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davidpdx

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21. Plus TV Land is pulling The Cosby Show off their lineup

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 02:11 AM

Nov 2014

The actors/actresses usually receive royalties for their work when it goes into syndication. That means all of the cast would no longer get royalties from the show airing on TV Land.

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Bill Cosby's New NBC Show Is No Longer In Development [View all] kpete Nov 2014 OP

With more than a dozen women making similar accusations, including women who are not pnwmom Nov 2014 #1

He really had a routine about drugging and raping women? Elmer S. E. Dump Nov 2014 #2

It's true. Someone recorded it in 1969 -- he jokes about putting Spanish Fly pnwmom Nov 2014 #3

Holy shit! Odin2005 Nov 2014 #11

Hell, I didn't know that! Quackers Nov 2014 #22

You're welcome. I doubt that it was a coincidence that they decided to drop his new show pnwmom Nov 2014 #23

Hannibal Buress joked about date rape Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2014 #30

Buress wasn't accused by women of drugging and raping them. pnwmom Nov 2014 #32

In the Sixties, I bet a lot of people missed it, even if they heard it. merrily Nov 2014 #28

Sad ..... hlthe2b Nov 2014 #4

Tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion. Exultant Democracy Nov 2014 #5

I think he damned himself with this old "comedy" routine. pnwmom Nov 2014 #6

You know that Spanish Fly doesn't incapacitate anyone right? Exultant Democracy Nov 2014 #7

He's joking about slipping a highly toxic substance into unknowing women's drinks pnwmom Nov 2014 #8

He said it is something every boy dreams of obtaining Ash_F Nov 2014 #13

Wittgenstein said, "If a thing can be thought, it can be said." Cosby thought and said it. Monk06 Nov 2014 #18

There was always something off about Cosby, to me Ash_F Nov 2014 #19

Slipping an aphrodisiac to an unknowing person is still somewhere on the scale of rapey-ness. nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #15

An "actual roofie" is not as toxic as this stuff, which can kill with a few drops. pnwmom Nov 2014 #24

I admit I don't know much about "Spanish Fly" (nor do I wish to). nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #26

I didn't realize it either. But apparently there's a long history of its use. pnwmom Nov 2014 #29

Wow...oysters? Supersedeas Nov 2014 #33

Not surprising.... Hulk Nov 2014 #9

"I just think appearing on fox lowered his respect for truth and his own race." nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #16

I his son was killed in a racist hate crime, if I am not mistaken. /nt Ash_F Nov 2014 #20

Could've been... Hulk Nov 2014 #31

NBC? Nazi BC what PatrynXX Nov 2014 #10

There will never be a trial so the public is free to form its own opinion. And it's pretty hard pnwmom Nov 2014 #14

I'm sure he must be devastated, Old Nick Nov 2014 #12

I adored Bill Cosby as a child KMOD Nov 2014 #17

Plus TV Land is pulling The Cosby Show off their lineup davidpdx Nov 2014 #21

They are more of his victims then. n/t pnwmom Nov 2014 #25

Agreed davidpdx Nov 2014 #27