‘Paper Girls’: Sofia Rosinsky, Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, Fina Strazza Cast As Leads In Amazon Series

“The Chi to me is a family,” says Lena Waithe, creator and executive producer of the Showtime series set in Chicago’s South Side. “It’s about a family, about a community, and the thing that I always press us to do things that other shows may be afraid to do and to talk about things that other shows may not really want to tackle.”

The doors of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will swing open today to welcome Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Elliot Stabler’s return to New York paid off: “Law & Order: Organized Crime” has been picked up by NBC for a second season.In addition, Dick Wolf fans will be treated to a triple-header on Thursdays after Wednesday night’s “Chicago” lineup — newcomer to the franchise “Law & Order: For the Defense” kicks off at 8 p.m., followed by the 23rd season of “Law & Order: SVU,” topped off by the Christopher Meloni headliner at 10 p.m.Per the logline, “Law & Order: Organized Crime”

Three years after introducing the One Chicago on Wednesday, NBC is adding a Law & Order Thursday lineup, consisting of veteran Law & Order: SVU, rookie Law & Order: Organized Crime, which has been renewed for a second season, and the recently greenlighted Law & Order: For the Defense.

Chicago Med star Yaya DaCosta is set as the lead of of Fox’s new drama series Our Kind Of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist, executive producer Lee Daniels, 20th Television and Fox Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC’s Chicago Med is heading into its seventh season, the medical drama is bidding farewell to two original cast members, Yaya DaCosta and Torrey DeVitto. DaCosta already has lined up a new series starring role on Fox’s Our Kind Of People. Meanwhile, DeVitto has joined the cast of indie feature Skelly.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterYaya DaCosta has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming Fox drama series “Our Kind of People,” Variety has learned.

Fisher Stevens really regrets appearing as an Indian character in brownface for the 1986 movie "Short Circuit" and its subsequent sequel.  Stevens, who was born in Chicago, plays Ben Jabituya in the science fiction comedy about two scientists whose advanced robot gains sentience.

Jamie Bell has lined up his next project and will star in Shining Girls, according to Deadline.

Jamie Bell will star alongside Emmy Award-winner Elisabeth Moss and Wagner Moura in Shining Girls, a new metaphysical thriller based on the 2013 best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes. The series will be adapted for television and executive produced by Silka Luisa, who also serves as showrunner.

Always Be My Maybe star and Baby Cobra comedian Ali Wong will join Amazon’s Paper Girls series, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel.

Joseph Gordon Levitt returned to movies in 2020 after a long gap with Project Power co-starring Jamie Foxx. He played the opposition council lawyer Richard Schultz who lost to nothing but his own conscience against the Chicago 7 and the hostility with which the political trial was being conducted.

The city of Chicago does not lack for challenges — among them, an alarmingly high murder rate, longstanding racial divisions and a fractious relationship between police and minorities. That didn’t stop a record number of candidates from running for mayor in 2019, including, for a time, incumbent Rahm Emanuel.

DanielKaluuya took home the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah during Sunday night's 2021 Oscars. The actor beat out fellow nomineesSacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Leslie Odom Jr.

Oscar nominations ahead of tonight’s ceremony. Due to the pandemic, the annual ceremony was pushed back from its usual time slot to 25 April.

ER have reminisced about the time Quentin Tarantino directed an episode of the show.The cast reunited this week (April 22) for a lengthy Zoom conversation in which they shared memories of working on the long-running medical show.ER was first shown in 1994 and portrayed the lives of medical staff at Chicago’s County General Hospital and was praised for its ground-breaking storylines.

ER for an ‘Earth Day’ special – you can watch it below.Cast members of the show reunited for a lengthy Zoom conversation in which they shared memories of working on the long-running medical show.ER was first shown in 1994 and portrayed the lives of medical staff at Chicago’s County General Hospital and was praised for its ground-breaking story-lines.

In March 2020, Amazon Prime Video announced plans to “The Kids in the Hall” — plans that were immediately paused due to the pandemic.