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<blockquote data-quote="TJP" data-source="post: 426099" data-attributes="member: 5151">It was actually the other way round. Billy expressed his wish to leave because he was not happy with the writing.&nbsp; I must admit that Cole had less and less to do after the surrogate storyline was over after approximately two thirds into season 5. Billy&#039;s request to leave was the reason for the writing staff to create the part of Ben Quick, later renamed Dan Fixx during development. Fixx was not created to terminate Billy.As far as Billy&#039;s departure was concerned, the writing and producing staff was looking for alternate possibilities, of course.The producers also offered Laura Johnson to stay, at least for a limited time (probably to see where and how this would bring the storyline forward), but that could have apparently resulted in a gender-wise unbalanced main cast and the lack of possibilities to create a new love interest for Vickie and later Melissa. Also, Laura was not fond of the idea to get a low number of episodes guaranteed only and maybe be written off after those, so she chose not to come back for season 6 at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJP, post: 426099, member: 5151"] It was actually the other way round. Billy expressed his wish to leave because he was not happy with the writing. I must admit that Cole had less and less to do after the surrogate storyline was over after approximately two thirds into season 5. Billy's request to leave was the reason for the writing staff to create the part of Ben Quick, later renamed Dan Fixx during development. Fixx was not created to terminate Billy. As far as Billy's departure was concerned, the writing and producing staff was looking for alternate possibilities, of course. The producers also offered Laura Johnson to stay, at least for a limited time (probably to see where and how this would bring the storyline forward), but that could have apparently resulted in a gender-wise unbalanced main cast and the lack of possibilities to create a new love interest for Vickie and later Melissa. Also, Laura was not fond of the idea to get a low number of episodes guaranteed only and maybe be written off after those, so she chose not to come back for season 6 at all. [/QUOTE]

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