"9-1-1" Calls on Charisma Carpenter to Get Season 2 Off to a Crazy Start
by Matt Webb Mitovich
July 16, 2018


Charisma Carpenter has a "9-1-1" crisis that won’t get resolved for a couple months yet.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the "Buffy" favorite is set to guest-star in the Season 2 premiere of Fox’s new hit drama, playing a 9-1-1 caller who has found herself “stuck between a rock and a hard place,” and in the most crazy of ways.

https://tvline.com/2018/07/16/charisma-carpenter-911-fox-season-2-premiere/

Charisma Carpenter's "Naughty" "9-1-1" Visit Postponed by Network Censors
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 2, 2018


Charisma Carpenter has been put on hold by "9-1-1", after Fox censors spiked the R-rated crisis that would have befallen her character.

“It was naughty,” showrunner Tim Minear explained to TVLine on Thursday at the Television Critics Association press tour. “We were all set to go, and Standards and Practices would just not let me do it.”




Minear at TCA elaborated that Carpenter’s character was going to dial 9-1-1 when her lover collapses dead atop her while hopped up on Viagra. Because of vaginal “clamping” going on at the time of the man’s heart attack, he wound up “stuck” inside his lover — a real-life situation known as penis captivus.

Though a similar case figured into a storyline on CBS’ "Code Black", Fox’s own Standards and Practices department declined to give "9-1-1" a green light. “Our version was different,” Minear noted.




Minear remains committed to doing right by Carpenter in a future episode of Fox’s hit drama.

“As soon as I have the perfect thing for Charisma, she will be on the show,” he said. “I was so looking forward to working with her again, I’ve got to find the other perfect role.”

Minear then had to point out, “Last season I used Sean Maher, from Firefly, in a scene where a 7-foot tapeworm came out of a guy’s ass. So apparently that was OK!”

https://tvline.com/2018/08/02/charisma-carpenter-9-1-1-role-postponed-by-censors-penis-captivus/

I hope they can find something for her on the show. I love seeing her onscreen and I love this new show! I remember that episode of "Code Black". It would be interesting to know what exactly about this made them censor it.