HOLLYWOOD Q&A

Q: How many hosts have they had on “America’s Got Talent”? It seems like they change every season.

A: It only seems like they change hosts every season, probably because the show’s so breezy and quick — it sweeps into our lives at the end of spring and is gone before the summer is over.

That said, there certainly have been a lot of hosts — five of them across 15 seasons.

Hosting institution Regis Philbin started the cavalcade when the show launched in 2006. But he was gone by Season 2, when a different sort of hosting great stepped in — Jerry Springer. He lasted two seasons before passing the mic to the longest-standing host, actor-rapper-comedian Nick Cannon.

Eight seasons later, Cannon gave way to supermodel and reality host Tyra Banks, who did two seasons before actor and retired football player Terry Crews stepped in. And that’s where we are today.

Neither Crews nor NBC has made any statements about his future beyond the current season (his second), but if he signs on for just one more, he becomes the second-longest host in the show’s history, though he’s a long way from Cannon.

Q: Does the success of the new “Jack Ryan” TV series mean an end to the Tom Clancy movies? I was hoping for more.

A: Fortunately for fans such as yourself, there was more to Tom Clancy’s body of work than just Jack Ryan. Clancy’s other stoic hero, John Clark, will get a film of his own later this year — “Without Remorse,” out in October.

Ryan, the analyst who becomes a reluctant field agent who also reluctantly becomes president (in the books, though that has yet to happen on screen), is Clancy’s most famous character. A lot of that is due to the various film and TV productions, in which megastars Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine and now John Krasinski have played the famously humble hero.

But former Navy SEAL and CIA field agent John Clark has appeared in nearly as many books as Ryan. The characters are part of the same fictional universe, and in fact Clark was also portrayed by some bigname stars in two of the Ryan films: Willem Dafoe in “Clear and Present Danger” (1994) and Liev Schreiber in “The Sum of All Fears” (2002).

The novel “Without Remorse,” published in 1993, tells Clark’s origin story, before he meets Ryan, and the ordeal he goes through to become a darker sort of hero.

The news for fans gets even better, because the upcoming film is intended to launch a series of John Clark films with “Creed” (2015) star Michael B. Jordan in the lead.