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Dear fans, we have a new petition. We have both signatures, as we have already gained 50% of signatures on the first one. You are heroes!

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"Prove that they lied" How are we still on that stage are you kidding me? The production of Hudson and Rex have smothered fan reaction, tried to gaslight and scam fans, sent a person on Reddit to do a hit piece on John Reardon, and got another person who is fully biased on the whole thing to do PR for them. How is anyone defending that production and where does this excitement for the new season comes from? Who sells these kind of drugs that make you completely delulu without critical thinking, I need to buy some before I explode.

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Hudson and Rex fandom, if you're going to direct your anger for the current situation somewhere, make sure it's aimed at the right people.

I mentioned this before but as there are more and more people who are seeking out Luke Roberts' socials to hate on him and are generally displaying a behavior that I deem completely unnecessary not to mention beyond rude, I feel it deserves its own post. The guy is the absolutely last person at fault here. He took on a role, not having any idea about what was going on. Hell, I don't think there was even a contract offered for S8 when he got the role in S7. No matter what the production was planning at the time, they wouldn't have let him in on it. Why would they? He was just an actor that got hired to fill up a space.

And now, yes, he's the one they deemed suitable to replace John Reardon because he'd already worked, albeit briefly, with the dogs. Again, not knowing what had transpired behind the scenes. For the record, on the only post Luke Roberts has made about Hudson and Rex, there was this exchange in the comments

(directedbypaul is director Paul Kaufman, an established director who has worked with John Reardon in the past.)

From the entire production of Hudson and Rex, Luke Roberts is the only one who was comfortable enough (or not "in the know") to be able to say that he's heard great things about him. Great things from where? Guess. From the same set an "anonymous source" was trying to convince fans a few weeks ago that John Reardon wasn't who he seems to be and that "the entire set knew about it". Well, Luke Roberts has "only heard great things". And he said so eponymously, not hiding behind an anonymous Reddit account.

Anyway, my point is that he's not the problem here. He wasn't the one who took advantage of John Reardon's absence to benefit professionally. That was other people.

Please make sure you can separate the actor from the role, always.

When we're talking about Temu Hudson and Rex, we shouldn't mean either Luke Roberts or Dillon. We are not criticizing their work. In my blog, whenever I talk about Mark Hudson, I mean Mark Hudson, the caricature that the production came up with to be able to continue the Hudson and Rex brand without needing any rebranding. I don't mean Luke Roberts. I mean that this show was very specifically about Charlie and Rex from the start, and while they had to recast the part of Rex due to Diesel's passing, they certainly did not have to make the idiotic decision to get rid of Charlie and John Reardon.

I have once talked about the fact that the production cast someone for the role that is now older than when they cast John Reardon for Charlie. That's not Luke Roberts' fault. That is something the production should have considered when doing the casting. Luke Roberts said yes to a role, he probably had no idea about anything behind the scenes, and some of the things that we now know probably hadn't even happened yet back when he said yes. Either way, saying yes to a role that the production has made it seem like it's available (because of course they wouldn't make it appear any other way) is not a crime.

There are people from the production that deserve our anger. There are people who may have facilitated John Reardon's exit very intentionally (unfortunately, it seems more and more like this is true) and are now parading on social media trying to victimize themselves with cheap PR tactics, toxic positivity and gaslighting. Either way, Luke Roberts wasn't the one working on that show for years. He doesn't know John Reardon personally. He doesn't owe him anything and actors shouldn't be blamed for taking a job without prior knowledge of what has transpired.

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Has CityTV considered the fact that they air repeats of earlier Hudson and Rex seasons all the time on their stupid network? Imagine trying to get people to forget that Charlie existed (looking at you, Shaftesbury) while the network that airs the show plays his greatest hits on a loop.

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These are from now. Shaftesbury and Citytv answer for your crimes! You are letting man go? Where is the logic in it?

This is actually the exact date when John Reardon and Diesel were in the same festival in Monte Carlo in 2019.

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Okay, this has gone on long enough. Since people still (mainly on Reddit) insist on believing that Reddit post drivel, let's check a few excerpts from interviews through the years about John Reardon's "bond" with Diesel (in quotations because you will not believe who actually said that they have a bond), what John Reardon himself has said about him and Sherri Davis over the years, what Sherri Davis has said about John Reardon and Diesel through the years, and about John Reardon growing up with and loving dogs (and honestly, if he's such a mastermind that he came up with like four different dogs that he had in his life while growing up, being an animal rights advocate, and more to show everyone that he's good for the role, then he's really wasted as an actor and should have become some kind of operative instead).

Thank you to @somefandomcontent for the prodding and the help.

Note: The interviews are not in chronological order. But going to the links will provide you with the date they were done.

Source: https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/wondering-how-the-canine-star-of-hudson-rex-learns-his-tricks-his-owner-gives-a-behind-the-scenes-look-100643038

Source: https://www.thegate.ca/television/047692/hudson-rex-stars-justin-kelly-mayko-nguyen-john-reardon-talk-season-3-st-johns-and-their-on-set-family/

Source: https://www.thetvwatercooler.com/2019/03/john-reardon-hudson-and-rex-interview/

Source: https://www.k9magazine.com/john-reardon/

Source: https://dramaquarterly.com/paw-order/

I've got more of that but I think these will suffice.

So. Who was talking about bonds? Who was saying that Diesel and John Reardon "have a true bond"? We have been served plenty of lies, folks, and plenty of awful insinuations. The only thing Sherri Davis needs to tell us is when she lied. Before (in all these interviews), or after. Seeing the sheer amount of interviews from before, the last one from 2023, my guess is going to be after.

I will quote verbatim what that Reddit post had said: "And let's stop romanticizing his relationship with Diesel (RIP), too. On set, it was common knowledge that John wasn't a dog person".

Okay. I guess Sherri Davis shouldn't have romanticized it, then.

[Please, if you have the time use these to refute any people who are still supporting that. For now I won't post on Reddit although this time is coming as well. I'd also appreciate a few reblogs to spread it around because due to the amount of links I'm not sure Tumblr will allow this post to appear on the Hudson and Rex tag.]

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When John Reardon posted his audition tapes a few months back, I went back and found this again. Unfortunately, I don't remember the source. He also showed it in Diesel's birthday video in 2024 from his phone or tablet. It's from back when they were getting to know each other.

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Dear friends. There was a petition calling for John's return to the show. With the permission of the authors, I am posting this link on Reddit.

I ask everyone to contribute to this story whenever possible. The petition is one of them. Thanks)

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/whats-a-rex-without-his-hudson?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwK7ng1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp1jm-GG9kekh3N6gdSe-EMm2GViaQBP5UBOrw755cYyx1gTksVYNJAsvqsXL_aem_SnnPrqQTSNvn2a4Yzvl0mA

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Okay, this has gone on long enough. Since people still (mainly on Reddit) insist on believing that Reddit post drivel, let's check a few excerpts from interviews through the years about John Reardon's "bond" with Diesel (in quotations because you will not believe who actually said that they have a bond), what John Reardon himself has said about him and Sherri Davis over the years, what Sherri Davis has said about John Reardon and Diesel through the years, and about John Reardon growing up with and loving dogs (and honestly, if he's such a mastermind that he came up with like four different dogs that he had in his life while growing up, being an animal rights advocate, and more to show everyone that he's good for the role, then he's really wasted as an actor and should have become some kind of operative instead).

Thank you to @somefandomcontent for the prodding and the help.

Note: The interviews are not in chronological order. But going to the links will provide you with the date they were done.

Source: https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/wondering-how-the-canine-star-of-hudson-rex-learns-his-tricks-his-owner-gives-a-behind-the-scenes-look-100643038

Source: https://www.thegate.ca/television/047692/hudson-rex-stars-justin-kelly-mayko-nguyen-john-reardon-talk-season-3-st-johns-and-their-on-set-family/

Source: https://www.thetvwatercooler.com/2019/03/john-reardon-hudson-and-rex-interview/

Source: https://www.k9magazine.com/john-reardon/

Source: https://dramaquarterly.com/paw-order/

I've got more of that but I think these will suffice.

So. Who was talking about bonds? Who was saying that Diesel and John Reardon "have a true bond"? We have been served plenty of lies, folks, and plenty of awful insinuations. The only thing Sherri Davis needs to tell us is when she lied. Before (in all these interviews), or after. Seeing the sheer amount of interviews from before, the last one from 2023, my guess is going to be after.

I will quote verbatim what that Reddit post had said: "And let's stop romanticizing his relationship with Diesel (RIP), too. On set, it was common knowledge that John wasn't a dog person".

Okay. I guess Sherri Davis shouldn't have romanticized it, then.

[Please, if you have the time use these to refute any people who are still supporting that. For now I won't post on Reddit although this time is coming as well. I'd also appreciate a few reblogs to spread it around because due to the amount of links I'm not sure Tumblr will allow this post to appear on the Hudson and Rex tag.]

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“bUt hE wAsN’t A dOg PeRsOn”

Diesel hadn’t gotten the memo?

"I've had to put Cheez Whiz on my ear quite a few times."

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Imagine being the one who took that photo (and uploaded it to your socials) three years ago and now you're having people trying to convince fans that John Reardon didn't want Diesel anywhere near him.

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Regardless of what happens with the show, Charah will forever live in my head rent-free. No self-absorbed producer can ever take that away.

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Okay, I guess we were getting bored so this is a nice wake up call. New hashtags:

#charlieistheonlyhudson

#notmyhudson

#nocharlienorex instead of #nohudsonnorex (I hate losing this one, it was brilliant)

The messages need to be expressing anger. This is something disgusting. But. We still need to not give them a reason to remove us from the conversation. The target is still socials and e-mails, phones for whoever can do this (Shaftesbury has phones in their website, if you want to call and can't find them, send me an ask or DM).

Talking Points: Giving Mark the name Hudson is a marketing ploy. A con. It’s fully erasing Charlie and his history. And who will watch a guy that doesn’t even have an original name? A guy that was introduced last year and no one from the characters seemed to find it weird at any point that his name was Hudson. So either everyone is an idiot or we’re pretending Charlie never existed. This is like the last seven seasons of Hudson and Rex never existed. Every single moment Charlie had with Rex, every single moment he had with Sarah, with Jesse, with Joe, all erased. It's fully ridiculous too, to try to convince the audience to forget the last seven seasons.

It also shows a plan that was hatched early on, while John Reardon still was getting cancer treatment or was recovering. How do we know this? Mark never had a last name, that's how. They never intended to wait once they realized how long it would take, they've had this plan since November or even before. This is something that needs to be pointed out.

You don’t have to fully focus on the name but these are new talking points to spice things up.

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I still want to know who thought all of this was a brilliant idea. Regardless of contracts and unknowns about John Reardon’s health, who thought this was going to work? Because it’s obviously more than a few people who think they can pull this off

I don't think we'll ever find out such details. It was multiple people, for sure. It's not odd for a show to try to move on when an actor played by a main character is for whatever reason unavailable, but in this case it's definitely not a usual case, because it's your lead and titular actor, you haven't developed the other characters enough to carry the show, your other lead is a dog that you also had replaced, the optics will be against you no matter what, and it's just not feasible. Plus for me they didn't even wait enough. I put out the timeline as I said before, and if they couldn't wait until November, they are first of all major assholes, and second (probably more important to the show) unbelievably bad at their jobs. I don't care who ultimately pushed for it, this paints every single person in a decision-making for the show position in a bad light.

When the right thing to do is to cancel a show, you cancel it if you truly think you can't postpone it for anyone (which is bullshit for me). Otherwise you get this. And I'm not sorry for one moment of this reaction, or for anything that will follow.

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Just change the hashtag to #charlieistheonlyhudson and go, what are you sending me asks for?

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From https://www.tv-eh.com/2025/06/03/proven-hits-return-to-citytv-citytv-hudson-rex-names-new-cast-member/

I missed the edit, thank you to @charahandrex and @starry-mist for catching it. Anyway, to everyone, show this to anyone who still has doubts. Now you've got screenshot and link. TV-Eh is as reputable a source as it can get.

Now, don't nobody start with the pessimistic stuff. We were all in agreement that this was what was happening and that's what we're trying to change.

Edit: I refuse to acknowledge the Mark Hudson thing.

Edit 2: I refuse to acknowledge it not because I refuse to see it, but because it's the most nonsensical piece they've ever come up with, a disgrace to the show and everyone involved. I've seen soap operas with more consistency, and that says something because I live in Greece.