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31 - November 6, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Tom Hanks stars in the science-fiction movie
“Finch,” which begins streaming Friday
on Apple TV+.
Tom Hanks takes the streaming
route again with ‘Finch’
It’s not how it was intended, but Tom
Hanks has become more of a home-screen
presence again.
The two-time Oscar winner largely started
his career on the home screen four decades
ago. Though he has returned to television
occasionally, he seemed destined to remain
seen primarily in theaters ... until the arrival
of the coronavirus pandemic, of which he
and wife Rita Wilson became two of the
earliest celebrity “faces.”
As a result, Hanks’ World War II drama
“Greyhound” – for which he also wrote the
screenplay – was rerouted from theaters to
Apple TV+, where it made its debut in July
2020. His subsequent film, “News of the
World,” did get a theatrical release but went
to premium-video-on-demand after only a
few weeks. Now, another Hanks movie is
debuting via the streaming route.
Anticipated to be released a year ago,
“Finch” also ended up being sold to Apple
TV+, and the science-fiction drama will
premiere there Friday, Nov. 5. Hanks has the
title role of an inventor who’s the last man on
Earth, prompting him to create an android
(portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones) to join
him and his dog on a cross-country trek.
Hanks’ relationship with home audiences
dates back to his guest role on a 1980
episode of “The Love Boat,” which was
followed soon by “Bosom Buddies,” the two-
season comedy in which he and Peter Scolari
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could afford. That show helped bring Hanks
work on such series as “Taxi,” “Family Ties”
and “Happy Days,” and the latter series’
Ron Howard helped Hanks’ movie career
get going by directing him in the 1984 hit
“Splash.”
Even as Hanks was accruing feature-film
credits, television work remained at hand for
him, with NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” a
definite factor. He has hosted that program
10 times (including last year’s episode that
was the show’s first to be done virtually
during the pandemic) and appeared on it
nine other times.
Other Hanks TV activity largely has
been from behind the scenes. His company
Playtone has produced several documentary
series for CNN (“The Sixties,” “The
Seventies,” etc.), and he also has been an
executive producer of Primetime Emmy
Award-winning HBO dramas. “From the
Earth to the Moon,” on which he also
acted and directed, was the first; “Band of
Brothers” (for which he acted, directed and
wrote as well) and “The Pacific” came after
that. Currently, Hanks has HBO’s military-
themed “Masters of the Air” in the works.
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