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Craig T. Nelson will reprise his role as Coach Hayden Fox in a sequel series for NBC, which has been given a 13-episode straight to series order. The show will pick up 18 years after the original comedy went off the air.

Craig T. Nelson is reprising his role as Coach in NBC's revival of the original series

The original series spanned nine seasons on ABC, running for 198 episodes and followed the trials and tribulations of Fox, the head coach of the fictional college football team, the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles. Nelson was nominated for a Golden Globe for his starring role and won the Emmy for best comedy actor in 1992.

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The sitcom Coach, starring Craig T. Nelson, will return to our screens in a brand new series. NBC announced they had picked up the new series, consisting of 13 episodes, on Thursday (26th March). Coach has been off air for the past two decades but Nelson is set to reprise his role in the new series which will air this fall. The original series of Coach aired on ABC for nine seasons between 1989 and 1997.

 
Craig T. Nelso stars in Coach.

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We can’t imagine a more perfect cast that the one that Modern Family already has. Every single of one of them has made the roles their own, almost like they were written with them in mind. So you’ll be surprised to hear that hardly any of them were the first choice for the parts! But who did the producers have lined up before the perfect cast finally came together?

Craig T. Nelson was first choice to play Modern Family patriarch Jay Pritchett

Family patriarch Jay Pritchett was originally pegged to be played by Emmy Award winner Craig T. Nelson. Best known for his role as Hayden Fox in Coach and as the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles, producers originally approached Nelson although his pay expectations were too high. Ed O’Neill, who the role eventually went to (and who just IS Jay) explained, “When I read [the script] I thought, ‘Oh boy, this is pretty good.’ And I called my managed and he said, ‘Well, they’re out to Craig T. Nelson.’” We’re grateful that they couldn’t afford Nelson because no-one plays grumpy good guy Jay Pritchard quite like Ed O’Neill.  We're also sure that Nelson is kicking himself since Sofia Vergara could have been his onscreen wife!  We wonder if he'd known that to begin with it would have made a difference?

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'The Godfather' actress Diane Keaton is due to make a brave and shocking appearance in 'The Family Stone', by filming a sex scene with a fake mastectomy. In the film, Keaton portrays Sybil Stone, a survivor of breast cancer. She agreed to film one of the scenes topless, showing off a fake surgical breast removal - reportedly in order to support real-life cancer fighters.

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Keaton, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1977's 'Annie Hall', reportedly fought bitterly in order to keep the controversial scene in which her scarred chest to her movie husband, played by Craig T Nelson. This confrontation came after Keaton revealed her hatred for the ways in which these scenes have been approached in the past.

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