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Years before he was clashing politically with ex-hippie parents on the 1980s hit series “Family Ties,” traveling through time in the “Back to the Future” movies, working as deputy mayor of New York on a pre-Charlie Sheen “Spin City,” or playing Gerry on Apple TV’s “Shrinking,” Michael J. Fox played an orphan lounging on a yacht in “Leo…

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In the early days of Greyston Holt’s career — years before he took on the role of Detective Hudson Riley in Prime Video’s action thriller “Neagley” – the actor made guest appearances in a long list of fantastical shows such as “Stargate Universe,” “Once Upon a Time,” and “Supernatural,” just to name a few. He’d eventually…

In 1990, author H.G. Bissinger published a popular nonfiction book that detailed the story of the Periman High School football team, the Tigers, through their 1988 season. It was called “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream,” and it was terrifically popular, becoming a #1 New York Times Bestseller, a fact the publishers…

James Arness famously played Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years on the classic Western series “Gunsmoke,” one of the longest-running shows on TV. After “Gunsmoke” was over he played a different lawman, though this time he was in present-day California rather than on the frontier. “McClain’s Law” premiered on NBC on November 20, 1981, six…

Tom Hardy’s feature debut was Ridley Scott’s 2001 war thriller, “Black Hawk Down,” and he made his television breakout the same year with the HBO war drama, “Band of Brothers.” Easily one of the best HBO miniseries ever made, “Band of Brothers” featured Hardy in the supporting role of Private John A. Janovec, while the…