If you’re into collecting old TV shows and films, there’s a bonanza waiting for you. Nancy Watrous’ Chicago Film Archives is having a monster sale this weekend of 18...
BUSINESS HEATS UP NEXT WEEK when cameras start rolling for two pilots and a TV series. Both Dick Wolf’s “Chicago Fire” for NBC Universal and the second season of the Starz...
So five months after it all began, the ill-fated “The Rosie Show” looks to be near its end — at least as a Chicago-based production. Rumors first surfaced late Tuesday on ...
This is a consolidation of the trends that are now firmly planted in our landscape. It’s a pretty clear that the largest influence on the marketplace has been the internet. It...
The Museum of Broadcast Communications got its biggest funding boost since Gov. Pat Quinn came through with the $6 million grant that ex-Gov. Blagojevich promised but never deli...
WTTW will nationally host and air HMS Media’s Matt Hoffman and Scott Silberstein’s locally produced Pledge Month special over national PBS and Ch. 11 on March 11 at 6:30 p.m...
We feared it could happen. And it has. Leo Burnett/Chicago has bombed yet again in the banking category. What seems like only days (even though it has been yea...
Struggling talent will get a welcome break in advancing their careers mainly through scholarships to the performing arts schools of their choice, thanks to the helping hand exte...
FOR THE 5TH YEAR, the Illinois Film Office is sponsoring its annual Shortcuts Short Film Contest that is open to Illinoisans 18 years old and older. Basic requirements: Al...
“To me he was an uncle,” Nicholas Celozzi says about Sam Giancana -— his great uncle, actually. “He was a generous man, took care of all his family and a had great...
For most of its 12 years in business, Radar integrated production studio’s busy, sole director was co-founder Don Hoeg. Several years ago he was joined by staff dir...
TV ACADEMY’S CAREER DAY, Saturday, March 10 will update visual media professionals, TV Academy members and college students on the latest changes in the television industry, s...
Starting March 30, 2012 all Facebook Fan Pages will be switching over to the Timeline format for personal pages. Is your brand ready? Here are some ways that brands can pr...
SECOND CITY ANNOUNCED their first theater opening outside North America. As first reported February 15 by Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune, the comedy behemoth is joining with...
According to Nielsen’s February sweeps book, local late news ratings competition is tighter than it was a year ago. Though still No. 1, longtime frontrunner ABC-owned WLS...
In an a seismic personnel move, The Whitehouse’s A-list editor Matt Walsh, joins Cutters March 1 as a partner/editor. He becomes Cutters Chicago’s tenth editor and the...
Looks as if JCP isn’t the only national brand undertaking a major marketing revamp. We can add Taco Bell to the list. Taco Bell’s new TV campaign, just launched, is ti...
An old man that he saw reading The Odyssey in a café set the ball rolling for Richard Cohen. “It was, for me, a striking image,” Cohen says. “The rest just ca...
Talking Pictures Festival founding directors Ines Sommer and Kathy Berger of Percolator Films are documentarians themselves. Their Beneath the Blindfold, about local and interna...
So all you advertising-savvy readers. We’re now taking bets. How long do you think J.C. Penney — oh excuse us, JCP — will stick with this absurdity that is th...
