According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull the show, as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the producers.

Despite Ethan Phillips getting the part, Picardo was asked by the producers to come back and audition for the Doctor — something that shocked him, because usually actors would be passed over completely.

She asked the producers and makeup artist Michael Westmore if they could perhaps make her more attractive and tone down the Klingon makeup.

* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.

Stills suggested Tork audition for a new television series about four pop-rock musicians, when the producers asked if Stills ' had a better looking ( musician ) friend '.

According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea.

" Several of Frasiers producers were asked to review the original script and provide feedback.

In Frasier, Maris Crane is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier asked that the scene be removed.

Originally, the producers asked the BBC to move to television ; however the BBC was hesitant about this move.

Nimoy and the other producers were unhappy with Mangini's attempts to create the probe's droning operating noise ; after 18 attempts, the sound designer finally asked Nimoy what he thought the probe should sound like, and recorded Nimoy's response.

Zamora asked the show's producers for permission to go out without cameras, so that he and Sasser could get to know one another in a more natural setting.

" Escape Route " was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland " asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part ... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen ".

He wrote to all the major producers of oatmeal and asked them for assistance.

Instead, two producers from 19 Management approached her and asked her to go into the studio to record a demo tape for Fuller.

Both O ' Meara and Cattermole were spotted by producers from 19 and asked to audition.

As a result of public pressure to elaborate on what happened to Wade after she disappeared, the producers asked Lloyd to guest star in one season five episode that was to focus entirely on Wade ( without the rest of the cast ).

In 1948, Broadway producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin asked Loesser to write both music and lyrics to George Abbott's book for an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas play Charley's Aunt.

In a 1997 interview with Record Collector magazine, Black revealed she was asked to appear in the 1969 film The Italian Job, playing the part of Michael Caine's girlfriend, but negotiations fell through between producers and her management over her fee.

After the Japan-wide release of All Eyez on Me Monica was asked to substantially reconstruct the record with a host of new producers, and as a result the singer re-entered recording studios to start work with songwriters Kanye West, Jazze Pha, Andre " mrDEYO " Deyo, Bam & Ryan and Dupri – replacing executive producer Missy Elliott.

The producers and Fields then asked Irving Berlin to write the musical's score ; Fields agreed to step down as lyricist, knowing that Berlin preferred to write both music and lyrics to his songs.

In June 2005 the producers of Countdown asked Vorderman if she wanted to fill the role of main presenter vacated by the recently deceased Richard Whiteley.

However, Vance left the play during its out-of-town tryouts, later saying she felt the role was not right for her and asked the show's producers to be let out of her contract.

In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that " making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick " and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct Jaws 2.

Although Stewart was willing to put on an American accent to portray the role of Picard, the producers asked him to use his natural accent instead.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

After he had gone, Kate asked Uncle Randolph proudly, `` Would you take their oath ''??

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

*" A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought.

For the movie's poster, Universal brought Campbell in to take several reference head shots and asked him to strike a sly look on his face.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

In 1884, art dealer Theo van Gogh asked Pissarro if he would take in his older brother, Vincent, as a boarder in his home.

While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.

It was reported that in 2006 Fiji's Prime Minister Qarase asked Australia's Prime Minister John Howard for military assistance should a coup take place, but Howard declined.

K. is asked by the bank to show an Italian client around local places of cultural interest, but the Italian client, short of time, asks K. to take him only to the cathedral, setting a time to meet there.

In a graphic passage, Douglass asked Auld how he would feel if Douglass had come to take away his daughter Amanda as a slave, treating her the way he and members of his family had been treated by Auld.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

After the 1939 season ended, Greenberg was asked by general manager Jack Zeller to take a salary cut of $ 5, 000 ($ today ) as a result of his off year in power and run production.

I think Olivia couldn't have asked for a better companion to take her through a new stage in her life and career.

The teacher asked Shearer's parents for permission to take him to an audition.

As part of the ongoing strategy to take control of the IRA, Brugha proposed to Dáil Éireann on 20 August 1919 that the Volunteers were to be asked, at this next convention, to swear allegiance to the Dáil.

After being asked to leave due to neglecting to take any journalism courses – Jarmusch favored literature and art history – he transferred to Columbia University the following year, with the intention of becoming a poet.

He asked Medea to take some years from his life and add them to the life of his father.