Wendell Pierce is the latest actor to leave NBC for The Odd Couple

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On February 5, Wendell Pierce was asked to remove himself from his place of TV residence. That request came from NBC. Deep down, he knew the network was right. But he also knew he would return to television—perhaps on a premium-cable drama that’s nowhere near as good as the two previous premium-cable dramas he’d been on.