The second rank, one by one at true size: the actress-producer and her franchise, the author-producer's company, the broadcaster's company — and the resident broadcaster's negative

1962–2026 · all boundary, ties graded in each entry

Vivica A. Fox and the Wrong films: Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born in South Bend on 30 July 1964, graduated from Arlington High School in Indianapolis, and broke through in 1996 in Independence Day and Set It Off. The producing record is hers and it is substantial: she co-starred in and produced the Lifetime crime series Missing (2003–2006, as FBI agent Nicole Scott, an NAACP Image Award performance), produced and led a run of features in the 2000s (Motives, The Salon, Getting Played, Three Can Play That Game), and from 2016 became the producing face of Lifetime's The Wrong… franchise — starring in more than twenty-five of the Wrong films and producing across the series, by her own later count in roughly fifty Lifetime films in all, before her directorial debut with First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story in 2023. Tie graded: born, South Bend; raised between South Bend and Indianapolis schooling; no Granger tie in any record reached. She is this roster's second rank at its largest, and she is South Bend's.

Nicholas Sparks and Nicholas Sparks Productions: Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha on 31 December 1965, raised chiefly in Fair Oaks, California, educated at the University of Notre Dame on a track scholarship, and resident since 1989 in New Bern, North Carolina, where his novels are set. In 2012 he signalled his move into other media by founding his own company, Nicholas Sparks Productions, to develop television and film; his producer and executive-producer credits run on the adaptations of his own books (among them Safe Haven, The Best of Me, The Longest Ride and The Choice). Tie graded, at its true strength: by adoption of education only — a Notre Dame degree earned across the line in South Bend's university, with no Granger residence, birth or raising claimed by any source, and none found. The company is a North Carolina author's vehicle; the Granger share is none, and even the boundary share is the weakest this section prints.

Hannah Storm and Brainstormin' Productions: Hannah Storm, born Hannah Lynn Storen in Oak Park, Illinois, on 13 June 1962, graduated from the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and from the University of Notre Dame in 1983, worked at South Bend's WNDU-TV while a student, and became the first full-time female sports anchor at CNN before her decades at NBC and ESPN. In 2008 she founded Brainstormin' Productions, through which she has produced, executive-produced and directed award-winning documentary films and branded content, alongside the Hannah Storm Foundation. Tie graded: by education only, the same weak grade as Sparks — Notre Dame, class of 1983 — with residence in Connecticut; no Granger tie. Her student turn at WNDU is a South Bend station's record, pointed to in the institutional article's ground and not retold as a Granger fact.

The resident's test — Ken Harrelson: the one producer-shaped candidate Granger itself supplies is its verified resident broadcaster, carried whole in the banked People leg. The test was run on the credit and company records: no production company founded by Harrelson, and no producer credit in his name, appears in any source searched; the film record of his life was made by others (MLB Network's Hawk: The Colorful Life of Ken Harrelson, 2013, produced by Bruce Cornblatt; NBC Sports Chicago's 2018 Hawk documentary, produced by the club's and network's crews). A voice is not a production company, and the entry prints the negative at exactly that size: Granger's resident broadcaster produced nothing the record credits to him.

Sources:

1. The standard biographical and credit records for Fox (South Bend birth; Missing; the Wrong franchise counts as sourced, 25-plus starred and produced, her own count of roughly 50 Lifetime films), Sparks (Omaha birth; Fair Oaks raising; Notre Dame; New Bern residence; the 2012 founding of Nicholas Sparks Productions) and Storm (Oak Park birth; Notre Dame 1983; Brainstormin' Productions founded 2008 — Notre Dame's Film, Television and Theatre alumni record and her ESPN biography); Chicago Tribune / Sports Business Journal record of the Harrelson documentaries' producers, for the resident negative.