Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.234.32.246-20130206011357/@comment-5388250-20130323195658

TeamAlice416 wrote: They're able to book "Guest Starring" roles for other TV shows, they're just not able to book "Series Regular" roles for TV shows. For example if House was still on and Jennifer Morrison had to return for one last appearance they would let her go and do it. At least I think that's the way it works, I have seen it on other TV shows.

It only works if they get permission from the studio; they can't just decide to book a (guest starring) role while under contract for another show.

Utter solitude wrote:

Nobody's going to book anything that would conflict with what they're currently doing. Besides, for some of the "regulars", they can easily be "Guest starring" again, as their characters aren't major to the central story. (I'm lookin at you, Colin, Emilie, Meghan XD ) Yeah, one of the articles about Meghan Ory being cast in Intelligence mentioned she had been promoted to series regular "in part because of interest for pilots she received last season." The same is probably true for Emilie de Ravin, who was actually cast in a pilot (I think it was for ABC and called Americana?) last season, and only promoted to series regular after that pilot wasn't picked up. I still wonder how they would have explained Belle's sudden absence or how it would have influenced the plot!