Valerie Ettenhofer

Before William Shatner became Captain Kirk, Jeffrey Hunter played Captain Pike in the Star Trek pilot. But why didn't return to star in the show?

While filming 'The Twilight Zone' season 3 episode 'The Trade-Ins,' actor Joseph Schildkraut was living out a real-life tragedy.

For fans of "The X-Files" who watched the seminal '90s show live as it aired, the biggest mystery wasn't actually what happened to Mulder's sister: It was what happened to the show after Season 7.

In the tech business, timing is everything. Similarly, according to Mike Judge and Alec Berg, the HBO comedy "Silicon Valley" got out of the game at the right time.

"It's... a brand new car!" For more than half a century, CBS'fan-favorite game show "The Price is Right" has been making winning contestants jump for joy by handing out shiny sports cars, SUVs, and assorted novelty vehicles. But what actually happens to those cars on stage when the studio lights go dark?

"The Vampire Diaries" may have run for eight soapy, sexy seasons, but star Ian Somerhalder asked to leave the CW drama after just three, according to the behind-the-scenes book "I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of the Vampire Diaries." In an excerpt from the retrospective shared by Variety, Somerhalder and series co-creator and showrunner Julie Plec revealed that the star once met with Plec on the verge of tears, asking to be taken off the show. The reason? He thought Damon Salvatore was going soft.

If you find yourself watching an extra-grotesque episode of "Criminal Minds," there's a decent chance it was directed by series star Matthew Gray Gubler. Although Gubler's character, analytical genius Dr. Spencer Reid, has been largely absent from "Criminal Minds: Evolution" ( with one major exception ), he was present for all 354 episodes of the original "Criminal Minds" run. That's a massive body of work for any actor, but Gubler also stepped behind the camera for 12 freaky episodes from 2010 to 2018.

Valerie Ettenhofer The Only Major Actors Still Alive From Murder, She Wrote : For 12 seasons, "Murder, She Wrote" was the definitive cozy murder mystery show.

A Chilling Compliment Influenced The Final Two Seasons Of Netflix's Bojack Horseman "Bojack Horseman" is one of the best shows of all time about bad people.

Every Season Of Friday Night Lights Ranked "Friday Night Lights" holds a unique spot in America's collective pop cultural memory.