History HostilityOnTheSet / LiveActionTV

** In an interview for the book ''Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born'', Creator/AmberBenson [[https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/woa9zi/from_the_book_into_every_generation_a_slayer_is/ stated]] that she was having issues with somebody on the show that were coming to a head just as her character Tara left, and that, despite many fan requests to bring Tara back (including Whedon reaching out to her personally), she refused to return to the show because it would've meant interacting with them again.

* ''Series/AllThat'': Angelique Bates, a cast member during the show's first two seasons, spoke out about bad experiences on and off set during her time on the show. All cast members were provided housing in a complex near Nickelodeon Studios in UsefulNotes/{{Orlando}}. Her mother was abusing her, verbally and physically, and her neighboring castmates could occasionally hear it going on. The physical abuse became known amongst the cast when Creator/KelMitchell's sister did Angelique's nails one day, only to notice them destroyed the next. {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} forced Angelique to be quiet about the abuse to avoid ruining the show or network's image. She also recalled verbal abuse from Creator/DanSchneider, who screamed at her in front of everyone and made her cry over something that was later proven to not be her fault. Angelique claims the set environment in general was misogynistic, as the male cast members were favored over the females, and the one female writer on the show, Kayla Alpert, was fired after only two episodes. Schneider reportedly told Angelique to lessen her comedic acting to avoid overshadowing her male costars. Because of this, along with Angelique's mother rejecting unwanted advances from male crew members, Angelique was given less screentime and dialogue in Season 2.

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Creator/BeaArthur reportedly did not get along with her co-stars very well. Creator/BettyWhite admitted that they did not have a good relationship, and that Bea found Betty's optimism annoying.Creator/RueMcClanahan has said she didn't have a relationship with Bea either, despite the fact that they had worked together before on ''Series/{{Maude}}'', calling her very eccentric. With the exception of Betty and Rue, the cast weren't really friends. That said, all four maintained that they respected each other professionally and worked well together regardless of any personal differences.

** At a Comic-Con panel, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr revealed that he hated working on the show and with Creator/KieferSutherland so much that he almost quit acting altogether and mostly does voice work nowadays.

* Creator/{{ABC}} experienced tension on its news side over who would be the one to lead coverage of breaking news and major events. Traditionally, this would be a role assumed by the evening news anchor, in ABC's case, Creator/DavidMuir. However, ABC relied on George Stephanopolous to fill this role. Muir bristled at being denied the responsibilities that anchors at other networks received. The network tried to ease tensions by naming both men co-lead news anchors and giving Stephanopolous lead coverage for news that happened before 6pm and Muir lead coverage for news that happened afterward. This satisfied neither of them. Because ABC didn't want to lose either man, each a proven audience draw, the network decided to make Muir the sole lead news anchor while Stephanopolous was given guaranteed primetime slots for specials he can develop at his own pleasure.

* ''Series/AllThat'': Angelique Bates, a cast member during the show's first two seasons, spoke out about bad experiences on and off set during her time on the show. All cast members were provided housing in a complex near Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando. Her mother was abusing her, verbally and physically, and her neighboring castmates could occasionally hear it going on. The physical abuse became known amongst the cast when Creator/KelMitchell's sister did Angelique's nails one day, only to notice them destroyed the next. Nickelodeon forced Angelique to be quiet about the abuse to avoid ruining the show or network's image. She also recalled verbal abuse from Creator/DanSchneider, who screamed at her in front of everyone and made her cry over something that was later proven to not be her fault. Angelique claims the set environment in general was misogynistic, as the male cast members were favored over the females, and the one female writer on the show, Kayla Alpert, was fired after only two episodes. Schneider reportedly told Angelique to lessen her comedic acting to avoid overshadowing her male costars. Because of this, along with Angelique's mother rejecting unwanted advances from male crew members, Angelique was given less screentime and dialogue in Season 2.

** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Showrunner Mark Guggenheim is infamous for causing tension on set because he has a history of making creative decisions without warning the actors involved. In particular, Creator/KatieCassidy and Creator/JohnBarrowman were not informed their characters were being killed off until only a few days before their death scenes were shot. For Cassidy, this led to most of the cast of ''Arrow'' and even some of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' publicly deriding the decision, as well as Cassidy revealing that she could blatantly see how much Guggenheim and the writing staff have had it out for her character since day one.[[note]]Cassidy started the show as the lead female and second-billed in the cast, and increasingly slid down the depth chart after season 1[[/note]] For Barrowman, who had actually just negotiated his contract so he could reappear in any the next year's shows, this led to him finishing his role, telling the producers "where they could shove it", and then exiting the franchise almost completely.[[note]]He returned for the ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' crossover for a grand total of two scenes[[/note]] He has even gone on record saying that he believed the only reason why Malcolm's body was never shown was just as a way to protect himself from the backlash.

*** In an [[https://www.cbr.com/batwoman-ruby-rose-horrifying-set-conditions-slams-wbtv-berlanti/ Instagram post]] in October 2021, Creator/RubyRose said that she left the show at the end of the first season due to her extremely fractured relationship with the producers and showrunners over the terrible working conditions the crew were in. She said that horrific injuries went ignored, including that she was forced to go back to work only ten days after an injury which nearly left her paralyzed, and accused showrunner Caroline Dries of "having no heart" and trying to force the crew to keep shooting even during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic (at least until lockdowns made production infeasible). She also spoke about her extremely poor relationship with Creator/DougrayScott, who she claimed was volatile and abusive to crew members and called him a "nightmare", and Camrus Johson, who she called an "egomaniac kid", and said that [[Creator/WarnerBros WB]] chairman Peter Roth sexually harassed female employees and hired a private investigator to snoop on her (and then fired the investigator when his report didn't say what he was hoping it would say about Rose). She said she'd never return to the show no matter how much money they offered her.

*** During a roundtable discussion with Azie Tesfai (from ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}})'', Creator/CandicePatton (from ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'') and Creator/AnnaDiop (from ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}''), Javicia Leslie talked frankly about having to deal with racist harassment from fans and how frustrated she was that her co-stars were not supporting her. Candice later detailed similar experiences on an episode of [[https://www.theopenuppodcast.com/podcast/episode/402d5221/candice-patton-on-quiet-abuse-in-tv-and-film-or-i-could-get-eaten-alive-out-here The Open Up Podcast]] in 2022.

** Peppard made it clear to both Melinda Culea and Marla Heasley that he didn't want their characters on the show. On Heasley's first day on set Peppard took her aside and told her "We don't want you on the show. None of the guys want you here. The only reason you're here is because the network and the producers want you. For some reason they think they need a girl." Ironically or not, on her last day of work Peppard took her aside again, saying: "I'm sorry that this is your last day, but remember what I said the very first day, that we didn't want a girl, has nothing to do with you. You were very professional, but no reason to have a girl." While the other male actors weren't as hostile towards Culea or Heasley as Peppard was, they ended up siding with him on the issue, with Creator/DirkBenedict later remarking...

** Creator/JMichaelStraczynski and Creator/ClaudiaChristian fell out in atomic fashion, which led to Christian leaving the series before shooting on season 5 began. If you ask Straczynski, Christian was trying to use her status as one of the key actors on the show and threatening to walk off the set to leverage an utterly outrageous pay-raise and he called her on it. If you ask Christian, she was fired for refusing a sexual advance from Straczynski. Neither party was willing to talk to the other, instead taking to the early fan forums on Usenet to rile up the fanbase against the other. As of 2020, Christian and Straczynski have not spoken in over 25 years, and the feud both between the creators and within the fandom continues with unabated fury.
* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' had a mostly happy set ... except years later, Creator/HalLinden (Barney) revealed that he and Gregory Sierra (Chano) simply did not get along at all on a personal level. You'd be hard-pressed to tell by their performances, though, as the two men did not let their personal issues affect their on-screen work. After two seasons, Sierra took the lead in another series created by Danny Arnold (''A.E.S. Hudson Street'') ... but when that series crashed and burned after six episodes, Sierra was never invited back to ''Barney Miller'', which continued for another six years.

** Reports had come out in the years after ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ended regarding backstage tension and difficulties between producers, cast, and crew. This came to a breaking point in 2021 with numerous cast members acknowledging the issue, which lead to an [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/joss-whedon-buffy-angel-charisma-carpenter-toxic-workplace-1234915549/ in-depth expose]] by Adam B. Vary and Elizabeth Wagmeister for ''Variety'', who stated, "The series was set at a UsefulNotes/{{California}} high school beset by vampires, demons and toxic mean girls, but it turns out its real-life BigBad was the show’s creator, Creator/JossWhedon." The general opinion of Whedon was that he was a talented ShowRunner who collaborated well, but also a tyrant who forged a CultOfPersonality around himself that only grew as he became [[CreatorWorship a geek icon seen as the driving force behind the success]] of ''Buffy''. Between Whedon's inexperience running a TV show, the low-budget show's heavy reliance on special effects, the long hours, the young cast, and the lack of supervision by the studio, the atmosphere on the set of ''Buffy'' quickly turned into something resembling its HighSchool setting, with Whedon as its AlphaBitch: treating his inner circle well and regarding them as TrueCompanions, and everybody else like dirt and subjecting them to bullying and scorn. As such, many people have horror stories about the production of both ''Buffy'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''.

** The animosity between the three (eventually four) lead actresses has evolved into the stuff of legend. Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs had been friends prior to the show, and the latter even convinced the former to sign on in the first place. They were good enough friends with Alyssa Milano to act as her bridesmaids during the first season, but all parties began to fall out during the second. The network started actively pitting the actresses against each other to prevent them banding together the way the ''{{Series/Friends}}'' cast famously had at the time, and Holly admitted that the frustration with frequent clashes with the higher-ups over the lack of resources provided for the stunts and special effects as well as showrunner Constance M Burge being ousted from her position lead to the girls "just going at it", Alyssa confessing there were some days when they would only speak to each other to say their lines and that the set sometimes felt "like high school". Although Shannen claimed for years that her departure at the end of Season 3 was something she had been pushing for out of creative frustration and feeling that Prue had run her course as a character, she revealed in a 2023 podcast interview that she actually was fired because Alyssa had threatened to sue for creating a toxic work environment. The latter maintained that she had no power to get anyone fired, and that she was the only one of the actresses to speak to the corporate mediator the network had hired. Whatever the case, none of the actresses ever appeared at a convention panel together even twenty-five years later, and Holly Marie Combs became rather infamous in the fandom for which of her co-stars she was not speaking to at a given time.
** It was rumored at the time that TW King, who played Andy, was killed off at the end of Season 1 because he and Shannen didn't get along either. Other sources say he left to pursue other roles or asked for more screen time but the writers had no more ideas for him. He later said of her:

** Danielle Harris, who had a guest spot in the first season's "The Fourth Sister", had a miserable time on set, claiming Alyssa Milano tried to tell her what to do, the three leads were "always fighting" and Shannen Doherty was very mean to her in particular after a crew member she had previously dated started flirting with Danielle to get back at her.

** Creator/JohnLaurie intensely disliked Creator/ArnoldRidley, often needling him about his advanced age and frailty (although Laurie was only a year younger than Ridley). Laurie was also irritated that Ridley was let off from some of the more strenuous aspects of filming, while he was not. On the other hand, Creator/IanLavender would recall them having deep conversations based on a CommonalityConnection; how horrific they'd found the ''First'' World War.

* ''Series/FantasyIsland'': Creator/RicardoMontalban and Creator/HerveVillechaize didn't get along, and the former's disdain for the latter is ''very'' often seen in the show itself. Montalban didn't bother hiding his annoyance during their scenes. (A ''Bloom County'' comic strip at the time suggested Montalban's fantasy was for Tattoo to drive a 1982 Chrysler Cordoba off a cliff.) Villechaize eventually demanded to be paid as much as Montalban and was subsequently fired.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', like the aforementioned ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', also reportedly suffered from Creator/JossWhedon's [[PrimaDonnaDirector Prima Donna Show Runner]] tendencies. Writer Jose Melina [[https://deadline.com/2021/02/more-speak-out-against-buffy-producer-joss-whedon-1234693460/ stated]] that Whedon treated the show's writing staff like dirt and thought it was funny to be mean to them, with the female writers singled out for the worst of it. According to him, Whedon would boast of an incident where he made one of his writers cry twice during a meeting.
* Creator/AlfonsoRibeiro confirmed that the whole cast of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' was like one big family, except for [[Creator/JanetHubert Janet Hubert-Whitten]], who was difficult to work with and toxic to be around, and really killed the mood on set. This was further corroborated by Creator/JamesAvery in a June 2013 edition of ''OMG! Insider'', in which he remarked that he constantly had to remind Hubert-Whitten that the show was ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', not "''Philip and Vivian of Bel-Air''." She was allegedly fired from the show due her conflict with Creator/WillSmith which lasted all the way to 2020, where they finally buried the hatchet when the cast came together for a reunion special celebrating 30 years of the show.

** Samantha Marie Ware (who played Jane Hayward in Season 6) was not nearly so diplomatic, accusing Michele of making her life a "living hell" on set. Michele tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was the last straw for Ware (who is black), who called Michele a {{hypocrite}} and accused her of subjecting her to routine racist abuse on set, including claiming that she'd "shit in [her] wig". Ware claimed that she almost quit Hollywood because of her experience. Shortly after, several of Michele's co-stars from ''Glee'' and other projects she'd worked on all [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lea-michele-has-been-terrorizing-people-since-she-was-12-years-old-say-former-castmates chimed in]] to support Ware's accusations, with some of them adding their own horror stories of working with Michele and even those defending her from some of the worst charges admitting that she was unpleasant to work with.

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Creator/BeaArthur reportedly did not get along with her co-stars very well. Creator/BettyWhite admitted that they did not have a good relationship, and that Bea found Betty's optimism annoying. Rue [=McLanahan=] has said she didn't have a relationship with Bea either, despite the fact that they had worked together before on ''Series/{{Maude}}'', calling her very eccentric. With the exception of Betty and Rue, the cast weren't really friends. That said, all four maintained that they respected each other professionally and worked well together regardless of any personal differences.
* ''Series/GoodTimes'': Jimmie Walker (JJ) often clashed with the actors playing his onscreen parents, Creator/JohnAmos (James) and Creator/EstherRolle (Florida), as they felt his slapstick comedy reeked of UncleTomfoolery. However, Walker had the producers on his side, who encouraged his [[{{Catchphrase}} dy-no-mite]] behavior because JJ had become the show's BreakoutCharacter. As a result, Amos was released from his contract in the third season due to his disagreements, with the explanation that James [[DroppedABridgeOnHim died offscreen]]. Rolle, having lost her ally in the cast, left the show after the fourth season, her own disappearance explained as her [[PutOnABus remarrying and moving to Arizona]] with her new husband. When ratings sank due to viewers feeling the show had JumpedTheShark without its two original leads, the producers begged Rolle to come back, but one of her demands was for JJ to grow up and become the man of the house. The producers acquiesced, but Rolle and Walker had a chilly relationship for the remainder of the series. Even when Rolle passed away in 1998, Walker was the only former ''Good Times'' castmember not to attend her funeral.
* Another notorious example was the dislike between Creator/JuliannaMargulies and Archie Panjabi during later seasons of ''Series/TheGoodWife'', which led to them refusing to be on set together to the point that a pivotal scene in the show's finale had to be created using green-screen.

* ''Series/GraceUnderFire'''s cast suffered from Creator/BrettButler's antics:

** Cameron also used his reputation as the ''de facto'' star as leverage to fire those he had issues with. Most notably, Cameron's mother, who was also his agent, pressured the producers to fire Julie [=McCullough=], a former ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' model from the show or else he wouldn't renew his contract. [=McCullough=] claims she was specifically targeted because of her ''Playboy'' past, though Cameron denied it. Finally, the producers had enough and demanded to ABC executives that they fire Cameron; the network refused and the producers quit.

* Creator/LeonardRoberts hoped that the role of D.L. Hawkins on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' would be his StarMakingRole, but instead, it [[https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/heroes-leonard-roberts-ali-larter-1234854439/ "nearly broke him."]] Much of it came down to friction with his co-star Creator/AliLarter, who played his character's wife Niki Sanders, and the indifference shown to it by ShowRunner Tim Kring. D.L. and Niki were portrayed as being in a fraught relationship, and this was reflected in Roberts and Larter's interactions, with Larter often dismissing and belittling Roberts and feeling uncomfortable shooting intimate scenes with him. The fact that Larter was white and Roberts was Black also added a racial dimension to their hostility, especially since she had no such reservations about shooting a similar, more explicit scene where she seduces her white co-star Creator/AdrianPasdar. Other people who had worked on ''Heroes'' reported that Larter was a divisive presence in general, and got along poorly with several people on set. During production, ''Magazine/TVGuide'' published [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/missed-32131/ a blind item]] reporting hostility between two unnamed opposite-sex co-stars to the point where their scenes together had been cut down, and Roberts not only confirmed that it was about him and Larter, he mentions bringing it up with producer Dennis Hammer, who simply assured him that they were taking care of it. When Roberts learned that two other non-white characters, [[spoiler:Isaac and Simone]], were due to be [[BlackDudeDiesFirst killed off]], he started getting nervous about the fate of [=D.L.=], culminating in him being pulled into Kring's office with Hammer before the start of production on season 2. There, he was told plainly that the "Ali Larter situation" had led to [=D.L.=] being [[BusCrash killed off between seasons]]. The stress of his experience working on ''Heroes'' dealt a serious blow to his career; only in 2017 did he land another major role, as Ray Stabler on ''Series/{{Mom}}''.

* Vivian Vance and William Frawley, who played Ethel and Fred Mertz on ''Series/ILoveLucy'', despised one another. The contempt grew to such extremes that Vance would often memorize her scripts just to see how much screen time she had with Frawley. Frawley was reportedly furious with Vance for turning down an opportunity to make a Fred and Ethel spinoff after the conclusion of the series. Legend has it that Vance, upon hearing that Frawley was dead, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing ordered Champagne]] for the entire restaurant she was in. Despite the hostilities, both were said to be true professionals on the set and were noted for their amazing chemistry with each other on screen, to the point that when it first came out, fans of the show could not believe it. That being said, part of why they worked on screen together was in part because the pair played an embodiment of LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.

** Noth stayed on an extra year, partly because he was [[MrFanservice very popular with female viewers]], and partly because unlike Moriarty, he avoided tilting at windmills and focused his ire on Wolf himself. Noth even claimed the show was better with an all-male cast. After his contract was up at the end of the fifth season, Wolf declined to renew it and Noth was fired - and replaced with another MrFanservice in Creator/BenjaminBratt as the new junior detective. However, Noth and Wolf patched things up surprisingly quickly - just three years later Noth's character of Det. Mike Logan returned as the lead character of the only TV movie in the franchise's history, ''Exiled: A Law & Order Movie'', and went on to costar on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' after star Creator/VincentDOnofrio started to experience burnout due to the latter series' grueling schedule.

* There was some of this on ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', as revealed in a much later retrospective. According to John Lloyd, the producer, when Creator/RowanAtkinson took control of the VHS compilations, he essentially cut Creator/PamelaStephenson out entirely, and when Lloyd questioned this said he just didn't think she was funny. Creator/GriffRhysJones has said that he felt it became "The Rowan Atkinson Show", which is why he and Creator/MelSmith decided to move on to ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'' (although this doesn't seem to have been about Atkinson personally, as they were happy to work with him on other projects).

** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' originated a conflict between Austin St. John (Jason) and Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy). Exact details vary, ranging from personality clashes to arguments over [[CastTheExpert their personal martial arts credentials]]. The severity of the conflict has gone up and down, they seemed fine appearing with each other for various reunion episodes and publicity opportunities, but notably seemed to avoid doing convention panels together. This unfortunately went darker as [[LoonyFan a man was arrested at the Phoenix Comic Con]] trying to carry weapons inside, claiming to be targeting Frank (among others) due to this rumored feud. Frank himself made a public statement afterward about the need for safety at the conventions as well as putting to rest the stories of the feud (indicating either it was exaggerated or the two of them decided to bury it).

** It was allegedly the main reason for the departure of Sal Barone, the original D.J., after the pilot. He and Creator/SaraGilbert didn't get along.
** The show was notorious for Creator/RoseanneBarr constantly fighting with and belittling her writers, which was a problem from the very beginning. She resented the pilot writer and initial showrunner Matt Williams being credited as the sole creator of the show despite it having been based on her "Domestic Goddess" stand-up persona (she felt that he should have been credited as the show's developer, with herself as the creator; as a compromise, she received a credit for "based on a character created by"). The two constantly butted heads over how her character was portrayed; she outright refused to say a line he wrote ("well, you're my equal in bed, but that's it"). Williams approached her co-stars Creator/JohnGoodman and Creator/LaurieMetcalf hoping to entice them to go along with a ReTool in which Roseanne's character would be written out; they both supported Roseanne, and Williams, outflanked, left the show after the first season. (He would go on to co-create ''Series/HomeImprovement''.) From then on, Roseanne made it clear that ''she'' was in charge, and often spoke poorly of her writers in particular and of television writing in general to anyone who would listen. Most writers and writer-producers who've worked on the show have little nice to say about the atmosphere in the writers' room, and even writers on other shows would make digs at her tyranny (on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the Girls film a commercial in their kitchen and the director compares a cranky Rose to working on "The Roseanne Barr Show"). Most notably, Creator/ChuckLorre had his first of many run-ins with [[ThePrimaDonna prima-donna stars]] on this show before moving on to ''Series/GraceUnderFire'', ''Series/{{Cybill}}'', and ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' in his later career.
** It happened again with the show's 2018 {{revival}}, which was already contentious given not only Roseanne's history, but her recent embrace of far-right politics and [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]]. The latter point ultimately became [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the show's undoing]], with Creator/{{ABC}} canceling it after Roseanne made a particularly toxic set of tweets[[note]]Specifically, she compared Valerie Jarrett, a former official in the UsefulNotes/BarackObama administration and a Black woman, to an ape.[[/note]] -- but not before head writer Creator/WandaSykes and actress Creator/EmmaKenney (who played Roseanne's granddaughter Harris) quit the show in disgust. The backstage drama even spread to other ABC shows, with ''Series/BlackIsh'' creator Creator/KenyaBarris [[https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/kenya-barris-roseanne-abc-jill-soloway-gloria-calderon-kellett-1202834347/ preparing to walk away from his show]] unless ABC fired Roseanne;[[note]]Barris would leave ''black•ish'' after that season anyway, in large part due to ABC shelving an anti-[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] episode for the same reason they hired Roseanne: to woo viewers in conservative-leaning Middle America.[[/note]] after she was fired, he compared the situation to ABC "hiring a monster and then [asking] why the monster was killing villagers." ABC, not wanting to part with their highest-rated show but also knowing Roseanne was (once again) irreparably toxic to the crew, went ''Series/TheHoganFamily'' route by firing Roseanne and rebranding the show as ''Series/TheConners'', which was enough to placate Kenney and crewmembers to stay on the program.

** Dane Curley (Justin Cifaretto) revealed on Reddit that Creator/JoePantoliano only found out that his character would be killed off at a read-through and he took the news badly:

*** Creator/DeniseCrosby was told up front that her character was not going to get much screentime (as they were attempting a replicate the Kirk, Spock and Bones PowerTrio with Picard, Crusher and Data) and because her bridge station was directly behind the captain, she would spend all day on set with few lines and often just her legs in the frame. This encouraged her to request to be written out. She would also reveal in interviews years later that she did not get on with Gene Roddenberry, who was very upfront with her about the fact that her role was to be the show's sex appeal and little else. According to her, this was the reason why she was so abruptly killed off as Roddenberry had been very clear to her that if she left, there would be no coming back. Its noteworthy that her next appearance in the show would be after he had relinquished creative control due to ill-health.

* The short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} sitcom ''Series/{{Thea}}'' had star Thea Vidale and her on-screen daughter, Music/{{Brandy}}, not get along. Although the reasons for the beef remain murky, depending on whom you believe, it was either because the veteran comedienne was envious of the up-and-coming singer and actress or it was because Brandy was something of a brat on the set, not in any way helped by the presence of her [[StageMom mother/manager]] Sonja.

* In 1980, in response to ''[[Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson The Tonight Show]]'' being shortened from ninety minutes to sixty, Creator/{{NBC}} decided to ReTool the following (expanded) program, ''Tomorrow with Tom Snyder'', by having ''Today'' entertainment correspondent Rona Barrett co-anchor with Snyder. The two notoriously did not get along -- Snyder resented how Barrett's fluffy infotainment segments clashed with the low-key interview style ''Tomorrow'' was known for, while Barrett regarded Snyder as a sexist who regularly mistreated her behind the scenes; she also chafed at how Snyder relegated her segment to the last thirty minutes of the show (at about 1:30 a.m.) each night. By June of 1981, with ratings for the program failing, Barrett had had enough and announced her departure. ''Tomorrow'' 's fortunes never recovered and the program was cancelled in December 1981. When asked whether Snyder or Barrett was more responsible for the failure, an anonymous NBC executive was quoted as replying, "That's like asking if you'd rather die of a heart attack or cancer."

* Creator/NinaDobrev admitted that she and ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' costar Creator/PaulWesley "despised each other" their first few months of shooting, which was ironic because they were playing love interests. They smoothed it out sooner than later.
* The first season or two of ''Series/{{Webster}}'' were marked by this as creators, costars and co-producers Susan Clark and Alex Karras feuded, sometimes with each other but more often with Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{ABC}}, both of whom had reneged on early promises that the show's storylines would focus on all three of its main characters in favor of [[BreakoutCharacter all Webster all the time, trying to capitalize on child star Emmanuel Lewis's sudden fame]]. While Lewis was often quickly hustled off set when the shouting started, he heard enough of it to start internalizing and believing it was ''his'' fault. By the third season, everyone's differences had been worked out and they got along for the rest of the series' run.

** Following the Britney incident, Alexa and her mother went to the Nickelodeon offices to have a meeting with Schneider and other Nick and [[Creator/ViacomCBS Viacom]] executives, including VP of Talent, Sharon Lieblein, who asked her, "Why are you always crying?". Alexa claims she was forced to enter the room alone (suggesting that she wouldn't be able to comfortably tell her side with her mother hovering over her), and was belittled by Schneider, who told her, "The show is not called ''Nicole 101''." He also agreed with Britney's alleged remarks that Alexa should not be working in the acting industry, and that she just needs to deal with whatever attitude Jamie Lynn shows towards her, since she's the star. Alexa tearfully said, "I don't want anyone to not like me.", to which Schneider responded by yelling, "''No one'' likes you!" This sent Alexa running out of the room, sobbing. Her mother demanded that she be released from her contract. At first, Nickelodeon refused, then eventually relented, but banned her from all future UsefulNotes/{{Kids Choice Award}}s. Nicole was PutOnABus after Season 2, and she was even left out of the opening credits of the in-universe TV show she and the rest of the cast were piloting in the "Spring Break-Up" episode.