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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  • Angela
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    • Why are you cutting characters that we need? Are you trying to alienate every female throughout your viewing public? well, i wont be watching if we don't have the girls they are what make the show great.
  • dario
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    • dario
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    • [email protected]
  • DOMENECH D
  • Pet
    • Comments
    • Cutting off strong female characters to safe money is not okay
  • Rachel L
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    • Rachel Lim
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    • [email protected]
    • Comments
    • KEEP THEM!
  • clйmence
  • Popescu
  • Susana
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    • I won't be watching it if AJ isn't there.
  • Maria G
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    • They need the women on the show, all of them!!!
  • Jade
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    • No girls, no me. Isn't it obvious by all that have signed in JUST A FEW HOURS that you are making a MISTAKE!
  • giorgino
  • Martina M
  • Penelope
  • Eva R
  • MARIE
  • Dawn M
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    • It's the WHOLE TEAM that makes the show...
  • heta
  • Elizabeth.
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    • DONT DO IT!
  • Garde D
  • Joey D
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    • That's just plain ridiculous. Criminal Minds is successful because of each and every cast member! Reducing roles or getting rid of them because of money issues won't keep Criminal Minds as one of the best shows on TV!!!
  • Alicia
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    • No way. You'll lose if they go!
  • Saladin
  • Kay
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    • please not cuts on the team
  • Deborah G
  • Tori
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    • If the girls go, i go. I will not be watching Criminal Minds anymore unless they bring bother of the girls back, full time!
  • Amarilis V
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    • I have become addicted to Criminal Minds through watching the reruns on A&E and Ion. Through those reruns I have become a faithful watcher of the program on CBS and have bought all the DVDs. But the main reason I watch the show is because of the characters, and my favorites are those played by AJ Cook and Paget Brewster. They are the ultimate reason I watch the show, and without them I'm afraid you will be losing a viewer
  • Semsey
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  • Semsey
  • Susan
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    • Get rid of the spin of, not the show that is working!
  • Cecilia T
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    • I have a solution to your financial problems, CUT THE FREAKIN SPIN OFF!
  • maria
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    • maria
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    • I want a.J.Cook and Page in the show!!!
  • Kaidi
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    • THEY CAN'T DO THIS!
  • Becky
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    • wont be watching the show anymore if they go.
  • Anna
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    • As much as I love the show and also the guys, if this is really going to happen I won't be watching anymore. The show won't be the same without Paget and AJ!!!
  • Kerry
  • Patricia
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    • Seriously. This is quite possibly the stupidest decision I have ever seen. Way to alienate an entire freaking gender, TPTB.
  • Vanessa
  • Amanda G
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    • I am highly disappointed with CBS's decision to cut the characters JJ and Prentiss, while keeping an uncertain spin-off. If you're running low on cash, then don't invest in a brand new television show at the sacrifice of beloved characters. One of the things that made Criminal Minds a truly unique, well-done crime drama was the strength of the female characters. You will lose me as a viewer of this and any future shows if this cut goes through, because I will be too disappointed to watch, despite my love for the rest of the ensemble.
  • Rachel
  • Chris
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    • You can't seriously be thinking of doing this can you? WHY WHY WHY! DONT DONT DONT!
  • Chris
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    • You can't seriously be thinking of doing this can you? WHY WHY WHY! DONT DONT DONT!
  • Ciara
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    • Ciara
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    • CBS, why are you alienating & firing actresses from popular shows. Millions of people watch CM & yet you feel the need to try to ruin it. I will not be watching if AJ Cook is not on the show.
  • macmaniac
  • Peter J
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    • You cannot be serious, right?
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    • Fanny
  • Marjorie
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  • Lauryn S
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    • KEEP THEM
  • marie c