Chicago Hope News

In a rare case of prime-time double duty, actor Rocky Carroll will appear simultaneously next season on "NCIS" and its upcoming spinoff, "NCIS: Los Angeles." According to Variety, Mr.

"Law & Order: SVU" will be returning in the fall with its two stars. After lengthy negotiations, Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have signed new deals to continue on the NBC crime drama, which will be entering its 11th season.

Rocky! Rocky! Fans of NCIS director Leon Vance will find the coming TV season to be twice as nice, as Rocky Carroll will pull double duty on CBS' NCIS and its spin-off, NCIS: Los Angeles , TVGuide.com has learned.

After tense contract negotiations, Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni will return for Law & Order: SVU 's 11th season.

A tall, slender character player whose olive complexion, severe eyebrows and wide, etched cheekbones make her a natural for ethnic roles, Roma Maffia had played small parts in three movies and worked on TV, but her career did not really take off until Ron Howard "discovered" her and cast her as an eager, loud-mouthed reporter in "The Paper" . That ...

Mandy Patinkin never forgets his Chicago roots. ''Ah, I love seeing my old area code from 30 years ago -- 312 -- every time it pops up on my phone,'' said the Tony-winning actor and singer, chatting as he walked down Central Park West near his New York home.

On the eighth floor of the Screen Actors Guild headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard, interim Executive Director David White is pacing his new office, marshaling arguments in support of the union's recently negotiated film and TV contract.

THE largest US actors union mailed out ballots yesterday and key union leaders recommended that the union's 120,000 members approve a contract offer from Hollywood studios.

This month we speak to Carla Gugino , David Hyde Pierce and Tony Award winner Warren Leight .

Production Director/Lighting Design, Eric Cornwell ; Sound Design, Daniel Gerhard; Associate Production Director, Gayle Jeffery; Stage Managers/Lighting Supervisors, Judith M. Daitsman, Matthew Aaron Stern , Peter Wolf The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Worcester, MA Thursday, April 30, 2009 Consider this a master class in concert ...

Mandy Patinkin first saw Patti LuPone in 1973 when she was performing at the Juilliard School in New York and he and fellow student William Hurt were serving as ushers.

Beginning in the late 1970s, acclaimed film, television and stage actress Christine Lahti carved out a niche for herself in an emerging field for Hollywood actresses - roles as professional, independent career women.

In September 1994, two networks offered up medical dramas - "Chicago Hope" on CBS and "ER" on NBC.

You've seen his face all over TV for years, now won't you please go see the man's house? Actor Vondie Curtis-Hall and his wife, Kasi Lemmons , just dropped the price on their Hollywood Hills home by 21% -- from $2,899,000 to $2,295,000. Previously, they listed it at $3,595,000 in 2007 -- they're asking 36% less now.

Actress Olympia Dukakis seemed to hold nothing back yesterday as she described her ethnically mixed, working-class roots in Lowell, Mass.

In his Broadway debut, Mandy Patinkin won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita." Patinkin won an Emmy Award in 1985 for his critically acclaimed performance in the CBS series ...

"An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin" at the DuPont Theatre March 10-15 could be one of them.

You've seen his face all over TV for years, now won't you please go see the man's house? Actor Vondie Curtis-Hall and his wife, Kasi Lemmons, just dropped the price on their Hollywood Hills home by 21 per cent ...

For two weeks back in the pre-DVR days of 2000, anyone flipping the channel to ABC during an ER commercial break might've been shocked by what they saw on a new show misleadingly entitled Wonderland : no cute ...

Peter Berg directed the film version of Friday Night Lights and went on to develop it into a fictional TV show.