Who’d you rather have as president?

Law & Order

By Tabloid Baby | Friday, June 1, 2007 | 11:15 am | 1 Comments

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Fred Dalton Thompson is leaving Law & Order so he can run for President of the United States. Jeremy Sisto is joining Law & Order so he can have a steady gig playing a detective.

Thompson has played District Attorney Arthur Branch for five seasons.

Sisto will play a brand-new character, and will probably replace Milena Govich as Jesse L. Martin’s partner.

Thompson is a former US Senator and fills in for Paul Harvey on the radio. Funny he’d ask to be let out of his contract now, after hanging tough through all the Law & Order franchise cutbacks– and cancellation rumours– of recent months.

Sisto was a star of NBC’s short-lived series Kidnapped last season. Funny he’s coming on board as a detective. He had a high-profile role as a defense attorney in Law & Order‘s 17th-season finale last month.

Thompson plays a president– Ulysses S. Grant– in the HBO movie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.

In an NBC TV movie, Sisto played Jesus Christ.

(FUN FACT: Deborah Messing played Mary Magdelene in NBC’s 1999 Jesus. It wasn’t meant to be a comedy.)

–Tabloid Baby

One Comment

  1. 1
    JayhawkAnne
    Posted June 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Fred Thompson leaving Law & Order has nothing to do with any budgetary cutbacks in the show’s payroll and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that the former Senator will be declaring his intentions as a Republican candidate in the 2008 Presidential race. I’ve read rumors that he’s expected to announce over the July 4th weekend.

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