Television
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Will S. Barrington native be the next 'Idol?'Jan 30, 2008 10:00 pm - America could soon get to know a South Barrington teen a little better. Michael SanFilippo, a 19-year-old who graduated from Barrington High School in 2006, made it thro...
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Friend:Brit's getting treated
Jan 28, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Barbara Walters says she has been contacted by Britney Spears' manager and "very good friend," Sam Lutfi, who says the pop singer has seen a psychiatrist. Lu...
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'Crash' coming to cableJan 28, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "Crash," the racially charged drama that won the Oscar for best picture of 2005, is coming to the small screen later this year as a TV series for the Star...
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Zowee, 'Zoey' is back for 4th and final season
Jan 28, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- At least one Jamie Lynn Spears mystery is over. The younger Spears sister's popular TV character is back at her fictional California boarding school, alth...
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Parthenon endures a probing by 'Nova'Jan 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicagoans love architecture, but I have to admit a new PBS "Nova" episode on "Secrets of the Parthenon" is a hard sell even here on WTTW Channel 11. "Nova," of course, ...
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No strike woes for SAG awards
Jan 27, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "No Country for Old Men" solidified its Academy Awards prospects as Javier Bardem won as supporting-actor and the film was honored for overall cast at Sun...
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Appointment TVJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - HBO tries to fill the programming vacuum from the writers' strike single-handedly on Monday by running a new series five nights a week. Understand, that's not one weekl...
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Sinking teams fail to weigh down sports talk radioJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - The Bears rallied at the end of the season in December, but that's nothing compared to the charge WMVP 1000-AM put on. The station rose from a 1.3 percent share of the o...
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'Week in Review' laments ailing state of journalismJan 23, 2008 10:00 pm - "The Week in Review" marks its 30th anniversary with an hourlong special at 7 p.m. Friday on WTTW Channel 11, but somehow the celebration comes off as more of a death kn...
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Actress Lois Nettleton diesJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Lois Nettleton, a Daytime Emmy-winning actress who had a long career on Broadway and television, died Jan. 18 of lung cancer. She was 80. Nettleton died a...