrection. If you're wondering why, I think Reed lays it all pretty damn well.

"The average age of actors on that show is under 40, and those of us over 40 are gone," the 58-year-old actress said, according to Film Stew.

McRaney left by his own choice, probably because he thought like everybody else that Deadwood was headed for the silverscreen. HBO pulled the plug on that series, promising at least one movie to follow, then renegged and now that property is essentially deader than Jericho. Just goes to show that leaving TV for feature films (or even TV movies) almost never works out.

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3 Comments

Grace
October 16, 2007 10:46 PM | Reply

Please do not print what you assume to be the case unless you know for sure.
I am speaking about how you assume to know why Gerald McRaney is no longer on JERICHO.
Now if you have some FACTS that came from HIM, by all means, print those.
Thanks!

Paul William Tenny

October 16, 2007 11:55 PM | Reply

Hi Grace, thanks for commenting. To save some time, I'll just refer you to the following at E! Online by Kristin Veitch:

Meanwhile, a little side note for you wondering about the status of Gerald McRaney: I'm told he actually quit the show before it was canceled (which is why his character was killed in the finale), and he will not be returning to Jericho, regardless of the show's status. Says his personal rep: "Gerald is moving on. He's thrilled that HBO has submitted him for Emmy consideration for Deadwood, in which he appeared as publisher George Hearst. Although he enjoyed working with the people at Jericho, the Deadwood experience was one of the best of his entire professional career." Sounds like he needs to score a gig on David Milch's new HBO show, John from Cincinnati (which I love).

I'm afraid I couldn't find the original article where I read about this, but this has been known since around the time the first season finale aired so this is anything but new news.

I knew for a fact that McRaney left to spend more time doing Deadwood, the only speculation was about how the potential movies affected his decision.

Grace
October 20, 2007 5:04 AM | Reply

I don't think anyone thought that DEADWOOD movies would go to the big screen. They were always suppose to be 2 tv movies.
I doubt seriously that McRaney left to do any DEADWOOD movie since I don't think David Milch even had them written or casted yet. It was pretty apparent after John From Cinn. got canceled, that Milch and HBO were taking back their promise. Those #&*@&#&$&#&$**@!!!!