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Future Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte worked on the show as story editor for twelve episodes and wrote three of them.

Illeana Douglas, who played former child actress turned high-priced hooker Wendy Ward, later called this role 'the greatest part offered to me in my career'.

The character Adam Rafkin's screenplay was supposedly bought by Dragonfire Films by mistake, due to his name being confused with the real, better-known screenwriter Adam Rifkin.

The character Bobby Gianopolis, the studio's homosexual chief executive who marries Peter Dragon's ex-wife to quell rumors, has been suggested by many critics to be a parody of former Fox CEO Barry Diller.

The character Titus Scroad, an eccentric director with a fondness for hydro-colonic therapy, loosely parodies real-life Italian director Tinto Brass, mixed lightly with elements of Terrence Malick.

The show frequently featured celebrities playing themselves in cameo appearances, including Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Salma Hayek, and David Hasselhoff.

The opening theme song, 'Even A Dog Can Shake Hands', was performed by Warren Zevon from his album Sentimental Hygiene.

Although Fox produced thirteen episodes, only eight aired on the network in 1999 before cancellation due to poor ratings; the remaining five episodes were later broadcast on FX and Comedy Central.

Action was the first Fox series to receive a TV-MA rating.