The Class loses a member
Anyone who watched The Class tonight may have noticed something: Lucy Punch, who played snooty reporter Holly Ellenbogen, was missing from the opening credits. Her bio has disappeared from the show's page on CBS's web site; she's even disappeared from the site's cast photo (right).This isn't unexpected, since the producers said that a) they were going to concentrate on the romantic storylines on the show and b) it was obvious to everyone that her storyline, which included her gay-but-not-gay husband, wasn't working. She was being shown on the program less and less, usually reporting something that set up some plotline in an episode. But to unceremoniously dump her like that, wiping her off the screen like she was never there, seems pretty cold to me.
Is there going to be any acknowledgment that Holly is gone? If the show ever makes syndication (unlikely), will she be stricken from the reruns, much like Carla Gugino was from the reruns of the first half-season of Spin City? It's always odd when cast members just disappear like that. Even Chuck Cunningham got a full season... didn't he?

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