EXCLUSIVE: Sound the alarm: Chicago Fire is headed to Ion Television next week.
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Former Destiny’s Child member LeToya Luckett has joined the cast of Karin Gist and Lee Daniels’ upcoming Fox drama “Our Kind of People,” the network announced Thursday.Luckett joins the show in a series regular role, set to star opposite “Chicago Med” alum Yaya DaCosta and Morris Chestnut.Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book, “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” the series follows strong-willed, single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s
.EXCLUSIVE: Sound the alarm: Chicago Fire is headed to Ion Television next week.
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in just six days. The joke at the time was, imagine how good it would have been had he spent seven. Released 35 years ago Friday, the ’80s flick follows a charismatic troublemaker (Matthew Broderick) who cajoles his mopey friend, Cameron (Alan Ruck), into skipping school and having a jam-packed day of fun in Chicago. The irresistible comedy, which Hughes also directed, didn’t exactly set box office records.
Kelly Lee Owens has announced that she’ll embark on a US tour later this year – see the full list of dates below.The Welsh musician will kick off the tour in Brooklyn, New York at Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 8 before heading to Chicago for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival on September 10.The tour will then pick back up in Philadelphia and touchdown in Cambridge, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Oakland and, finally, Los Angeles.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Joe Morton has been cast in Lee Daniels and Karin Gist’ series “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. The Emmy winner joins previously announced cast members Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”), Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”), LeToya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright.
EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) has signed on to star in The Crusades, a dramatic comedy from writer-director Leo Milano, which will shoot in Chicago this month.
Pride Month, ET is once again recognizing those who had an impact in the entertainment industry, whether it was via music, film or television, and helped shape pop over the past year.
HBO has put in development a half-hour series based on Vanessa R. Panfil’s book The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members, from Jaboukie Young-White (The Daily Show) and Issa Rae and her Hoorae productions.
Getting through it. Kim Kardashian is having a “very hard” time watching the “breakdown” of her marriage to Kanye West play out on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.
EXECUTIVE: Fired Law & Order: Organized Crime co-executive producer Craig Gore and Universal Television have made a deal behind closed doors
Khloe Kardashian, 36, proved just how close her daughter True, 3, is to her cousins in several new photos. The doting mom showed off her mini-me posing and hugging her sister Kim Kardashian‘s daughter Chicago, 3, and her brother Rob Kardashian‘s daughter Dream, 4, while wearing the same purple short bodysuits on June 7.
Actress and singer-songwriter LeToya Luckett is set as a lead opposite Yaya DaCosta and Morris Chestnut in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star).
Born in 1936, Golonka spent her childhood in Chicago, where she began studying singing and acting. She moved to New York at age 19, beginning a career in Broadway plays and in films made in New York City; she studied under Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen.The late actress' first major production was which started in Connecticut before moving to Broadway.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Alana Bright will make her professional acting debut on the Lee Daniels and Karin Gist project “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. Bright joins previously announced cast members Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”) and Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”).
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeMore than 20 years ago, when Dick Wolf first expanded the “Law & Order” universe to include “Law & Order: SVU,” he compared the brand extension to Campbell’s Soup: If you like one flavor, you’ll likely be willing to try and enjoy another. Cut to 2021: This fall, Wolf boasts an unprecedented nine series in primetime, including three “Chicago” dramas and three “Law & Order” entries on NBC, and three different “FBI” shows on CBS.
Child actor turned musician Kevin Clark has died after a fatal accident in his hometown of Chicago.
EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company, Stride Management, has added DaVida Chanel Smith as a new manager.
Jeremy Allen White has a brand new job!
Joe Otterson TV ReporterJeremy Allen White has been cast in the lead role of the FX comedy pilot “The Bear,” Variety has learned.In addition, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson have also been cast in the project, which was ordered to pilot at FX back in March.“The Bear” is about a young chef (White) who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant. Christopher Storer is the writer and director of the pilot.