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January 13 – January 19, 2024
Windy City change up: ‘Chicago’ is back in action with NBC season premieres BY JAY BOBBIN
This season, “Chicago” means change. Whether actors and characters are coming or going, or both, each of executive producer Dick Wolf’s Wednesday One Chicago dramas is expected to have cast alterations during their new years, which begin Jan. 17, on NBC — new episodes also will be available for streaming on Peacock starting the day after their NBC premieres. “Chicago Med” — which bade farewell to founding co-stars Brian Tee (“The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” 2006) and Nick Gelhfuss (“The Newsroom”) last year — leads the night with the start of its ninth season, which will welcome Luke Mitchell (“Blindspot”) as a doctor with a link to Gaffney Chicago Medical Center’s psychiatric chief, Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt, “The Bear”). Then, “Chicago Fire” is slated to say goodbye to Blake Gallo (played by Alberto Rosende, “Shadowhunters”) in its Season 12 opener, but, in a piece of good news, Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney, “Zero Dark Thirty,” 2012) is scheduled to return after taking a leave of absence. And then there’s the matter of the marriage proposal Matt Casey (Jesse Spencer, “House”) made to paramedic Sylvie Brett, played by Kara Killmer (“Scary Tales”), who has announced her intention to leave the show either during or just after the new season. Finally, “Chicago P.D.” is expected to lose Det. Hailey Upton in the course of its upcoming Season
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11 — amid her marital woes with the now-absent Jay Halstead (former cast regular Jesse Lee Soffer, “The Mob Doctor”) — since actress Tracy Spiridakos (“Revolution”) is planning to leave that show. However, Jason Beghe (“Californication”), alias the series’ intelligence-squad leader, Hank Voight, says he’ll believe her exit when he sees it — an approach he always likes to maintain for himself, no matter what has been reported by others. “I know some stuff has leaked out, but I don’t believe everything I read,” Beghe says with his distinctive rasp. “There may be discussions about one thing or the other, but as both Jason and as Voight, I don’t take for granted that something is a fact. Things change. Right now, I love working with Tracy, and Voight appreciates working with Upton. I’m in that moment, and if something happens, we’ll have to deal with that then.” Beghe notes that the first new “Chicago P.D.” story focuses “a lot” on Upton: “Voight is keeping an eye on her, given what’s been going on with her and Halstead. He feels he needs to be there for her, even though she’s like, ‘I’m fine.’ I hope it comes off as sweet and even heart-wrenching in a way. In the story, she has to follow this new kind of crisis-response team, and some bad things happen.” David Eigenberg, the “Sex and the City” alum who plays “Chicago Fire’s” Christopher Herrmann, is
ready for a time of rebuilding after a highly emotional Season 11 in which Herrmann’s wife Cindy (Robyn Coffin, “The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man,” 2015) had a cancer battle that taxed the couple and their five children. Eigenberg has seen his share of cast changes since “Chicago Fire” began. Besides Spencer, Lauren German (“Lucifer”), Monica Raymund (“Hightown”), Charlie Barnett (“Russian Doll”) and Steven R. McQueen (“The Vampire Diaries”) have been among performers who had significant stays at Firehouse 51. “I’ve been doing this a long time, and when changes occur, it’s hard,” Eigenberg reflects. “We’re all carnies, though, and you want to just grab a bag and hop on a train going northeast. We all move on, but you never say goodbye in this industry, because you just never know. I’ve bumped into people 30 or 40 years after I worked with them, and there’s a kindred spirit among us. Paul McCrane [“ER”] is coming back to direct on the show, and 35 years ago, we did a play on Broadway together. “You have to be ready to roll with whatever changes come,” reasons Eigenberg. “It bangs you around, but it’s the nature of the beast, and it ties into the nature of the show. There are changes in firehouses and in lives.”
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