CBS announced that they picked up SEAL Team, S.W.A.T., Madam Secretary, Bull, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, 60 Minutes and 48 Hours for another season. The news programs make sense. The dramas are a little surprising because they are all ratings duds except for Hawaii Five-0. However, we all thought after the Eliza Dushku story came out about her saying that Michael Weatherly sexually harassed her that they would have cancelled the show. Especially since they paid her a huge settlement ($9.5 million) because of it.
The story broke when the show was on hiatus, and many of us thought it would not return in the #MeToo era. But it did. In fact, it stayed around the same in the ratings which were not nearly as good as when it followed NCIS for its first two seasons. Therefore, CBS, the network who fired its boss over sexual harassment claims, had a way out. Yet they did not take it.
Which dumbfounded a lot of us. No one as much as Steven Speilberg and his company Amblin Entertainment who produce the legal drama. Or should I say produced as in the past tense? That is because a rep for the production company told Deadline, “Steven Spielberg, Amblin Television, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are no longer attached to Bull.”
That should mean that CBS is the sole producer of the show. Something networks like more and more these days. But will they want to produce it by themselves? Yes, Michael Weatherly was one of their biggest stars on NCIS, but is he worth keeping around when so many women lost respect and interest in him after we all found out about Eliza Dushku? I honestly thought they would take the loss, boy was I wrong.
I guess the #MeToo movement has come and gone, and now it is OK to harass us again. It is not and the only way to keep the momentum going is to fire and not work with people that have to been proven to be harassers. It is not only about us. It is about the next generation and the generation after that and so on. For too long we stayed quiet. Not anymore. I am woman, hear me roar!
BTW I guess you can say I am calling bull on Bull being picked up for another season.
Even though we are two months and two days away from the season 2 premiere of Bull on CBS, they are already filming new episodes. The show’s star Michael Weatherly kept up a tradition he has and that is to drop trou and show off his sexy legs. I wish they would show them more on the legal drama because that is why I always tune in. I want to see the gorgeous gams on the ham as much as possible!
Not only does Michael Weatherly play Dr Phil in Bull, he is now copying his look. The actor debuted a mustache that looks a lot like the daytime talk show host he portrays. At this rate, he will be balding by the time they go back into production of the CBS later this summer.
When it is comes to the stache, we need DiNozzio back if you know what mean.
Michael Weatherly was on The Late Late Show yesterday and he almost forgot to put on his shirt. Which is not a bad thing because he looks like a dark angel in that black suit with his chest hairs poking through. Seriously, he needs to be shirtless more often on his CBS drama next season and the ratings will go up faster than my body temperature did seeing him looking that!
Michael Weatherly co-hosted Live with Kelly today; and during a commercial break, the Bull star shared a story about the word that follows his show’s title. A 💩 story!
Back when he was 12 years old he went to sleep away camp, and for the first 6 days while he was there he didn’t make #2. Then one day they went on an overnight hike in nature and nature called. As he explained, “All of sudden, I was leaning over looking to see if it was a salamander was sunbathing or something. And I knew I had about 6 seconds before I was going to give birth to my own little love child.” What did he do? He “ripped his pants down, in front of the entire camp,” and he “uncoiled what looked like 18 foot boa constrictor.”
Where is Mark Harmon when you need him to smack DiNozzo in the back of the head when you really need him to? Seriously though, that is a great story that we can all relate to. Unlike him, we just don’t share it with strangers.
