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Yahoo USA Top Latest News - Lee Thompson Young was just 13 when he was cast as the title character in the Disney series The Famous Jett Jackson. The season finale was hastily rewritten to explain Frost’s absence by sending him on vacation. In the Season 5 premiere, which aired last week, Detective Frost met his demise in a car accident, and in tonight’s episode, the show commemorated Frost in a memorial ceremony. Slate spoke with Rizzoli & Isles’ new showrunner, Jan Nash, about how the creative team decided how to handle Young’s death.
The character needs to be memorialized some way, and if the character is going to die, then on a TV show that deals with crimes, you have two choices. Nash: Thank you. In a year that’s seen a lot of major TV characters killed off for storyline reasons, TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles had to bid one of its characters adieu for a far sadder reason.
In Tuesday night’s episode, “… Goodbye,” the series paid tribute to the late Lee Thompson Young, who died last August at age 29 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Young’s character, detective Barry Frost, was killed off in the series’ Season 5 premiere. While returning from vacation, Frost was involved in a fatal car accident.
Young’s character, detective Barry Frost, was killed off in the series’ Season 5 premiere. While returning from vacation, Frost was involved in a fatal car accident.
Barry,” it said, prompting Rizzoli to burst into tears.
The Rizzoli & Isles tearjerker — and it was a tearjerker, even for a casual viewer of the series — comes on the heels of May’s NCIS season finale, which sent off the late Ralph Waite with an equally sweet and dignified funeral.
Waite, 85, died in February.
