CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
CBS
TV Review: ‘2 Broke Girls’ Poised to Make a Lot of Money For CBS
Submitted by BrianTT on September 19, 2011 - 9:04amCHICAGO – CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” doesn’t reinvent the formula but it certainly provides laughs within it. The new program most likely to be a consistent hit on any broadcast network makes a perfect fit on Monday nights and should work for audiences loyal to “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men.”
TV News: ‘Big Brother’ Renewed For Fourteenth Season on CBS
Submitted by TimBMartens on September 14, 2011 - 2:37pmCHICAGO- The hit CBS reality show “Big Brother,” which has turned all of its viewers into peeping toms on the lives of the contestants, has been renewed for a fourteenth season. The news of the renewal comes at an exciting time for the series as the 90-minute finale of the thirteenth season premieres on CBS tonight at 8:30 P.M. CST.
TV Feature: The 10 Most Promising New Shows of Fall 2011
Submitted by BrianTT on September 12, 2011 - 10:51amCHICAGO – Do you want the good news or the bad news, TV fans? The good news is that the upcoming crop of new Fall programs from the five major networks (totaling 27 new shows) is not as bad as last year’s incredibly-horrible debut slate. The bad news is that it’s still pretty bad. There is no “Lost,” no “Glee,” no “Modern Family,” no instant stand-outs of any kind.
TV, Film News: Remakes Planned For ‘Bewitched,’ ‘Dirty Dancing’
Submitted by BrianTT on August 10, 2011 - 2:31pmCHICAGO – Fans of the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing” may need to dust off their dancing shoes and get ready to have the time of their life again. Kenny Ortega, the choreographer of the original “Dirty Dancing” as well as the director of the “High School Musical” films and the Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It,” has been in contact with Lionsgate about directing a remake of the Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey original.
On WGN Radio: HollywoodChicago.com’s Brian Tallerico on ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Same Name,’ ‘Zen,’ More
Submitted by BrianTT on July 25, 2011 - 10:03amCHICAGO – Brian Tallerico guests on Bill Moller’s show on WGN-AM 720 Radio in Chicago on July 23rd, 2011 to talk about recently-premiered and upcoming programs including “Entourage,” “Same Name,” “Breaking Bad,” “Zen,” and “Web Therapy.”
Exclusive Portrait: Whitney Cummings at ‘Just for Laughs Chicago’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 19, 2011 - 5:05pmCHICAGO – The unique comic stylings of Whitney Cummings took centerstage June 16th at the Vic Theatre here, as part of the TBS “Just for Laughs Chicago.” Cummings wowed the audience with her hilarious set, and took down the house with her demonstration of the “money shot.”
On XLC Radio: HollywoodChicago.com’s Brian Tallerico to Discuss Fall Schedule Announcements
Submitted by BrianTT on May 26, 2011 - 1:37pmCHICAGO – Brian Tallerico guests on Jimmy & Jen on 102.3 XLC in Chicago on May 19, 2011 for an interview about current television news including the announcements of the Fall shows, the departure of Lisa Edelstein from “House,’ the news of Ashton Kutcher’s casting on “Two and a Half Men,” and much more.
TV News: CBS Announces Fall Schedule With Changes to Every Night
Submitted by BrianTT on May 18, 2011 - 11:24amCHICAGO – What do you do when your iron grip on success is getting weaker? Shake things up. That’s what CBS is doing this Fall by shuffling their line-up more significantly than any other network and adding five new series, which are detailed below.
TV News: CBS Cancels ‘Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,’ Renews ‘CSI: NY’
Submitted by BrianTT on May 17, 2011 - 12:26pmCHICAGO – We will know the full schedule tomorrow but CBS has been revealing it by bits and pieces all week, canceling “Mad Love” & “The Defenders,” renewing “Blue Bloods” & “Hawaii Five-0,” and giving us one of each today, canceling “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” and giving “CSI: NY” another year.
TV Rumor: CBS Renews ‘Blue Bloods,’ ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ ‘Mike & Molly’
Submitted by BrianTT on May 15, 2011 - 11:04pmCHICAGO – The New York Times is reporting (but nowhere else yet so we’ll call it a “rumor”) that CBS will announce that three programs from the 2010-11 season will get a shot at breaking the sophomore slump — “Blue Bloods,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and “Mike & Molly”.