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2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

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Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Ahmed Boulane was born in Salé, Morocco. He was expelled from school three times, and was only 16 when they threw him out for good. However, this didn't stop him from learning to speak four languages fluently.

Boulane was an actor with the Moroccan National Theater Company and the national Moroccan radio theater troupe from 1974 to 1977. His first job in the cinema was with Nabyl Lahlou in a wacky Moroccan movie, "Al-Kanfoudi". He was hired to play the part of a young, unemployed man, but Boulane found it impossible to leave the set once he had finished being an actor. He tried his hand at being a boom operator and grip (both of these too physically strenuous for him), and eventually finished the film as a floor assistant.

But Ahmed Boulane had been bitten by the bug, a passion that has been the motor for a rich and varied career in cinema and television as actor, location manager, assistant director, casting director, and awarded screenwriter/director/producer. During the past 40 years he has worked on more than 50 feature films and documentaries and more than a hundred commercials, both Moroccan and international. The names of Giuliano Montaldo, Alan Pakula, Carlo Di Palma, Phillipe de Broca, Jean Delannoy, Nicholas Roeg, and William Friedkin appear on his long C.V.

During the mid-90s he began to feel restless. He decided to add a nationality; he became an Irish citizen in 1995. And he decided he needed to direct his own projects. The result... in 1996 he created his production company, Boulane-O'Bryne Production (BO'B Prod), to produce "Voyage dans le Passé" ("Past Recollections") and "Ali, Rabiaa et les autres" ("Ali, Rabiaa and the Others"), two films that earned him both critical acclaim and the respect of the public.

His film "Les anges de Satan" ("The Satanic Angels") was released in March, 2007. The film is based on a true story: the controversial arrest of fourteen young Moroccan hard rock musicians falsely accused of adhering to Satanism.

His feature film "Le retour du fils" ("The Return of the Son") was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2012.

His latest film "La Isla" ("The Island"), a political comedy in co-production between Morocco and Spain, was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2015 and won the best comedy award in a festival in Cordoba, Columbia.

In 2019 he wrote his autobiography "Ma vie est belle", translated into English "What a Beautiful Life".

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Two sons born in Ireland: Neil, born on April 4, 1994, and Ryan, born on July 17, 1997.

Friend to Dana Schondelmeyer since 1985, and life partners since 2000.

Journalists and film critics have called him &quot;l&#39;enfant terrible du cinéma marocain&quot; (the bad boy of Moroccan cinema) since 1996. He received the Moroccan journalists&#39; award for his first feature film &quot;Ali, Rabiaa and the Others&quot; in 2000.

Was expelled from school three times: the first time at the age of 14, the second time at 15 and the third time at 16. And that time it was for good.

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