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IL-Informed
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05.08.08IL-Informed: The Clips (4)Here is another clip from the IL-Informed pilot airing on WTTW. It airs again tonight at 10pm, so tune in! Here is reporter Hassan Ali getting to the bottom of the housing market.
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05.07.08IL-Informed: The Clips (3)Have you ever just wanted to have a 1-on-1 with the Mayor? I mean… He’s full of such great ideas all the time, and look at what he’s done for the city - surely he can help YOU. On IL-Informed, we were able to get the Mayor to answer a couple questions…
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05.07.08TOC Reviews (mini) the WTTW Show!
Timeout Chicago put up a little post on the Timeout blog about the new WTTW show IL-Informed. They say public television isn’t funny but obviously Madeline has never seen Rick Steeves. I think that dude is hilarious! Or Between the Lions, which is really funny when high. Anyway, here is the review.
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05.06.08IL-Informed: The Clips (2)All week we’re going to share with you clips from the WTTW pilot “IL-Informed”. Ok… I’m gonna need 3 up… Great, Joe, Ithamar annnnndd…. Justin. We now take you to a TV Studio….
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05.05.08IL-Informed: The Clips!Thanks to everyone who watched WTTW’s new comedy pilot IL-Informed. If you missed out, not to worry! We’ll be running clips all week. Enjoy!
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05.02.08IL-InformedNot watching “Check, Please”,”Chicago Tonight” or “Between the Lions”? Then you may have missed the promo for IL-Informed - the show we’ve been working on for WTTW! Check out the :30 spot here. Sunday night, 10.30PM - set the TiVos now! Oh - and you might as well sign-up for a Season Pass - this sucker’s gonna get funding in no time!
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05.02.08Schadenfreude on Chicago Tonight!Did you miss it? Did you not set your TiVo - even though we told you yesterday morning it was going to happen? You’re all lucky we are savvy internet users who know how to “encode” and “transfer” and “upload” and “post” and other internet-y things. Best of all, Justin proclaims what a big fan he is, and Phil blushes. Really, he blushes.
[Special thanks to Jeff E.!]
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05.02.08The Real Hassan Ali
Schad was thrilled to be a part of “IL-Informed,” the new WTTW sketch comedy pilot airing on Channel 11 this Sunday at 10.30 pm. One of the bits on the show features a fake Stone Phillips - type reporter named Hassan Ali. This is me as Hassan Ali, with the real Hassan Ali. Hassan is actually a friend of producer Paris Schutz’s and they thought it’d be great if some whitebread douchebag reporter used the name Hassan Ali as his professional moniker. Awesome. Thanks to Hassan Ali for joining the ranks of Schadenfreude characters named after real people: Tony Smaleck, Andy Wahlstrom and Scruffy McMuffin. Tune in this Sunday!
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04.24.08UR Chicago Loves Schad/WTTW!
Ok, they don’t love us but they wrote a very nice feature for our upcoming WTTW show “IL-Informed”. The show airs next week on May 4, 6, 7, 10th. It’s really great to be that many times in a week. It makes us feel like we are Coupling or Check Please! Here is the story.
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03.27.08And We’re Clear!
That’s TV talk for we finished shooting the pilot for WTTW’s new comedy show “IL-Informed”. Thanks to all who came to the live taping yesterday. The show came together great over the 3 days of shooting and we just might have a show on our hands! We loved watching the audience react to jokes that we have spent the last couple months putting together. Big thanks to Sarah and Paris for producing the pilot. And the crew too. The Director Jack and the field cameraman Tom, as well as the sound/lightning maestro Danny and the stage manager Bruce. Also, thanks to Rob for the production assistance. The show was shot in Studio A, where the old soundstage performances used to be. Not the new Peter Cetera/Amy Grant versions, but the old ones with Bob Dylan and rock legends. Also, it was the space that Andy Kaufman used for his 1983 “The Andy Kaufman Show”. So it was great to be in the same space where Kaufman pulled off great bits. That felt really good. Our show had a lot of bending TV jokes. Talking to cameras that weren’t there, making jokes about TV conventions and playing with the space (and audience), most of which rarely makes it to the TV we all know. The show airs the week of May 4th. We are going to have a big party to watch it. Mark your calendar - May 10th at the Gall Cab…
