As we reported earlier, CBS has decided to “un-cancel” their 2011-12 drama Unforgettable and has ordered a second season. The 13 new episodes will begin airing next summer.
We’re now learning that, while the show will be back, not all of the castmembers will be reporting back to work. Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh, and Jane Curtin are set to return but essentially the entire supporting cast is out — including Kevin Rankin, Michael Gaston, and Britt Lower.
The three stars were not surprisingly instrumental in Unforgettable being revived and the show wouldn’t have gotten a second season without them. The supporting cast being replaced is part of what the producers are calling a “new creative direction” for the crime drama.
There’s no word yet on who will replace the performers who have been dropped. That casting will likely be a good indication about what “new direction” viewers can expect to see next summer.
What do you think? Will you miss these performers and their characters? Do you think the changes will help or hurt Unforgettable’s chances for a third season?
It really was not necessary to have as much supporting cast to for this show nor did back Story on Carrie’s sister add anything substantive. Another really annoying thing was constant changing of Carrie’s looks and costuming . She can be very compelling looking and and communicating in her eyes and other expressions without being drown in a surplus of other dialogue. At this point I have only watched two episodes and plan to to drop the show if it continues its run as it is. It took only one other character to make her first series very absorbing and… Read more »
I am glad the show got renewed I absolutely love it but I wish the old cast was on the show
Hate the new “actors” They can’t act!
Don’t like the cast change. Why keep a show when you change most of the cast??? Personally I find Unforgettable a very easy program to forget…..
And please don’t cancel the Mentalist…..
So glad Unforgettable is back with Poppy M. Love Poppy would love to see her in more shows.
CBS alledgedly brought the show back so TNT or USA could not. They put it back in the summer as it needed something to fill in. This is a ringing endorsement for a good show (NOT). With that said I am glad to see Poppy again as she sparkles, is a standout among so many ho hum actors. I’ll be able to give my DVR a good work out and won’t miss a show. Love Dylan with Poppy too. A word about Jennifer Esposito, yes I would like to see her too but I doubt she’ll be on TV again… Read more »
I loved the supporting actors, but am so excited the show’s bk, I don’t give a **** who plays the supporting actors. Although, I do have a suggestion. They should hire Jennifer Esposito, since she was pushed out of Blue Bloods. I think she’d be great on there:)
There’s no way they can make this crap better by adding new people, maybe they should add new writers instead.
That’s sad. Very happy the show’s coming back, it’s original, great acting and I missed it. However, the supporting cast played a huge part in its popularity and I’m sorry someone made the bonehead decision to drop them.
If the ratings r were cbs wants them I think they should do a t hird season I am a huge fan and absultely love the show.I think they should bring back the original cast from the first season because they all had a great chemistry thanks for renewing it I feel lost without that show but iam thankful for cbs for bringing it back
While I’m ecstatic that “Unforgettable” has been renewed, I am saddened by the cast change :+(
I feel that “ALL” the people that made the show were on it when the show was “BORN!” I do not believe that the show was on the verge of being cancelled because of the supporting cast!!!!
It’s so bittersweet……Happy to have Unforgettable stay & having to deal with a new cast!!!
Well…I will just watch and see what happens….
They say ‘supporting’ actors for a reason!! While without Poppy and Dylan the show just wouldn’t be the same show at all ~ Unforgettable… but the other actors rounded out this duo. They played well off of each other and we all came to love them all. It’s so sad when great TV shows get shortchanged by ‘creative’ powers that be. If you didn’t like the original actors in the first place, you never should have started us (the consumers, the viewers, the fans, the ones who will watch this show every week!!) down this road with these great actors… Read more »
yes, I agree, how can the show “save” money if they still have other supporting actors ? I mean unless they’ll have “computer generated actors” it doesn’t make sense.
I do wonder where they are going in a new direction by dropping the supporting cast.? Hopefully, they will resolve the main character’s sub plot that has been carrying throughout the series, unless the new direction has something to do with that by changing the original ending of that sub-plot which would lead into the alterate main drive of the new series. I had always wondered why the main character had survived the encounter when her sister was supposedly killed. Why wasn’t she killed as well? Then it makes me wonder if her sister had really died after all, but… Read more »
Thank You!!!!Thank You!!!! Thank You !! for renewing Unforgettable . We love this show but hate that we have to wait until next summer for the next season. Will miss the old cast, but can take change as long as they are as good as the old one.
Than goodness we love this show we hopefully the new cast is as great as the old one !! Thank you thank you thank you!!!