Television shows seem well-organized and choreographed. Yet, not everything about them always goes according to plan.
For example, an incidental character sometimes steals a scene and creates memorable television history.
Then, there are the characters who take things a step further by stealing scenes repeatedly until they become the stars themselves.
Particular characters, such as Dr. Gregory House on House, are often created to be standouts. Yet, occasionally, those main protagonists are entirely overshadowed.
In rare instances, characters who were supposed to be incidental became regulars and took over entire shows.
The Fonz on Happy Days (1974-1984)
Happy Days underwent several changes, including the recasting and eventual disappearance of Chuck Cunningham's character, but Arthur (The Fonz) Fonzarelli's addition most dramatically altered the show's trajectory.
Initially, Happy Days focused on the Cunningham family, especially teenager Richie (Ron Howard). The Fonz (Henry Winkler) was a side character. However, the motorcycle-riding, leather jacket-wearing greaser soon took over.
For example, an incidental character sometimes steals a scene and creates memorable television history.
Then, there are the characters who take things a step further by stealing scenes repeatedly until they become the stars themselves.
Particular characters, such as Dr. Gregory House on House, are often created to be standouts. Yet, occasionally, those main protagonists are entirely overshadowed.
In rare instances, characters who were supposed to be incidental became regulars and took over entire shows.
The Fonz on Happy Days (1974-1984)
Happy Days underwent several changes, including the recasting and eventual disappearance of Chuck Cunningham's character, but Arthur (The Fonz) Fonzarelli's addition most dramatically altered the show's trajectory.
Initially, Happy Days focused on the Cunningham family, especially teenager Richie (Ron Howard). The Fonz (Henry Winkler) was a side character. However, the motorcycle-riding, leather jacket-wearing greaser soon took over.
- 4/29/2024
- by Jessica Kosinski
- TVfanatic
When she’s not earning laughs as the flighty but metamorphosing Summer Dutkowsky, the self-proclaimed “hot one” of Girls5eva, the real Busy Philipps — beloved actor, internet personality, and podcaster — has spent the past seven years building a reputation as the brutally honest one.
Around 2017, Philipps started chronicling her daily life on the then-nascent Instagram Stories, speaking directly into the camera with a confessional “Ok … You guys …,” followed by whatever might pop into her brain at any given moment. One story, for example, is an admission of keeping running shoes...
Around 2017, Philipps started chronicling her daily life on the then-nascent Instagram Stories, speaking directly into the camera with a confessional “Ok … You guys …,” followed by whatever might pop into her brain at any given moment. One story, for example, is an admission of keeping running shoes...
- 3/14/2024
- by Rachel Brodsky
- Rollingstone.com
Dawson’s Creek leading lady Katie Holmes had very strong feelings about who Joey Potter should end up with in the show’s series finale, the new book Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson’s Creek: How 7 Teen Shows Transformed Television (shop Amazon and Wal-mart) reveals.
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After departing the iconic WB drama...
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After departing the iconic WB drama...
- 6/28/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Michelle Williams is a woman who made it big when she starred in the hit television show Dawson’s Creek. She wasn’t the main star of the series. Williams wasn’t Joey Potter, the girl next door, but she did play a pivotal role in the show and in our lives growing up. She is a woman who has led a very public life, but we don’t know her at all. What we do know about Michelle Williams is that she always comes across as a petite, adorable, sweet girl-next-door kind of woman, but she is not necessarily. She’s not nearly as
Michelle Williams on Her Acting Career and Preferred Roles...
Michelle Williams on Her Acting Career and Preferred Roles...
- 12/24/2022
- by Tiffany Raiford
- TVovermind.com
That collective sigh of relief you heard last summer? It was the internet learning that Never Have I Ever’s Paxton Hall-Yoshida – the dreamy high school senior with high-set dimples and a jawline that could cut diamonds – is actually played by 31-year-old actor Darren Barnet. Yes, we may have fallen for the brooding jock with unprobed depths as he roamed the halls of Sherman Oaks High on the Netflix hit, but his real-life age gave our crushes a plausible veneer of respectability. We must have sensed this man’s much older soul. If anything, we were responding to his Duchenne smile, and what child star could achieve such crinkly eyed warmth?
In truth, it was still kind of creepy. He was playing a teenage heartthrob after all. But in the season three finale to Mindy Kaling’s sensationally funny coming-of-age sitcom, Paxton finally crossed TV’s undeniable threshold into adulthood: he graduated from high school.
In truth, it was still kind of creepy. He was playing a teenage heartthrob after all. But in the season three finale to Mindy Kaling’s sensationally funny coming-of-age sitcom, Paxton finally crossed TV’s undeniable threshold into adulthood: he graduated from high school.
- 8/19/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
We may never know the full truth behind Delia Owens’ checkered past as a conservationist — which almost certainly seem to include a militant, white savior-minded approach to policing Zambian wildlife preserves, and may also extend to being a “co-conspirator and accessory” to murder — but the secret to the “Where the Crawdads Sing” author’s success is now as obvious as her plotting, even to those of us who had never heard of the runaway bestseller until Taylor Swift invented it a few short weeks ago. Olivia Newman’s (“First Match”) slick and glossy beach read of a movie adaptation brings it all right to the surface. Which is just as well, because .
Yes, this is an expertly contrived melodrama about defiance in the face of abandonment, and sure, it’s also a faintly self-exonerating caricature of a natural woman unspoiled by Western society. But underneath the story’s humid romance with Carolina marshland,...
Yes, this is an expertly contrived melodrama about defiance in the face of abandonment, and sure, it’s also a faintly self-exonerating caricature of a natural woman unspoiled by Western society. But underneath the story’s humid romance with Carolina marshland,...
- 7/12/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Dawson's Creek premiered back in 1998, over twenty years ago now. It recently hit Netflix, allowing today's audiences to view it with a fresh eye.
The show was quite ground-breaking for its day. It created the teen drama genre, a show about high school kids, played by adults, dealing with adult problems.
Many shows have done this format since, but Dawson's Creek was the first. It lasted six seasons, ending with a two-hour finale involving a time-jump.
This finale, in my humble opinion, blew. It was full of problems, from storylines to endgames. Yes, endgames, because no, I am not okay with who everybody ended up with.
Before you accuse me of being team Dawson, let me assure you, I am not. However, that doesn't mean Joey should have ended up with Pacey.
I'm still not happy with how Joey's story ended -- or Pacey's, Jen's, or Jack's. Dawson's ending was relatively acceptable.
The show was quite ground-breaking for its day. It created the teen drama genre, a show about high school kids, played by adults, dealing with adult problems.
Many shows have done this format since, but Dawson's Creek was the first. It lasted six seasons, ending with a two-hour finale involving a time-jump.
This finale, in my humble opinion, blew. It was full of problems, from storylines to endgames. Yes, endgames, because no, I am not okay with who everybody ended up with.
Before you accuse me of being team Dawson, let me assure you, I am not. However, that doesn't mean Joey should have ended up with Pacey.
I'm still not happy with how Joey's story ended -- or Pacey's, Jen's, or Jack's. Dawson's ending was relatively acceptable.
- 1/27/2021
- by Leora W
- TVfanatic
And you thought Joey Potter's love life was complicated. Despite being notoriously private and tight-lipped when it comes to her personal life, Katie Holmes is once again back in the news, thanks to her latest romance. The 41-year-old star has often been photographed getting cozy with New York City restaurateur Emilio Vitolo Jr., who called her his baby in a since-deleted Instagram. And while Katie herself has yet comment on the new man in her life, that hasn't stopped people from continuing to be curious about her love life. That, of course, could be because she once dated one of her Dawson's Creek costars, giving fans the rare satisfaction of their favorite on-screen pair being...
- 12/18/2020
- E! Online
Katie Holmes is giving us all the Dawson's Creek feels on this Tuesday morning. In new photos posted to Instagram, the actress—who portrayed the iconic Joey Potter on the beloved TV series—looks like she just stepped off the set of the hit show and into a glamorous photo shoot! Amid New York Fashion Week, Holmes took the time to pose for some gorgeous pictures in the park as she prepared to attend the Zimmermann show. "@genevieveherr @josephmaine thank u both for getting me ready for the beautiful @zimmermann show," Holmes wrote alongside one glam shot, thanking her team. This past May actually marked 16 years since Dawson's Creek went off the air. The show—also...
- 9/10/2019
- E! Online
In early 2005, Katie Holmes' life was going in a certain direction. She was playing the love of Bruce Wayne's life in Batman Begins, the first film in Christopher Nolan's hotly anticipated trilogy about the Caped Crusader, due out that June. And Thank You for Smoking, in which she played a manipulative reporter who has an affair with a tobacco lobbyist, would have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival that September. So Holmes' year definitely began with certain hopes, dreams and expectations. Just two years removed from ending up with Pacey on Dawson's Creek, the 26-year-old actress had already put her Joey Potter days firmly behind...
- 12/18/2018
- E! Online
2016's The Boy was a surprise hit, winning over many horror fans with its third act twist and making enough at the worldwide box office that Brahms is making a return! STXfilms has just announced The Boy 2, starring Katie Holmes this time around and with William Brent Bell returning to direct:
Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment have today announced their latest joint venture, The Boy 2, a follow up to the successful horror-thriller feature The Boy (2016), which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. Katie Holmes will headline the cast in the role of ‘Liza’. William Brent Bell will return to direct the sequel.
Principal photography will begin in Victoria, British Columbia on January 14th, 2019.
Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into the estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.
Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment have today announced their latest joint venture, The Boy 2, a follow up to the successful horror-thriller feature The Boy (2016), which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. Katie Holmes will headline the cast in the role of ‘Liza’. William Brent Bell will return to direct the sequel.
Principal photography will begin in Victoria, British Columbia on January 14th, 2019.
Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into the estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.
- 10/23/2018
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
I don't know how many of you watched Dawson's Creek when you were growing up, but it is an iconic teen drama from late 90s early 2000s that had a huge following, so chances are some of you watched the coming-of-age drama. You don't have to admit it if you don't want to! I'm not going to admit it.
The series ended in 2003 and after fifteen years, the cast has reunited for the first time since the show went on the air. Entertainment Weekly got several of the cast members back together for the 20th Anniversary of when the series premiered, which was in 1998.
The actors in attendance include Katie Holmes (Joey Potter), James Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery), Joshua Jackson (Pacey Witter), Michelle Williams (Jen Lindley), Busy Phillips (Audrey Liddell), Kerr Smith (Jack McPhee), Meredith Monroe (Andie McPhee), and Mary Beth Peil (Evelyn “Grams” Ryan). Creator Kevin Williamson (Scream...
The series ended in 2003 and after fifteen years, the cast has reunited for the first time since the show went on the air. Entertainment Weekly got several of the cast members back together for the 20th Anniversary of when the series premiered, which was in 1998.
The actors in attendance include Katie Holmes (Joey Potter), James Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery), Joshua Jackson (Pacey Witter), Michelle Williams (Jen Lindley), Busy Phillips (Audrey Liddell), Kerr Smith (Jack McPhee), Meredith Monroe (Andie McPhee), and Mary Beth Peil (Evelyn “Grams” Ryan). Creator Kevin Williamson (Scream...
- 3/29/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Cue the Paula Cole theme song! It's been 20 years since Dawson's Creek aired its first episode on The WB, and to celebrate its anniversary, Entertainment Weekly reunited eight fan favorites to share their memories of the teen drama. The magazine released four solo covers, each featuring one of the lead actors—Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams—and one group cover. (Williams shared her solo cover with Bff Busy Phillips, who starred as Audrey Liddell.) And in addition to conducting exclusive interviews with Holmes (Joey Potter), Jackson (Pacey Witter), Van der Beek (Dawson Leery) and Williams (Jen Lindley), the magazine took pictures and filmed videos of fellow...
- 3/28/2018
- E! Online
If you, like Katie Holmes, celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dawson's Creek, you probably helped make the actress' day. "I was really excited by the fan response and it really made me realize, because at the time we were working a lot and we were so young and it was hard to understand the impact, so it's really nice when people bring it up 20 years later and I feel really grateful about that," Holmes told E! News at Delta Air Lines' Grammy party. Holmes also marked the premiere milestone on Instagram with a photo of the pilot script signed by the cast. In an interview, series creator Kevin Williamson reflected on Holmes' audition for the role of Joey Potter. "Joe was...
- 1/26/2018
- E! Online
Just like fans, Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek is getting nostalgic 20 years after the show premiered on The WB.
The 40-year-old actor shared a throwback photo of the core four cast members taken a week after they first met. Katie Holmes (who played Joey Potter) smiles at the camera next to Joshua Jackson (Pacey Witter), while Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery) and Michelle Williams (Jen Lindley) gather in for the group shot.
“#tbt Squad ‘97,” he captioned the image. “I’d known these people all of 7 days when this pic was taken. 20 years ago this week the little...
The 40-year-old actor shared a throwback photo of the core four cast members taken a week after they first met. Katie Holmes (who played Joey Potter) smiles at the camera next to Joshua Jackson (Pacey Witter), while Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery) and Michelle Williams (Jen Lindley) gather in for the group shot.
“#tbt Squad ‘97,” he captioned the image. “I’d known these people all of 7 days when this pic was taken. 20 years ago this week the little...
- 1/25/2018
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s been two decades since we first met Dawson, Joey, Pacey and Jen in the fictional, sleepy-yet-tumultuous town of Capeside, Massachusetts. But alas, it was Jan. 20, 1998, that Dawson’s Creek splashed onto screens in its debut on The WB (which was eventually replaced by The CW).
From the first time Katie Holmes‘ Joey Potter scaled a ladder that led to the Steven Spielberg-adorned bedroom of the titular character, played by James Van Der Beek, tweens and teens within five miles of a television were instantly hooked. Next-door-neighbors-turned-BFFs forced to grapple with...
From the first time Katie Holmes‘ Joey Potter scaled a ladder that led to the Steven Spielberg-adorned bedroom of the titular character, played by James Van Der Beek, tweens and teens within five miles of a television were instantly hooked. Next-door-neighbors-turned-BFFs forced to grapple with...
- 1/20/2018
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
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