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Seinfeld

“Milton Berle once told me that if you can’t make a character funny, make him interesting,” says Michael Richards, 66, who turned Kramer, Jerry’s screwball next-door neighbor, into the quintessential sidekick on the decade-defining sitcom that was famously “about nothing.”Created by Larry David and starring Jerry Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment […]

Breaking Bad

HBO, Showtime, and, ultimately, FX passed on this dark drama about a disillusioned chemistry teacher turned meth dealer. “It was dead as a hammer,” says creator Vince Gilligan, 48, when his agent at ICM sent it to AMC, which was desperate for original series. “Why don’t you send it to the Food Network? It’s a show […]