'Criminal Minds' update: Cook and Brewster returning -- but for how long?

I love the JJ character on CM. I don’t think anyone is going to be able to replace her, what with her soulful eyes that show so much compassion in such a pitiful world.

no, 2-3 shows were worthless, the show is not the same without her. what a loss!!!

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What kind of MORONS continually feel the nee to “Fix” what isn’t broken?! You let go of incredibly talented and believable JJ and replace her with a mediocre and not very believable talent. I LOVE this show (I have seasons 1 – 6) but I smell the beginning of the end coming thanks to some egotistical KNOW NOTHINGS!!

Thanks for taking a wonderful show and turning it in to a show no one is going to watch anymore. JJ should not have been taken off the show–she had it all together and held the show together. What were you thinking??

I am so disappointed they are getting rid of the JJ character. I think she was the one most people related to, and the most “normal” of the bunch. I love, love, love Criminal Minds and I’ll still watch it, but it won’t be the same. It makes no sense to me that the producers and writers have carefully built these characters into a “family” of sorts, only to rip it apart. Part of the appeal is seeing how they all relate to each other and JJ is a huge part of that. I’m with others – if you want to cut costs, get rid of Rossi! That character adds nothing to the dynamic and never has fit in.

Scooptress, what a bore you are! Please aim your high powered discourse elsewhere. Do you even watch this show?

It’s cheaper to bring in new character. Old characters will get raise for every season the show is on the air. That’s why Simpsons voice actors are paid more than most of the “real” actors.

Erin, those are my sentiments exactly.

Dont you know CBS stands for?? Complete-Bull-S**t, thats what, Im so upset… Im going to cry, theyve cut my beloved cast for that stupid spinoff, that I, for one, will not be watching. I will, however, be continuing to watch Minds, as long as they dont bring back Elle Greenaway or Jordan Todd, they drove me crazy!!!!

Well, by the looks of the replies being written here this change is pissing off more than just Alexandria, so since this change is affecting so many CM viewers, they should care, no viewers, no show; no show, no paycheck for them.

Scoopstress works for CBS, ahh, that makes sense, since nothing else this person writes does.

Keep a close eye on her comments, directly from CBS

It will be interesting next season. CM and SVU are the only two crime dramas I watch and they are going head to head. I have to figure out which one to watch live and which one to DVR.

Seriously scooptress shut the f**k up!

I also happen to love Matthew Gray Gubler; he’s the one who captured my attention on the show right away. And I would be raging for weeks if he left the show. But I wouldn’t write off the show entirely. Because the thing I’ve learned from watching shows like ER and CSI is that the loss of your favorite can be a mixed blessing if their replacement is dynamic enough. So I always give my shows another season to prove themselves.
For example, Bones; I adored Zack Addy since my first episode, and when he was cut, I was crushed. But they replaced his role in the team with some very interesting rotating characters (they cycle through an episode each at a time) and while it makes getting to know the characters a little harder, it’s made losing Zack hurt a little less.
So when it comes to this “new female agent” I’m going to give her a chance. I might hate her, I might love her, and I might take some time to warm up to her. I mean, it wasn’t till season 4 that I had any love for Prentiss, and now I’m going to miss her a lot. But I’m certainly not going to write off change when it may be the thing that kicks up the show again. Who knows until season six anyways?

Gotta agree with SarahB. D’Onofrio is why I watched LO:CI. When he was replaced I watched a couple of eps with Jeff Goldblum and one-expression Saffron, but the ep with the Irish islanders was so boring I couldn’t stand it and stopped watching.

Hear, hear!!!

I disagree with ShutUpRob that there’s no reason for CBS to change a show to try to get an audience that’ll never be interested in this kind of a show in the first place. The fact of the matter is, virtually everyone who has written in about the loss of JJ and the reduction of Emily’s time has done so BECAUSE of their interest in this kind of show! You may not be old enough to remember what happened in the 80′s when whichever network it was that ran “Cagney and Lacey” (the first female cop duo show), was cancelled and the outraged public that loved the show did exactly what we’re doing, resulting in the show being renewed! It was a first — and perhaps a last -but it does show that networks have paid attention to viewer input in the past. Maybe they’re rich enough now that they don’t need and therefore no longer care what the public interest is. They’ve (the networks) have nixed a lot of good shows that had runs so short they couldn’t possibly have known what the public interest in them was. I’m thinking of the recently run and dropped “Three Rivers” and about five or six years ago, the really great “Presidio Med”. But keep talking about your outrage over losing JJ and Emily. It’s an absolutely asinine move for a high rated show to take away two thirds of their regular female cast who are actually very excellent actresses. Don’t foot yourselves into thinking that the show will be the same with no female influence in the field when the agents respond to the loved ones of the murdered in the show. It CAN NEVER be the same and likely never worth watching again. Maybe the compassionate sides of Hotchner, Morgan and Reid can make it survive, but I think the show will quickly become part of the dead without female influence in the field. And don’t think that a less expensive actress can bring the same influence to the field. Remember Agent Todd’s inability to confront death in the field whens he filled in for JJ while she (JJ) was on maternity leave? She nearly fell apart and you can’t have the compassionate ones falling apart and being effective.Blah, blah, blah. I’ve decided CBS isn’t going to listen, so maybe my energy writing in here is a waste of my time and care. But I did learn something — until writing in about JJ and Emily on CM, I didn’t know that we had also lost “Cold Case” and at least one other show I loved whose title escapes me. I’m not impressed that CBS put a compassionate man (Alex O’Laughlin) from a compassionate show (Three Rivers) to put him in another testosterone driver show, the remake of “Hawaii Five-0″. But my outrage over losing JJ and Emily on CM may keep me writing in. What else can one do with her anger but express it to those who made the decisions?

Anna got it exactly right…
Wonder if they will be any smarter than the ones at NBC who’ve run the once strong network into the ground.

Anna
Sat 06/26/10 9:30 AM

CBS should be careful; this is the kind of thinking that put NBC where it is.

I think a lot of people thought that losing Gideon would be the end, but it certainly wasn’t. And that’s the point; this is not the “beginning of the end” but more the end of just another chapter in the Criminal Minds story. Tim, I think you’re on the right track, here, and I’m glad.

I agree 100%, Rossi could disappear and nobody would even notice. Well, they’d probably notice that the show seemed to have better acting overall, as Joe Montegna is a terrible actor. Fortunately the writers seem to have realized this, as they rarely make him say anything at this point.

i agree with you i have never liked this guy