Are the Young Man on Warehouse 13 and the Boy on the Honey Nuts Cheerios Commercial Brothers?

“I’ve been watching Warehouse 13 on television. On the last few shows there has been a young man who resembles the boy on the new Honey Nut Cheerios commercial.  Are they brothers?”  This is not the first time a patron has asked the staff of the Newton Falls Public Library about someone who has appeared on television.

We first needed to find the names of the actors.  Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com, is a very useful source for questions pertaining to the movie and television industry.  The entry for Warehouse 13 had an entry for each of the episodes.  Season 4, Episode 19, July 1, 2013 All the Time in the World had photographs for all the actors.  Our patron identified Josh Blaylock, who played Nick Powell, as the actor for which she was looking.  The trivia given for him said that he was born and raised in Texas and has an older brother.  This made it unlikely that the actor in the Cheerios commercial was related, as he was much younger.

The commercial was not listed in this database, so we used a search engine to look for “Honey Nut Cheerios 2013 commercial.”  This led us to the additional words “reverse psychology” that we added to the original list.  We found it at ispot.tv.  The young actor is Griffin Gluck.  We returned to IMDB to find more about Griffin.  He is 10 years younger than Josh and is from Los Angeles, so they are not brothers.

Who Are the Singers on the I Heart Radio Television Ads?

"I see the I 'heart' radio ads on television, and I'm curious who the singers are.  Can you help me?"  The Newton Falls Public Library staff member was not familiar with the commercials, so more information was needed from the patron.  He said he knew that one of the singers was Usher.  Of the others, one was a British boy band.  The others were a white lady with dark hair and a dark skinned lady with white hair.

There is currently a very popular British boy band named One Direction. Looking at their website, www.onedirectionmusic.com, our patron recognized them as the group in the commercial.  Our staff then looked for information at www.iheart.com, but there was no information about their commercials.  Because television is such a visual medium, we felt that doing Google image searches would bring up an assortment of photographs.  From these our patron was able to identify Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj as the other two singers.