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@every_day_action - Last Saturday, we had an unforgettable Italian dinner with @epicurusgourmet ! A huge thank you to everyone who showed up and supported Every Day Action—your presence and generosity made all the difference in a night of community and fun. A special shoutout to Epicurus Gourmet for hosting us at your incredible venue and to@esurio.la for crafting such a delicious meal. ❤️

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@barrettfoa - This succulent pluot is brought to you by Netflix’s The Residence. On March 20, tune in to see Bronson Pinchot give big “Les Poissons” Little Mermaid energy. 👨🏻‍🍳🔪🐟 Fun fact: I was a huge Perfect Strangers fan as a kid. Who’d have thunk I’d grow up to be on a fancy TV show with Balki Bartokomous himself. Talk about standing tall on the wings on my dreams! ✊🦅 #perfectstrangers #cousinbalki #firstgentleman #bronsonpinchot@mgriggz@netflix@shondaland #TheResidence

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if someone asked me at the end i'd tell them, put me back in it i would do it again

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Most men in their late 70s are pretty well into retirement, but Paradise actor Gerald McRaney, 77, has no interest.

"People tell me I'm supposed to retire, and I just can't do it," McRaney tells PEOPLE. "Somehow I have to stay active. When you have a feeble mind like I do, you have to keep it in shape!"

He's joking of course, but the longtime actor, who rose to fame in the '80s, starring on shows like Simon and Simon and Major Dad, is somehow busier than ever.

He credits being cast in Deadwood in 2005 with his career resurgence, and in the last 20 years has starred on This is Us, House of Cards, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Longmire, among others.

After Deadwood, he says, "People began to think, 'Oh, he can actually act!' It took things in another direction, which I'm grateful for."

Now he's in the Hulu hit Paradise, in which he plays Kane Bradford, James Marsden's dementia-afflicted father. The show just got renewed for season 2.

"Even though my character is not the funnest guy in the world. I'm having fun doing it," says McRaney. "Anytime you get to work with people like Sterling K. Brown, you jump on it.”

When he's not on set, McRaney says he's happy to live a quiet life in Florida with Delta Burke, his wife of 36 years. While the two worked together on Burke's show Designing Women, where McRaney had a guest arc, he says their love story actually began before that.

"The first time we met was at the publicist's guild luncheon where we were both presenting awards, and I was sort of fascinated by her from the beginning, but we didn't exchange phone numbers," McRaney says of their first meeting.

"A few months later, the casting director for Designing Women called my agent and asked if I'd be interested in a role. I was about to start another season of Simon and Simon, so I originally turned it down, but out of curiosity, I asked what the show was. When he said Designing Women, I very quickly said, 'I'll do it!'"

McRaney recalls that they went on just two dates before he asked her to marry him.

Delta Burke Says Dark Period of Drug Use Was 'Worth' It Because She Met Husband Gerald McRaney: 'I Love Him Desperately' "Originally it was sort of an infatuation, but it turned into something else pretty quickly."

He says life has been an absolute joy since. "You've got to marry the right person," he says of his relationship with Burke, who stopped acting in the early aughts and has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since.

“She loved the process of acting but not the other stuff that went along with it,” he says of Burke disliking tabloid scrutiny. “But I just can’t manage retirement. My philosophy is, if you stop moving, you truly stop moving.”

Last year, Burke, 68, gave a rare interview on the Glamorous Trash podcast with host Chelsea Devantez.

“Hollywood will mess your head up," she said on the podcast. "I had always thought, ‘I want to be a famous actress.’ I thought that meant that you would be a famous and well-respected actress, but that’s not what it meant. And the moment I became famous, it was like, ‘Oh no, no, no. This is not what I had in mind at all.”

McRaney says that despite his constant flow of work, they both love being able to live their lives, without being hounded by fans. "Our neighbors in Florida don't care about celebrity," he says, noting he spends his downtime hunting, fishing, hiking and exploring.

“Plus, my level of fame has always been ‘Aren’t you that guy in that show . . . ?’" He adds, "Everybody knows my wife’s name. Now people are finally beginning to know mine — after 50-odd years in the business!"

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The latest episode of NCIS delivered a five-way crossover. Of sorts. It was not the crossover that we wanted, but members of all five teams were mentioned.

The moment came via McGee, whose twins were having a charity drive for their school. While McGee may not be all that happy about working his network to boost sales, Kasie is. She ends up connected with the different NCIS offices around the world. Yes, world, because she mentions Mickey from NCIS: Sydney.

We learn that people from the Hawaii, New Orleans, and Los Angeles offices have also pitched in to help with the drive. Who would have thought that coffee could bring a sort-of five-way crossover.

NCIS could have mentioned Hetty in this

It is disappointing that Hetty didn’t get a mention in this whole scene. Kensi and Callen were both mentioned by Kasie. This would have been a perfect time to get an update on the search for Hetty.

After the explosion that made many believe that Hetty was dead, Nell put together a team to find her. They all knew she wasn’t really dead, just like we knew. If anyone can get out of a sticky situation like that, it’s the woman who always remained a mystery to us.

It would be great to get some sort of update on the character. How is the hunt for her going? Surely they should have found her and extracted her by now.

The only reason I could think of them wanting to keep Hetty in an unknown state is that there are still talks of an NCIS: Los Angeles movie. I’d be down for that if it meant seeing Callen and the team joining together to hunt down the woman who brought them all together and made them a family.

There is still hope that NCIS: Origins will bring in a younger version of Hetty, but that’s not the same. It still doesn’t tell us what happened to the Hetty who was left behind when NCIS: Los Angeles didn’t get the time to wrap up that storyline in full.

I get that it doesn’t make a lot of sense for Hetty to be mentioned in the flagship series. However, this would be for the fans and not for the team. We deserve some closure!

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RIP Gene Hackman! Thank you for being the 1 to present her with such a history making award.

Turner Classic Movies is rerunning “A Year of Living Dangerously” on Wednesday the 26th at 6PM ET.  It is a great film - pre-crazy Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt, who won an Academy Award for playing journalist Billy Kwan.  It is a great film and Linda Hunt is remarkable.  If you get a chance to see it, I highly recommend it.  

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A Solo Episode SURPRISE

Congrats to the Olsens!! 🥳🥳

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via Medalion's IG

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She was great in the Season 5 Christmas episode 'Merry Evasion'.

RIP!

Michelle Trachtenberg, best known to TV viewers for her runs as Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s kid sis Dawn and Gossip Girl‘s Georgina Sparks, was found dead on Wednesday in a New York City apartment near Columbus Circle. She was 39.

The actress’ death is not believed to be suspicious; she recently underwent a liver transplant and may have experienced complications, police sources told ABC News.

Trachtenberg’s early acting career began with episodes of Law & Order and Clarissa Explains It All, followed by a run as All My Children‘s Lily Montgomery. Ahead of her Buffy bow, she had a role on the CBS sci-fi sitcom Meego and appeared on the Nickelodeon panel show Figure It Out.

Trachtenberg’s breakout acting role was the 1996 film Harriet the Spy. On the big screen, she was also known for 2004’s EuroTrip.

Trachtenberg’s memorable Buffy debut came with the Season 5 premiere, when the cult hit mysteriously posited that Buffy had had a younger sister all along. It was eventually revealed that Dawn was “the key” delivered to Buffy by Monks trying to stop Glory (who was a god). Dawn had been created from Buffy, and Buffy and her friends were given memories to make them think she’d always been in their lives.

Trachtenberg went on to appear in every episode of the supernatural drama’s final three seasons.

Concurrent with Buffy, Trachtenberg hosted Discovery Kids’ Truth or Scare.

Upon Buffy‘s conclusion, Trachtenberg went on to appear in Six Feet Under, six seasons of Gossip Girl, NBC’s Mercy medical drama, Weeds and Max’s short-lived Gossip Girl reboot (reprising her role as Georgina), as well as do numerous one-off guest spots.

Most recently, Trachtenberg did voiceover work for Spyral, an award-winning 2024 documentary about mental illness.

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I don't want to be here with you right now.

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NCIS shows might get canceled, but they’re never gone for good. That’s what NCIS proved in its latest episode, titled ‘Bad Blood’ as the show used a very funny storyline to bring all the NCIS offices together. Or, at least sort of. The show features no characters from other NCISverse shows, but the show goes out of its way to establish the bonds between the offices are still strong.

But Timothy McGee isn’t one to take advantage of inter-office cooperation. But that’s not a problem, because Kasie Hines will do it for him. During the episode we hilariously hear her talking to “Michelle” [Mackey] from NCIS: Sydney about buying boxes of the coffee McGee is selling for the school charity drive, and later we see a board where Kasie has detailed all the NCIS offices that have bought coffee.

Of course, three of those shows are no longer on the air. NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: Hawai’i have all been canceled. But the offices still exist in the continuity, leaving open the possibility that we could see those characters again, even if it’s just for a brief time.

Meanwhile, NCIS: Sydney is still on the air, opening up the possibility of a two-show crossover, particularly with both shows getting early renewals this season from CBS. The franchise also has another show, NCIS: Origins, but considering that’s a prequel to NCIS, a crossover isn’t something that makes sense. We could, however, end up meeting younger versions of some iconic characters on that show. Dare we hope for Henrietta Lange?

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Thanks to a universal love of coffee, fans of the larger NCIS-verse this Monday night got an update, of sorts, on the teams based out of Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hawai’i and Sydney.

In this week’s episode of CBS‘ NCIS, titled “Bad Blood,” Special Agent Timothy (Farragut) McGee (played by Sean Murray) put on his World’s Best Dad hat to help his and Delilah’s forever-off-screen twins do well with their school’s annual winter fundraiser.

The product he was shilling? Coffee, in three flavors: Fire Brew (with a touch of habanero that Torres liked), Mocha Mania, and Jitter Joe (which is packed with “three times the caffeine”).

McGee wound up not alone in peddling the boxes of brew; Kasie (Diona Reasonover), a huge fan of the Jitter Joe blend, got to helping him work the phones, and at one point she was even heard wrapping a call with the Sydney, Australia office.

But the mentions of other NCIS teams didn’t end there. Far from it.

Later, in Kasie’s lab, one side of her whiteboard detailed the sales she had brokered thus far with the other offices. No reference was made to these names and tick marks, but if you hit pause, you were rewarded with an update on at least a few of the agents still solving naval crimes in the Aloha State, the Big Easy and L.A.

Yes, NCIS: Sydney‘s Mackey (played by Olivia Swann) has loaded up on more than a dozen boxes of the McGee twins’ coffee; maybe it will show up in a Friday night episode of the recently returned international offshoot?

But far more exciting is that fact that Dwayne Pride (played by Scott Bakula back in the day) is still heading up the NOLA outpost; both Kensi Blye and G. Callen (Daniela Ruah and Chris O’Donnell) are still working out of the Office of Special Projects in downtown Los Angeles; and Jane Tennant and Ernie Malik (Vanessa Lachey and Jason Antoon) are keeping the Oahu team properly caffeinated.

How did NCIS settle on this particular sampling of names? That’s a question for the writer of the episode and/or the prop department. But why not throw #Kacy fans a bone? Does the absence of Hetty Lange’s name amongst the team leaders from the other offices mean that she was never found by Sam and Callen? And why does NOLA need so little java?