JohnRitter-related stories
Posted Oct 27th 2009 2:01PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free, Gone Too Soon
This week, we're going to take a bit of a departure from the shows we normally cover. It's very rare that a show that puts out 76 episodes could be considered by anyone to be gone too soon, and yet I make the argument that
8 Simple Rules (for Dating My Teenage Daughter) is that show.
I'm also not going to try and convince you that
8 Simple Rules was one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, because it simply wasn't. It was a fairly standard, solid series headlined by a brilliant comic actor... and then it became something else.
Continue reading Gone Too Soon: 8 Simple Rules
Posted Jan 24th 2008 8:01PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities
John Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck
is suing two doctors who treated her husband before his death in 2003. She is suing for the potential earnings of the show he starred in before his death,
8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter.
I'm kind of ambivalent regarding this lawsuit. On one hand, the death of a loved one is always a tough time and my heart always goes out to anybody who lost someone special in their lives. On the other hand, we have too many frivolous lawsuits in this country and suing a couple of doctors isn't going to bring John Ritter back.
Continue reading John Ritter's family sues over his death
Posted Nov 26th 2007 2:01PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Children, TV Squad Lists
I'm feeling a little melancholy today. This past Friday, a friend of mine lost two daughters in a senseless automobile accident. They were thirteen and eighteen; one having just started college and the other just entering the magical teen years. It was so sudden and insane that I can't really wrap my brain around it. As a parent, I can only begin to understand what he and the girls' mother are going through, but even then I'm sure it pales in comparison to the reality.
As I thought about this blog and things to post on television, I was struck by how death can have a dramatic and instant impact on a fictional show as well. Sometimes when an actor dies, the show is able to move on with relative smoothness, but other times there is an irreplaceable hole that just never seems to be filled.
Continue reading Five deaths that rocked television, or at least their shows
Posted Mar 16th 2006 9:08AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
The family of John Ritter has reached
a
tentative agreement in a wrongful death lawsuit with Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.
Ritter collapsed on the set of the sitcom,
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, on September 11,
2003. When he arrived at the hospital, he was suffering from chest pain, nausea, vomiting and dizziness. In the
lawsuit, Ritter's family claimed that doctors misdiagnosed him twice and he "underwent improper and unnecessary
procedures." Ritter died that night of an aortic aneurysm. He was 54. Ritter's wife, Amy Yasbeck, claimed damages
of $25 million. The terms of the settlement are not being released.
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