A.J. Cook on next week's Criminal Minds
Literally, it was just a pregnant pause.
CBS' Criminal Minds recently wrote out expectant J.J. Jareau to accommodate the real-life childbirth and maternity leave of cast member A.J. Cook. All along, exec producer Ed Bernero told me that the plan was for Cook to return to work at her leisure, but ideally in time for midseason.
Well, surprise, surprise — A.J. will resurface ...
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Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:• "Heartache" ahead for a Smallville character!• Will A.J. Cook return for Criminal Minds' season finale?• Spotted: Two pieces of Gossip Girl gossip.Crave scoop? E-mail Matt and Mickey at mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
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Criminal Minds by Karen Neal/ABC
In tonights Criminal Minds finale 9 pmET CBS the BAU team heads to New York City on the trail of a Son of Samlike serial killer or is there more than one Thats not the only question JJ AJ Cook makes a fateful pregnancy decision Hotch Thomas Gibson discovers he has an admirer and Morgan Shemar Moore ponders leaving to run the New York office And in the explosive cliff-hanger one of our team is going to be severely injured and [viewers will] have to wait all summer to find out who it was says exec producer Ed Bernero If you care about these people you cannot miss the last 30 seconds
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A.J. Cook by Monty Brinton/CBS
Criminal Minds Jennifer JJ Jareaus life will soon hit a bump a baby bump AJ Cook returned from the writers strike with more than just an eagerness to get back to work She and husband Nathan Anderson found out she was pregnant with their first child while she was shooting the movie Misconceptions in which she plays a surrogate mother Shes very Method cracks Minds exec producer Ed BerneroBernero and his staff immediately began rewriting scripts to plant a romantic backstory for JJ The way this show works we couldnt really hide it says Bernero All seven of them walk into rooms together all the time so it really was a no-brainer Well we better get her a boyfriend So in the April 30 episode the BAU team once again crosses paths with Det William LaMontagne Jr Dirts Josh Stewart who flirted with JJ during a jaunt to New Orleans in February 2007 There was a connection between the two of them right away Cook says Apparently weve been
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Nicholas Brendon by Monty Brinton/CBS
Cheers to Criminal Minds for investigating its characters' private lives. The CBS hit's relentless parade of serial killers can grow wearying, so it's nice to spend time with the BAU crew off the job, even if the subplots aren't always happy (witness Hotch's painful divorce and Garcia getting shot by a date). Buffy alum Nicholas Brendon's recurring role as Garcia's computer-geek boyfriend has provided some much-needed comic relief, and — spoiler alert! — there's going to be a huge development for J.J. soon (hint: A.J. Cook is pregnant in real life). These personal storylines offer the show's appealing ensemble a chance to do more than go through the procedural motions. Good thing, because the Minds cast would be a terrible thing to waste.• For more Cheers & Jeers, check out the new vodcast.• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide ...
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Christian Bale by Alexandra Wyman/ WireImage.com, Johnny Depp by John Shearer/WireImage.com
Christian Bale is in talks to play FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis to Johnny Depp's John Dillinger in Public Enemies, a Michael Mann-directed adaptation of Brian Burrough's Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. (Did Tracy Jordan come up with that title?).... Charlize Theron is Viggo Mortensen's wife in the big-screen version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.... Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter ('Til Death) have been cast as a magazine editor and Isla Fisher's best gal pal, respectively, in Confessions of a Shopaholic.... Orlando Jones is a gay man who micromanages the pregnancy of his and his partner's surrogate (Criminal Minds' A.J. Cook) in the indie dramedy Misconceptions.
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Whenever I bring guests to set, there is always one thing that amazes them more than anything else: the food. Scratch that. Two things. First, they comment on how the ladies of the show are even more striking in person... then they comment on the food. There's lots of food on set. Every day, there are two meals prepared by catering. For breakfast, our caterer Hannah makes made-to-order plates from the catering truck as well as an omelet bar, some sort of hot entrée, and an assortment of rolls, cereals, etc;. Even while the crew eats breakfast, they are already working toward the lunch that will be served seven hours later. Lunch is cafeteria-style with different meat options, a fish, sides, pastas and salad bars. In addition, two "snacks" are served. There is one between breakfast and lunch, and one five hours after lunch (the crew works very long days on set). The crew works 14 hour days — and sometimes much more. It's necessary to keep them fueled. I however work at a d...
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