Chicago Fire
Kara Killmer Isn’t Grieving the End of ‘Chicago Fire’: “I Had a Lot of Time to Process Sylvie’s Exit”
Kara Killmer will be quick to tell you that playing her Firehouse 51 paramedic character Sylvie Brett has been daunting at times, while she focused on saving the lives of traumatized citizens for 10 years on NBC’s Chicago Fire. But, just as the resilient paramedic never wavered in fighting for a stranger’s life on the […]
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‘Chicago Fire’: How Life Imitates Art for David Eigenberg in Season 12
[This story contains some spoilers from the first three episodes of Chicago Fire season 12.] With his 40-year career on stage and screen, actor David Eigenberg looks at his chosen profession as a roller-coaster ride of good fortune with some down times. Upon trying his hand at acting after an honorable discharge from the United States Marine […]
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‘Chicago Fire’ Boss on Taylor Kinney’s Return, Kara Killmer’s Final Season and New Arrivals
[This story contains spoilers from the second episode of Chicago Fire season 12, “Call Me McHolland.”] In the eyes of Chicago Fire showrunner Andrea Newman, multiple seasons of any show that brings what she considers to be continual grind from everyday action heroes is going to garner change. And that’s exactly what viewers saw Wednesday […]
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‘Law & Order,’ ‘Chicago’ NBC Franchises Set January Returns
NBC has set premiere dates for the early part of 2024, and the network will roll out several of its biggest scripted shows a few weeks ahead of its rivals. With production ramping up following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, NBC will have a fairly tight turnaround between the start of filming and the […]
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Back to Work: When TV Shows Are Returning to Production Post-Strikes
With more than six months of labor actions in the rear-view mirror, the industry is preparing to restart dozens of productions that were shut down while writers and actors sought new and better contracts from studios and streamers. The end of the SAG-AFTRA strike on Nov. 9 cleared actors to return to work (though the […]
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‘Chicago Fire’ Brings Back Taylor Kinney for Season 12
Firehouse 51 is gearing up to welcome back one of its own. Taylor Kinney is set to return to Chicago Fire for the NBC drama’s 12th season, which will begin production following resolution of the actors strike. Sources say the Chicago Fire writers room has written Kinney’s Kelly Severide back into the show in early […]
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Dick Wolf’s NBC, CBS Shows Reopen Writers Rooms
Dick Wolf, the procedural king behind nine shows across two networks, is getting back to work. Writers rooms for NBC’s Chicago trio of Fire, Med and PD, as well as Law & Order and its spinoff, SVU, and CBS’ FBI, Most Wanted and International are all reopening this week. New showrunners have also been installed […]
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‘Law & Order,’ ‘Chicago’ Franchises Renewed at NBC
The Dick Wolf Television Universe remains an ongoing concern at NBC. The network has renewed all six dramas in Wolf’s Law & Order and Chicago franchises — which are responsible for NBC’s two top nights of scripted programming — for the 2023-24 season. The six series come from Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment. Law & Order: […]
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Taylor Kinney’s Absence Explained on ‘Chicago Fire’
Taylor Kinney is taking a leave of absence from Chicago Fire, the series he has starred on as fan-favorite Kelly Severide since 2012. The actor’s departure is due to a personal matter, a source close to production confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter following Wednesday night’s episode, which began to handle the shift for the character. […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Chicago Fire’ Rises High in Seven-Day Chart
Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise is NBC’s most reliable audience magnet, and that fact proved out again in the seven-day ratings for Oct. 3-9. Chicago Fire was the second most-watched primetime show of the week on the broadcast networks and tied for the lead among adults 18-49 after a week of delayed viewing (excluding football in […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Returns Steady as ‘Chicago’ Trio Tops Wednesday
Abbott Elementary didn’t get a post-Emmys bump in viewing (at least not on-air), but the ABC comedy opened its second season right in line with its first. NBC’s three Chicago dramas led Wednesday’s ratings in total viewers, and the premiere of CBS’ Survivor topped the adults 18-49 demographic. Abbott Elementary premiered to 2.92 million viewers […]
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‘Chicago Fire’ Stops Production After Shooting Near Set
Production on Chicago Fire was shut down Wednesday after a shooting near where the NBC series was filming. The show was filming on Madison Street on the city’s West Side, near the border with suburban Oak Park, when a gunman fired several shots from a corner opposite the show’s location, according to local news outlet […]
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