Last Thursday, Gladiators were shocked when James Novak was shot and killed on Scandal. Well yesterday Dan Bucatinsky, the man who played the beloved character, appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show, to talk about how he found out he would be unemployed. The cast was given a script, and they found out which actors had a target on them. So the cast had their theories who would it be. Some of them tried to reassure Bucatinsky that wouldn’t be him and he was hoping that they were right. Then he got a phone call from the show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, and she told him she was letting him go.
As sad as I was to see him go, I think it was for the best because they made his character such a pitiful wimp. It’s like by killing him off, they put him out of his misery.
So I get why the ABC drama shot him, but I don’t get why Arsenio did it. Poor Dan, hopefully that will be the last time that someone shoots him on TV. Oh, and that he never gets shot in real life either and more importantly.
