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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC is giving three-year renewals to its drama series from veteran producer Dick Wolf, including the perennial “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” The pickups for the “Law & Order” series and Wolf’s three Chicago-set dramas are part of a new five-year deal to keep his Wolf Entertainment production company at […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Actress DuShon Monique Brown, who played a secretary in the NBC show “Chicago Fire,” has died at age 49. The Cook County medical examiner’s spokeswoman Becky Schlikerman says Brown died Friday at St. James Olympia Field Hospital outside Chicago. The cause of death wasn’t given. Brown was a veteran of Chicago theater. […]

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R. Kelly heard about the death of two young siblings from a fire in Kankakee, Illinois and decided to donate money toward their funeral costs. Four-year-old Justice Stewart and 2-year-old Ju’shaun Watson died after being injured in a fire on April 13. According to Kankakee’s Daily-Journal, R. Kelly donated $5,000 toward costs of the funeral: […]

Season four of Chicago Fire premieres tonight on NBC. The Tom Joyner Morning Show talks to actor Eamonn Walker, best known for his role on Oz. Walker plays Battalion Chief Wallace Boden who is in the midst of his own personal changes. How he prepared for the role: “It all started with a deputy chief who was a […]

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Firefighting is a tough job, something that NBC’s “Chicago Fire” tries to show every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. So a tough actor had to play the role as battalion chief. Enter British actor Eamonn Walker, best known to TV fans as Kareem Said from the groundbreaking HBO show “Oz.” If you watched the short-lived […]