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Second City and Columbia College alum Aidy Bryant leaves SNL

By Barbara Roche May 20, 2022

One of Chicago's favorites, Aidy Bryant takes the stage exit door at SNL following Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney who are all expected to take a final bow on Sat...

NBC Chicago to air The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child

By Reel Chicago Mar 17, 2022

NBC Chicago’s one-hour special, The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child, will air Saturday, March 19 at 6 p.m. The program is an extended version of NBC C...

Jay’s Chicago returns for a fifth season on WTTW

By Reel Chicago Mar 10, 2022

Chicago is full of creative and passionate people. On JAY'S CHICAGO, Jay Shefsky introduces us to some fascinating people who live and work in Chicago. Returning for a fift...

WGN reporter goes on rant chasing down drivers in snow-covered cars

By Reel Chicago Feb 4, 2022

“Don’t be that guy,” says Erik Runge of WGN. “That’s so dangerous. I don’t understand that at all. It just really aggravates me. It’s just stupid. It drives me nu...

Jeff Garlin exits The Goldbergs after HR investigation

By Reel Chicago Dec 16, 2021

Jeff Garlin will no longer be a part of the cast of the ABC TV series, The Goldbergs. The actor, who had starred as patriarch Murray Goldberg on the comedy series from prod...

Chicago-based UScellular featured in new season of Undercover Boss

By Reel Chicago Dec 10, 2021

Chicago-based UScellular, the fourth largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, will be featured in the upcoming season of CBS's Emmy-award winning reality tel...

Chicago-based TV producers animated approach to puppet series

Nov 16, 2021

DONKEY HODIE, a whimsical, new PBS KIDS puppet series produced by Fred Rogers Productions and Chicago-based Spiffy Pictures, encourages preschoolers to aim high, embrace chal...

How a trailblazing woman made Chicago the home of improv

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improv theater, which was born at Jane Addams’ Hull House during the Great Depression and carried out into the world by the...

Rare 9/11 footage of Carol Marin at collapse of the towers

By Reel Chicago Sep 10, 2021

Media Burn, Chicago's independent video archive, has rare footage of the harrowing experience of Chicago news correspondent, Carol Marin who was at the scene as the second towe...

Erica Duffy, Julio Desir, Adam Rudder team up on TV Pilot “The Donut Boyz”

By Reel Chicago Aug 26, 2021

The Donut Boyz, originally a hip-hop group, have been fusing comedy, rap, and snack foods into their musical stylings since 2006. Now Erica Duffy, Julio Desir, and Adam Rud...

WBBM-Channel 2 Station Manager fired for misconduct

By Reel Chicago Jul 23, 2021

Derek Dalton, president and general manager of WBBM-Channel 2 was ousted Thursday from his position, as part of the pruning of top management at CBS-owned stations in Chicago, ...

Chicago athletes to compete on American Ninja Warrior

By Reel Chicago Jul 9, 2021

A total of 13 athletes who manage, coach or train at Chicago-based Ultimate Ninjas gyms will compete on Season 13 of the NBC wildly popular American Ninja Warrior (ANW) show. ...

The Bear: Production begins around Chicago

By Reel Chicago Jul 2, 2021

The new FX pilot, The Bear, has started filming around the Chicago area. The new Disney-owned series stars former Shameless star, Jeremy Allen White, as a young chef who return...

Dick Wolf adds two new series to unscripted slate

By Reel Chicago Jun 12, 2021

Wolf Entertainment has two new series in the works, LA Fire & Rescue and Final Moments. Dick Wolf enters the unscripted space with the docuseries LA Fire and Rescue, fo...

Study reveals the best and worst fictional towns on TV

By Reel Chicago Jun 8, 2021

Television has provided much-needed escapism for many of us during the pandemic, allowing us to get lost in the fictional worlds of American dramas, homegrown soaps and nostalg...

Our Top 10 list of the best TV shows set in Chicago

By Joia DaVida May 28, 2021

As we say goodbye to our favorite heroes from One Chicago for the summer, it’s fun to look back on all the amazing TV shows set in the Windy City over the years. Chicago ...

Ida B. Wells ‘Chicago Stories’ premiere tonight on WTTW

By Reel Chicago May 21, 2021

On Friday, May 21 at 8:00 pm on all WTTW platforms, Ida B Wells, a one-hour Chicago Stories special and companion website, paints a deeply humanizing portrait of a woman w...

Fox previews The Big Leap during Network Upfronts

By Reel Chicago May 17, 2021

Fox has debuted its trailers for the Fall's new comedies and dramas for the 2021-22 TV season, including the Scott Foley-led, Chicago-based series, The Big Leap. Charlie Col...

Chicago actress “mixes” it up on hit ABC sitcom

By Megan Penn Apr 9, 2021

Deb Snyder’s creative path of acting has been a nomadic, long, and winding road of self-discovery beginning from her early days in Chicago and leading all the way to Los Ange...

Byron Allen’s ‘This TV’ expands its distribution footprint

By Reel Chicago Apr 6, 2021

Byron Allen's Allen Media Group announced its recently-purchased over-the-air 24/7 broadcast television network This TV will expand its distribution to eight major market A...