Keep AJ Cook & Paget Brewster on Criminal Minds!

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CBS has decided to save money on the best show on television, Criminal Minds, by cutting one of its female characters entirely (Jennifer Jareau, played by AJ Cook) and by severely reducing the part of Emily Prentiss (played by Paget Brewster) in the upcoming season that begins in September. This leaves only one full-time female character, Penelope Garcia as played by Kirsten Vangsness.

While we, the fans, certainly love Garcia, we also love Jennifer Jareau and Emily Prentiss and feel that this show cannot go on in such a state. It is a travesty of modern society that a network would make such a blatantly sexist decision. Everywhere in the world, women are devalued for getting married, for taking our husbands' surnames, for having children, or for having only female children and no male children, or for simply being women...the list is long.

In 21st-century America, this kind of thing should not be allowed to happen. These two female characters are integral to Criminal Minds, not only as valuable members of the team of characters, but also as representatives of a population of strong working women in a field which is still primarily male-dominated.

If CBS goes ahead with this decision, it will surely lose much of the show's fan base (just look at the online response to this story wherever it is printed) and one of its best money-making shows will no longer be so.

Shame on you.

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  • Erik J
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    • Keep AJ & Paget!!!
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    • You have a winning show. Why mess with it?
  • Doris H
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    • I want prentice to stay!
  • Cheryl
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    • Both women are Essential to the show--don't ruin the chemistry. The replacement for AJ was horrible. Why ruin the best show ever?
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    • In one episode, Hotch says to JJ "What are we going to do when you go on maternity leave?" A crucial line that reflects the success of the team (and thus, the success of the show). By firing 2 female leads from the show is a clearly sexist decision on CBS' part. Well done CBS, you have successfully disgusted a handful of loyal fans and led the show to its impending doom. Congratulations. So much for your "creative reason to refresh the show" bulls***.
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    • No quiten a emily y jj de la serie, sin ellas no es lo mismo, ojala y no se refleje en el raiting
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    • Everything that is original is the best when people get use to seeing and feeling the actors they imagine to be that favorite actor. By taking AJ and Paget out I will not care for watching the show. It was hard enoff to see Gidion leave and then AJ but once you took out paget in the last 3 to 4 eps. I did not bother to watch anymore. I also think that the roles of Garcia, Reid and Hatch are not even consider to be removed along with Morgan.
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    • Morgan Fraser
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    • This is was a horrible decision on the part of CBC and we sincerely hope it is repealed.
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    • I do not want them to leave they are very good.
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    • 100\% agree!!
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    • Lishaa
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    • Keep them in. They are the best female roles that I have ever seen.
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    • Keep them in. I hope you keep them. You are throwing the best too out. :'(
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    • They is amazing and you are getting rid of them. What the hell are you on. Seriously..
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    • KEEP THEM BOTH IN.
  • Courtney
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    • Both girls are VITAL!! Comeon!! Will you really take away the BAU's Mom or sister?
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    • We love JJ and Prentiss in France !!!! Please keep them (and everydody on Criminal Minds!)
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    • Please keep both AJ and Paget on the show.
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    • This is beyond belief that your men and women were equal and complex and interesting which gave this show class and you callously destroyed that. I am puzzled.
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    • From France, save them !
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    • VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR DECISION IN FIRING OF PAGET BREWSTER. BRING THEM BACK. FIRING
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    • you guys blow....these are 2 of the greatest people...they help make the show what it is!
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    • I already am watching the show less and less. Shame on you up there in executive heaven!
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    • These two women are major actors in the show and probably wont survive without them.
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    • Dont really like the new girl (nicole) COOK. YES!!! brewster is ok .we dont really care about prentiss she seems snooty!!!
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    • both od these women add diffferent and poignant performances to the show, you may have a fav cast member, but you don't want to sep the soldier from the army.