All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Scott Bakula, ranked

In 1977, 18-year-old Scott Thorson, who works as an animal trainer for films, meets Bob Black, a Hollywood producer, in a gay bar in Los Angeles. Black introduces Thorson to Liberace, who takes an immediate liking to the handsome younger man. Liberace invites the two backstage and then to his luxurious home in Las Vegas.

Mark Whitacre, a rising star at the Archer Daniels Midland office in Decatur, Illinois, during the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger. One night in November 1992, Whitacre confesses to FBI special agent Brian Shepard that ADM executives had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry.

In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named William Nix, also calling himself “The Puritan”, has gathered a cult of disciples in an old house. Nix wields real magic and plans to sacrifice a girl, telling his followers he will save the world and grant them wisdom. A group of former cult members, arrive to stop him.

After watching a fire burn her family’s Baltimore pizzeria to the ground, 11‑year-old Reena Hale decides she wants to be an arson investigator when she grows up. And with the help of mentor John Minger, whom she met during the investigation of her family’s restaurant, Reena realizes her dream.

In 2005, Alex Michaels is deputy head of a new division of the FBI called “Netforce” which investigates computer crime and polices the Internet. When his boss and mentor, Steve Day, is assassinated, the evidence points to Web pioneer and owner of the company Januscorp, Will Stiles, a character said to be Bill Gates’ apprentice.