‘The Chi’ star Curtiss Cook breaks down Otis ‘Douda’ Perry

EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf’s NBC medical drama Chicago Med has secured the bulk of its original cast. S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee and Marlyne Barrett have all closed new multi-year deals to continue on the popular Chicago Fire spinoff series from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has greenlighted Safe Space, a new original movie thriller starring Nicole Ari Parker (Chicago P.D., Empire) and her husband Boris Kodjoe (Soul Food), who also makes his directorial debut. Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Nik Sanchez (The Rookie) and Mackenzie Astin (The Magicians) also star. Production is currently underway, with premiere slated for 2022.

John Erman, an Emmy-winning director-producer who helmed multiple episodes of such classic TV series as Star Trek, M*A*S*H and Peyton Place along with Part 2 of Roots and much of its sequel miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, has died. He was 85.

Chicago Fire will see more of top-of-her-game paramedic Violet Mikami as NBC promotes Hanako Greensmith to series regular.

Game Of Thrones creator George RR Martin has revealed that he had completed his work on Elden Ring “years ago”.As reported by Elden Ring News, the fantasy author was interviewed by Chicago-based WTTW News earlier this week (June 16), as he was in town to receive an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Northwestern UniversityReferring to Elden Ring as a “sequel” to Dark Souls, Martin explained his role was worldbuilding for the game’s setting.“As a big factor in fantasy and science fiction,

WATCH BELOW: Prince Harry on Princess Diana loving Meghan MarkleIn 1996, the newly divorced Princess Diana visited Chicago for a three-day visit as a guest of Northwestern University's then-president, Henry Bienen.The royal toured the university campus but also attended a black tie gala at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History to raise money for cancer research.Diana paid tribute to the university through her fashion by wearing a stunning purple Versace gown - Northwestern's

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.

Gallery: Jada Pinkett Smith’s most astonishing revelations on Red Table Talk (BANG Showbiz)Kim hinted that the reason for divorcing the 'Heartless' rapper after almost seven years of marriage was because he "deserves" a wife who can travel from state to state with him. Speaking to her sisters about Kanye - with whom she has North seven, Saint, five, Chicago, three, and two-year-old Psalm - moving from California to a Wyoming ranch, she confessed: “I honestly can’t do this anymore.

according to Variety. The Chicago native studied theater there until moving to New York City at age 19, where she would go on to land roles in shows including “The Night Circus” (her debut), “Come Blow Your Horn,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and more.

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Jack Black has paid a heartbreaking tribute to one of his School of Rock co-stars Kevin Clark, who passed away aged 32 after being involved in a cycling accident. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Kevin was hit by a car at a "notoriously dangerous" intersection while cycling on Wednesday morning, and later died in hospital.

Jack Black is just one of the many School of Rock cast who has paid tribute to their co-star Kevin Clark, following the news of his death.

Child actor turned musician Kevin Clark has died after a fatal accident in his hometown of Chicago.

Jack Black is reacting to the sudden and shocking death of his School of Rock co-star Kevin Clark.