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Tag: TV Series

Can Yellowstone pull off a downtown Chicago lookalike?
  • Streaming

Can Yellowstone pull off a downtown Chicago lookalike?

By Barbara Roche Nov 19, 2025
Can the newest spinoff of the Yellowstone series succeed in turning Dallas into downtown Chicago? A new Yellowstone spinoff centered on Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler is still ...
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IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity
  • UNION

IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
Chicago’s film community is kicking off the holiday season with the return of the 3rd Annual Film Workers’ Holiday Market, hosted by the IATSE Local 476 Women’s Committee...
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Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
As 2025 enters its final stretch, cameras continue to roll across Chicago. Network series, streamers, indie features, and commercial shoots will be keeping crews busy through t...
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IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center
  • UNION

IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center

By Barbara Roche Nov 14, 2025
Governor J.B. Pritzker joined leadership from IATSE Local 2 and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on Thursday to cut the ribbon on the union’s new ...
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Chicago Fire seeks specialty extras for November 18 photo shoot
  • CASTING

Chicago Fire seeks specialty extras for November 18 photo shoot

By Reel Chicago Nov 13, 2025
As Chicago Fire continues filming Season 14 throughout the city, the show’s extras casting team is preparing for an upcoming episode, with a casting call looking for real sib...
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Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey
  • ONE CHICAGO

Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey

By Barbara Roche Nov 12, 2025
Across more than three decades, Oliver Platt has quietly assembled one of the most significant resumés in Chicago film and television. Before Oliver Platt became the steady...
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Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
For more than four decades, Chicago Studio City (CSC) has stood as one of the most enduring and influential production hubs in the Midwest. The family-run operation has helped ...
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LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight
  • ONE CHICAGO

LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
As Chicago P.D. enters Season 13, LaRoyce Hawkins continues to shape Kevin Atwater into one of the series’ most grounded, steadily evolving characters. What began as a suppor...
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Chicago History Museum screens WTTW’s Candy Capital
  • CHICAGO MADE

Chicago History Museum screens WTTW’s Candy Capital

By Reel Chicago Nov 5, 2025
Chicago has always had a taste for history, and this week, it’s serving up something delicious. The Chicago History Museum will host a special screening of Candy Capital, a W...
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Rob Riley, Chicago actor and Second City veteran, dies at 80
  • In memoriam

Rob Riley, Chicago actor and Second City veteran, dies at 80

By Barbara Roche Oct 30, 2025
We're just hearing about the death of Rob Riley, Chicago actor, writer, director, improviser, singer, and teacher, a quintessential Chicago multi-hyphenate whose career embodie...
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Benjamin Levy Aguilar finds his rhythm as Dante Torres on Chicago P.D.
  • ONE CHICAGO

Benjamin Levy Aguilar finds his rhythm as Dante Torres on Chicago P.D.

By Barbara Roche Oct 29, 2025
As Chicago P.D. settles into Season 13, Benjamin Levy Aguilar in his role as Officer Dante Torres has become one of the more grounded storylines in a year marked by shifting dy...
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Submissions open for SOC Camera Operator of the Year
  • AWARDS

Submissions open for SOC Camera Operator of the Year

By Reel Chicago Oct 28, 2025
The Society of Camera Operators (SOC) has announced submissions for the Camera Operator of the Year in both Film and Television categories are now open. Submissions for the ...
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NBC 5’s ‘Open House Chicago’ returns for new season
  • TV

NBC 5’s ‘Open House Chicago’ returns for new season

By Reel Chicago Oct 23, 2025
Fresh off its Emmy-nominated first season, NBC 5 Chicago’s (WMAQ-TV) locally-focused luxury real estate series Open House Chicago returns for even more exclusive, insider l...
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Patrick John Flueger takes leave of absence from Chicago P.D.
  • ONE CHICAGO

Patrick John Flueger takes leave of absence from Chicago P.D.

By Barbara Roche Oct 23, 2025
In a surprise move, longtime Chicago P.D. cast member Patrick John Flueger, who has portrayed Detective Adam Ruzek since the series premiered in 2014, is taking a temporary lea...
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Voight ’s next chapter: Can a lone wolf lead a new pack?
  • ONE CHICAGO

Voight ’s next chapter: Can a lone wolf lead a new pack?

By Barbara Roche Oct 16, 2025
As Chicago P.D. enters Season 14, Hank Voight faces a leadership crossroads, adapting to a new team and a changing city. For more than a decade, Chicago P.D. has revolved ar...
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It’s Tommy vs. Chicago in Power Book IV: Force trailer
  • CHICAGO MADE

It’s Tommy vs. Chicago in Power Book IV: Force trailer

By Reel Chicago Oct 16, 2025
Starz just dropped the trailer for the third and final season of Power Book IV: Force (premiering Nov. 7), and it’s pure Tommy Egan energy: loud, relentless, and locked on Ch...
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Chicago Med gives Halstead and Manning a long-awaited closure
  • ONE CHICAGO

Chicago Med gives Halstead and Manning a long-awaited closure

By Barbara Roche Oct 16, 2025
Halstead and Manning return to Gaffney Medical in the powerful Chicago Med Season 11 episode that gives the fan-favorite duo the emotional ending they deserved. Chicago Med ...
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‘Collaborate & Listen’ premieres October 20 at FACETS
  • Events

‘Collaborate & Listen’ premieres October 20 at FACETS

By Barbara Roche Oct 16, 2025
The Chicago premiere of Collaborate & Listen, a queer and women-led workplace comedy web series, will take place October 20, 2025 at FACETS Chicago. The event will feature ...
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Ron Dean, beloved Chicago actor for over four decades, has died
  • In memoriam

Ron Dean, beloved Chicago actor for over four decades, has died

By Barbara Roche Oct 7, 2025
Ron Dean, the tough-as-nails character actor whose unmistakable Chicago presence graced some of the city’s most iconic films and television series, has died at the age of 87....
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Chicago Med, Fire, and P.D. light up Peacock and prime time
  • ONE CHICAGO

Chicago Med, Fire, and P.D. light up Peacock and prime time

By Reel Chicago Oct 7, 2025
NBC’s fall is off to a blazing start and One Chicago is fanning the flames. While the network touts early wins across its schedule, the biggest momentum story is on Peacock, ...
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