Chicago Fire Season Premiere "A Closer Eye" Press Release/Photos/Clips

Here's a look at the season premiere of Chicago Fire episode "A Closer Eye."

"A Closer Eye"

As Casey tries to deal with his unsettled personal life and the firehouse welcomes a new member. Boden clashes with the new Assistant Deputy Commissinor Jerry Gorsch (guest star Steven Goyer ("Trial and Error")).


Here are some photos:

Here's a sneak peak clip:

Here are clips from Med and PD.

Catch the season premiere Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on NBC.

Doctor Who Gets Season Premiere Date

The first ever female Doctor Who will premiere this October but on a new night!

BBC America has announced that Jodie Whittaker's first season (Season 11) will debut on Sunday, October 7. The premiere will be timed to the UK broadcast, followed by a prmetime encore in its new Sunday night time-slot (which remains TBA). In addition, the basic cabler has revealed the premiere episode title: "The Woman Who Fell to Earth."

Whittaker made her debut as the Doctor at the end of the 2017 Christmas special, when Peter Capaldi's Time Lord regenerated into the franchise's first ever female lead. Whittaker said that at the time of her casting, "It's more than an honor to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope I can't wait."

With Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor for Season 11, there are three new companions: Bradley Walsh (LAw & Order: UK) as Graham, Tosin Cole (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as Ryan and Mandip Gill (Hollyoaks) as Yasmin. In addition, Sharon D. Clarke (Holby City) will appear in an unspecified "returning role." Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch) tkaes the reins as showrunner, replacing Steven Moffat.

Are you excited for the new season and premiere date?

Chicago Med - The City of Heroes, United on One Night (Promo)

This fall unites the city of heroes. Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD will all be on one night, Wednesdays this fall. Here's a promo:







New season kicks off this September on NBC.

70th Primetime Emmy Nominations

The nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday. Here's the list of this year's nominations.

Outstanding Comedy Series
Atlanta
Barry
Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
GLOW
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Silcon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Outstanding Drama Series
The Americas
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish,
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Donald Glover, Atalanta,
Bill Hader, Barry,
William H. Macy, Shameless

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things,
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,
Allison Janney, Mom
Issa Rae, Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish,
Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Ed Harris, Westworld
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us
Jeffery Wright, Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Claire Foy, The Crown
Tatiana Maslany, Oprahn Black
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Keri Russell, The Americans
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso
Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Benedct Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Jeff Daniels, The Looming Tower
John Legend, Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesse Plemons, Black Mirror

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series of Movie
Jessica Biel, The Sinner
Laura Dern, The Tale
Michelle Dockery, Godless
Edie Falco, LAw & Order True Crime: The Mendendez Brothers
Regina King, Seven Seconds
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Cult


Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Louie Andersom, Baskets
Alec Bladwin, Saturday Night Live
Titus Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta
Tony Shalhoub, The MArvlous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
Henry Winkler, Barry

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid's Tale
Millie Bobby Brown, STrnger Things
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale
Lena Heady, Game of Thrones
Vanessa Kirby, The Crown
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage, Game of Throens
Joseph Fiennes, The Handmaid's Tale
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Matt Smith, The Crown

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Zazie Beetz, Atlanta
Aidy Bryant, Saturday Night Live
Alex Borestien, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Betty Gilpin, GLOW
Leslie Jones, SAturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Lauire Metcalf, Roseanne
Megan Mullally, Will & Grace

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Jeff Daniels, Godless
Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar
John Leguizamo, Waco
Ricky Martin, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Looming Tower
Finn Wittrock, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Sara Bareilles, Jesus Christ Superstar
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Judith Light, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Adina Porter, American Horror Story: Cult
Merritt Wever, Godless
Letitia Wright, Black Mirror: "Black Museum"

Guest Actress in Comedy
Wanda Sykes, black-ish
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Tiffany Haddish, Saturday Night Live
Maya Rudolph, The Good Place
Jane Lynch, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Molly Shannon, Will & Grace

Guest Actor in Comedy
Katt Williams, Atlanta
Sterling K. Brown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bryan Cranston, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Lin-Manuael Miranda, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover, Saturday Night Live
Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live

Guest Actor in Drama
F. Murry Abraham, Homeland
Cameron Britton, Mindhunter
Matthew Goode, The Crown
Gerald McRaney, This Is Us
Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us
Jimmi Simpson, Wesworld

Guest Actress in a Drama
Diane Rigg, Game of Thrones
Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder Jones,
Viola Davis, Scandal
Kelly Jenrette, The Handmaid's Tale
Cherry Jones, The Handmaid's Tale
Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta "FUBU"
Hiro Murai, Atlanta "Teddy Perkins"
Bill Hader, Barry "Chapter One: Make Your Mark"
Jesse Peretz, GLOW "Pilot"
Mike Judge Silicon Valley "Initial Coin Offering"
Amy Sherman-Palladino, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel "Pilot"

Outstanding Directing for a Drama
Stephen Daldry, The Crown "Paterfamilas"
Alan Taylor, Game of Thrones "Beyond the Wall"
Jeremy Podeswa, Game of Thrones "Dragon and the Wolf"
Kari Skogland, The Handmaid's Tale "After"
Jason Bateman, Ozark "The Toll"
Daniel Sackheim, Ozark, "Tonight We Improve"
The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things "Chapter Nine: The Gate"

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta "Alligator Man"
Stefani Robinson, Atlanta "Barbershop"
Alec Berg and Bill Hader, Barry "Chapter One: Make York Mark"
Liz Sarnoff, Barry "Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast and Keep Going"
Alec Berg, Silicon Valley "Fifty-One Percent"
Amy Sherman-Pallandino, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Outstanding Variety Talk Series
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
At Home with Amy Sedaris
Drunk History
I love you America With Sarah Sliverman
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman's Show

Outstanding Limited Series
The Alienist, TNT
The Assassination Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, FX
Genius: Picasso, NatGeo
Godless
Patrick Melrose, Masterpiece

Outstanding Television Movie
Black Mirror "USS Callister"
Farenheit 451
Flint
Paterno
The Tale

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
RuPaul's Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice

Reality Show Host
W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell
RuPaul Charles, RuPaul's Drag Race
Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen's Game of Games
Jane Lynch, Hollwood Game Night
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards will air September 17th on NBC hosting by Michael Che and  Colin Jost.

Play and Seriousness: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Kimmy and the Beest!"/"Kimmy Meets an Old Friend!" Mid-season Finale

"Kimmy and the Beest!"

With Titus the head of the school theater, he tries to put on a play that'll make the students special, even if he has to star in it. After getting rejected for their auditing, Titus decides to bring them back to put on a play "Beauty and the Beest." Trying to meet his vision for the show, the lead leaves to join wrestling and after trying to keep the play going, the students thinks that Titus should play the beest. But when he realizes that the student who does the lights can hit those notes, he tries to place him with the wrestling team.

Meanwhile, Jacqueline and Lillian are trying to scalping to make money off the school play. After trying to convinced the parents to play $30, they try to sale them on the streets of Broadway and got an idea of how to get people to buy and come, which pretty much worked.

As for Kimmy, she tries to confront the man that is a follower of the Richard Wayne about how bad the guy was to her. But he just wouldn't believe it and gives her crap about how men have it harder than women, but he got a dose of his own medicine when she challenged to an arm wrestling contest and broke his arm and later get the butt kicked out of him.

She later joins Titus' play and sees how much he's trying to make the play all about him and not the students. After trying to convince him to change the lead role, she brings a secret weapon: his high school football coach. After getting the light guy out of wrestling and into the play, the play went successful for both Kimmy, Titus, Jacqueline and Lillian but not so much for the students as their parents weren't there.

"Kimmy and the Beest!" was another amazing and hilarious episode from start to finish. This could easily be Titus' best episode of Part 1 of Season 4. Burgess gives a outstanding performances and with Kemper in scenes it was just another priceless moment. Strong character development and writing. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"Kimmy Meets an Old Friend!" 

After trying to find Titus at the school, Kimmy recognized a backpack from a kid, which happens to the one she lost at the club in the pilot episode. When she exchanges it, it's like her and an old friend are reunited. When she meets with Titus, who's trying to write his pilot to The Capiest, she helps him by using her book bag, that happens to be alive in her mind, to explore ideas.

After spending sometime outside along with Titus and her book bag and seeing guys playing a game of quidditch, she comes up with a concept for a children's book. But when the book publisher turns her down because they want her to write a book on her experience in the bunker. She gives her story to Titus, who happens to use it for his pilot script for The Capiest, that happens to get turned out but gets an offer for another show.

Meanwhile, Lillian comes to let Artie's family know that he had passed, but his daughter Sheba, tries to get her away from the family and the family will. But it would be Artie that would have the last laugh on her as he announced in a video that Sheba's inheritance would not go to her but be in the hands of Lillian.

Jacqueline gets a visit from her step daughter that fears to be pregnant. After trying to be the old Jacqueline, she finally realizes that Xanthippe wants her there and gets there just in time to hear that Xanthippe isn't pregnant. The two soon go after her boyfriend, who dumped her and was spreading rumors after she told him she was pregnant and turn his life and his room into a mess.

Kimmy realizes that she must grow up and dump her book bag by placing rocks in it and toss her into the river. But when she gets a phone call from an executive producer's son who'd read her story and wants to know more about what will happen next. She saves her book bag and heads back with a smile and celebrates with everyone with a fudgie the whale cake. But ends with a camera set on the four and someone communicating about phase 2. 

"Kimmy Meets an Old Friend!" was just as hilarious as the previous episode but left an amazing cliffhanger for it to be a midseason finale. There were so many good moments from Kimmy dealing with whether she needs to grow up or not, Lillian fighting against Artie's daughter and the one that I really enjoyed the most was Jacqueline and her stepdaughter dealing with a pregnancy. For Jacqueline and Xanthippe storyline, it really humanized Jane's character that it was both funny and heartwarming at the same time. After all, I'm dying to see what is Phase II that this mysterious person is talking about. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4, Part 1 available on Netflix now and can catch Part 2 in January.

Untruths and Truths: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Party Monster: Scratching the Surface"/"Kimmy Disrupts the Paradigm!"

"Party Monster: Scratching the Surface"

Probably one of the most awkward and so well done episodes, "Party Monster" might be the best episodes of the season.

In the style of a crime documentary, we watch DJ Fingerblast in search for his role model to be his DJ at his wedding, DJ Slizzard aka Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. But what will lead him would be somewhat of nonsense from Wayne that he was set up being in jail and that the blame could be all Kimmy's fault. But the episode ends with Kimmy and Titus watching the documentary in shock for both difference reasons.

At first I couldn't make what of this episode but watching more and more of this episode, it finally clicked and was hilarious from both DJ Fingerblast and Wayne working together to watching clips of the documentary of Titus filling in the reenactment parts from firefighter scene to being DJ Fingerblast trying to skip rocks in the lake. And not to mention the awesome use of Hamm's dating show episode was well used. Strong writing, strong character development for Jon Hamm's character. Overall, I give this episode 9/10.

"Kimmy Disrupts the Paradigm!" 

After Kimmy watched the Party Monster documentary with Titus and she's frustrated with how it came out, she gets to take a work trip to Pittsburgh at a algorithmic convention. Taking Lilly with her, the two tries to find some fun in an awkward place where high tech becomes confusing for them. But they make the best of it by opening those at the convention to be more loving and not to their phones and gadgets.

Meanwhile, after trying to find work, Jacqueline tells Titus that he needs to sick with a role whether he doesn't like it. When a role for a school play comes along, he tries to find the inner nerd in him until he realizes that he's been a nerd along and not only gives a performance of a lifetime but makes a mark with the school principal, who offers him a job. 

"Kimmy disrupts the Paradigm!" is another well ensemble cast performance episode that really makes this episode one of my favorites so far. Whether it's Lilly trying to hook up with something from a hologram Chet to a speaker about L.A.I.D. and realizing that she meant something more than just tech. Or the chemistry between Jacqueline and Titus from confronting about accepting acting work to Titus coming to terms that he's a nerd. The episode really does give a nice short back story of Titus high school days of when he bullies the nerds just to be like the rest of the jocks. The episode had strong writing, character development and performances too. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4 part 1 available now on Netflix.

The Tough Decisions: Champions "Opening Night"/"Deal Or No Deal" Season Finale/Series Finale

"Opening Night" 

With opening night coming, Michael not only is worried about his play but also if him and Gregg would make a couple. Priya comes for the show but also hangs with Michael and helps him with what Vince can't help. But she's visiting for another reason, that's to ask Vince if he's okay for Michael to go back with her to Cleveland.

At first, he didn't agree, but after watching her and Michael connect so well that he allowed it to happen. But when Michael hears about the news from the dean of the school, makes a counterpoint about the decision. But Priya lets Michael stay with Vince and Matthew.

Meanwhile, Matthew tries to be a bad guy when he tries to give each of the gym staff evaluation reviews. When he helps Dana, he gets her into the staff's group chat, which didn't go so well. But Dana changes with the help from Matthew and now everyone is on the group text chat, including Vince.

"Opening Night" was hilarious but also served some light heart moments between Vince and Matthew on the decision of Michael going back home. Both storylines were each as hilarious as the other, but I very much enjoyed the character development from Matthew. The writing was strong and the performances from the cast was as good as before. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

"Deal Or No Deal"

As Matthew finally graduates from high school, Vince gets an offer of a lifetime.

With Matthew graduating from high school, Vince has an idea of expanding the gym with a little help from his old high school friend. When Vince meets with him, the tables have turned when he gets an offer to be a manager for a St.Louis Cardinals minor league team.

Vince tells Michael about the offer, they agreed not to tell Matthew about it til after their dinner with Gregg. But that all went down hill when Gregg accidentally tells Matthew about it. Matthew gets upset and attacks Vince, who runs down to the gym. After being separated by the staff, Vince tells everyone about the news and that he's going.

Later on, Michael and Gregg seemed to have broken up, as Gregg is on a new show about family drama. But as Michael talks with Matthew about Vince, he just couldn't forgive him. But a noise coming from Matthew's room got their attention and Matthew shoots the intruder in the leg, that happens to be Vince.

At the hospital, Vince tells Matthew and Michael that he's staying and they continued on to be a family that tries to order nachos from the hospital cafeteria.

This episode was funny, strong and seemed to be close to a finale as it would be if the show had ended. The relationship between Matthew and Vince seemed to be the real focus and the strongest storyline of the episode. The performance between Holm and Favreau was amazing along with Totah as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Champions OnDemand and on the NBC app.

UPDATE: As of Friday, TVLine has reported that NBC has officially cancelled Champions after it's first season. I'm just furious of the news that this show, that didn't get a lot of promotion time, even for the final two episodes that were placed on Friday nights to burn off. Champions is an amazing show, just like Timeless and Great News, and deserves another season. It's got a great ensemble cast, strong writing and character development. But as with Timeless, I'm hoping the show gets picked up by another network or streaming service (COME ON NETFLIX!!!). It's been reported by TVLine that Universal Television is shopping around to other outlets.

Let's hope. Let's hope.