Law & Order Chaos: Jeff Goldblum Quits Criminal Intent
Well, it’s just nuts in the Dick Wolf world.
Jeff Goldblum has quit “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” You may recall reading here first that Wolf fired Vincent D’Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe and Eric Bogosian from the show, thinking that Goldblum would carry the whole show. In his first season he shared the shows with D’Onofrio and co. But this season, he’s been on his own.
And now, he’s gone.
When I first reported the firings, the emails came in from viewers in avalanches. They didn’t like Goldblum’s character and wanted the D’Onofrio team back. Of course, Wolf was not perceptive on this score, and killed off Bogosian’s character. Erbe took the whole thing very hard, from what I’ve been told.
So now what? Bring back D’Onofrio and Erbe? Of course, actors will work for money. But these people were really horrified about the way they were treated. It may not be so easy, or cheap, to rehire them.
What can they do about Bogosian? Pretend it was a dream, Bobby Ewing style? (Why not? No one will care.)
And what about Saffron Burrows? I told you in a column several weeks ago that she wasn’t working out. With Goldblum gone, she’s certainly history, too.
Somewhere, Paul Sorvino is getting a kick out of all this, that’s for sure. Michael Moriarty, too.
Just caught a rerun with Goldblum. God he really sucked in this role.
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Dick Wolf MUST be some kind of an ASSHOLE letting Gorin & Eames go. THEY made the show.
When the networks will learn to listen to the viewers? And I mean before… not AFTER the damage was done! Because now, it’s too late. LOCI is already dead.
What I surmised from talking with my friend Michael Moriarty, a/k/a Ben Stone, is that Dick Wolf is a real jerk. But that’s just my opinion.
i have not watched new shows with goldblum only reruns with vince , bring them back PLEASE,Dick Wolf we proved our point.
I think he got tired of Dick Wolf crap or USA network I hear that reason Jeff he just want partime tv job but USA force this on him when they fire both Vincent and Kathrye NICE GOIN USA
Burrows is horrible actress,one should be joking about her being talanted…she is one of the main reasons the whole show in ruins now,Jeff just taking off from sinking ship,realizing the complete disaster both in ratings and viewers’s opinion about it which are in its turn reflected in the ratings at the end. its all pretty simple,one shouldn’t be genious to figure that out. and adding Mastrantonio was another big mistake…generally speaking NBC’s bosses completely failed in everything concerning this very show.
I’m a longtime Goldblum fan, but this was a bad fit. L&O was able to make D’Onofrio’s quirkiness work for his character, but alas, not with Jeff. The last few episodes in particular were weak. And Burrows, while gorgeous and talented, simply isn’t believable as a NYC homicide detective.
Roger, does anybody know why Jeff quit? Could it be the riggers of filming TV?