why valorie left after 1season

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The actual story was that Valerie was having creative differences with the writers and producers. NBC was happy because they wanted a vehicle for Jason Bateman for a long time.

When Val got demanding NBC let her go and Val was not shy about talking about it.

The big difference was Val had a financial stake in the show before the problems. So instead of going to court, she paid a private "arbitrator" to settle it and the producers agreed to it. Valerie said, she believed she was right but realized how Hollywood worked and didn't want it to get around she was hard to work with. And if it took years to get through the courts, the truth, over time, would be lost and disputed.

By going to binding arbitration the case was resolved fairly quick and in her favor and she wound up with a total of 25% stake. This made the big difference as now Harper had no incentive to knock or run down or even talk about the show, since she'd lose money in the long run and she was getting a nice paycheck for doing nothing AND she was free to work on other projects.

As for the ugly pissy twin Mark, he turned out to be straight, go figure huh?

—Anonymous

reply 46 01/06/2015

Jason Bateman and Josh taylor were both very strapping men. Big mistake on Valerie Harper's part. She had wanted to star next to hot veterans. Well they were carrying their own and then some. So they also had a stake in how things were running. It wasn't just her being able to call every one.

Both of the twins were ugly. Should have canned them when got rid of Harper. Retooled the series.