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"Paget Brewster will return for the upcoming seventh season of Criminal Minds, while Rachel Nichols has been given the axe, it has been claimed.  Deadline reports that CBS and the show&amp;#039;s producers ABC Studios have exercised a clause in Brewster&amp;#039;s contract to bring her back to the show, following the failure of her NBC comedy pilot My Life As An Experiment.  Brewster&amp;#039;s commitment to Experiment resulted in her character Emily Prentiss playing a reduced role in the show&amp;#039;s sixth season, before seemingly being killed off. However, Prentiss was later revealed to be alive and well in Paris, providing an ideal set-up for her potential return. Meanwhile, Nichols is believed to have been axed following the return of viewer favourite A.J. Cook in the Criminal Minds finale.  Nichols&amp;#039;s character Ashley Seaver was brought in as a replacement for Cook&amp;#039;s Jennifer &amp;#039;JJ&amp;#039; Jareau, who was controversially dropped last June.  Criminal Minds exec Erica Messer recently insisted that there was room on the show for both Nichols and Cook.  The seventh season of Criminal Minds will air on Wednesdays at 9/8c on CBS in the fall. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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