Comedy
Fred Savage’s New FOX Show Will Make You Ask ‘What Just Happened??!’
Fred Savage lets us in on the joke about his new comedy/talk show ‘What Just Happened??!’ on FOX. […]
Interview
Drama
Pregnant!? ‘Claws’ Star Niecy Nash Talks Season 3, Directing and One Amazing Ring
Niecy Nash talks to us about stepping behind the camera as a director for the third season of ‘Claws,’ returning to TNT Sunday, June 9. […]
Drama
Noah Wyle Leads a Powerful Ensemble Cast in ‘The Red Line’
This eight-episode event series follows three very different Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after the fatal shooting of an innocent African-American doctor by a white police officer. […]
Interview
‘Amazing Race’s’ Phil Keoghan Answers Fan Banter With One of Reality TV’s Biggest Crossover Events
What were you doing 18 years ago? These would be the days before Facebook and Twitter, and when TV was pretty much limited to what’s on is what’s on. For Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race, he was embarking on what would become one of the longest-running careers in reality TV history. As the race-around-the-world series begins its 31st season (Wednesday, April 17 9/8c) — yes, 31st season! — Keoghan shares with us what’s in store for the new season and why fans will be excited to see the show’s newest theme that pits former contestants of The Amazing Race, […]
Interview
‘Days of Our Lives’ Star Laura Kai Chen Loves Her Job
Laura Kai Chen grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago near Lake Michigan. When we spoke, she gushed about how beautiful the city is, and one of her favorite restaurants as a child, “There was a Japanese restaurant called Akia Hana near where I grew up, where we used to go quite a bit. And then there was a fondue restaurant in Chicago. Downtown. I cannot for the life of me remember what the name of it right now. And of course, there is so much great pizza.” After graduating as a theater major with a master’s degree from […]
Interview
“All American” Star Karimah Westbrook Counts Her Blessings
Karimah Westbrook’s welcoming demeanor made our conversation feel like home. The soft-spoken, kind-hearted star of the CW’s All American fearlessly conquers her dreams and breaks ground for new possibilities. We recently caught up with the Chicago native who candidly opened up about crashing an audition, booking All American and her future goals. In her early 20s, Westbrook took a chance on herself. Without any formal representation besides a commercial agent, she crashed an audition for a major feature film that she caught wind of. “I didn’t have a theatrical agent. I only had a commercial agent. A lot of actors […]
Interview
Robin Tunney Channels Marcia Clark In ABC Legal Thriller, ‘The Fix’
After a devastating defeat in prosecuting A-list celeb (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), district attorney Maya Travis (Robin Tunney) flees LA for a quiet life. 8 years later, when another woman close to the celeb is killed, Maya is lured back to Los Angeles, set on justice, redemption … and revenge. […]
Interview
Music Royalty Gathers to Pay Respect to Aretha Franklin
Music royalty gathers to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin in the CBS special, “Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul” […]
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7 Questions With Kelsey Grammer
After nearly 500 episodes on Cheers and Frasier as good doctor Frasier Crane, most people think of Kelsey Grammer as the pontificating psychiatrist. But beyond the droll, effete therapist, Grammer has played dozens of roles on TV, in movies, and on stage. He’s been on Broadway five times, three of those in Shakespeare’s plays. Grammer, 63, has done plenty before and since the sitcoms that made him a star. Now he’s back on TV in a serious role as a Cook County state’s attorney with a name — Gore Bellows — that just about screams “blowhard.” Though Bellows comes across […]
Drama
Wildly Addictive: TNT’s ‘I Am the Night’ — A Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine Collaboration
Revered Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has long been a connoisseur of a good story. However, never did she anticipate a story of this magnitude when she met Fauna Hodel for coffee roughly 10 years ago. At their meetup, a then 50-something-year-old Fauna unraveled a story that was truly unbelievable. If you’re not from California, chances are you won’t be familiar with the Hodel name. Fauna was the granddaughter to the infamous Los Angeles physician George Hodel, who in 1949 was accused and acquitted of molesting his 14-year-old daughter Tamar (Fauna’s mother), as well as being linked to the most […]