Nina Metz

Early in her career, "CSI: Vegas" star and Chicago native Paula Newsome was a local theater actor. By chance, this was around the same time that her future "CSI" co-star...

What might our lives look like decades from now, when the effects of climate change have progressed even further? That's the premise of "Extrapolations," Apple TV+'s star-studded series from Scott...

"Ted Lasso" began as a fish-out-of-water comedy, of the eternally upbeat Ted running headlong into the British skepticism of anyone invested in the Premier League soccer team — sorry, football...

"I wasn't born into a family so much as I was hatched," is how Tracy McMillan has described her origin story. Her mom was a "20-year-old Minnesota girl with a...

Chicago native and comedian Brittani Nichols is a writer on ABC's "Abbott Elementary." Quinta Brunson, the show's creator and star, spent time in Chicago earlier in her career taking classes...

Based on the popular 2019 novel about a fictional rock band that became huge in the late '70s and then just as quickly fell apart, the 10-episode Amazon adaptation of...

The original "Perry Mason" TV series starring Raymond Burr premiered in 1957 and ran for nearly a decade. As courtroom dramas go, it's an early classic that put a criminal...

Everywhere you look lately, Zoe Chao is there. Last year she starred in the Apple TV+ series "The Afterparty" and more recently she showed up in the rom-coms "Your Place...

"Dating back to the beginning of Hollywood, Black films were always seen as lesser-than projects. I wanted to correct that and do something that honors all of these films," said...