What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

The Maytag Man

Colin Ferguson is his name, and installing washer and dryer units is his game. Not really though, he actually got his career started by playing a cop on Eureka. He played out the strong, silent, authoritarian type character until he acted in The Vampire Diaries and Christmas in Paradise where he dropped the typecasted personality and dug his heels into being a dramatic actor. 

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The More You Know

  • The original pilot for Game of Thrones was judged to be so bad by the studio that the series was nearly cancelled.
  • Family Matters: The infamous theme song "As Days Go By" wasn't always the theme song. "What A Wonderful World" was used in the pilot (though it has been replaced with "As Days Go By" in syndicated versions of the show).
  • Game of Thrones made television history with "Baelor," the final episode of the first season, by killing off Ned Stark (played by Sean Bean), the main character of the show
  • The show we know and love as Friends today could have been called Insomnia Café or Six of One.
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