18-09-2003 07:41									#61
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It's worth a shot, I think... but if they think they can recreate the same magic that show had without him, they're nuts.

	20-09-2003 06:20									#62
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They could figure a way to write his death into the script… kinda kills the comedy part unless they are really clever.

	20-09-2003 06:22									#63
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See? The dead has risen.

	20-09-2003 06:23									#64
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They are writing his character's death into the show. No word yet on precisely how his character will die, but the season will start with the last of thr Ritter episodes, then have some sort of tribute, and then continue with the episode just following his death.

It could be funny, if done right. The News Radio in which Phil Hartmann's character died was pretty funny.

	20-09-2003 06:31									#65
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Hopefully they just do the 'death' of the character thing to continue the show until the end of the season and then kill it. Newsradio with Jon Lovitz wasn't nearly as good.

	20-09-2003 06:32									#66
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quote: Newsradio with Jon Lovitz wasn't nearly as good.

You're approaching British levels of understatement with that one, Imran.

	20-09-2003 19:14									#67
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you could say that

It's obvious the loss of Hartmann changed the writing as well as the on-screen chemistry. Lovitz' type of humor overlapped too much with Andy Dïck, and possibly some other choice might have worked much better.

Still, Hartmann was not the central character on News Radio. With Ritter being the central character I just don't see 8 Simple Rules surviving.