Since the show ended some of the actors continued working in the industry, some changed careers, and some found it hard to land roles. So let’s take a look at what the cast did after the show ended, and where are they today?

1/ Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris

Born : March 1, 1974 (age : 49).

Then:

Mark-Paul Gosselaar landed his breakout role as the precocious, goofball and the biggest class clowns Zack Morris in 1989.

The role of Zack Morris was the most important and the most difficult characters to cast. Gosselaar was just 14 years old when he got the part.

Now:

Since saying goodbye to Zack Morris in 1994, Gosselaar has continued to find success on the silver screen.

He acted alongside Candace Cameron Bure in “Freshman Fall” (1996). From 2001-2005, he portrayed Det. John Clark, Jr. on the series “NYPD Blue”.

In 2011, He landed a leading role on TNT’s “Franklin & Bash.” Gosselaar also starred on the series “The Passage,” in 2019.

He also reprised his “Saved by the Bell” role for the 2020 reboot.

from 2019-2021, Gosselaar has starred on the TV sitcom “mixed-ish.” And starring in the 2023 NBC procedural drama Found.

2/ Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski

Born: January 23, 1974 (age 49).

Then:

Tiffani Thiessen had her breakout role when she was 15 years old as the all-American cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell.

Now:

After Saved By the Bell, Thiessen appeared as a regular guest star on the series, Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1994-2000.

In the 2000s, Thiessen appeared on series like “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place“.

From 2015-2017, she hosted a cooking show called Dinner at Tiffani’s. she returned to TV in 2009 where she landed a starring roles in both Fastlane and White Collar.

She also joined the main cast in the spinoff, Saved by the Bell: The College Years. Most recently she’s hosting MTV comedy clip show Deliciousness since 2020.

3/ Mario Lopez as A.C. Slater

Born : October 10, 1973 (age 50).

Then:

Mario Lopez already had some success in films and broadway before landing the role of A.C. Slater in Saved by the Bell in 1989, at the age of 16.  

Now:

Since his days as a teen heartthrob, Lopez has worked as an actor, a host, and an author publishing three non-fiction books.

He competed on the third season of Dancing with the Stars in 2006. He also reprised his role as , A.C. Slater, for 1993’s “The College Years,” which ran for one season.

From 2008- 2011, he hosted MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew“. And the celeb news-focused show “Extra,” from 2007- 2019.

Since 2019, Lopez has hosted the shows “All Access,” “Access Hollywood” and “Access Daily.”

In 2023, Lopez worked as the manager of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, releasing their first single under Lopez, named “Mi Amore“.

4/ Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano

Then:

Elizabeth played the role of Jessie Spano the smart student, budding activist, and the voice of reason in the gang.

Now:

In 1995, she landed a role in the film Showgirls. The following year she appeared in The First Wives Club, alongside Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

From 2002-2012, She starred in CSI: Miami, and The L Word from 2004-2009.

In 2010, she published a New York Times best-selling book, Ask Elizabeth. She did not reprise her role for the 2020 saved by the bell reboot.

5/ Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle

Born: March 25, 1974 (age 49).

Then:

Her first major role was in saved by the bell as Bayside’s favorite fashionista Lisa Marie Turtle. She played that role until the end of the series.

Now:

From 1993-1994, she appeared on Days of Our Lives. The next year she appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful for a year.

From 2010-2011, Voorhies wrote and self-published three books: Reciprocity, Trek of the Cheshire, and A True Light.

She reprised her role in Saved by the Bell reboot in 2020.

6/ Dustin Diamond as Samuel “Screech” Powers

Born : January 7, 1977, and died on February 1, 2021 (age 44).

Then:

Dustin Diamond rose to prominence as Zack Morris’s nerdy friend Samuel “Screech” Powers, in Saved by the Bell.

Now:

Since the show ended, Diamond has had a series of personal and professional setbacks. He reprised his role in the series Saved By The Bell, Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

In 2006, he directed and released his own sex tape, featuring himself and two other women.

In 2009, Diamond published a book about the behind the scenes secrets of the show Saved By The Bell titled Behind the Bell.

In 2014, Diamond was arrested for stabbing a man in a bar fight, he was sent to jail for three months. He was arrest again in 2016 for violating his terms of probation.

Sadly, Dustin died on February 1, 2021 at age 44 from stahe four small cell carcinoma of the lungs.

7/ Dennis Haskins as Mr. Belding

Born : November 18, 1950 (age 73).

Then:

He played the role of the goofy principal at Bayside High.

Now:

After the series ended, he got into TV with minor roles including ; The Twilight Zone and Magnum P.I. 

From 1993-2000, he portrayed Mr. B for another seven seasons on “Saved by the Bell: The New Class.” 

8/ Ed Alonzo as Max

Born: July 26, 1968 (age 55).

Then:

Magician Ed Alonzo appeared only on the first season of the show as Max, the magician/owner of the gang’s hangout, The Max.

Now:

In 2009 he worked with Britney Spears to create illusions for her 2009 The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour.

He performed his show Ed Alonzo’s Psycho Circus of Magic and Mayhem several times from 2012-2016. He also reprised his role as Max in the 2020 reboot of Saved By The Bell.

9/ Leanna Creel as Tori Scott

Born : August 27, 1970 (age 53).

Then:

Leanna Creel joined the cast in the show’s final season as newcomer Tori Scott.

Now:

Creel continued to work as an actress, a photographer, a filmmaker.

She currently runs the production company, Creel Studios, a production company specializing in food, travel and lifestyle content.

10/ Leah Remini as Stacey Carosi

Born: June 15, 1970 (age 53).

Then:

Remini joined the show in season 3 where she played Zack’s girlfriend, Stacey Carosi.

Now:

After her spot on Saved by the Bell, Remini landed a starring role in the popular sitcom The King of Queens (1998 until 2007).

In 2013, Remini also joined the cast of the sitcom The Exes, filling a recurring role starting in season three.

Since 2021, she began hosting the Game Show Network original series People Puzzler.

11/ Ernie Sabella as Leon Carosi

Born : September 19, 1949 (age 74).

Then:

Ernie Sabella appeared as a guest star playing Leon Carosi, the father of Zack’s girlfriend.

Now:

In 2016, Sabella became a full-time cast member for the television series The Lion Guard voicing the role of Pumbaa.

12/ Patrick Muldoon as Jeff

Born : September 27, 1968 (age 55).

Then:

Do you remember Jeff: The older man that Kelly Kapowski broke up with Zack Morris for, and was her manager at The Max.

Now:

Throughout the ’90s, Muldoon appeared on popular shows and soap opera, like ; Melrose Place (1992-1999), and Days of Our Lives (1992 to 1995).

In 2015, Muldoon produced and starred in the movie Badge of Honor. In 2020, he appeared in the films Arkansas and The Comeback Trail.

13/ Tori Spelling as Violet 1990

Born : May 16, 1973 (age 50).

Then:

Tori Spelling guest starred in season two of Saved by the Bell as Screech’s nerdy love interest, Violet.

Now:

Spelling rose to fame when she landed a starring role as Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210.

In 2007, she started her own reality show with her husband Dean McDermott, called Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.  She’s also the author of six books.

In 2018, she appeared in the successful TV movie The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time.

14/ Soleil Moon Frye as Robin

Born : August 6, 1976 (age 47).

Then:

the child star guest starred on an episode of Saved by the Bell in its fourth season. She played the role of Robin, an ill-intentioned girlfriend of Screech.

Now:

After appearing in various teen shows and movies, Frye landed a role on Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 2000.

In 2005, she voiced the character of Zoey Howzer in the Disney’s series The Proud Family, and again in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

Since 2021, she appears in the Punky Brewster reboot.

1/ Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Ross Malinger as Jonah Baldwin

Born : July 7, 1984.

Then :

Ross Malinger was just 8 years old when he was cast in Sleepless in Seattle. It was the ninth acting credit for child star.

Malinger stole everyone’s heart as Jonah Baldwin, son of Hanks’ Sam Baldwin who recently lost his mother.

Now: 

Malinger is no retired and hasn’t acted since 2006. He reportedly worked as a manager of an Automotive Legends until the store shut down in 2009.

He reportedly still works at a series of car dealerships in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Gaby Hoffmann as Jessica:

Born : January 8, 1982.

Then :

At the age of 11, Hoffman stars as Jessica, Jonah’s friend.

Now :

She recently had a role in the 2021 film C’mon C’mon, and a leading role in the HBO sports drama television series, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty that premiered in 2022.

2/ You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Jeffrey Scaperrotta as Matt Fox

Born : march 10, 1993.

Then :

Scaperrotta made his acting debut as Joe’s 4-year-old half-brother, Matt Fox.

Now :

Scaperrotta is now 30  years old. He’s best known for his role as Dickie Stabler on the hit TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

His last onscreen appearance was in “Fort Tilden” (2015).

Hallee Hirsh as Annabelle Fox.

Born : December 16, 1987.

Then :

Hirsh played Joe’s 11-year-old aunt, Annabelle Fox.

Now :

Hirsh has not been active in film or television since 2014, except with one credit in the film Chasing The Rain in 2020.

At the end of 2014, she moved to Ashville, North Carolina with her family where they bought a doughnut shop called Hole Doughnuts.

3/ Love, Actually (2003)

Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Sam

Born : 16 May 1990.

Then :

At the age of 13 Brodie-Sangster had his first major theatrical film in Love Actually (2003), in which he played Sam.

Now :

He has grown into a serious actor, working in a wide genre of films from Phineas and Ferb to Game of Thrones and The Maze Runner franchise.

He recently starred as chess pro Benny Watts in the hit Netflix drama The Queen’s Gambit. And as Artful Dodger in the miniseries The Artful Dodger (2023).

Olivia olson as Joanna

Born : May 21, 1992.

Then :

Olivia at just 10 years old played the role of Joanna, the focus of Sam’s affection at school. The daughter of a famous singer and a great singer herself who wows the crowds with her rendition of Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

Now :

She competed in the X Factor Celebrity in 2019, where she was finished 12th in the competition.

In 2023, Olson reprised her role as Marceline the Vampire Queen in the series Adventures Time : Fionna and Cake.

4/ As Good As It Gets (1997)

Jesse James as Spencer Connelly

Born : September 14th, 1989.

Then :

James began his acting career at the age of 8 in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets, when he played the role of carol (Helen Hunt)’s son Spencer.

Now :

In 2008, James starred in and was an executive producer for the short film Manifest Destiny. His most recent role was in the 2014 film Wishin’ and Hopin’ 

5/ About a Boy (2002)

Nicholas Hoult as Marcus Brewer

Born : 7 December 1989.

Then :

Nicholas Hoult’s breakthrough role came when he played Marcus in about a boy at 13 years old.

Now:

Hoult is an award winning actor, who worked from big-budget mainstream productions to independent projects.

His recent work includes : the 2022 black comedy film The Menu, and the 2023 comedy-horror film Renfield.

6/ Jerry Maguire (1996)

Jonathan Lipnicki as Ray Boyd

Born : octobre 22, 1990.

Then :

Jonathan Lipnicki was just 6 years old when he played Dorothy’s adorable son, Ray Boyd.

Now :

Lipnicki still acted but in small roles mostly in short films.

In 2022, it was announced to the public that Lipnicki will be starring in the horror film Camp Pleasant Lake as the character Jasper Meadows.

7/ The Princess Bride (1987)

Fred Savage as the grandson

Born : July 9, 1976.

Then :

At just age 11, Fred Savage starred in The Princess Bride as the Grandson to whom the story is being told.

Now :

Now, he is an actor, director, producer. In 2017, he joined the cast of Netflix original series Friends From College.

8/ Love & Basketball (2000)

Kyla Pratt as young Monica Wright

Born : September 16, 1986.

Then:

At 14 years old, Kyla Pratt made her film debut in ‘love and basketball’ as the younger Monica Wright.

Now :

From 2021 until 2023, she started in the series Call Me Kat, and since 2022, she had a voice role in animated disney series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

9/ The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Quinn Cummings as Lucy McFadden

Born : August 13, 1967.

Then :

At 10 years old, Cummings was cast on the role of Lucy McFadden, the daughter of Marsha Mason.

Now :

She quit acting in 1991, her last role was in an episode of “Blossom.” Since she retired, Cummings has become an entrepreneur, and an author.

10/ Enchanted (2007)

Rachel Covey as Morgan Philip

Born : June 15, 1998.

Then :

At 9 years old, she appeared in the 2007 Disney movie Enchanted as Morgan Philip, the daughter of Patrick Dempsey’s character, divorce attorney Robert Philip.

Now :

In 2022, She reprised her role as Morgan Philip in the Enchanted sequel Disenchanted.

11/ How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Michael J. Pagan as Quincy Payne

Born : January 12, 1985.

Then :

At 13 years old, Michael Pagan starred as adorable yet protective son Quincy Payne.

Now :

In 2010, Pagan co-wrote and starred in the horror film Chain Letter alongside Deon Taylor. But he has not acted since 2014.

12/ Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Dakota Fanning as the young version of Melanie

Born : February 23, 1994.

Then :

At just 8 years old, the child star played young Melanie in the movie’s memorable opening scene.

Now :

Fanning, 29, had a successfull career, she starred in the Emmy-winning series “The Alienist,” and appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Once Upon a Time  in Hollywood“.

In 2023, Fanning starred in The Equalizer 3, alongside Denzel Washington. And was cast to star in the Netflix miniseries The Perfect Couple.

13/ Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

Jonah Bobo as Robbie Weaver

Born: January 24, 1997.

Then:

At the age of 14, Jonah bobo played the role of Robbie Weaver, the son of Emily weaver (juliane moore) and carl weaver (steve carell). Who is despretly in love with his babysitter.

Now :

He hasn’t acted since 2012. Most recently, Bobo composed 2019’s short film, The Pickle Aisle. In September 2021, he released his debut album Newgrass Suite.

Joey King as Molly Weaver

Born : July 30, 1999.

Then:

At 12 years old, Joey played the role of Molly Weaver, the youngest Weaver daughter.

now :

she recently starred in the teen romantic comedy The Kissing Booth 1, 2, and 3

she is still really busy starring in films like : Bullet Train (2022) and The Princess (2022), and she’ll be seen in Netflix’s film A Family Affair in 2024.

14/ Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Tyler Posey as ty ventura

Born : October 18, 1991.

Then :

at the age of 11, tyler posey played the role of the son of Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez’s character).

Now :

Since Maid In Manhattan, the 30-year-old starred in Teen Wolf, Scary Movie 5, Jane the Virgin and the list goes on.

In 2023, he reprised his role in Teen Wolf: The Movie.

15/ father of the bride (1991)

Kieran Culkin as Matty Banks

Born : September 30, 1982.

Then:

At just 9 years old, Kieran Culkin appeared in Father of the Bride as Annie Banks’s little brother Matty.

Now :

At 41 years old, he still acts, he even got an Emmy nomination in 2023 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, alongside castmates Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox for the series Succession

16/ DEFINITELY, MAYBE (2008)

Abigail Breslin as Maya Hayes

Born: April 14, 1996.

Then:

At 12 years old, Abigail Breslin played Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds)’s daughter Maya Hayes.

now :

In 2021, Breslin starred opposite Matt Damon in the crime drama film Stillwater. She also starred in the 2023 period drama film Miranda’s Victim.

This is your ultimate christmas movie guide this year. From streaming to VOD to in-theaters we brought you a calender to help guide you through all the Christmas-movie-watching options as the countdown for the holidays begin.

Netflix

Nov. 30

– Family Switch 

Starring : Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Rita Moreno, Emma Myers and Brady Noon.

This is another body swapping movie, where a wife and her husband find themselves switching bodies with their teenage children, days before chritsmas. After a chance encounter with an astrological leader.

– The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday

Starring :  Michael Godere, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Raul Ceballos, Chris Diamantopoulos, Mallory Low, Zehra Fazal, Keith Silverstein and, Kari Wahlgren.

An animated special spun off from The Bad Guys film. Where “the Bad Guys” plan to execute a heit on christmas morning when everyone is buisy opening guifts.

But to their surprise, christmas got cancelled. So their plan now, is to try to restore christmas spirit, and eventually getting back christmas.

BET+

Nov. 30:

– A Royal Christmas Surprise 

Starring : Jennifer Freeman, Thapelo Mokoena, Abena Ayivor, Sello Maake Ka- Bcube, Trisha Mann-Grant, Tony Grant, Andi Anderson, and Andrae Bicy.

In this sequel to A Royal Surprise, Riley plans the perfect Christmas for her fiancé, Mandla, and his parents Queen Nobantu and King Chidike at their house in Kentucky. But what didn’t she plan for is a suprise that will ruin all her plans.

– The Christmas Ringer 

Starring : Trenyce, Kelly Price, Tyler Lepley, Chrisette Michelle, Arischa Connor, Q Parker, Akbar V, Tamika Scott and Jarrett Michael Collins

After a career change caused by her manager-fiancé, an R&B singer goes back to her family’s home for the holidays. where her mother convinces her join the Christmas Choir Competition with them by directing their ragtag church choir.

Dec. 7

– Never Alone for Christmas

Starring : Macy Gray, Mignon Von, and Allen Maldonado.

After Lauren calls off her wedding to Miles right before the holidays, neither of them want to spen christmas alone. So by coincidence, each happen to attend the same Cajun Christmas retreat, with someone new on their arms.

Dec. 14

– Christmas Rescue

Starring : Robin Givens, Raven Goodwin, Donny Carrington, Catfish Jean, Mario Van Peebles, Cameron Bailey and Samantha Neyland Trumbo.

A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday themed wedding in a desperate attempt to win her back.

– Favorite Son Christmas

Starring : Tank, Darrel Walls, Loren Lott, Serayah, Lisa Arrindell, MC Lyte, Jekalyn Carr and Anthony Evans

The graceway church is in a deep financials problem, the new appointed Pastor, is Looking to the Jubilee to save the day. First Lady Rita suggests a SO GIFTED reunion to rouse the necessary ticket sales. Will the reunion help to bring them all back together ?

Dec. 21

– Whatever It Takes

Starring : Tami Roman, Kandi Burruss, Brely Evans, AJ Johnson, Rayan Lawrence, Kendrick Cross, Stevie Baggs Jr. and Zuri James

The movie follows five women bonding over their mussy love lives, over a thanksgiving weekend.

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Nov. 30

– Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas

Starring : Shenae Grimes-Beech, Chris Carmack, and Grace Leer.

In this mystery movie, Carly heads to a small town to lead the church choir during Christmas time, only to meet an Army Veteran along the way. So maybe she was brought here for a life changing reason.

Dec. 7

– To All a Good Night

Starring : Kimberley Sustad, and Mark Ghanimé.

A small-town photographer saves the life of a mysterious man who may just be here to buy her family’s parkland.

Dec. 14

– Heaven Down Here

Starring : Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad.

inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, it tells the story of four disparate people who get stranded in local diner on Christmas eve when snowtorm hits the town.

With time passing, they start to devolop bonds, and help each other with answers to their prayers.

Dec. 21

– Miracle in Bethlehem, PA

Starring : Laura Vandervoort and Benjamin Ayres

Due to the bad weather, she and the infant get stuck in Bethlehem, PA, for the holidays. After all the rooms are booked in the inn, her only choice is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother, Joe. Sparks fly between the new mom and the quintessentiel bachelor as she spends more time with him and his family participating in the church’s christmas events.

Amazon Prime Video

Dec. 1

– Candy Cane Lane 

Starring : Eddie Murphy, Jillian Bell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ken Marino and Nick Offerman

The story starts when a man (played by Eddie Murphy) makes a deal with an elf to help him win his neighborhood’s annual christmas house decorating contest. But it backfires on him, when the Elf brings to life the “12 Days of Christmas.”

Dec. 8

– Merry Little Batman

Starring:  Yonas Kibreab, Luke Wilson, James Cromwell and David Hornsby

Damian Wayne, Batman’s son finds himself alone in Wayne Manor on Christmas Eve. So he transforms himself into Little Batman to protect his house and Gotham City from supervillains who try to destroy the holidays.

– Your Christmas Or Mine 2

Starring : Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk, Daniel Mays, Angela Griffin, Alex Jennings, and Jane Krakowski.

The film is a sequel to British comedy Christmas film Your Christmas or Mine? (2022). It follows two families planning on spending the holidays in a luxury ski resort in the Alps. But a mix-up with transport at the airport, leads them to each other’s accommodations.

theaters

Dec. 1

–Silent Night 

Starring : Joel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Harold Torres and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

An action thriller film, that tells the story of a father who goes to the underworld to get revenge after witnessing his sons death due to gang related activities on Christmas Eve.

– Waitress: The Musical

Starring : Sara Bareilles, Drew Gehling, Charity Angél Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Joe Tippett, Eric Anderson.

The Tony-nominated, Broadway phenomenon about a small-town pie baker, with a bad marriage and big dreams is now on the silver screen.

Dec. 15

– Wonka

Starring : Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Grant.

The movie is based on the extraordinary character of Willy Wonka in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It tells the story of how Willi Wonka went from a young adult selling chocolate in small shop, to the world’s greatest inventor and chocolate-maker we know today.

Hallmark Channel

Nov. 25

– Christmas in Notting Hill

Starring : Sarah Ramos and William Moseley.

Always too busy for love, famous Footbal star Graham gets his mind changed about love. It all stars after he comes home to Notting Hill for Christmas and meets Georgia Right, a visiting American who has no idea who he is.

– Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up

Starring : Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris and Jennifer Aspen.

As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward lead the Evergreen Lane HOA toward another successful Christmas season.

Nov. 26

– A Biltmore Christmas 

Starring : Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo.

The sory follows Lucy, a screenwriter remaking a beloved holiday classic from 1947, His Merry Wife!

After writing the remake with a not-so-happy ending, the studio refuses and sends her to where the original movie was filmed in Biltmore. While she’s there she finds a way to time travel to 1947, where she fells in love with the film’s star.

– Our Christmas Mural

Starring : Alex Paxton-Beesley, and Dan Jeannotte.

Returning home for Christmas, a single mother, Olivia is scretly entered into a mural contest by her mom. she gets teamed up with a teacher, Will to create a mural for a holiday contest.

Dec. 1

– My Norwegian Holiday

Starring : Rhiannon Fish and David Elsendoorn

A woman grieving the loss of her grandmother starts forming a bond with a Norwegian man after he discovers she has a a troll figurine from his hometown. So she travels to Norway with him to uncover the origins of a troll figurine during the holidays.

Dec. 2

– A Not So Royal Christmas

Starring : Brooke D’Orsay, and Will Kemp.

When a tabloid journalist tries to land an interview with a reclusive count during the holidays, the royal family has a groundskeeper to pose as him since the real one fled years ago.

Dec. 3

– Christmas with a Kiss

Starring : Mishael Morgan, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Jaime M. Callica 

The film follows a woman (Morgan) who returns home for her family’s Christmas Carnival. But romance sparks where she meets a photo journalist (Rowe).

Dec. 8

– Magic in Mistletoe

Starring : Lyndie Greenwood and Paul Campbell

Harrington is a successful but reclusive author. As he returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival celebrating his books, his publicit goes with him to try and do some damage controle.

Dec. 9

– Christmas on Cherry Lane

Starring : Catherine Bell, Jonathan Bennett, John Brotherton, Erin Cahill, James Denton and Vincent Rodriguez III

Three couples get together to celebrate the holiday, each one trying to deal with some major turning points in their lives.

Dec. 10

– Round and Round

Starring : Vic Michaelis, Bryan Greenberg and Rick Hoffman 

After Rachel gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the night of her parents’ Hanukkah party, she turns to Zach for help, a boy that her grandmother is trying to set her up with.

Dec. 15

– The Secret Gift of Christmas

Starring : Meghan Ory and Christopher Russell.

Bonnie, a personal shopper helps a widowed client to find the perfect guift for his daughter, in an attempt to reconnect with her.

Dec. 16

– Sealed with a List

Starring : Katie Findlay, and Evan Roderick. 

For this holiday season, Carley is deterlined to conquer her list of abandoned resolutions from last year. With the help of her co-worker Wyatt she finds love and confident to chase her dreams.

Lifetime

Nov. 25

– Christmas at the Chalet 

Starring : Teri Hatcher and William DeVry.

Ex-TV host and socialiste, Lex gets stuck spending Christmas at a chalet with her son, ex-husband husband and his new girlfriend. Her way of dealing with the awkward situation, is to work at the chalet and document it for her followers.   

Nov. 26

– Laughing All the Way

Starring : Paniz Zade and Jake Epstein.

A ghostwriter and aspiring comedian Aubri Wilson gets a career changing opportunity when she’s placed in charge of the Christmas variety show. Worried she may mess it up, she meets a famous comedian Mike Baxter who helps her shows the world her inner funny girl.

Dec. 2

– Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas

Starring : Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, Nicollette Sheridan, Taylor Ann Thompson and Travis Burns

Five former ’80s soap opera stars, reunite to film the final Christmas episode of their long-running popular soap opera.

Dec. 3

– Mistletoe Match

Starring : Elena Juatco and Ryan Bruce

Sparks fly when Olivia meets Thomas while she’s undercover to report on the popular annual Mistletoe Match event.

Dec. 9

– A Cowboy Christmas Romance

Starring : Jana Kramer, Adam Senn, Mary-Margaret Humes, Cassie Randolph, Curt Mega, Bruce Thomas, Lisa Lee and Max Ehrich.

One week before Christmas, real estate “closer” Lexie Crenshaw goes back to her hometown of Tubac, Arizona. Her mission is to try to convince the local horse whisperer, Cody to sell his family’s land. All while trying to navigate her broken relationship with her father.

Dec. 10

– Yes, Chef! Christmas

Starring : Tia Mowry, Buddy Valastro and Luke Humphrey.

This holiday season, a culinary school instructor gets invited to compete in the city’s annual Kringle Cook-Off with the help of a fiery mentor. But she accidently discovers a family secret that will change her life.

Dec. 16

– The Holiday Proposal Plan

Starring : Tatyana Ali, Jesse Kove, Geovanni Gopradi and Whitney Able.

A travel columnist Sonny Kravitz and her ex-boyfriend Kip are forced back together to help their best friends get engaged in time for Christmas. As they work together, old memories and feelongs start to surface.

– A Christmas Intern

Starring : Jackée Harry, Ciarra Carter, Vivica A. Fox, Doug Rogers, Jasmine Avialotis and Michael Paré

Bored of retirement, Cecilia decides to becomes an intern at her daughter’s online gift giving business for the holidays. In the process the two get closer as they learn the importance of family.

– Merry Magic Christmas

Starring : Patricia Isaac and Andrew Dunbar.

As Christmas approaches, a financial advisor starts seeing the number : 624 everywhere. She was told that the number is from a Christmas angel to make her wish come true. As she discovers the true meaning of the number, she meets Nate.

Dec. 23

– Mom’s Christmas Boyfriend

Starring : Jeananne Goossen, Ai Barrett and Zach Smadu.

A 10 year old girl wins a writing contest to have her Chritsmas wish come true : finding true love for her adoptive mom.

Food Network

Nov. 30

– Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays 

Selena gomez and and her best friend, Raquelle Stevens invites four renowned chefs Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon, and Claudette Zepeda to make a mouth-watering holiday feast.

Hallmark Movies Now

Nov. 27

– Three Wise Men and a Baby extended cut

Starring : Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and Margaret Colin. 

The 2022 original Hallmark movie “Three Wise Men and a Baby” was cable’s most watched TV movie of that year. So they decided to release an extended version of it this year.

Dec. 7

– Rescuing Christmas

Starring : Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page, T. Mychael Rambo, Patrick Thomas O’Brien and Bailey Stender

Erin, a photographer who hates Christmas, gets granted three wishes from two of Santa’s elves, Chuck and Debbie. Everything starts to go wrong when she wishes for Christmas to disappear.

Dec. 14

– An Ice Palace Romance

Starring : Celeste Desjardins and Marcus Rosner. 

The film follows a journalist who returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story. She starts facing her fears with the help of the handsome rink owner and his young daughter.

Dec. 21

– A Holiday Spectacular extended cut

Starring : Ginna Claire Mason, Derek Klena, Eve Plumb and Ann-Margret, and featuring the Radio City Rockettes.

In 1958, Maggie, a heiress from Philadelphia puts her high-society wedding plans on hold in order to go to New York City to fulfill her life’s dream of dancing on stage in the Christmas Spectacular at radio City Music Hall.

UPtv

Nov. 26

– Mistletoe Connection

Starring : Jessica Sipos and Markian Tarasiuk.

Kate who loves everything Christmas, runs a nostalgid gift shop that has been in her family for generations. This year, however, a developer, Mark, is trying to change everything in her neighborhood, but a chance encounter with a handsome stranger on a bus, will change her life forever.

Dec. 3

– Yuletide the Knot

Starring : Mary Antonini, Peter Porte, Kelley Jakle, Kelsey Scott and Melissa Peterman.

Small town wedding planner Rachel is orginazing her biggest Christmas wedding yet for an influencer couple from out-of town. But gets the suprise of her life when finds out that the bride’s manager is her first love and high school sweetheart, Logan.

Dec. 10

– Christmas at an Amish Bakery

Starring : Alexandra Harris and Sean Koetting.

After leaving the Amish community, a New York editor Sarah goes back to her Amish family farm in an attempt to save her job. With the help of a handsome local outsider, Dean, they try to save her family’s bakery.

Dec. 17

– Dial S for Santa

Starring : Sarah Dugdale, Julian Haig and Lynda Boyd.

An insurrance investigator, Lana, goes back home to visit her mom for the holidays, only to team up with a new police chief, Nick, to try to solve a string of local shop robberies.

Disney+

Nov. 25

– Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials 

Starring : David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Neil Patrick Harris, Jacqueline King, Karl Collins, Bernard Cribbins, and Jemma Redgrave, and newcomer Yasmin Finney.

The three-part special of the British series Docto Who, follows Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, teaming up with Donna Noble, on a new sci-fi adventure. The programme will be prodcaste from 25 Nov to 9 Dec to celebrate it’s 60th anniversary.

Dec. 8

– Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever

Starring : Wesley Kimmel, Erica Cerra and Hunter Dillon.

This winter holiday is turning out to be stressful for Greg Heffley. After accidently breaking e snowplow, he worries that Santa won’t bring him the new video console he wants.

Great American Family

Dec. 2

– Christmas on Windmill Way

Starring : Christa Taylor Brown and Chad Michael Murray.

Mia Miejer is exicitedly anticipates for her mimi to win the town’s Christmas Market Dutch Bake’off competition with her award-winning Kerststol. But her mimi has a very difficult news for her.

Dec. 3

– The Jingle bell Jubilee

Starring : Erin Agostino and Marshall Williams.

A city manager (Williams) recruits the help of a childhood friend (Agostino) to set his town’s Christmas event, while trying to set him up with her close friend.

Dec. 9

– Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

Starring : Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.

Two rival realtors are forced to work together to sell a house owned by a renowned botanist and mistletoe grower, before Christmas.

Dec. 10

– Peppermints & Postcards

Starring : Ella Cannon and Christopher Russell.

Afetr 9-year-old Megan makes a Christmas wish that her mom, Cara, finds love, her letter goes viral, and Cara realises that love was on her doorstop the whole time.

Dec. 16

– Designing Christmas with You

Starring : Susie Abromeit and Liam McIntyre.

With her career on the line, a decorator finds herself teaming up with an unexpected partner to showcase a house for an upcoming Christmas gala.

Dec. 17

– 12 Games of Christmas

Starring : Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper.

During a christmas party, a group of old friends and neighbors gets sucked into a Christmas-themed board game.

Dec. 23

– A Royal Christmas Holiday

Starring : Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard.

An ambitious reporter mooking for her big breaker finds love while trying to arrange a Christmas interview with a European Prince who’s in New York for an assignment.

OWN

Dec. 2

– A Christmas Serenade

Starring : Skye Townsend and B.J. Britt.

After years away from home, Jeremiah returns to play a gig with his band. But he’surprised when he gets recruited to take over as the minister of music for the annual church Christmas Jubilee, where feud and romance gets reignited with the pastor’s daughter.

Dec. 9

– Christmas of Yes

Starring : Michele Weaver and Jeff Pierre.

When a workaholic woman unexpectedly loses her job at Christmas, her free-wheeling brother challenges her to say “yes” to things she previously said “no” to.

Dec. 16

– The Christmas Detective

Starring : Javicia Leslie and Brad James.

A former beauty queen is struggeling to start her career as a private investigator. But her life changes when she takes a case of a famous missing portait from a local art gallery, with the help of a police detective.

Dec. 23

– Christmas Revisited

Starring : Tanyell Waivers and Jaime Callica.

After the death of a friend, a group of old college friends, now in their 30s, decide to spend Christmas together et their deceased friend’s remote mountain cabin.

LMN

Dec. 7

– Silent Night, Fatal Night

Starring : Alex Camacho and Matthew Pohlkamp.

Mallory is a famous mystery writer who decides to end her long-running detective franchise to focus on her personal life. Her enriged manager takes her a prisoner and forces her to write again during the holidays, while convincing the world that she’s dead.

Shudder

Dec. 8

– The Sacrifice Game

Starring : Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Gus Kenworthy, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre and Georgia Acken.

The film is set in 1971, and follows two boarding school students who can’t go home for the holidays. But thinks becomes deadly when a murderous gang arrives at their doorstep, just in time for Christmas.

Hollywood’s se**xual harassment scandals have had a huge impact on the industrie and it’s stars. Due to the ‘Mee Too’ mouvement, a lot of Popular TV shows have been cancelled due to Scandals surrounding their star Cast Members.

A few TV networks decided to pull a plug on its shows, when allegations of se**xual misconduct broke out surrounding the cast members.

Here are 6 TV series that were forced to be canceled sometimes mid-production due to scandals surrounding it’s star members.

1/ Louie

The smash hit show “Louie” came to an end in 2017 after 5 seasons and 61 episodes. In november of that year the New York Times published a story from five women detailing C.K.’s long history of se**xual misconduct.

The woman said that he had asked them to watch him mast**urbate multiple times, sometimes while talking on the phone.

Actually rumors about his behavior towards woman working with him begun to surface since 2015 in various sites. Those rumors included high profile names such as Roseanne Barr, Jen Kirkman and Tig Notaro.

The comedian initialy denied the allegations, but confessed to them after the report was published. He released a statement apologizing and admitting that all the stories were true.

His manager and co-producer for the show Dave Becky was also accused of helping C.K cover up his actions. For his defense the Becky said he misunderstood the woman’s allegations, and gave an apology to the victims.

Neither to say, C.K.’s career was highly impacted by the scandal. And the show was eventually cancelled after FX ended their buisiness partnership with C.K’s production company Pig Newton.

And all of C.K’s projects at the time were cancelled too, costing him $35 million in lost income.

2/ The Wonder Years

The coming-of-age sitcom was aired on ABC from 1988 until 1993. Although there were many speculations surrounding the show’s concellation, a few of the cast put the blame on the se**xual harrassment lawsuit.

Back in 1993, one of the show’s costume designers Monique Long filed a se**xual harassment lawsuit against stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey. Claiming that she was fired after she rebuffed their advances towards her.

The suit was dropped after an out of court settlement with ABC network with neither a conviction nor an acquittal.

In a 2018 interview, co-star Alley Mills conformed that the lawsuit, which she described as “completely ridiculous,” was the reason the show was canceled. 

3/ House of Cards

The political thriller show “House of Cards” first aired on Netflix in 2013, and soon became it’s signature show.

However, the show faced a serious scandal when Kevin Spacey was accused of several allegations of se**xual misconduct.

One of the cases was filed by actor Anthony Rapp in october 2017. Where he accused star Kevin Spacey who played Francis J. “Frank” Underwood,of a se**xual advance in 1986, when he was only 14 years old.

And he was not the only one, other young men who worked on the show, came forward with the same allegations of inappropriate se**xual conduct.

Even though season 6 of the show was in the middle of production when the news came out, Netflix fired the star. And he was replaced by Robin Wright to finish season 6, the final season, to give fans closer.

Due to the gravity of the accusations, Netflix cut all ties with Kevin Spacey, and cancelled the show immediatly.

4/ SMILF

The sitcom was created, written, directed and stared in the lead role by Frankie Shaw. It was based on on her short film of the same title. It aired on Showyime from 2017 until 2019 after 2 seasons.

In 2018, it surfaced that Shaw and the producers were under investigations. The Hollywood Reporter published that cast and crew members are accusing them of an inappropriate behaviour on the set of the show.

That included “inappropriately handled se**x scenes”, and racial discrimination. Actress Samara Weaving had to leave the show due to breach of contract in the filming of a se**x scene.

While Shaw denied all allegations, In 2019, a few days after the fourth episode of season two was broadcast, the series was canceled. The network even suspended all future production deals with Shaw.

5/ Wisdom of the Crowd

Wisdom of the Crowd was a crime drama, that followed a tech innovator who creates an app to solve his daughter’s murder.

The series first aired in 2017, but it was never renewed for a second season thanks to it’s starring acor Jeremy Piven.

Actor Jeremy Piven, who played the father Jeffrey Tanner, was accused of se**xual assault, harassment, and misconduct by eight women in 2017 and 2018.

One of these was an Entourage background actor named Anastasia Taneie. She said that while on set in 2009, Piven forcefully pinned her to the wall in a dark hallway and started touching her breast and gen**itals.

Piven “vehemently denied” all the allegations, and his lawyer called them “works of fiction”, saying that these woman were after fame and money.

These allegations in addition to relatively low ratings of the show, led CBS to decide to pull the plug on the show after just on season.

6/ Bulletproof

The british police series was first broadcast in 2018 on Sky One. The series was doing well, even got renewed for a fourth season in 2021.

Season four was set to consist of eight episodes, and filming had been scheduled to begin later in the year.

However, following allegations against the show’s lead acor Noel Clarke in late April 2021 of se**xual misconduct and bullying, filming was suspended.

Around 20 woman who worked with the actor came forward with allegations of verbal abuse, bullying, and se**xual harassment.

A producer accused him of exposing his gen**itals to her in the back of a car and groping her in a lift.

Actress Jing Lusi, who worked with him in the film SAS: Red Notice, alleged that he se**xually propositioned and threatened her.

Other alleged that Clarke made them performe se**x scenes nude, and grew angry if they refused.

Clarke denied “any se**xual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing” but confessed of doing one allegation, that he had repeatedly made remarks on the buttocks of the art director on Brotherhood, Helen Atherton.

In a public statement, Clarke apologised saying: “In a 20-year career, I have put inclusivity and diversity at the forefront of my work and never had a complaint made against me. If anyone who has worked with me has ever felt uncomfortable or disrespected, I sincerely apologise. I vehemently deny any se**xual misconduct or wrongdoing and intend to defend myself against these false allegations.”

Ultimitley, Sky and production company Vertigo Films cancelled the the series in May 2021.

To this day, it still one of the most popular TV shows in U.S history. It helped launch cast members like Henry Winkler and Ron Howard into stardom, and launch the career of famous faces like Robin Williams.

But behind the scenes, there were many secrets that the fans didn’t know about. So, here is some facts and hidden truths about the show that you probably never heard of.

1/ the show was almost canceled after one season.

The iconic show Happy Days was almost cancelled after just one season due to low ratings.

It was saved when they started featuring Henry Winkler’s character, Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, in a larger role.

Audiences loved the character Fonzie, a hot tempered, bad boy, handsome greaser who can fix everything with his fist. Who can get any girl he wants with a snap of his fingers.

The character Fonzie not only saved the show, but it became so popular and valuable for the producers, that they considered changing the name of the show to Fonzie’s happy days.

2/ The show was suppose to be run in a different decade.

When producers pitched the idea of the show to Garry Marshall, they wanted it to take place in the flaper era of the 1920s. Marshall was interessted in the idea of a period-piece sitcom, but only if it was set in the 1950s during his childhood.

Marshall wanted to make in the 1950s to make it as realistic as possible. He had a hard time writing about the life of teenagers in 1920s because he knew nothing about that periode.

The network initially protested the periode change idea, but that all changed with the huge success of the American Graffiti in 1973. Suddenly 50s and 60s nostalgia was all the rage.

3/ why did pinky leave ?

In the season four, the writers wanted Fonzie to have a romantic story arc. So they created the character Carol “Pinky” Tuscadero, a tough and sassy derby driver to be his love interest.

And the former celebrity photographer Roz Kelly was cast to play the role.

The 3 part story called ‘Fonzie Loves Pinky’ was heavily promoted. and Pinky was an immediate hit with the fans.

Well, it turns out that in real life actress Roz Kelly didn’t really get along with the cast at all, including actor Henry Winkler.

So, her part was written off of the series after just three episodes.

4/ Ron Howard joined the show to avoid being drafted in the military.

The actor went to USC’s school of cinematic Arts to persue his dream of becoming a director.

But at the time, going to college was no longer considered a deferment for the war, so he had to chose employment deferment.

When he was offored the role, he agreed to play it, so he won’t have to go to Vietnam. After signing to work in Happy Days, Paramount helped Howard get out of being drafted.

5/ Pat Morita faked his accent.

The role Arnold (Matsuo Takahashi), the owner of the drive-in restaurant where the main characters hung out, was one of the major roles of Actor Noriyuki “Pat” Morita.

The producers wanted actor Pat Morita to have a stereotypical chinese accent, even though he was born in California and spoke perfect English.

He accepted their proposal and started to speak in a Chinese Pidgin English Dialect in the show despite the fact that he was Japanese.

Ironically, a couple of weeks later, standards and practices officials told Morita that he couldn’t play the role of Arnold as chinese, because it was politically incorrect since the actor was Japanese.

The actor really wanted to keep his role, so he told the producers that the character Matsuo/Arnold was half Chinese and Japanese. And that allowed him to keep his job.

6/ Henry Winkler couldn’t read the script due to his dyslexia.

Many fans did not know that at 31 years old, Winkler was diagnosed with Dyslexia.

His first auddition for the iconic role was not exactly flawless. He struggled to read the script due to his dyslexia. So to get the role he started making up lines.

“That’s not in the script,” the producers would point out. To this, Winkler replied: “I know but I’m giving you the essence of the character and if I get the part I’ll do it verbatim.”

The improvisation was a success with the casting director, and neither to say he got the role.

Audiences loved him, too, he was so good playing the character that he went from a minor role to the show’s star by season 2.  

Winkler eventually overcame his struggles with dyslexia, and he even co-wrote a children’s book.

7/ One of the Beatles was a huge fan of ‘Happy Days’

Happy days became so famous that the show attracted a lot of famous fans, including the former beatle John Lennon. The musician and his son Julian were a huge fans of the show.

One day in 1975, Julian Lennon the most famous musician in the world dropped by the set of Happy Days unannounced, with his son.

The former Beatle even signed autographs and took pictures with all crew members.

John Lennon wasn’t the only beattle who was a fan with show, His bandmate, Ringo Starr, also loved Happy Days, and reportedly once tried to get a cameo on the show.

8/ Robin Williams got his first role thanks to ‘Star Wars’

After Marshall’s son saw the movie ‘star wars’, he asked his father to create a martian episode.

Marshall agreed and the writers wrote the episode “My Favorite Orkan.” However, the cast did not like the script. Luckily, The episode was saved thanks to comedy legend robin williams.

At first Marshall was having a lot of trouble casting the role of Mork from Ork, so he turned to his sister.

She ended up recommending a street comedian named: Mr. Robin Williams. Who had been doing stand-up for tips near the studio.

In his audition, the first thing he did was sit upside down in a chair, headfirst, when asked to have a seat. The funnyman won the role immediately.

The role quicly became one of the show’s most memorable personalities, earning his own spin-off years later. 

9/ The Fonz wasn’t initially allowed to wear his iconic leather jacket

It’s hard to imagine The Fonz without his signature leather jacket. But, the iconic garment almost never made it on the show.

Studio execs felt leather jackets were associated with gangsters and thugs. And wanted to replace it with a non-threatening tan windbreaker instead.

Garry Marshall however, hated the alternative jacket, and did his best to make the leather jacket stay.

The studio compromised, allowing the Fonze to wear the leather jacket only in scenes where the motorcycle appeared.

so, Fonzie’s bike was written into nearly every scene during the early seasons.

10/ a few of the cast members sued Paramount.

In 2011, a few cast members filed a joint lawsuit against Paramount for $10 million. They said that they were grossly underpaid for the use of their likenesses on show-related marchandises.

Eventually, CBS came to a settlement with the cast members out of court.

Each actor involved in the suit ended received a check for $65,000 and that they will continue to receive royalties as specified in their original contracts. 

when “Married… With Children” first aired in 1987, it pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable on Primetime television.

Even though the show was a huge success on the screen, it masked dark secrets behind the cameras. From co-stars feuding to raunchy casting choices, this is the dark side of “Married… With Children.”

David Faustino had a crush on his TV sister

Despite their on-screen animosity, there were rumors that David Faustino and Christina Applegate, who played the warring siblings, hooked up. 

When Faustino was asked about this gossip, In an interview with LA Weekly, He responed saying “I don’t kiss and tell,”. “Keep that one a mystery.”

In another inteview with HipHopDX, he laughed off the rumors, claiming that he was merely bragging in his previous admissions.

But Faustino wasn’t the only one who had a crush for Applegate. During an appearance on the “Allegedly” podcast, Faustino revealed that George Harrison also had a thing for Christina.

When Faustino met the Beatle one night, the later told him that he was a huge fan of “Married… With Children.” Especially Applegate. He commented that he wanted to do some pretty NSFW things to her.

The next day when Faustino returned to the set, he told the story to everyone. While the cast members found it hilarious, Applegate was left embarrassed and humiliated.

The sad reason why Katey Sagal’s pregnancy was just a dream on the show

During season 6 premiere “She’s Having My Baby,” Peggy revealed she was pregnant. But at the end of the season, it turned out to be just a dream, and Peg wasn’t pregnant at all. Which left the fans surprised and confused.

The truth was that during filming, Katey Sagal became pregnant with her then-husband Jack White’s child. But sadly, in 1991 she suffered a stillbirth, and the writers had to change her pregnancy storyline.

Sagal shared that she found the whole experience to be rather unsettling, when she saw the episode “Al Bundy, Shoe Dick,” in which Peg’s pregnancy was revealed to be a dream.”It was just Al’s ‘scary dream.’ The perfect way to handle it given the irreverent nature of our show,”

After her lose, Sagal took some time off from shooting, so she had to be absent from several episodes to deal with the her loss. She also shared that she was constantly harassed by paparazzi following her loss.

she wrote in her memoir, “Grace Notes.” “Of course, just because Peg was never seen losing the baby didn’t mean my stillbirth wasn’t public knowledge. … Odd to go through something so personal in public.”

Adult film actors were frequently hired on set

The “Married With Children” audience was infamous for cheering every time an attractive woman came on set. Sometimes it got so bad that they had to pause filming.

And the writers loved it, to the point that they purposely cast pornographic actors for the audience’s titillation.

Speaking with HipHopDX, David Faustino revealed that writers Ron Leavitt and Michael Moye “were two of the biggest horndogs of all time”.

” they had porn stars on the show,” Faustino said. “Teri Weigel, she would come through all the time and she would be flashing everybody.”

He also remembered a time when Weigel put the then 15 year old’s head underneath her top, exposing her bare breasts to him. That was every teenagers dream so laughed it off, but looking back at it he admitted that it was an inappropriate act to subject a child to.

Inappropriate behavior toward kids

Christina Applegate was only 15 years old when the show began. Despite this, she was highly se**xualized from the outset of the show, she was constintly shot everytime she bend over, wearing tight cloths.

The role of Al Bundy severely damaged Ed O’Neill’s career prospects

while the character Al Bundy was beloved by many, it ended up harming Ed O’Neill’s career.

He was kind of stuck with that character, no one could see behind the famous Bundy shirt and slacks combo.

Before starting the show, O’Neill was an established dramatic actor. But years of playing Al Bundy, insulting woman who came into his store has left him typecast.

In fact, when O’Neill did a screen test in the war movie “Flight of the Intruder,” the audience couldn’t stop laughing when he emerged on screen, despite the fact that he was performing in a highly dark scene. Nether to say, he didn’t get the role because of this.

“It’s not as much my job as the audience’s job to accept something else from me. … Obviously, you’re going to have some people who say, ‘Oh, I only like him as Al,'” O’Neill told the outlet regarding his faltering film career. “That’s just the way it is.”

Katey Sagal thought the show was sexist and misogynistic

Over the years, the show had attracted a certain male demographic for several reasons : it’s aggressivive and insult driven humor, constante shots of cleavages, showing woman as objects.

For that the sitcom has been frequently called by critics sexist, unmatched in its objectification and demeaning of women.

But it’s not just critics who think that, Katey Sagal also critiqued the show for its misogyny.

“It was a very misogynistic show,” she said in a Build interview, adding, “Women were portrayed, like, completely exploited on that show. That was part of Al Bundy’s thing. He liked hot women and they showed them all the time.”

Although Sagal acknowledge that the show was misogyny and exploitive, she shared that When fans would confront her about acting that role, Sagal explained that it was her job to interpret the role from a woman’s perspective, thereby subverting its inherent sexism.

When speaking with the Los Angeles Times in 1989, Ed O’Neill addressed the sexism controversy, but argued that Al Bundy was not a role model. “The last thing I think Al should be is a role model. … These characters are just supposed to make people laugh, not teach or enlighten anyone,” he said.

No one from the cast knew about the show’s concellation

In 1997, the sitcom “Married With Children” ended after 11 years on air, But it seems the show’s stars were the last to find out.

on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ed O’Neill recounted ” he went back home to Youngstown, Ohio, when a newlywed couple declared that “Married… With Children” had been canceled, much to his surprise.

But he wasn’t the only one in the dark, Christina Applegate said during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,”that she discovered the show was canceled from a friend who had been listening to the radio.

“Kevin & Bean knew before me. Someone I knew had heard it on ‘Kevin & Bean’ and then called me to tell me that the show was canceled,” she disclosed.

Not only did the stars knew about the shows cancellation from outsider sources,  they were also cheated out of royalties.

O’Neill admitted that he didn’t receiving a dime from “Married… With Children” reruns. Since the show was under a cable contract, the cast were not entitled to receive residuals.

Ed O’Neill and Amanda Bearse hated each other

On screen, lowly shoe salesman Al Bundy and his super successful yuppie neighbor Marcy were always pickering.

Well, it appears that wasn’t always an act. In real life Ed O’Neill and Amanda Bearse did not get along at all. The two were always engaging in a feud, particularly toward the end of the series.

During a Q&A at Raleigh Supercon, Bearse was asked about her relationship with O’Neill and replied, “I follow the Thumper rule: if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

“He was not happy towards the end of the series and so, that affected everything,” she added,

Also, O’Neill and David Faustino get upset from Bearse, because she didn’t invite them to her wedding. Bearse told the pair that they weren’t invited because they would ruin the ceremony by laughing at two women getting married in tuxedos. O’Neill started laughing, proving her point.

This controversial episode was cut off the air

It’s no suprise that the show “Married… With Children” was surrounded with controversies.

Per The New York Times, a woman named Terry Rakolta even campaigned to boycott the show. She even got a number of advertisers, including the likes of McDonald’s, to pull their ads from Fox.

And that was only the start, in season 3 the episode “I’ll See You in Court” ended up being cut as it was deemed too se**xually provocative.

The plot of that episode was centered on Al and Peg going to a motel, and unbeknownst to them, making se**x tapes due to hidden cameras in the room.

In 2004, the episode was released on DVD, and the fans could finally watch the lost episode.

Despite Rakolta’s efforts to have “Married… With Children” cancelled, the controversy surrounding it only attracted more attention and more views, which lead to the show’s long run.

Katey Sagal’s unconventional personal life

Like her character Peggy Bundy, Katey Sagal also had an unconventional life.

Ever since she was a teenager, Sagal struggled with drug use, that began when a family doctor gave her diet pills when she was only 14 years old.

As Sagal recalled to ABC News, it was her multiple family tragedies that intensified her addiction. When she was 21, she lost her mother who died of a heart attack. Then, just a few years later and while filming a TV series, her father was killed in a freak helicopter accident.

While starting her acting career Sagal kept her drug addiction a secret. A chance meeting between Sagal and a woman who was going through the same struggles while they both were on a TV set helped her turn her life around.

After speaking to the woman, Sagal discovered that sobriety was a pathway entirely within her grasp.

In a chat with Bustle, she revealed that within just two months of getting sober, she landed her role on “Married…With Children.”

Amanda Bearse got bullied on and off the cameras

Amanda talked about the show’s humor to the Fayetteville Observer “It was a raunchy, mean-spirited show. It couldn’t have been made today, I’m not sure it should have been made then.”

In an interview with news.com.au, Bearse also confessed that she faced sexist harassment in the industry, which led to her abandoning acting.

 Although she did not explicitly blame her time on “Married… With Children” for leaving acting, she disclosed that she was frequently bullied both on and off screen.

Even Ed O’Neill admitted that he believed the series was cruel at the best of times, but said that it was necessary to the comedy. “I always thought that comedy is basically mean-spirited,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

It’s halloween season, so it means it’s time for a marathon of the best classic halloween movies that you can watch with the whole family.

So for those seeking coziness and nostalgia with classic Disney Halloween films, or something more humorous than horrifying like a bewitching rom-com. These 30 non-scary Halloween movies are the best way to celebrate the season, and get you ready to trick-or-treat, without scaring you half to death.

Coraline (2009)

While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better.

She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.

Casper (1995)

Casper (voiced by Malachi Pearson) is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey (Bill Pullman) arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat (Christina Ricci).

Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

Corpse Bride (2005)

Victor (Johnny Depp) and Victoria’s (Emily Watson) families have arranged their marriage. Though they like each other, Victor is nervous about the ceremony. While he’s in a forest practicing his lines for the wedding, a tree branch becomes a hand that drags him to the land of the dead.

It belongs to Emily, who was murdered after eloping with her love and wants to marry Victor. Victor must get back aboveground before Victoria marries the villainous Barkis Bittern (Richard E. Grant).

ParaNorman (2012)

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead — and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman receives word from his strange Uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman) that a centuries-old witch’s curse on their town is real and about to come true — and that only Norman can stop it.

When zombies rise from their graves, Norman must summon all his courage and compassion and push his paranormal abilities to the limit to save his fellow townspeople.

Frankenweenie (2012)

Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then, tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life.

The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor’s fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals — with monstrous consequences.

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) learns that he has inherited his infamous grandfather’s estate in Transylvania. Arriving at the castle, Dr. Frankenstein soon begins to recreate his grandfather’s experiments with the help of servants Igor (Marty Feldman), Inga (Teri Garr) and the fearsome Frau Blücher (Cloris Leachman).

After he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle), new complications ensue with the arrival of the doctor’s fiancée, Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn).

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist.

As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”

Hocus Pocus (1993)

After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house.

Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the “real world.” When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life.

He plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

The Addams Family (1991)

When a man (Christopher Lloyd) claiming to be Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams (Raul Julia), arrives at the Addams’ home, the family is thrilled. However, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect the man is a fraud, since he cannot recall details of Fester’s life.

With the help of lawyer Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), Fester manages to get the Addams clan evicted from their home. Gomez realizes the two men are conspiring to swindle the Addams fortune and that he must challenge Fester.

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez).

However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

A scientist (Vincent Price) builds an animated human being — the gentle Edward (Johnny Depp). The scientist dies before he can finish assembling Edward, though, leaving the young man with a freakish appearance accentuated by the scissor blades he has instead of hands. Loving suburban saleswoman Peg (Dianne Wiest) discovers Edward and takes him home, where he falls for Peg’s teen daughter (Winona Ryder). However, despite his kindness and artistic talent, Edward’s hands make him an outcast.

The Witches (1990)

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga (Mai Zetterling), young Luke (Jasen Fisher) inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) reveals a plan to turn all children into mice through a magical formula. When they find that Luke has overheard, the witches test the formula on him.

Now, with the help of Helga and the hotel manager, Mr. Stringer (Rowan Atkinson), Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store.

After Seymour feeds Audrey’s boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin), to the plant after Orin’s accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.

Monster House (2006)

No adults believe three youths’ (Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke, Sam Lerner) assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. With Halloween approaching, the trio must find a way to destroy the structure before innocent trick-or-treaters meet ghastly ends.

Beetlejuice (1988)

After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success.

Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.

Halloweentown (1998)

Marnie and her kids get a big shock when they follow grandma home to Halloweentown – and find out they come from a family of witches. The town is the only place where supernatural beings can lead a `normal’ life, but trouble is looming, and on her 13th birthday Marnie not only finds she is a witch, but that she and her family are involved in a fight against the evil that is threatening to take over the world.

Ghostbusters (1984)

After the members of a team of scientists (Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray) lose their cushy positions at a university in New York City, they decide to become “ghostbusters” to wage a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. They stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, a doorway that will release evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters must now save New York from complete destruction.

Practical Magic (1998)

Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman), born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian’s vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov (Goran Visnjic), dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic.

With policeman Gary Hallet (Aidan Quinn) growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov — and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Workaholic real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is accused by his wife, Sara (Marsha Thomason), of neglecting his son (Marc John Jefferies) and daughter (Aree Davis), so he takes the family on a vacation.

Along the way, the family stops off at a sinister mansion that Jim has been asked to sell, only to discover it’s haunted by Master Gracey (Nathaniel Parker) ; his stern butler, Ramsley (Terence Stamp) ; and two other servants who need some help breaking a curse.

Coco (2017)

Despite the fact that his family had banned music for generations, Miguel dreamed of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent and following a mysterious series of events, Miguel finds himself in the colorful and dazzling territory of the dead.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E.T., who is left behind on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. find his way home.

Goosebumps (2015)

R L Stine, the author of ‘Goosebumps’, is shocked when demons from his books come to life and create havoc in Delaware. Later, he, his daughter, Hannah, and her friend zach strive to put things right.

Scooby-Doo (2002)

The Mystery Inc. gang comes back together when Scooby-Doo, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy are summoned to Spooky Island and investigate a string of eerie instances.

The Witches (2020)

A young boy uncovers a group of diabolical witches who plan to turn children into mice when he goes to live with his aunt after the death of his parents.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Revisit the enchantment of the first film, as Harry receives his letter to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and begins his journey alongside his pals, Ron and Hermione.

The Craft (1996)

The Craft follows Sarah as she enrolls in a new prep school and falls in with three girls who practice witchcraft. Soon, they begin conjuring up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them and, obviously, chaos ensues.

Twitches (2005)

Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry join forces as “twitches” — twin witches — in the 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie, using their powers to save their kingdom from the forces of darkness.

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

To avoid trouble on All Hallows’ Eve, Madea and her posse stay home to keep a watchful eye on Brian’s teenage daughter. But when the witching hour strikes, all hell-arity breaks loose.

Scary Movie (2000)

Starring comedic maestros like Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and more, this 2000 comedy playfully pokes fun at iconic scary flicks like Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), proving that laughter can be the best cure for fear.

But sometimes the age gap between the two parts of the love story is unrealisticly big.

In this list is 13 examples of big Romantic movies that made us a bit uncomfortable.

22 Years (Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, Autumn in New York, 2000)

Ryder was 29 when she starred in Autumn in New York. while Gere was 51, making them quite an unbalanced couple.

The age difference between the two actors is already kind of uncomfortable, but the gap between the characters is even worse.

While Gere plays Will Keane, who is just three years younger than the actor himself at 48, Ryder’s character Charlotte is aged all the way down to 22.

In the film, Will is a middle-aged man seeking love with a much younger woman, but still frames the relationship as an uncomplicatedly sweet one. He later learns that Charlotte is the daughter of a woman he once dated. Yuck.

26 Years (Harrison Ford and Anne Heche, Six Days, Seven Nights, 1998)

Described by Rotten Tomatoes as “a completely forgettable piece of Hollywood fluff.”

Six Days, Seven Nights sees Harrison Ford team up with Anne Heche. Anne Heche was 29 and Harrison Ford was 55 at the time, making him 26 years older than his co-star.

Both Ford’s character Quinn and Heche’s character Robin are happily dating other people at the beginning of the movie.

And are pushed to cheat with each other due to being stranded on a desert island.

26 Years (Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, As Good as it Gets, 1997)

Jack Nicholson was 60 when he did this 1997 film. But not for a moment did you feel any kind of awkwardness here when he was dating the 34 year old Helen Hunt.

 ‘As Good As it Gets’ is a sweet little romantic comedy that tells the story of a misanthropic, annoying, obsessive-compulsive writer, played by Nicholson, who has to take care of his neighbor’s dog.

He falls in love with a waitress, almost half his age, who is a single mother with a chronically ill son.

The film is wonderfully made with some fine performances by Nicholson and Hunt, both of who won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.

27 Years (Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart, 2009)

His fantastic performance in Crazy Heart won Jeff Bridges a well-deserved Best Actor Oscar.

Jeff Bridges was 58-year-old and Maggie Gyllenhaal was 31-year age, making for a real-life age gap of 27 years.

Crazy Heart is a drama centred on Bridges, who plays an alcoholic country music singer down on his luck named Otis.

His relationship with a young journalist, played by Gyllenhaal, is what inspires him to stop drinking and turn his life around.

27 Years (Gene Wilder and Kelly LeBrock, The Woman In Red, 1984)

In the 1984 film The woman in red, 51-year-old Gene Wilder hooks up with Weird Science star Kelly LeBrock, who at 24 years old was 27 years his junior.

The Woman in Red is a straightforward romantic comedy, adapted from a 1976 French film called Pardon Mon Affaire.

Essentially, Wilder’s character Teddy becomes obsessed with LeBrock’s character Charlotte, after seeing her dress being blown up by a breeze from a ventilation grate, revealing her skimpy underwear.

Teddy then spends the whole movie coming up with elaborate schemes to seduce this woman, until he finally does and realises she also has a partner, at which point he immediately becomes interested in another woman.

28 Years (Colin Firth and Emma Stone, Magic in the Moonlight, 2014)

Emma Stone and Colin Firth were 25 and 53, respectively, when “Magic in the Moonlight” (2014) premiered.

In the 2014 romantic drama, Colin Firth and Emma Stone played love interests.

The plot of Magic in the Moonlight is actually pretty charming, with Colin Firth playing a cynical showman tasked with debunking Emma Stone, who plays a prolific psychic and medium but the two end up falling in love.

32 Years (Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde, Third Person, 2013)

Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde starred as on-again, off-again lovers in “Third Person” (2013).

Liam Neeson was 61 and Olivia Wilde was only 29 years old when she had a fling with Neeson’s character Michael Leary in the romantic drama Third Person, making for a real-life age gap of 32 years.

Third Person is actually three separate but interconnected love stories strung together. The movie received awful reviews, with many critics saying the love story was not compelling, and that the characters were written flatly.

34 Years (Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation, 2003)

When “Lost in Translation” premiered in 2003, Scarlett Johansson was 18 years old and Bill Murray was 52. Their age difference was a prominent part of the film’s plot, so it’s not that surprising that the actors were 34 years apart.

Lost in Translation is a sweetly melancholic tale of love and loneliness. The film depicts the relationship between a middle aged American actor and a much younger American woman who happen to meet in a hotel in Tokyo, lost in a world and culture so alien to them.

A single kiss might’ve been the only physical moment between them, but Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray’s chemistry was strong throughout the drama.

35 Years (Jack Nicholson and Amanda Peet, Something’s Gotta Give, 2003)

The 2003 romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give sees jack Nicholson’s character had a fling with a woman less than half his age

Amanda Peet was 31 years old when she played a character who catches 66-year-old Jack Nicholson’s eye in the 2003 romantic comedy. Making her exactly three-and-a-half decades younger than her on-screen love interest.

However, this age gap is made a little less uncomfortable by the fact that it is integral to the plot.

38 years (James Mason and Sue Lyon, Lolita, 1962).

The original film adaptation of “Lolita” (1962) included a 38-year age gap between the lead actors. At the time of the controversial film was released, James Mason was 53 and Sue Lyon was only 15.

Stanley Kubrick‘s bizarrely romantic black comedy drama tells the story of a middle aged man who is sexually attracted to a gorgeous teenager.

Humbert is offered by a sexually frustrated widow to stay at her house which he initially declines but accepts it after he sees her teenage daughter.

The film was controversial for its bold subject and tone and wasn’t well received by critics at the time.

39 Years (Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Entrapment, 1999)

Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones had nearly four decades between them when they starred in “Entrapment” (1999).

Sea必利勁 n Connery was 68 when he played the thief-turned-unlikely partner opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was 29 when the 1999 crime thriller premiered.

The relationship between the two characters is mostly built on deception, since for most of the movie’s runtime, both are unsure about who is being double-crossed and whose feelings are genuine.

42 Years (Tom Skerritt and Drew Barrymore, Poison Ivy, 1992)

Drew Barrymore was 17 when she starred opposite then-59-year-old Tom Skerritt in “Poison Ivy” (1992).

In the film, she seduces a much older married man, the 42-year gap between Barrymore and Skerritt is simply too much for us to bear.

The film contains many uncomfortable scenes between the two. It also ends rather gruesomely, with Barrymore’s character being pushed off a balcony to her death as revenge for the affair.

The film was hugely controversial upon its release, but that controversy only helped it become a huge hit on home media.

52 Years (Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort, Harold and Maude, 1971)

An unlikely romance buds between the title characters of “Harold and Maude” (1971), who were 52 years apart. Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort were 75 and 23, respectively, when the 1971 cult rom-com was released.

 ‘Harold and Maude’ has an almost creepy storyline. A 20-year-old obsessed with suicide meets an optimistic 80-year-old while attending the funeral of a stranger.

The two become friends and later fall in love, as Maude teaches Harold what it means to live a full and happy life, as opposed to a depressed one.

The film did not sit well with audiences and critics back when it was released in 1971 for very obvious reasons.

Not all movies find themselves in the good graces of the public. movies have been banned in different areas of the world over the past 100-plus years on several grounds. Some of the reasons include religion, Politics, se**xual content, and violence. No matter what the raison were some movies have gained even more attention after being banned.

While this list includes some of the more popular and talked about banned films. It is by no means exhaustive, there are countless banned films out there, and this list only scratches the surface.

1. Battleship Potemkin /1925 :

This classic 1925 silent movie dramatizing the mutiny of a Russian battleship in 1905, led to it being banned in Nazi Germany and numerous other countries at the time of its release, due to fears that it would cause a Marxist revolution. Now it’s taught in film courses everywhere.

2. A Clockwork Orange /1971 :

Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie about an ultraviolent teen is famous for its horrific antics, including house invasion and ra**pe.

Numerous countries banned the film for decades such as Ireland and Singapore for over 30 years. In fact, in the United Kingdom it was withdrawn from theaters because Kubrick and his family were receiving death threats.

The film didn’t play again in the UK until the director’s death in 1999. 

3. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb /1964 :

In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War at its frostiest, Stanley Kubrick made a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button. 

During its release, Finland banned the movie as the nation was concerned it would offend the Soviet Union.

4. Cocksucker Blues /1979 :

This documentary directed by Robert Frank and Danny Seymour follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour. Because of the free-form nature of filming, it captured band members and entourage members taking part in events that Rolling Stones preferred not to be publicized.

It finally opened in 1979 but under strict guidelines.

5. Duck Soup /1933 :

At the height of their popularity, the Marx brothers were a thorn in the side of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This satire on war and politics came out in 1933, and mussolini banned the film in italy. Around the same time, they were not allowed to be seen in Nazi Germany because the comics were Jewish.

6. Freaks /1932 :

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years, and wasn’t available in the country until a home-video version was approved in the early 1990s.

7. The Great Dictator /1940 :

Charlie Chaplin’s first talking picture is also his most infamous. As the Nazis ruled Germany, the Hollywood icon wrote, directed, and starred in this satire on fascism. The movie was banned in Nazi Germany and numerous Latin American countries that were Nazi sympathizers when it was released in 1940.

8. The Interview /2014 :

The 2014 Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy in which they play journalists who attempt to assassinate North Korean leader has been banned in Russia.

Meanwhile, all American movies are officially banned in North Korea.

9. Last Tango in Paris /1972 :

Originally released with an X rating when it opened in the US in 1972.

Due to the explicitly se**xual nature of the movie, it was banned for some 30 years in countries including South Korea, Portugal, Singapore, Italy, Chile.

And in Italy in 1986, prints of the movie were also burned, and Bertolucci was sentenced four months in prison for obscenity.  

10. The Last Temptation of Christ /1988 :

Martin Scorsese’s movie tells the story of Jesus Christ and the earthly temptations he faced, and some of those temptations were of se**xual nature.

This movie was banned in numerous counties, and in a few US cities.  Even now it has not gained any permit to be screened or released. 

11. Noah /2014 :

Darren Aronofsky’s look at Noah’s mission before an apocalyptic flood was banned in numerous Middle Eastern countries, and areas where the teachings of Islam are prominent before its release in 2014.

In the islamic religion, it is forbidden to portray a prophet such as Noah.  

12. Amazing Grace :

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little known two night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with L A’s New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972, for her best selling album Amazing Grace. 

Pollack was there with a four man crew and shot over 20 hours of footage. 

In 2015, the film was finally to hit the festival circuit but Franklin’s lawyers put a stop to it being shown, stating that the artist hasn’t given her consent to use her name and likeness.

13. Apocalypse Now /1979 :

Francis Ford Coppola has had one of the most impressive careers of all Hollywood directors.

His movie, Godfather 1 and Godfather 2 are still regarded as one of the best movies of all time.

This movie by Coppola is also regarded as one of the best movies of all time, but it is also marred with controversy.

Apocalypse Now is banned in South Korea because of its anti war theme.

14. All Quiet on the Western Front /1930 :

Regarded as one of the most popular movies that showed the horrors of war, this movie provided an extremely realistic and harrowing depiction of the life of frontlines during World War I.

The Nazi party banned this movie in Germany throughout the 1930s and 40s and it was also banned in  Australia and New Zealand for its anti war stance.

15. The Blue Kite /1993 :

This movie represented how Mao’s communist regime was, and this mere plot led the movie to be banned in mainland China, and a 10-year film making ban was placed on director Zhuangzhuang Tian.

That did not stop the movie from winning a number of awards on the international film circuit after it was released.

The story is told from the perspective of a young boy growing up in Beijing during the 1950s and 60s.

The movie has demonstrated some real life incidents in the city during the Cultural Revolution.

16. Brokeback Mountain /2005 :

This movie was widely regarded as the best film of the year, and had won more Best Picture and Best Director prizes than any other film at the time.

It tells the complex story of two cowboys who get entangled in a romantic and sexual relationship.

Due to its plot and content, this movie was banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries and in China. 

 17. Hail Mary /1985 :

This movie is banned mainly because of blasphemy and explicit se**xual content.

It was directed by director Jean Luc Godard where he re-tells the story of how Mother Mary gave birth to Jesus in a modern setting.

The movie is banned in Brazil and Argentina upon its release, and the issue was so serious that Pope John Paul the second even offered a critique of the film, proclaiming that it deeply wounds the religious sentiments of believers.

18. BORAT. CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN / 2006 :

The movie tells the story of Borat, a reporter for Kazakhstan TV who was sent to America to report on the greatest country in the world.

The film is a comedy, mockumentary, and though it is considered a commercial success, its release was surrounded by controversy, ending with bans all over the world including Kazakhstan and all arab countries except Lebanon.

19. SONG OF THE SOUTH / 1946 :

The film that inspired the Splash Mountain attraction at Disney theme parks around the world, Song of the South is an Oscar winning film that follows an old story teller as he teaches young children of the adventures of Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Bear and Br’er Fox.

However, its racial stereotypes have been the cause of controversy since the film’s release.

To this date, the film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the U S due to the perceived damage it would cause to the family friendly Disney brand.

20. Zoolander /2001 :

Ben Stiller’s hit was banned in a few countries when it was released in 2001 due to gay themes.

The Malaysian Film Censorship Board has deemed definitly unsuitable as the plot centers on model Derek Zoolander being brainwashed to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia.  

21. The Simpsons Movie /2007 :

There have been some questionable reasons for banning movies, but this one might be the winner, burma banned The Simpsons Movie in 2007 because of its use of the colors yellow and red, as they can be seen to support rebel groups.

22. Wonder Woman / 2017 :

The 2017’s Wonder Woman, a superhero movie that you probably weren’t expecting to see banned by multiple Middle Eastern countries.

The movie Was banned due to Israel born star Gal Gadot’s tour of duty with the Israeli Defense Force.

Godot spent time in the IDF during the Israel Hezbollah War in 2006. Lebanon, Tunisia, and Qatar all banned Wonder Woman from theaters.

23. Deadpool /2018 :

On its way to becoming the highest grossing R rated movie of all time worldwide, Deadpool faced a pretty significant handicap. it was denied release in China due to its extreme levels of violence.

The movie eventually did premiere in China, although not as a full release The film was shown during the Beijing Film Festival in 2018.

24. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial /1982 :

This classic movie that tells the story of a kind alien and a young boy on their journey to finding a way to get E.T. home to his planet, Was Surprisingly banned in Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial was restricted from children because it was said to have shown adults as the enemy of children.

The official age limit was eight in Finland and 12 in Norway and Sweden.

However, this film was a popular hit among US audiences in 1982.