The fall TV season brings the return of network shows, back after the summer hiatus.

The latest Chicago Media Report introduces the new weekend sports anchor at NBC 5 Chicago and explores Chuck Swirsky’s 50 years of high-energy sports talk.

“Dirty Dancing” has a new tour arriving in Chicago and its distinguished director, Lonny Price, says it is a whole new treatment of how Baby gets out of her corner.

Mel Gibson blames “idiocy” on his decision to impersonate an interpreter for the hearing impaired at a Canadian Fan Expo event.

Menudo, widely considered one of the most popular Latino boy bands of all time, will reunite for a six-day run this fall in celebration of their 50th anniversary.

Three years after Warner Bros. abruptly canned “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend.

Our critic’s picks for the season include “Birth of the Pill” at TimeLine, “Kowalski” at Lookingglass and the Victory Gardens Biograph returning to life.

“Out of sorts” actor Jaime Pressly was reportedly asked to leave a California hotel days before missing her GalaxyCon appearance in San Jose.

There’s a poignant poetry in the Sisyphean quest of Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote.

This fall, along with the Joffrey’s local debut, a Giordano sizzler and some VIP out-of-towners at the Auditorium, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

The 88-year-old moviemaker Ridley Scott has churned out eight films in the last 11 years; the apocalyptic drama “The Dog Stars” doesn’t fit the mold of any of his previous features.