All Rise staffers open up about Greg Spottiswood firing
All Rise, the second-season CBS legal drama he created and co-showran, first with Sunil Nayar, and then with Dee Harris-Lawrence, who stepped in after Nayar quit. Not that that was the only high-profile departure from the show’s staff during Spottiswood’s tenure: The Simone Missick-led series quickly gained notoriety last year when five writers departed the series en masse, all citing Spottiswood, and his attitudes on race and sexism, as reasons for their leaving. Warner Bros. Television Studios kept the series creator on, though, after conducting a “climate survey” that apparently di...
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