Attempting to boost ratings for season four of "Ally McBeal", FOX hired Robert Downey Jr. to play Ally's love interest. With Downey on the show, ratings improved, and the show's producers began making plans to end the season with a wedding between the two characters, but before the final episodes went into production, Downey was arrested on a drug-related charge. FOX fired Downey and instructed producer David Kelly to abort the wedding storyline and remove Downey's character from the rest of the season. The following season, Jon Bon Jovi was hired to play Victor, Ally's newest love interest.