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

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

Silawn Lewis was born in New York City and spent her formative years living in New York City and New Jersey. As a child, she spent hours in her bedroom glued to the television during every spare moment. A year after graduating high school, she enlisted in the U.S. Army. After returning to New Jersey from permanent party in Germany, she worked a 9-5 job as a Cost Accountant, while she simultaneously attended college, majoring in computer science. One day during her second semester, she passed the television studio and instantly knew she had to switch majors and follow her passion. After she completed the semester, she transferred to another school specifically for media professions to study television production.

Upon graduating, she started her career on the technical side, working as a cameraperson and audio/video editor for a top New York City advertising agency. She later moved to Atlanta where she worked at a local television station as a master control operator, as well as a studio cameraperson for two live music video programs. One year later, she was promoted to the position of Program Manager of the station, a position in which she flourished. Although she was eventually offered a salary increase and the opportunity to host her own weekly 30-minute news magazine TV program, she decided to move back to New York City to continue working behind the scenes on productions. She had a strong desire to learn as much as she could about every aspect of production.

After working in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles on several projects including commercials, videos, award shows, a TV pilot, etc.. (many without pay early on, just to gain experience), she permanently relocated to Los Angeles in 2009. She expanded her knowledge and experience and began getting opportunities to work as a Production Coordinator, Talent Coordinator, Stage Manager, Script Supervisor, Assistant Director and Director on TV, film and stage productions. In 2015, after years of constant side requests to "find" talent, crew or locations for many projects, she decided to consolidate her resources and start a company to provide those services to independent producers. She will expand her creative side, developing and producing projects she has written, including her autobiography. (She actually has over 100+ projects ready to go, once there is financing).

In her desire to be involved in every aspect of production, she has also done background acting whenever she wasn't booked as "crew". Silawn loves being on set, but prefers being behind the scenes.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

After hosting one episode of a 30-minute entertainment magazine show, the general manager of the TV station asked her to be the permanent host of the series. She turned down the opportunity because she preferred working behind the scenes on productions.

Won an art scholarship when she was in the 6th grade.

As a child, used to bring stray animals home all of the time and either hide them in her bedroom or somewhere in her apartment building. Once hid a Great Dane in the storage unit in the basement of her building.

Was proposed to six times. One man asked her to marry him after knowing her for less than twenty-four hours. She declined several times, but they continued to date.

At 18, she attended a live taping of the $20,000 Pyramid. She was fascinated by what occurred behind the scenes during commercial breaks and it planted the seed for her future career.

As a child, the highlight of her week was purchasing a TV Guide so that she could go through the pages and circle each program she was going to watch during the week.

Favorite movies are West Side Story, Memento, Lady Sings the Blues, Bridesmaids, Cooley High, Forrest Gump, Life of Pi, and The Five Heartbeats.

Enjoys binge-watching her favorite shows. Her favorite childhood television shows were I Love Lucy, The Carol Burnett Show and The Twilight Zone. Whenever channel-surfing, she will binge-watch old episodes if she catches marathons.

In addition to enjoying commercial films, she will go into a movie theater at random times during the week and watch an independent film she never heard of before. She discovered many remarkable films by just picking the next movie showing.

Favorite TV series is Breaking Bad, which she didn&#39;t start watching until it had been off the air for a year. She binge-watched the entire five seasons in two weeks. Update: Ozark and Black Mirror (other binge-worthy shows) are tied for new favorite series.

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