20 years on, CBS's massive hit procedural has chewed through a lot of cast and crew—not always happily
A lot of the juicier stuff in the oral history comes from series executive producer Charles Floyd Johnson, who’s been with the series since the beginning . Here, for instance, is Johnson talking about the split between Harmon—who everyone in the piece speaks of pretty warmly, characterizing him as a “leader”—and the “perfectionist” Bellisario, who became notorious for changing scripts on the day of shootingAnd so when we got to about year four, Harmon just felt like it was too hard.
rette’s departure back in 2018, including the fact that the inciting incident was her unhappiness over Harmon’s dog biting someone on the show’s set. “Tnd she felt it wasn’t safe for the show. By the end of that year, she just felt like it wasn’t working for her anymore, and it was time to move on.” (The history does
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