Local actors’ comedy pilot wins NBC Digital contest
Actors, writing partners and friends Bobby Richards and Avery Lee are finally calming down over the deliriously joyful shock of having won the NBC
Actors, writing partners and friends Bobby Richards and Avery Lee are finally calming down over the deliriously joyful shock of having won the NBC
AN NBC NETWORK reality show will start filming in Chicago in July. Ellen DeGeneres’ company is producing eight episodes
FOX TV IS SO PLEASED at the cooperation, professionalism and ease of working here on the smash hit “Empire,” that it
OLIVER PLATT (“The Big C”) is the latest lead actor to join the ensemble cast of
FIRST NEW AD BUSINESS of the year was announced by DDB Chicago, which has succeeded The Martin Agency on
The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) 2014 Emmy Awards ceremony Nov. 1 will be especially
Chicago production had its busiest year ever in 2012. A total of 406 total projects across all visual media shot 1,808 days. This is up 45%, when 391 projects shot
When a record number of Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSC)regular-season hockey viewers (5.40 rating) watched the Blackhawks Tuesday, they also witnessed a new CSN Chicago production
RETURNING TO CHICAGO in a big way this September is actor, standup comic, author and radio personality Steve Harvey, who started his career here in radio at WGCI-FM 20 years
Can Larry Wert at long last bring home the gold? Now may be the best opportunity in a long time for long-standing NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 general manager Wert and his
A CONTINGENT OF SOME 50 ADFOLKS from Chicago and another 15 from Detroit and Minneapolis will descend on the South of France for the 59th Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity,
Good news for Chicago entertainment production! NBC Universal not unexpectedly ordered a full season of Dick Wolf’s “Chicago Fire.” The series will start shooting in mid-July and “will go at
DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS made his mark as a rising star in 1978 with his first feature, “Stony Island,” about the fictitious Stony Island band, a fusion of rock, blues and
Maybe it happened while you weren’t watching. But professional hockey has become a very big business on television over the past several years.
Once upon a time hockey was viewed as
We said we’d keep you updated on the ratings story for the heavily-hyped NBC prime time series “Smash.” And we are.
“Smash” is the show — executive produced by film legend Steven
Let’s just say it flat out. “Smash” is a train wreck of a show like few others we’ve ever endured on TV. And get ready. It’s headed right at us
It wasn’t long ago that NBC Universal stages in the NBC Tower were bustling with weekday production of the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos’ syndicated TV shows.
That was prior to
Director Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion thriller, centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease, opened in Chicago this weekend, almost a year after cast and crew arrived here
Awards went to Chicago’s most talented entertainers in 45 categories at the recent star-studded 30th Annual Chicago Music Awards (CMA) that celebrated the city’s vibrant music scene.
“Chicago is
Earlier this year, Towers Productions was looking for unique Chicago women for a proposed reality TV series. In the process, they met Leslie Forrester, who embodied the qualities they