Hurricane Katrina series from John Ridley and Carlton Cuse set at Apple+

The Last Dance, ESPN's documentary series about Michael Jordan's final year with the Chicago Bulls, won the Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction series at Saturday's Creative Arts awards. The normally staid category had a higher profile than most years, as it was filled with breakout series.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAlt-rock veterans the Smashing have announced a new double album, “Cyr,” is dropping on November 27.The 20-track album was recorded in the band’s home base of Chicago with frontman and chief songwriter Billy Corgan producing.The group has also created a new five-part animated series called “In Ashes,” the first two episodes of which will including music from the album and will premiere on September 25 — watch the trailer below.“ ‘Cyr’ is dystopic folly,” Corgan has

Dino-Ray Ramos editorEXCLUSIVE: A new paramedic is joining the team at Firehouse 51. Actress Adriyan Rae (Light as a Feather, Vagrant Queen) is set to join NBC’s Chicago Fire as a series regular for the forthcoming ninth season.Rae will step into the role of Gianna Pierce in the procedural.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVChicago P.D.’s Lisseth Chavez is set as a new series regular in the upcoming sixth season of season 6 of the CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. The Warner Bros. TV-produced superhero drama moved in to cast Chavez shortly after she became available following a season-long stint as a series regular on NBC’s Chicago P.D.  Chavez will play Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz.

Kathy A. McDonald Uncertainty is the new reality for productions on location: what was once a no-brainer (shoot in film-friendly locations with incentives) is now a complex puzzle to be solved.

Belushi— the documentary about late comedian John Belushi — will open56th iteration of the Chicago International Film Festival. The fest, which will take place Oct.

I have to be honest for a second. Every week or so, Apple announces a new project with another A-list filmmaker and/or cast, and it can be a bit exhausting.

John Ridley and Carlton Cuse will produce a limited series adaptation of “Five Days at Memorial,” Sheri Fink’s non-fiction book about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, for Apple TV+, the streaming service said Tuesday.Based on Fink’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Five Days At Memorial” takes place over “the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall,” per Apple.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Ridley and Carlton Cuse are set to adapt Sheri Fink’s novel “Five Days at Memorial” for Apple as a limited series, Variety has learned.The book chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVApple TV+ has ordered Five Days At Memorial, a limited series from Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.Five Days At Memorial, from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski Daniel Kyri, who has been heavily recurring on Chicago Fire since Season 7 as rookie firefighter Darren Ritter, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming ninth season.Kyri has appeared almost every episode of Chicago Fire since he made his debut in the second episode of Season 7 for a total of 36 episodes to date.“Very excited Daniel is going to be a series regular this year, said series co-creator/executive producer Derek Haas.

Highfire.According to Deadline, Cage will voice the dragon in the live-action show which is based on Eoin Colfer’s crime thriller novel.Unlike the novel, the new fantasy drama will be aimed at an adult audience and centres on a dragon (Highfire) who lives in swamp in Louisiana.

Deadline. Cage’s dragon is also described as loving “Flashdance” and living alone in the bayous of Louisiana.Reps for Amazon did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Friday, but told Deadline that the “National Treasure” actor will executive produce the fantasy drama with Holmes, alongside Andrew Mittman for 1.21.

Jennifer Lopez stars in Coach‘s Fall 2020 global campaign alongside her family!

Will Thorne Staff WriterNBC has announced its premiere dates for the fall, which will see September and October be packed with mostly unscripted fare, while most scripted originals have been pushed.The majority of the network’s big scripted shows, including “This Is Us,” its three “Chicago” dramas and “Law & Order: SVU” have been shunted back to November premiere dates due to COVID-19 production complications.However, there are quite a few shows missing from the network’s previous fall schedule

John Ridley The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture.