Okay, so I literally just unearthed this tidbit from US Weekly in 2000, I think:
Glenn: As the guy who sort of engineered that choice, I must tell you, I still believe with all my heart, that the show became less interesting, not because you slept together, but because there were a whole bunch of serendipitous things that happened that were beyond everybody's control. Cybill got pregnant with twins and was unavailable to us. So there was really no chance to explore and suddenly, I had Claymation Cybills and I was finding any way I could to shoot -- do you remember that?
Glenn: We won an Emmy for that. And all it was was me desperately trying to figure out how to get a show done without the actors. As a writer though, I thought.....'cause everybody said, "You can't have them together. It'll kill the show." And I went, "No, no, no, no, if they're genuinely whole people, if I've created whole characters, then they will change yet again, as we all do when we meet people, when we're involved with people and then those people stay in our lives." You know, there were great stories to be told there, and we sorta never got to tell them because all these other things were going on. I started directing movies, you were in some, you know, all our lives got much more complicated, but the principal problem at that point was, you know, it just became harder and harder to shoot a whole show....
Oh Glenn, what a bunch of bologna. He’s basically blaming the poor and bizarre writing choices on Cybill’s pregnancy (he mentions ‘other things’ going on but that’s his main impediment). He acts like they had no other choice than to break them up to deal with Cybill’s absence. 🙄 No. No, Glenn, the show became less interesting because you very deliberately poured cold water on the flame, which was always the heart and engine of the show. People didn’t watch for the zany detective work (hell, Glenn didn’t even care about that). They watched for the romantic/sexual pull between the main characters. Nobody wanted to see a pod Maddie senselessly stringing David along with word salad dialogue, or a bitter, closed off, back-to-playing-around-with-other-women David. Nobody wanted to see them working together as “amicable exes.” The slapstick did not work the same without the romantic undercurrent. How did they not get that?
Re: Mark Harmon—it definitely would have made more sense to bring him back. It was Sam’s baby after all, or so they tried to tell us at every opportunity. He had scheduling conflicts during his initial run so that could have been it but it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t even go there since they were committed to Walter. 🙄
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