Victoria Rowell to sue CBS

[marceline]

Isn't it funny? I swear GH has a casting side for a black woman every couple of months and they never seem to get cast.

[ChitHappens]

Thank you! What do you think Debbie Morgan or VR would do for GH ratings? Much better than Staff & Miller and add Budig!

[Soapsuds]

Not sure about VR but Debbie Morgan doesn't bring in ratings. Look at AMC numbers during her time there….

[GMac]

Thank you.

[Juliajms]

I think VR would help the ratings, but right or wrong, it would be very hard to see any soap taking her on again. I guess I've never truly accepted that we wouldn't see her on Y&R again, but this is obviously the nail in the coffin. Well, maybe the nail in the coffin was when she started tweeting Y&R sponsors. This is more like the dirt on the coffin. It sucks because because I really miss her.

She might have had a case for discrimination at one point, I'm not sure. However, suing a company for not hiring you back, after you asked out of your last contract seems unreasonable. Why would they have any obligation to do that? I'll be interested to see how far this gets and what a judge has to say about it.

[NothinButAttitude]

I love VR to death but she has to let it go. She needs to capitalize on this current trend of AA's being a hot commodity in Hollywood and take The Rich and Ruthless from novel to screenplay.

[DaytimeFan]

This will be thrown out of court. I don't see how her lawyers haven't realized that the statute of limitations has run out of any claim she may have had, though the existence of such a claim is very doubtful given that Rowell didn't leave the show in a way that hinted at her contract being terminated. The idea of suing someone because they refuse to re-hire you is absurd.

[ChitHappens]

I was under the impression VR was suing because she was blackballed by CBS. No?

[ajsp35801]

Well, I wonder why she's doing this now? Was the rumors of a recast true?

And lastly, I wonder if all this attention from cries of racism will prompt CBS or Sony to do better by Y&R's black characters. Will Neil finally get to be on par with the other white male lead characters? Will Neil and Devon be allowed their own pairing instead of sharing? I doubt it. But I can't wait to see.

[JONNYSBRO]

I guess she will never darken cbs door ways again. Rowell needs to stop first of all she was already off the show and they have tons of actors who said how difficult she was. She said horrifying things about Steve Kent. Women give it a freaking rest.

I guarantee with this lawsuit that CBS will decide to recast Drucilla.

[ChitHappens]

They will do better in the short term, but LT, back to the same.

[Cheap21]

I doubt it. If anything things have improved for Devon. He seems more legitimate now than years ago when he was dusted off for a barely existing romance with Roxy

[GMac]

I hope so

[JONNYSBRO]

How about Renee Goldsberry as the new Drucilla on the young and the restless

[DramatistDreamer]

I agree with you or even (*gasps*) a web series to air on Amazon or Netflix?

This may sound hokey but if I had the chance to talk to her, I would encourage her to take that energy (like someone else posted previously in this thread) and put it into a Part Steamboat part 30 Rock-like script, skewering the industry. Join forces with someone like Robert Townsend (remember how funny The Bold, The Black, The Beautiful was?) and create a pilot and head to Amazon or Netflix with it.

This thing with CBS seems like...I just don't know.