Dr. Preston Burke packed his backs on the season finale of ABC's Grey's Anatomy last month. Now Isaiah Washington, the actor who has played him for the past three seasons, is dong the same.Full story... here.
On Thursday, ABC Studios, which produces Grey's, made a decision not to pick up Washington's option for next season.
In his reaction to the firing, Washington channeled Paddy Chayefsky. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore," he said in a statement released through his publicist.
The dismissal follows months of speculation about Washington's future on the show after the furor caused by his use of anti-gay slur in reference to his castmate T.R. Knight. Knight recently closed a deal to continue on the hit medical drama.
Surprised? Don't be. The writers made it easy. Washington made it easy, too. His character was annoying anyway. The softspoken, brooding thing is really just... yech.
Luckily, Sandra Oh is still there to keep the annoying quotient at a tolerable level. What would cheesy primetime drama be without it?
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