The next season of Chicago PD will be missing a familiar face. Variety reports Sophia Bush will not return for season five of the NBC TV series.
Bush plays Detective Erin Lindsay on the police drama, which also stars Jason Beghe, Patrick John Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins, Elias Koteas, Jesse Lee Soffer, Marina Squerciati, and Amy Morton. NBC has already renewed the series for a fifth season.
Bush has been with Chicago PD since season one. It’s unclear why she is leaving the NBC series. The show has been a solid ratings performer for the Peacock Network, with season four averaging a 1.37 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.536 million viewers.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Chicago PD? Are you sad Sophia Bush is leaving? Will you still watch?
She goes and i’m GONE!
What is wrong with NBC ….why are they letting her leave she is one of the best if not the best actor on the show. If it’s $ NBC should pay her whatever she wants. The show will not be the same without her. I don’t know if I’ll bother watching it. NBC cancelled the spinoff Chicago Justice which was Awesome and now your letting Sophia Bush leave Chicago PD but your keeping all the other reality and sitcoms on. I bet NBC will lose a lot of viewers if you let her go. Give her whatever she wants or… Read more »
I have watched this show from the beginning and I look forward to it every week. I’m sorry to see her go but the show will be fine without her. She’s maybe the fourth or fifth best character on the show and she will easily be replaced.
The important thing is the show has been renewed and hopefully it will be on the air for many years to come.
LOL Sophia is not even remotely the best actor on this show, not even close. Her fans tend to overestimate her abilities and have since OTH. The show will be fine without her. Now, it won’t be the Erin Lindsay show. Other characters can actually get their own storylines.
Aad that she is leaving
Where do we sign up to bring her back. I watch the show for Sophia Bush! Not sure why she didn’t get her own Chicago Spinoff – “Chicago Most Watchable” I don’t care what she’s in as long as we get to see her every week. All her male counterparts on the show are cardboard cutouts compared to her acting chops and charisma. You dropped the ball NBC! Quit investing all your money in Jennifer Lopez – she’s redoing Paula Abdul’s 2011’s ‘Live to Dance’ with ‘World of Dance’ – Duh. Yeah no one remembers how badly that one flopped.… Read more »
I completely agree….. JENNIFER LOPEZ should NOT be getting yet another awful dance show… UGH… Don’t know who I want off the screen more, her or Steve Harvey! Neither one of them is that talented so now we have to keep changing the channel!!!!
Not sure I will keep watching.. love the show but you took Antonio and now Erin. The show won’t be the same. Think I will have to call it quits too.
too bad. I really enjoyed watching her.
I cannot believe the Network is letting her leave. Sophia’sq1QC8 acting ability with her raspy voice far excels all your other actresses on TV. She deserves to be paid well if that is her reason for leaving! What is the matter with NBC!
I started watching PD ONLY for Sophia Bush. I love the show – can’t see it being anywhere near as good without her.
I’m so sad to see Sophia bush leave
I’m glad she’s (finally) leaving. Not so much her, but I just grew tired of her character and didn’t care about her problems. I stopped watching 3x. And no matter what show I watched, there she was… Now I can finally fully enjoy the show and seeing Marina Squerciati. Everybody else, I love. Wish Jon Seda didn’t leave.
Sad that Sophia is leaving
Most definitely!
I think the lovely Sophia Bush will star in the Wolf series about an FBI undercover in NY. I hope it’ll be on a cable network where more of her assets can be displayed.
I would love to know why. If it is money, she has a gripe. NBC is paying Debra Messing and Jennifer Lopez insanely ridiculous money. Messing made over $300,000 per episode for 2 seasons of the absolutely horrid Mysteries of Laura, and Lopez is being paid over $300,000 per episode for the pathetically rated Shades of Blue. When it comes to a scripted drama, Sophia is a better actress now than both of them. So is Kelli Giddish. NBC treats both of them like second class citizens. Shame on NBC.
Sophia will be missed, she is one heck of a believable actress and carries her role so strongly. I hope she rethinks her decision as the program will not be the same without her. It will still be good, but Sophia makes it even better. Disappointing news indeed.
Unless she becomes the lead in a new Wolf series.
Unless she gets replaced on CHICAGO PD by an equally hot or hotter actress (which the show now needs).
They already added her replacement…and her story line was pretty clear that this was happening.
True. Although, Tracy was hired as a temporary replacement for Marina while the latter was on maternity leave. As soon as they knew Sophia was leaving though, I suspect they made the decision to promote Tracy. It just wasn’t announced until July. That being said, I do somewhat agree with you in that there were subtle hints. Jay and Hailey were flirting a little in 4.21, even though he was only supposed to be on a break with Erin and trying to work things out with her.