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"Law &amp;amp; Order: Los Angeles creator Dick Wolf has defended the decision to axe Skeet Ulrich from the show. Ulrich&amp;#039;s character Detective Rex Winters will depart the crime drama when it returns from a four-month hiatus, as part of a series revamp. &amp;quot;[That was] not something I enjoyed or will hopefully ever have to do again,&amp;quot; Wolf told Fancast. &amp;quot;But sometimes somebody has to die so that everybody else can live.&amp;quot; He added that the series was &amp;quot;not performing at the level that anybody was happy with&amp;quot; in its original form. &amp;quot;When [new NBC boss Bob Greenblatt] came in, he had problems with the first half of the show more than the second half,&amp;quot; Wolf explained. &amp;quot;He did not mandate the changes but when we came up with the solution, he was fully supportive. &amp;quot;[That] is a major step for a new head of entertainment coming in, because obviously it was an expensive change. He was willing to make that kind of change in the hope of getting a slightly different chemistry going.&amp;quot; Series producer Rene Balcer previously admitted that the show&amp;#039;s initial launch was rushed. Law &amp;amp; Order: Los Angeles returns to NBC on April 11 at 9/8c. &amp;gt; Howard for Law &amp;amp; Order crossover "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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