Jonathan Silverman
He has been married to actress Jennifer Finnigan since 2007; the two met at a barbecue in 2004. He and Finnigan have a daughter, Ella Jack, born in September 2017.
Fred Silverman
Silverman was born in New York City, the son of a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother. He graduated from Syracuse University, where he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and then earned a master's degree from the Ohio State University. After university, he joined WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, overseeing program development and children's programming, as well as at WPIX in New York City. His masters thesis analyzed ten years of ABC programming and was so good it led to him being hired as an executive at CBS at the age of 25 in 1963. There, he took over responsibility for all daytime network programming and later, took charge of all of entertainment programming, day and night. Silverman married his assistant, Cathy Kihn, and they had a daughter, Melissa, and son, William.