CHICAGO JUSTICE: Executive Producer Michael S. Chernuchin chats new CHICAGO spin-off – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/02/2017
CHICAGO JUSTICE key art | ©2017 NBCUniversal|

CHICAGO JUSTICE is the latest entry in executive producer Dick Wolf’s spectacularly successful NBC CHICAGO FIRE-verse, which also includes CHICAGO P.D. and CHICAGO MED (the verse also occasionally crosses over with LAW & ORDER: SVU). Like its siblings, CHICAGO JUSTICE actually films in Chicago, and shares cast with the other shows as various plot elements can span several series. The difference between CHICAGO JUSTICE and the others is that the new show deals specifically with the State Attorney’s office. Leads on CHICAGO JUSTICE include Philip Winchester as prosecutor Peter Stone, son of original LAW & ORDER prosecutor Ben Stone (played […]Read On »


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CHICAGO MED: Executive Producer Matt Olmstead also talks FIRE and P.D. – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/01/2016
CHICAGO MED- Season 2 key art | ©2016 NBCUniversal

As he did with his LAW & ORDER franchise of old, executive producer/creator Dick Wolf is steadily expanding his CHICAGO empire. In 2012, CHICAGO FIRE premiered on NBC. It begins its fifth season Tuesday, October 11. Its first spinoff, CHICAGO P.D., premiered in 2014; it is now in its third season on Wednesday nights. CHICAGO MED, another spinoff about the hospital that serves the fire and police departments on the other two series, has begun its second season on Thursday nights on NBC. Matt Olmstead, who is an executive producer on all three series, co-created CHICAGO P.D. and CHICAGO MED […]Read On »


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CHICAGO FIRE: Taylor Kinney gives the scoop on Season 3 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/13/2015
Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide in CHICAGO FIRE | © 2015 Elizabeth Morris/NBC

NBC’s CHICAGO FIRE, now in its third season Tuesdays at 10 PM and renewed for a fourth, is a hotbed of so much action and drama that it’s already birthed one spin-off, CHICAGO P.D., and is now the launching pad for next season’s CHICAGO MED. Taylor Kinney, who plays CHICAGO FIRE’s heroic firefighter Kelly Severide, talks with us about doing crossover episodes, as well as how he feels about Shay’s death, one of this season’s most jaw-dropping stunts and more on the Dick Wolf-produced series. AX: When you do the crossover episodes, do you feel like you are on a […]Read On »


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CHICAGO FIRE and CHICAGO P.D. co-creator Dick Wolf chats about his new franchise – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/22/2015
Jesse Spencer in CHICAGO FIRE - Season 2 | ©2013 NBC/Nina Munoz

NBC’s CHICAGO FIRE has been such a hit for the network that last spawned a spin-off, CHICAGO P.D., which has also been a success. Spin-offs are nothing new for the two series’ executive producer Dick Wolf, who has also been the power behind NBC’s massive LAW & ORDER franchise. LAW & ORDER: SVU is now in its sixteenth season, Wednesdays at 9 PM. The original LAW & ORDER ran twenty seasons and also launched LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY, LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES and the ongoing BBC LAW & ORDER: UK. Wolf is […]Read On »


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Interview: Elias Koteas on CHICAGO P.D. Season 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/24/2014
Elias Koteas in CHICAGO P.D. - Season 1 | ©2014 NBC/Paul Drinkwater

NBC’s CHICAGO FIRE was such a hit of the 2012-2013 season that it took barely a year for it to launch a spin-off, CHICAGO P.D., Wednesday nights at 10 PM. The two series share characters and authentic Chicago locations, as well as executive producer Dick Wolf. On CHICAGO P.D., Elias Koteas plays undercover detective Alvin Olinsky, a master of blending into the background. Koteas, a native of Montreal, studied acting in New York. He had an early role as a skinhead in John Hughes’ SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL. Since then, he’s been in a number of notable feature films including […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Taylor Kinney chats CHICAGO FIRE Season 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/30/2013
Taylor Kinney in CHICAGO FIRE - Season 2 - "A Nuisance Call" | ©2013 NBC/Elizabeth Morris

On CHICAGO FIRE, now in its second season on NBC, Tuesday nights at 10 PM,Windy City firefighter Kelly Severide, played by Taylor Kinney, has all sorts of things happening. His father, played by Treat Williams, is taking over the fire house, he broke up with his Russian girlfriend and of course buildings keep burning down. Meanwhile, Kelly is at a poolside party thrown by NBC for the Television Critics Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where he has a more mundane problem. “My brother is here and I can’t get ahold of him,” the actor explains. “He’s lost.” Then there […]Read On »


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