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Burbank, CA – Based on Robert B. Parker’s iconic detective novels and in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the American crime drama series, Spenser: For Hire fans can once again experience every gripping moment with the release of Spenser: For Hire – The Complete Series on DVD, arriving September 9, 2025. For the first time, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment brings together all three seasons of this action-packed crime, mystery-drama in one comprehensive collection. Available both online and at major retailers nationwide, this definitive set is a must-have for longtime fans and newcomers alike. Pre-order your DVD copy or look for it on digital today.

In the shadows of Boston, Spenser (Robert Urich), a former cop with a poet’s soul and a fighter’s fists, solves crimes in his own uniquely stylish way. A true Renaissance man, he faces danger head-on, backed by his formidable ally, Hawk (Avery Brooks), and contacts within the police department.

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Celebrity bookworm Elizabeth Banks is bringing back her book club — but this time, it’s entirely fiction. The Cocaine Bear director has relaunched her reading circle as a shameless gateway to her canned wine brand, Archer Roose.

“If you’re a female famous person and you don’t have a book club, are you actually famous? No, of course not! That’s why I’m proud to announce the Elizabeth Banks Book Club,” the Hunger Games star exclaims in a new ad. “Let’s embark on this journey together, maybe learn a little something along the way. That’s what book clubs are for, they’re certainly not to sell your wine.”

The brand offers low-sugar, vegan-friendly varietals made with organic grapes, such as the pear- and apple-infused Bubbly,...

Veteran TV star Ron McLarty has died following a battle with dementia.

He was 72.

McLarty was diagnosed with the condition in 2014 and retired from acting as a result.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, he passed away on Saturday. His wife Kate Skinner revealed the news to the outlet.

"He was the light of my life and I am bereft and heartbroken," Skinner said in a statement.

The actor was raised in Rhode Island and is best known for his role in the Law & Order franchise playing Judge William Wright.

He played the same role on an episode of Law & Order: Trial By Jury, and a different one in a 2006 episode of Law & Order: Svu.

McLarty also lent his voice to the Cartoon Network series Courage the Cowardly Dog.

The actor also appeared in a single episode of Sex and the City and had a role in the 1990s series Champs.

Ron McLarty, the familiar character actor known for his turns on Spenser for Hire, Cop Rock and Law & Order who became a published author thanks to a rave from Stephen King, has died. He was 72.

McLarty suffered from dementia since 2014 and died Saturday night in New York, his wife, actress Kate Skinner, told The Hollywood Reporter. "He was the light of my life and I am bereft and heartbroken," she said.

The Rhode Island native appeared in more than a dozen features, including Sidney Lumet's Daniel (1983), Garry Marshall's The Flamingo Kid (1984), Mike ...

Ron McLarty, the familiar character actor known for his turns on Spenser for Hire, Cop Rock and Law & Order who became a published author thanks to a rave from Stephen King, has died. He was 72.

McLarty suffered from dementia since 2014 and died Saturday night in New York, his wife, actress Kate Skinner, told The Hollywood Reporter. "He was the light of my life and I am bereft and heartbroken," she said.

The Rhode Island native appeared in more than a dozen features, including Sidney Lumet's Daniel (1983), Garry Marshall's The Flamingo Kid (1984), Mike ...

Welcome to your weekend flashback! In case you blocked it out, The Cop Rock TV show premiered on ABC on Wednesday, September 26, 1990. A police procedural TV series musical drama created by Steven Bochco and William M. Finkelstein, Cop Rock was cancelled by ABC after 11 episodes -- of the 13 ordered -- had been produced. ABC famously gave sponsors free ad time on the experimental hybrid project. The Cop Rock TV series finale, "Bang the Potts Slowly," aired Wednesday, December 26, 1990.The Cop Rock TV series cast includes: Anne Bobby, Barbara Bosson, Ronny Cox, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Gianopoulos, Larry Joshua, Paul McCrane, James McDaniel, Ron McLarty, Mick Murray, and Peter Onorati. Terri Austin, Dennis Lipscomb, William Thomas, Jr., and Kathleen Wilhoite recurred.Actors from Bochco's other series were featured in crossovers: James B. Sikking from Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law's Jimmy...

The Return of Jezebel James

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Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino

Produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Regency Television, Fox Television Studios

Aired on Fox for 1 season (7 episodes, 4 Unaired) from March 14, 2008 – March 21, 2008

Cast

Parker Posey as Sarah Tomkins

Lauren Ambrose as Coco Tomkins

Michael Arden as Buddy

Scott Cohen as Marcus Sonti

Ron McLarty as Ronald Tomkins

Show Premise

The series centers on a well off and buttoned down children’s book editor named Sarah Tomkins who, after a break up with a long-time boyfriend, finds her plans at having a husband, then a baby, flipped when she decides to go ahead and try to make a baby all on her own. The plan hits another bump when her doctor explains she is unable to conceive, and therefore she needs to consider other options.

Sarah turns to Coco, her estranged free spirited sister, as she is the only person...

Since 1995 and their release of the Dean Koontz limited edition of Strange Highways, Cemetery Dance Publications has evolved into one of the premiere publishers of genre limited editions. They’ve become known for their sumptuous, oversized work – their massive release of Stephen King's It: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition comes to mind – but one of the company’s most interesting projects is their Novella Series. These short novels always received the same care and attention as Cemetery Dance’s major publications: limited print runs, Smyth-sewn bindings, acid free paper, illustrations, and signatures by the authors. In recent years, Cemetery Dance has brought the aesthetics of their Novella Series to other higher-profile limited edition novella-length titles, like Stephen King’s Blockade Billy and The Dark Man and Peter Straub’s Pork Pie Hat and The Buffalo Hunter. Now comes the new limited edition of Brian James Freeman’s Weak and Wounded.

Rarely has a title been so apt.

Brian Freeman’s short story collection Weak and Wounded plunges us into small worlds, in which people live desperate lives and struggle with impossible decisions. Loss permeates every page: these people survive the deaths of parents, children, spouses, and siblings, only to find that survival might be a fate worse than death. But the power in these pages comes not from what our protagonists suffer, but how they suffer it. How they continue to go on.

One of Weak and Wounded’s best stories, “Running Rain” kicks off this short collection on familiar ground. Recognizable horror settings – dark forests, raging rivers – present themselves early, but Freeman’s focus is on the devastated family at the center of the story. Only slowly do we learn the nature of their devastation, and just when we think we know what the story is about, Freeman pulls...

Today Cemetery Dance Publications is pleased to announce The Dropper by Ron McLarty, a brand new novel we’ll be publishing in March 2012 as an exclusive trade hardcover edition, backed by a large advertising and marketing campaign.

Stephen King calls the book “a story where beauty and brutality mingle in a yarn I just couldn’t put down. This book is filled with rich pleasures and textures I highly recommend it.”

Ron McLarty is a veteran actor, accomplished playwright, prolific audiobook narrator, and acclaimed novelist. As a television actor, he has over 100 appearances to his credit including the recurring role… More...

The bright rays of the coming summer brings the bright stars of pop publishing, those big boys of thrills and mayhem whose glossy covers shine on supermarket, airport, book store shelves with their much hyped-up and hoped-for best-sellers. Among the male marquee names this year, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben and David Baldacci all have titles with heavy print and Internet promotions behind them. Is all the hype and expectations worth it? First Family, by David Baldacci Genre: White House Family Mystery 14.5 hrs - Unabridged Narrator: Ron McLarty Publisher: Hachette Audio Comment The First Family's past skullduggery puts the presidential re-election in jeopardy as former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in to find the First Lady's kidnapped niece. From this event, all things nefarious unfold. That's the 'A' story and if...

Talking about the show "Cop Rock" is a bit like talking about the punch line and forgetting the joke. Few shows exist in the pantheon of TV that lasted only 11 episodes but managed to make an indeliable mark on the medium. And when I say "an indeliable mark," I mean people are still shaking their heads at the idea of combining show tunes with (for the time) gritty cop drama.

One of Steven Bochco's ill-begotten offspring, "Cop Rock" tried to blend Bochco's patented brand of ensemble drama with musical numbers. It's 1990, we're all rattled still with big hair and shoulder pads, and we're expected to listen to politicians sing songs about the beauty of graft and a crack mother singing sweet lullabies to the baby she's going to sell. It was a daring experiment, and while there were many good moments, as a whole the show didn't work, but...