Why jag ended

What happened? JAG first aired September 23, He played the role of Terry Evanshen. In , he had a recurring role as David Renwald in the series The Guard. Elliott currently appears in the Netflix drama Spinning Out. Both characters are featured in the season 11 premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles , where they have an in-person reunion , and there have been some hints that things aren't over yet.

Rumor has it the two are getting ready to lead their own spinoff — let's hope it doesn't take another decade and a half to find out. So when it was announced midway through season 10 that he wouldn't be returning , it wasn't just the actor's fate that seemed to be in jeopardy.

Bellisario tried to play down his leading man's departure, saying that Elliot's contract was up and "[they] had to cut costs. In contrast, Elliot's manager said that his client had requested another season but received no response.

Despite the awkward he-said-he-said, it seems like there was no bad blood between the actor and the show that put him on millions of people's TVs. Elliot had apparently already "made a lucrative deal" with rival network ABC. More recently he's worked on shows from streaming services, appearing in YouTube's Impulse and Netflix's Spinning Out , both of which were cancelled in While NCIS went on to garner its own fanbase and produce multiple spinoff series, another JAG crossover series failed to find an audience.

We already know that Bellisario likes a controversial criminal case. But First Monday appears to have been inspired by an event that needed no dramatization: The contested US Presidential election.

The election brought the Supreme Court to the forefront when the Justices reached a controversial decision not to recount votes cast in Florida, effectively handing victory to George W.

But by then, the public had gone back to not really caring about the legal system, and both series were quickly cancelled. For Bellisario, the military setting is personal. He served in the Marines from to and has spent his TV-making career trying to show a more nuanced side of the military than is often portrayed on screen.

In his first hit show Magnum P. As Bellisario put it , "anytime you saw a Vietnam vet in television, he was an alcoholic, a druggie, a shooter in a tower, a wife beater, a killer, [or] insane. And you never saw a positive image. With JAG , Bellisario was determined to show that the military is about more than violence and combat. Although the show has its bad guys and women , Bellisario made sure to show that most people in the military are in the fight to make the world a better place.

He took this part of the job so seriously that he worried that the end of JAG would mean audiences would see nothing but negative depictions of military life. Much of the cast also did their homework on Naval protocol.

David James Elliot told the New York Times that he'd prepared for the role of Harm by reading up on military etiquette — and that it was even more mind-blowing than the ships and planes he found himself starring alongside. Bellisario and his team wanted the series to look as close to a real Naval operation as possible, complete with aircraft carriers, fighter jets and stunts.

On Friday, after 10 seasons, episodes and countless salutes, the military drama "JAG" will go off the air for good. The final episode 8 p. In fact, the show's producers had to scramble to make the season-ending episode a fitting series finale. But perhaps the low-key sendoff is appropriate for this hard-working but generally buzz-free series.

As loyal viewers know -- and "JAG" does have a fiercely loyal following of around 10 million viewers, even if the show's ratings have slipped in recent years -- in last week's episode, Marine Lt.

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