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In The Golden Girls, Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia primitively had a housekeeper named Coco, who disappeared aft the archetypal occurrence and wasn't mentioned again.
There are evidently spoilers up for respective TV shows.
1. First, erstwhile Robin Hood archetypal appeared successful Once Upon a Time Season 2, helium was played by Tom Ellis successful a guest-starring role. However, erstwhile Robin's relation got overmuch bigger successful Season 3, helium was recast with Sean Maguire, who played him for the remainder of the series.
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At the time, Once Upon a Time co-creator Adam Horowitz said that scheduling conflicts prevented Tom from returning to the series. He said, "Although we emotion Tom Ellis, unfortunately, helium wasn’t available. We stay immense fans of his, but due to the fact that we person an arc planned for the character, we had to determination forward."
2. In the aviator of The Golden Girls, Charles Levin starred arsenic Coco, the ladies' housekeeper. However, helium disappeared aft the archetypal episode. Originally, Estelle Getty was lone going to beryllium a impermanent prima arsenic Sophia, but aft she was a deed with audiences, the amusement promoted her to a main quality and yet chopped Coco.
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Writer Stan Zimmerman reflected connected cutting Coco aboriginal successful the show's run, saying, "As large arsenic Coco was — and helium was precise funny, and I emotion that determination was a cheery quality — it wasn't truly needed, and they were astute to fto that go."
He added, "I privation they had dealt with it oregon had him backmost for a peculiar episode…maybe helium fell successful love, went somewhere. Maybe helium opened a B&B successful Key West. I don't know. There's truthful galore possibilities."
3. For the archetypal 2 seasons of Bridgerton, Francesca Bridgerton was played by Ruby Stokes. However, erstwhile the bid returns for Season 3, she's present played by Hannah Dodd, and reportedly has a bigger role.
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Ruby reportedly near Bridgerton to pb Netflix's Lockwood & Co., which was yet canceled aft 1 season.
Posting astir her casting connected Instagram, Hannah wrote, "Terrified. I'll enactment my socks disconnected I committedness x."
4. In the backdoor aviator for Private Practice, a spinoff of Grey's Anatomy, Naomi Bennett was played by Merrin Dungey. However, erstwhile the amusement was picked up, Audra McDonald assumed the relation successful Season 1.
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At the time, Variety reported that the swap from Merrin to Audra "was partially a chemistry happening betwixt Dungey and Taye Diggs, who plays Naomi's estranged hubby Sam, and that immoderate were having occupation buying them ever having been a couple."
5. Keahu Kahuanui played Danny connected Teen Wolf for the archetypal 3 seasons. However, aft Season 3, Danny near and ne'er popped backmost up again, adjacent aft helium revealed helium knew astir the beingness of werewolves the full time.
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In an interrogation astatine San Diego Comic-Con for Season 5, creator Jeff Davis explained Danny's disappearance saying that helium simply graduated from Beacon Hills High School early.
After it became wide that Danny was gone from Teen Wolf, Keahu besides tweeted, "So galore questions. So fewer I tin answer," aft fans were upset that Danny vanished.
6. Xochitl Gomez portrayed Dawn Schafer successful The Baby-Sitters Club Season 1. Then, Kyndra Sanchez assumed the relation for the show's 2nd and last season. Xochitl stepped away from the relation successful bid to prima successful Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness.
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Speaking astir her departure from The Baby-Sitters Club, she said, "I felt truly sad, but I knew that, conscionable due to the fact that of COVID, I couldn't beryllium astatine 1 spot and past different and past person to conscionable power each the time."
Reflecting connected her clip playing Dawn, Xochitl said, "That relation meant everything to me."
7. Jake T. Austin notably starred arsenic Jesus Adams Foster successful the archetypal 2 seasons of The Fosters. However, helium near the amusement aft Season 2 and was replaced by Noah Centineo. The amusement played disconnected Jesus' quality alteration arsenic helium simply grew up portion helium was distant astatine a boarding school.
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8. Ross Butler portrayed Reggie successful Riverdale Season 1 earlier being replaced by Charles Melton for the remainder of the series. Ross explained helium decided to permission Riverdale successful bid to absorption connected having a bigger relation connected 13 Reasons Why.
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"Before Season 2 was confirmed for 13, I had to marque the determination of whether I wanted to absorption connected 1 quality oregon divided 2 characters and person a smaller relation connected some shows," Ross said. "Reggie's a large character, but it's a antithetic tone. I connected with Zach connected a overmuch much existent level wherever I didn't person to make truthful overmuch of a quality for him."
Ross did instrumentality to Riverdale for the 100th occurrence and played an alternate-universe mentation of Reggie.
9. Family Matters primitively centered heavy connected the Winslow family, however, aft audiences loved Steve Urkel truthful much, the cardinal storylines connected the amusement shifted. This led to the youngest Winslow daughter, Judy, disappearing 1 time arsenic if she ne'er existed. People often gag that Judy went upstairs 1 day, and ne'er returned.
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According to Rolling Stone, Jaimee Foxworth, who played Judy, was fired earlier Season 5 aft seeing her relation reduced to much of a inheritance quality successful the erstwhile 2 seasons. For the remainder of the series, the remaining characters acted similar she ne'er existed, but audiences vividly retrieve the 3rd Winslow girl who conscionable vanished.
Her past occurrence was Season 4, Episode 19.
10. Janet Hubert near The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air aft she was offered a "bad deal" during Season 3. The bid famously recast Aunt Viv, who was past played by Daphne Maxwell Reid for the remainder of the show's run.
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In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 30-year reunion connected HBO Max, Janet spoke for the archetypal clip astir her departure from the amusement and however "Hollywood disowned" her due to the fact that of the rumors that she was hard to enactment with. She said, "But you cognize those words, calling a Black pistillate hard successful Hollywood, is the buss of death."
11. In The West Wing Season 1, Moira Kelly starred arsenic Mandy Hampton, a White House media advisor who was a main character. However, erstwhile Season 2 began, Mandy was gone. The disappearance of her quality adjacent led to fans coining the term "Mandyville," which was utilized erstwhile immoderate different quality conscionable vanished during the show's run.
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Speaking astir moving with Moira, creator Aaron Sorkin said, "Moira Kelly didn’t person to audition; she was offered Mandy. Moira was a joyousness to enactment with, a full pro who understood arsenic clip went connected that for immoderate reasons — and those reasons had thing to bash with her sizeable endowment — it conscionable wasn’t working."
12. In Roseanne Season 6, Jackie gives commencement to her lad Andy. After appearing successful the remainder of the OG series, helium was ne'er mentioned oregon seen successful the spinoff The Conners. Ultimately, the amusement decided conscionable to person Andy vanish and the bid acts arsenic though Jackie ne'er had a child.
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"We made a conscious determination that definite years were going to beryllium portion of the imagination that was revealed astatine the extremity of the tally of the original Roseanne, and [Andy] was portion of the dream," The Conners showrunner Bruce Helford explained while referencing however the archetypal bid ends with Roseanne revealing she was really penning a publication astir her beingness and she changed details.
Bruce continued, saying, "Andy fell into the aforesaid class for america arsenic winning the lottery; [it's] thing we chose not to acknowledge."
13. Friday Night Lights introduced Santiago, who moves successful with Buddy Garrity and joins the Dillon Panthers aft Lyla meets him astatine a juvenile detention center. He became an important subordinate of the squad but was ne'er seen again aft Season 2. In an interrogation successful 2016, Ben Ciaramello explained that his character's storyline was apt chopped abbreviated owed to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
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Friday Night Lights, similar different TV shows and movies filming astatine the time, had to halt accumulation during the WGA strike. So, the play ended aft Episode 15, which besides marked Santiago's past appearance.
Ben said helium ended up signing a woody with ABC erstwhile it became wide helium was not going to beryllium coming backmost to Friday Night Lights for Season 3. "That was a precise uncommon concern that happened," Ben added.
14. In Game of Thrones Season 3, Ed Skrein played Daario Naharis; however, aft the season, helium was replaced by Michiel Huisman, and Daario went connected to person a bigger role, too. At the time, Ed said, "My program was to enactment with Game of Thrones for the agelong haul. That was ever my plan. I would person loved to. It was a fantastic experience, but authorities led to america parting ways."
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Recently, Ed and Michiel starred unneurotic successful Netflix's Rebel Moon, and Ed discussed what it was similar moving together, saying, "There were nary awkward standoffs with him oregon anyone successful the cast. Michiel is simply a bully dude. He’s a truly bully dude, and I loved spending clip with him connected set."
He continued, saying, "So that's the mode it goes. People volition regenerate maine successful the aboriginal and I volition regenerate different radical successful the future, and I'll beryllium a man astir it astatine each times."
15. And finally, successful the aviator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Scully and Hitchcock are seen with Daniels, different NYPD detective who hangs retired with Scully and Hitchcock. After the archetypal episode, she's ne'er seen again.
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On a Reddit AMA, showrunner Dan Goor reportedly said that Daniels could amusement up successful Season 6, but that ne'er happened.
On the IMDb page for the archetypal episode, the histrion who plays Daniels isn't adjacent credited.
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