Bye bye brother?
Looks like I can’t take a week off of the Brothers & Sisters beat without all heck breaking loose. The gossip sites were buzzing yesterday with news that Balthazar Getty will not be a series regular if/when Brothers & Sisters returns next season:
- Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly writes “According to sources, Balthazar Getty … was informed last week that producers were not planning on picking up his option as a full-time series regular next season.” He also hints that this was the story behind a blind item from earlier in the month.
- Isabelle Carreau of TV Squad checks that out, going through each hint in the blind item and comparing it to the B&S facts. Yep, sounds right.
- Marc Malkin of E! Online quotes a source as saying of Getty “He’s leaving the show.”
- Access Hollywood, however, says not so fast: “Rumors that he is leaving the show are not true, a rep for the star told Access.”
Now, it seems to me that you could easily downgrade Getty to recurring character without anybody noticing — he’s been the least regular of the regulars, hasn’t he? He’s gone missing from episodes without actually being missed. If it’s true that, in addition to being the least compelling character, he’s also a pill on the set, then the downsizing’s understandable.
I do wonder, though, what this means for the upcoming Take Holly Down plot. If the apparent second-stringing of Tommy translates somehow into Holly winning — sending him to jail, or to business opportunities elsewhere — I’m going to be plenty ticked.
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