From the archives - "'Homicide' losing another detective" (1998)
'Homicide' losing another detective
Departing: Reed Diamond, who plays Det. Mike Kellerman on NBC's 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' will leave at the end of the season.
April 07, 1998 | By Rob Hiaasen | Rob Hiaasen, SUN STAFF Staff writer Chris Kaltenbach contributed to this article.
Well, we won't have Mike Kellerman to kick around anymore. Det. Kellerman, the struggling, "meat-and-potatoes" cop who shot and killed drug kingpin Luther Mahoney, won't be working Homicide next year.
Reed Diamond, who for three seasons played Kellerman on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," joins a list of show regulars who won't be back for the seventh season. The actor, who made his debut as Kellerman for the 1995-1996 season, will make his last appearance May 8 in the season finale.
"It was just time to move on," Diamond said at Friday's party commemorating the show's 100th episode.
Andre Braugher, who played Det. Frank Pembleton for six seasons, has already announced plans to leave the Peabody Award-winning TV drama. Michele Forbes, who played Medical Examiner Julianna Cox, was last seen this season driving out of the series in her convertible Mustang.
It wouldn't be a new "Homicide" season without casting changes. Ned Beatty, Jon Polito, Daniel Baldwin, Melissa Leo, Max Perlich and Isabella Hofmann all came and went.
"For me, the journey of Mike Kellerman has been about a man trying to grow up and become a man, and he's faking it," Diamond told The Sun in August. Diamond described Kellerman as a good-not-great cop, a "meat-and-potatoes" character.
We will remember Kellerman as the rookie arson investigator who eventually earned a job in the Homicide unit; the cop who lived on his boat, who had a strained relationship with his father and who had two wild brothers who stole Babe Ruth's uniform.
Then, they said Kellerman was on the take. A bad cop. He barely weathered that scandal but not before spending a few scary moments with his service revolver on his boat. His partner, Meldrick Lewis, finally talked him out of offing himself. Kellerman was "Mikey," as his partner called him over stiff drinks at the Waterfront.
Then, Luther! The baddest of all bad dudes, Luther Mahoney finally went down in what they said was "a clean shoot." It wasn't. Kellerman shot him dead -- which prompted retribution from Luther's sister, the devil herself. Another internal investigation, another controversy for Kellerman.
All this in three seasons. Mikey, you never did catch a break.
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Departing: Reed Diamond, who plays Det. Mike Kellerman on NBC's 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' will leave at the end of the season.
April 07, 1998 | By Rob Hiaasen | Rob Hiaasen, SUN STAFF Staff writer Chris Kaltenbach contributed to this article.
Well, we won't have Mike Kellerman to kick around anymore. Det. Kellerman, the struggling, "meat-and-potatoes" cop who shot and killed drug kingpin Luther Mahoney, won't be working Homicide next year.
Reed Diamond, who for three seasons played Kellerman on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," joins a list of show regulars who won't be back for the seventh season. The actor, who made his debut as Kellerman for the 1995-1996 season, will make his last appearance May 8 in the season finale.
"It was just time to move on," Diamond said at Friday's party commemorating the show's 100th episode.
Andre Braugher, who played Det. Frank Pembleton for six seasons, has already announced plans to leave the Peabody Award-winning TV drama. Michele Forbes, who played Medical Examiner Julianna Cox, was last seen this season driving out of the series in her convertible Mustang.
It wouldn't be a new "Homicide" season without casting changes. Ned Beatty, Jon Polito, Daniel Baldwin, Melissa Leo, Max Perlich and Isabella Hofmann all came and went.
"For me, the journey of Mike Kellerman has been about a man trying to grow up and become a man, and he's faking it," Diamond told The Sun in August. Diamond described Kellerman as a good-not-great cop, a "meat-and-potatoes" character.
We will remember Kellerman as the rookie arson investigator who eventually earned a job in the Homicide unit; the cop who lived on his boat, who had a strained relationship with his father and who had two wild brothers who stole Babe Ruth's uniform.
Then, they said Kellerman was on the take. A bad cop. He barely weathered that scandal but not before spending a few scary moments with his service revolver on his boat. His partner, Meldrick Lewis, finally talked him out of offing himself. Kellerman was "Mikey," as his partner called him over stiff drinks at the Waterfront.
Then, Luther! The baddest of all bad dudes, Luther Mahoney finally went down in what they said was "a clean shoot." It wasn't. Kellerman shot him dead -- which prompted retribution from Luther's sister, the devil herself. Another internal investigation, another controversy for Kellerman.
All this in three seasons. Mikey, you never did catch a break.
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