There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV. And there were a lot of them-in 2001, the Disney Channel pumped out 10 original movies, which, apparently, is the exact amount necessary for kids to cultivate parasocial relationships with the actors on a made-for-kids TV network. They were expressly for kids of a certain age and almost exclusively featured kids of a certain age, thrusting them into situations both fantastic (she’s living in a futuristic space society) and aspirational (he’s finding community in the local Rollerblading scene). These movies were spiritual-and, in many cases, literal-extensions of the network’s television series, full of tween-centric bombast and bright lights. The Disney Channel turns 40 years old on April 18, but the Disney Channel really became the Disney Channel around 1997, when it first started airing original movies. Friday night mattered because Friday night was when the Disney Channel would release its latest original movie. Not because school was over and the weekend had arrived, not because you got to go to Applebee’s on Fridays, and not even because of ABC’s TGIF block of shows. Will be released simultaneously with "Strings of Steel".If you were born sometime between roughly 19 and were lucky enough to have cable as a kid (and, honestly, if you clicked the link for this ranking), you probably remember a sliver of time in your life when Friday nights were the most important things on the planet. "Strings of Steel", a feature film in where he combines his talent for Recently he acted in a special engagement play, "Realm of the Maya" at the Margo Albert Theatre Directed by Enrique Castillo ("Blood in Blood Out" "Weeds") Erik Gavica is working on his own project called Lawrence and Melissa Joan Hart, as well as "Ironside" with Blair Erik is was also on Melissa and Joey" with Joey Participated in Lopez' theater group, Casa 101. "Real Women Have Curves") written by Josefina Lopez. Live action Latino-based film starring America Ferrara ("Ugly Betty", Gavica went on to appear in "Gotta Kick it Up!", Disney's first ever Indie film "Higher Ed" with Pras from the Fugees. He also worked on the long-running "Moesha" show withīrandy, popular cop show "Pacific Blue" with Mario Lopez, and the "Brothers and Sisters" with Sally Field, and "Mysterious Ways" withĪdrian Pasdar and Rae Dawn Chong. MTV produced by Master P and on several prime time programs such as Gavica also worked with Director LeVar Burton in an untitled pilot for "CSI NY", and with Christina Hendricks from "Mad Men" in MTV's Gavica made numerous guest TV appearances working alongside actors suchĪs Tyne Daley in "Judging Amy", Anthony Lapaglia In the Jerryīruckheimer production "Without a Trace", Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) in Thisįilm was produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla. Gus Van Sant production, "Speedway Junkie" starring Daryl Hannah. In his first ever acting gig, Erik Gavica booked a leading role in a He has been acting professionally since he Gavica was born in Paramount, California and was raised in South Gate,
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