ABC: Ritter Character Will Die on TV Show Tuesday , September 16, 2003 LOS ANGELES — ABC's "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" (search) will continue despite star John Ritter's (search) death and will show the TV family coping with his character's loss, the network said Tuesday. "Everybody recognizes that John loved that show. ... He'd have wanted the show to continue," Lloyd Braun, chairman of ABC Entertainment Television Group, told a telephone news conference. Braun and ABC Entertainment President Susan Lyne said the sitcom will debut next Tuesday as planned and that the network will air the three episodes Ritter filmed before his death last week. For complete story at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97507,00.html
