D's TV Reviews

I love this show! I've followed it since episode one thru all the changes. Some seasons have been better than others. Some storylines have worked well while others flopped.
Jill Marie Jones (Toni Childs) is unfortunatly no longer on the show. She was my favorite in every way! The reason she is not there is because of money and storyline issues. The money thing is simply that the entire cast took a big pay cut to go from UPN to the new CW. JMJ was not happy with that. Also her character was to take a more bitter harsher turn for most of this season, JMJ was not down with that either. So she left the show. Show creator Mara Brock Akil (also runs "The Game") had to scramble to rework the season storyline to compensate.
Monica Charles Brooks(Keisha Sharpe) was brought on full time to replace JMJ and to add tension much is the same way as Mya's role was in being the outside in the shows beginnings. I miss Toni but Monica works for me.
The show will probably just go on for one more year and then be over. It will give them a chance to conclude storylines and neatly wrap it up. Much like "The Cosby Show" and "Fresh Prince" did.