"Boston Legal" Cleans House

The offices of Crane, Poole and Schmidt are going to look a lot different next season…

Julie Bowen (Denise), Mark Valley (Brad), Rene Auberjonois (Paul) and Constance Zimmer (Claire) have all been let go. To fill the void, John Larroquette will join the cast as an attorney from the firm’s New York offices. Tara Summers will also join as a young associate and Christian Clemenson, who pretty much dominated last season as Jerry Espenson, will become a series regular.

As you guys know, I pretty much gave up on “BL” after Craig Bierko joined the cast (He eventually left.) and this development doesn’t make me feel much better. It’s a shame that they could never find anything worthwhile for Mark Valley to do.

And John Larroquette is a talented actor, but I just can’t see him meshing with the dynamic duo of Spader and Shatner…