Girlfriends to the End
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Word is there will be no season finale episode for “Girlfriends”, and the cast intends to sue:
“The CW made the cast members an offer to return for a ‘retrospective’ episode that would feature recaps of the previous shows and cast members reflecting on those shows. The CW apparently only offered to pay the actors half of their episodic salary to shoot the makeshift finale, thus the stars collectively opted not to participate.
In addition, [it is alleged that] The CW refuses to honor the contracts of the principal cast members and does not intend to pay the actors for the nine episodes that will not be taped.
Now the show stars have hired a litigator who will file a joint lawsuit on behalf of the talent, suing the network for the money they are due.
‘The network told them point blank, ‘Sue us!’ After using this show to help build its name, The CW has turned their back on them and disrespected them in the most horrible way,’ said someone associated with the show, who spoke under the condition of anonymity.”
Come on now folks, you had to see this coming. Those networks (the UPN & the CW) have been f**king with the cast for quite some time now. Best of luck to them on their lawsuit strategy. Golden could use that extra cheddar for a new stylist.
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New shows and yes, even a new lawsuit come with the territory of launching a new network.
Author Staci Robinson is suing The CW, its owners and some producers for $40 million for allegedly stealing the concept of her novel “Interceptions” to create the sitcom “The Game,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The writer claims that in 2001, she had interviewed for a job as a writers *****istant at Kelsey Grammer’s Gramnet Prods. when she gave a manuscript of her novel to “Game” executive producer Mara Brock Akil. The suit, filed Sept. 14, alleges that the series copies her premise and the characters in the book.
She names the CW and its owners, CBS and Warner Bros., Akil and Gramnet as defendants.
Both the written and filmed versions center on a woman who is devoted to an NFL player, but wants to pursue her professional schooling.
That’s jacked up
This is so messed up. Didn’t CW really get their rating jumping when Girlfriends first got on?
I mean damn….sista’s can’t get a break….that’s why we make them….
Such a shame…
I really liked that show!:(
F*ck ‘em! They screwed my girl Toni Childs. So they got what they deserved!
girlfriends was boring this season, and most of last season. but they should let them finish the season and close the story lines off properly.
I like the show for the most part. I want to see an ending darnnit!!! Can they do something. COme one CW step ya game up!
Wow! I didn’t even know girlfriends was ending…CW always put on good black shows only to have the ratings flying off the meter and when that happens and the show becomes sooo popular they take it off the air just like UPN! Its the black shows that give your station credibility and when that happens you ***** them right off the air!
I’m gonna miss my gurls.
glad you guys put another pic up.
it was messed up how they didnt give this show that ran for 9 seasons a proper finale where they could have brought back jill (toni)for that reason i do not watch the CW anymore
its about time!
lol @ Bossip, Golden always DOES look a hot mess!
Is anyone really surprised at the CW’s executives attitude towards minority programming. Like Fox, UPN and The WB, they use black shows as loss leaders to gain footing in the ratings game, only to slowly replace them with white shows after they get their ad revenue up. The only reason CBS (Owner of CW) renewed Girlfriends, was out of respect for Kelsey Grammar. Eventually CW programming will be all white – Hense their planned remake of Beverly Hills 90201 for next season. Everyone Hates Raymond will probably be gone by next season.
Come on it was inevitable. CW can’t have too many black shows in their lineup. All the changing of hands going on between the networks is just pure strategy that is echoed by all the previous comments. First they switch networks, then use some of the shows for ratings then cut off the ones we really wanna see. Typical bait and switch casue most of us know that we were not gonna be watching Gossip Girl had it not been mixed up in the lineup. Very few black sitcoms last. The Game is next to go
The only way their will be true diversification in programming is for the fair distribution of those Nielsen rating boxes in an equal share of black, latino, asian and white homes…As it stands now, 90% of those boxes resides in white homes. That’s why there is such a dearth of ethnic diversification in TV programming.
Lynn looks high in this picture..
That’s really messed up – but I have to agree the show did become boring and they should have brought Toni back. Does anyone know the reason Toni was fired?
@Lauren….okay girl! Always looks tow up from the flo up! I loves me some traci ross though. She’s stylish and sexy. That’s my girl. I don’t care for the rest of those chickens.
I agree they should give the girls a final episode and bring my girl toni childs back I will make the show whole again. I honestly stop watching it when they got rid of Toni and made williams girl friend the new friend..she could never be toni I heard that It did get kind of lame but oh well … I think they definitely need to pay them girls whats due to them just like they pay the Cast of Friends for that whack ***** show and Jerry seinfeld for that lame ***** show they need to pay my girls…Hell I wish they could bring back Living single and Moesha with girlfriends..Now that would be hott!!!! Kelsey Grammar has a lil *****!!
what did you expect, being a positive show about black women and all.
meanwhile, we’re worrying about what some wanna-be white girl and her pseudo-marriage to some ignorant rapper.
i love my black people.
THIS SITUATION SUCKS I REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW I WONDER IZ THERE NE THING THAT WE CAN DO AZ VIEWERS!
isn’t funny that every time we get a decient show with black peaple not acting like stupid *****es they always what to take it off the air. And why is it that we can never get a final show ever you had the final show of friends steinfield but you never saw the last episode of family mattters?
UGH I HATE THIS SHOW BOUT TIME THEY TOOK IT OFF
I’m all for sisters bonding, but the only attractive girl of that whole group is the one that left.
Lets see how you *****es feel about them now, I saw all four of them walking in the Ala Moana mall about 4 years ago, they all had white boyfriends.
Too bad that there will be one less black show on TV, but the only one of these girls that was pretty was the one that left last year.
Too bad that there will be one less black show on TV, but the only one of these girls that was pretty was the one that left last year.
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Here’s the state of black tv
CW-
Everybody Hates Chris
The Game(?)
Disney
Cory in the House
TBS
House of Payne
Mynetwork tv
Flava Flav’s sitcom
Nick
Just Jordan
Now where is Al and Jesse and NAACP at? We can come out of the woodwork to support Jena 6 and Vick yet no one is coming out and calling the networks on the lack of black shows?
Or the fact aside from Grey’s Anatony and Private Practice, no show with a mixed or white cast features a black writer?
And the last sitcom to do that was Married with Children with Ralph Farquhar (Moesha, Parkers, Just Jordan and 85% of Fox’s sitcoms 1990-98).
Aries wasent playing when he said that UPN stood for Under Paid Negros.
I miss that show, as well as Half and Half. The Game SUCKS!
The CW sucks they did my show Veronica Mars like that.
I liked Half and Half too.
Right now I am thinking about what Cedrick the entertainer was joking about how black shows don’t ever get that final episode. They don’t get a cake, no party, no nothing. When shows like Friends and Steinfeld go off the air, they get 3 months of advertising for the last show along with a big party. Now we know why Toni Childs left.
THe fans also talk about them on the forum page of the tall dating site ~Tallkisss.com, where they have ever been and chatted for a long time.
It is amazing! THIS IS WHY BET was invented to create and even playing field for black people. It is unfortunate that today it has changed into something else and the playing field is still not even!
BET aint doing a damn thing 4 black people. TV ONE is better.
This really couldn’t happen to more deserving people….these girls are vicious and nasty! Mara Akil and her cheating husband are something else too. Good riddance y’all!
please sue .. I liked that show
Yeah they should sue! I loved that show! Granted, the show was a lot better when Toni Childs was apart of it, and it did get kinda boring and lame in the last 2 seasons but dammit they should at least get a final episode! DAMN! Joan’s bf was about to come home from Iraq and *****, and they were about to get married! I wanted to see that episode! All these damn networks suck! ANd BET sucks too, although Girlfriends will most likely be in syndication on that network for a long time. All the CW shows SUck now!
She has my whole-hearted support.I love her pretty and large sexy.I saw her always dating in millonaire dating site”W e a l t h y L o v i n g . c o m”.I am wondering whether she searching her new love in this site?Dose she really has a new baby?
toni left cause she was trying to demand more money for an already fledgling project .. she was in no position to negotiate the terms of her contract. that ***** thought she was on the black friends .. but girlfriends is a good show. its a shame how, in this day and age black shows still get played like this
Cw is full of *****.
Isn’t that where ANTM is syndicated?
Ty better watch out and prepare to move.
Although they can try to sue her to make her stay.
sic vita
these was the black Golden Girls. thanks yall for being our families friend with some good on screen characture. it was low budget, but it served a purpose. i was wit it.
its a shame how, in this day and age black shows still get played like this
WHAT R U SAYin? people in the ent. occupation know what time it is. you’re not in the industry so i think, think that you’ve been delusional it tymes have been so much better.
i like half and half girlfriends.. one on one adn all of us…. its a shame how they do black shows and those r the shows who get their ratings up……im saldy my girl toni childs left… but im saldy its cancelled al together now
I read where the ladies took paycheck to continue on the show and Jill Marie Jones was not with that *****. They were on a show that already had a fan base. Just because they were moving to a new network didn’t mean they had to be advertise as a new show. CW actually treated the women like ***** from day one so it’s no surprise that there is no final episode and pay disputes.
CW lol. Hate *****s
- http://www.anythingblack.net
WHEN WILL BLACK PEOPLE LEARN THAT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT *****S TO WHITE PEOPLE? THEY WILL NOT GET ANY MONEY FROM SUING-WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS THEY WILL NEVER GET ACTING JOBS AGAIN, THEY WILL BE BLACKLISTED. WHITE PEOPLE ONLY USE BLACKS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES-HOW THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE TREATED FAIRLY BY WHITE PEOPLE IS BEYOND ME. I GUESS THEY THOUGHT SINCE THEY ARE ALL LAYING UP WITH WHITE MEN, THEY WOULD GET A BREAK- HA HA
The show will be greatly missed…just reading everyone’s comments paints such a clear picture of what’s happening now with our loved black shows
I’ll miss Girlfriends! The CW sucks!!
Poor babiez. Come to Anton. COOMMME TO ANTON
Who needs Jessie and Al to speak for us. Everyone who loves the show should write, phone or email the CW. If fan appeal can bring back Jericho to CBS. I am sure fans of Girlfriends can keep CW’s communication lines busy until they give us the fans, who were faithful to the show since day one, the finale we deserve. Give us Joan’s Wedding at least.
Okay as much as I love girlfriends…why didn’t they make this stand when Toni was trying to…this is what happens when you turn your back on someone and then try to pick up the pieces on your own…they got that good ol’ door shut in their faces….now they have to sue
I know Jill-Marie is laughing it up on set of one them Bailey’s commercials!!!!!!
Yeah Hotstuff, they should have stood together. When the actors on Friends renegociated their contracts for those last 2 seasons, all 6 of their agents work together to ensure ALL 6 get 1 million per episode. No one got more than the other and that is why they are all still Friends in real life. A lot of people that Jill was trying to get more when she was basically saying she was not taking a paycut.
I love Girlfriends…
white man will always steal from others.
White AmeriKKKa!!!
Black peopole will never win b/c we are sell outs. No black power. it’s all about the green. Stop giving the white man power!!! Black shows should be owned, showed, written, produced and cast by black folks!!!
Dealing with the devil they deserve it!!!!!!!!!!!
***** em they have enough money!!!!!!!!!!! Do something positive withyour time and write yor senator or governor. Who cares about some over paid actors!!!!
even if they do sue it will be the white lawyer who gets paid the most.
That’s a shame. I hope the cast prevails in its lawsuit. But, this should be a lesson to Black Hollywood — own your product.
There are enough wealthy and successful black folks in AmeriKKKa for there to be at least one major studio that is owned and controlled by black folks. We need to remove the egos and come together because constantly looking to YT is definitely not the answer.
It’s a trend. They always get rid of black shows that depict prosperous black people.
@ darkness
its a shame how, in this day and age black shows still get played like this
WHAT R U SAYin? people in the ent. occupation know what time it is. you’re not in the industry so i think, think that you’ve been delusional it tymes have been so much better.
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STFU im not delusional at all .. the comment was its a shame that in year 2008 after all the contributions blacks have made to the entertainment industry that we are still undervalued. you can barely write a clear sentence, learn how to do that before you try to make comments about someone elses comments dumb*****
THI$ I$ HOLLYWOOD $TRIKE FALLOUT BULL$HIT!!!
THE NETWORKS & STUDIOS ARE PUNISHING WRITERS & ACTORS WHILE CUTTING COSTS.
ALTHOUGH OTHER $HOW$ I WATCHED GOT THE AXE TOO…
THEY SHOULD AT LEAST BRING “GIRLFRIENDS” BACK FOR A 1 HOUR SERIES FINALLY!!! 8 1/2 YEARS THEN NOTHING???
FYI: FOR ALL WHO WANT TO KNOW MY FAVORITE JILL MARIE JONES “TONI CHILDS” LEFT THE SHOW, ON HER OWN, BEFORE THE MOVE TO CW BECAUSE SHE DID’NT WANT TO TAKE THE PAY CUT EVERYBODY ELSE TOOK. SHE FELT SHE WAS MORE VALUABLE AND PERSUED COMMERCIAL, MOVIE, & MODELING OPTIONS.
THE SHOW CREATOR, MARA BROCK-AKIL AND STAR TRACEY ELLIS-ROSS WANTED AND KNEW THEY NEEDED HER ON THE SHOW. BUT JILL DECIDED TO LEAVE ANYWAY.
SMDH
As a fan of this show, I felt this would be the last season. And for the most part, I’m ok with that. 9 Seasons is DAMN GOOD for any show, black or white. But to not let them have a proper finale is disrespectful – to the actors and crew who put 9 yrs of their lives into the show, and to the fans who have supported the show from day one. It’s not right, and I do believe it’s a race thing. They wouldn’t have dared to do this to 7th Heaven or any of those other shows. Its a damn shame is what it is.
I don’t comment too much, but I had to say something about all the above responses to this situation. I read all of your statements & I agree with you guys. Something needs to be done because black shows are missing from these networks & I agree with a lot of your solutions.
YOU PPLE MOAN TOO MUCH,I DONT SEE A LOT OF WHITE SHOWS ON BET.
AND I DONT SEE ANYTHING SPECIAL ABOUT A SHOW THAT POTRAYS SUCCESSFUL BLACK WOMEN AS W*****S
I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ‘GIRLFRIENDS’ STILL CAME ON. AS SOON AS TONI LEFT, THERE WAS NO PURPOSE. THE CAST SHOULD FEEL LIKE FOOLS FOR NOT STANDING UP WITH TONI. SHE GOT THE LAST LAUGH.
I AM PERSONALLY BOYCOTTING CW.FIRST HALF AND HALF, ALL OF US, ONE ON ONE, AND EVEN THAT SHOW WITH MARQUES HOUSTON.
NO MORE CW!