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Alan Carr had an emotional night at the 31st National Television Awards on Tuesday as he received the Special Recognition prize following a whirlwind year for the comedian.

“Reacher” may have made Alan Ritchson a major star, but the actor was already quite busy long before the Prime Video series. Even outside of the major roles on this list, he’s landed a series of charming one-off roles. He starred in the “Black Mirror” episode “Nosedive,” as the handsome, potentially closeted groom of the main character’s…

Like so many character actors of his era, Alan Hale Jr. spent much of the 1950s and ’60s guest starring on classic Western TV shows. But the mid-20th Century didn’t just give us a slew of small-screen oaters. It also gave us the fantasy sitcom, or “magi-com” — sitcoms where the “sit” in question involved some sort…

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Comics can be an obscure hobby, with an arcane history that only fans can understand. Maybe less so today, what with big-budget films showing off superheroics on the regular, but since the modern comic book was born in the 1930s, it’s been known mainly to a small but faithful following.

Alan Ritchson is back as Jack Reacher, and Season 4 has already landed in Prime Video’s Top 3 in the United States. The show’s immediate success confirms it as one of the platform’s most dependable franchises. With viewing data still fresh, Reacher is expected to climb higher over the weekend.

Reacher, starring Alan Ritchson, is finally back with a new season. As always, comic book fans watching the hit Prime Video series will be reminded of how great Ritchson is in the role and how either DC or Marvel needs to snap him up for their shared universes. While many want to see him as…

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Amazon Prime Video’s new TV and movie releases for the week of August 10 to August 16, 2026, include the fourth season of Reacher.

Though he’ll always be best known as The Skipper from “Gilligan’s Island,” Alan Hale Jr. is somewhat of Western legend. Simply by dint of coming to prominence at a time when the genre was the most popular form of entertainment, Hale Jr. was as familiar with the Old West as any Western icon. In fact,…