But it's not happening. Not yet, anyway.
The latest developments:
• The Associated Press released a previously unaired video of Cosby and his wife Camille in which he says "There's no response" to a question about the sex-abuse allegations swirling around him. "There is no comment about that. And I'll tell you why. I don't want to compromise your integrity, but I don't talk about it." The AP video also includes footage of Cosby asking the reporter if the part about the allegations can be edited out of the video.
• NBC is dropping its deal with Cosby to do a sitcom. The project has been scrapped, the network confirmed Wednesday.
• TV Land is pulling reruns of The Cosby Show , effective immediately.
• Cosby's stand-up show scheduled for Friday at the King Center for the Performing Arts at Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne , Fla., is sold out and Cosby's management team issued a statement saying it "will go on as scheduled." His show at Treasure Island in Las Vegas is also still on.
• Actress Raven-Symone posted an Instagram note saying that she was "never" taken advantage of while on The Cosby Show. "Everyone on that show treated me with nothing but kindness. Now keep me out of this!"
• SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is calling for a Dec. 5 dinner at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn., featuring Cosby as a performer be canceled. The University spokesman could not be reached for comment.
• Kraft foods spokesperson Lynne Galia had nothing to add to the Cosby conversation. "He started as spokesperson for Jell-O pudding in 1974 and worked off and on with the brand until 2003. In 2010, he joined the brand briefly for a campaign event to launch the refreshed Jell-O logo. We don't have a current relationship with him."
• Netflix has nixed a special it was set to air on Nov. 28 titled Bill Cosby at 77.
• Model Janice Dickinson is adding her name to the growing list of women accusing Cosby of sexual abuse, telling of an incident in which she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby in 1982. Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, called Dickinson's charges "false and outlandish" in a letter to the AP and suggested the actress was "seeking publicity to bolster her fading career."
• An old Cosby bit about drugging women is going viral.
• A former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., is now explaining why he didn't charge Cosby with sexual assault in 2005, even though he says he thought Cosby "did it." In an interview Tuesday, Bruce Castor told Philadelphia's NBC10, "At the time I remember thinking that he probably did do something inappropriate."
So why didn't he prosecute? "I didn't say that he didn't commit the crime," Castor says. "What I said was there was insufficient, admissible and reliable evidence upon which to base a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. That's 'prosecutors speak' for 'I think he did it but there's just not enough here to prosecute.' "
• And there's Tuesday night's Don Lemon interview.
Lemon interviewed with Cosby accuser Joan Tarshis and suggested a way she could have avoided being raped, something that has outraged many on Twitter.
Here's how the interview went:
LEMON: "Can I ask you this, because — and please, I don't mean to be crude, OK?"
TARSHIS: "Yeah."
LEMON: "Because I know some of you — and you said this last night, that he — you lied to him and said 'I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you do — if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.' "
TARSHIS: "Right."
LEMON: "And you said he made you perform oral sex."
TARSHIS: "Right."
LEMON: "You — you know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it."
TARSHIS: "Oh. Um, I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn't even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have."
LEMON: "Right. Meaning the using of the teeth, right?"
TARSHIS: "Yes, that's what I'm thinking you're —"
LEMON: "As a weapon."
TARSHIS: "Yeah, I didn't even think of it."
LEMON: "Biting. So, um —"
TARSHIS: "Ouch."
LEMON: "Yes. I had to ask. I mean, it is, yeah."
TARSHIS: "Yes. No, it didn't cross my mind."
On Wednesday, Lemon apologized on the air, saying, "As I am a victim myself I would never want to suggest that any victim could have prevented a rape. If my question to her struck anyone as insensitive, I am sorry as that is certainly and was not my intention."
Lemon wrote in a 2011 memoir of being sexually abused as a child.
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