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2011/01/30 兩張TCC的大海報看板，上面那張來源：http://yfrog.com/h3eamzj，下面那張：http://twitpic.com/3uxn0m。

Broadway & W 50 St NYC

2011/01/30 Examiner記者Kel Kendrick在Twitter說大家有任何關於TCC的問題，他可以寫在文章內：Getting ready to launch a week long intro to #TheChicagoCode for Examiner. Do you have questions about series? I may include in articles. 7:52 PM Jan 30th via web (http://twitter.com/TVKel/status/31681196291264513)

他發表了三篇TCC的介紹文章：

http://www.examiner.com/the-chicago-code-in-national/introducing-the-chicago-code-the-basics-part-1
http://www.examiner.com/the-chicago-code-in-national/introducing-the-chicago-code-the-basics-part-2
http://www.examiner.com/tv-insider-in-los-angeles/tca-preview-the-chicago-code

2011/01/30 TCC新預告：

The Chicago Code - The Way Things Get Done by Bazinga219, 2011/01/30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6-L1TR06g&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

The Chicago Code - Declaring Open War Promo by Bazinga219, 2011/01/29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyYw0Mnv-TU

2011/01/30 女王又要上一個脫口秀節目E!Channel 2/3(星期四)11pm ET (希望女主持人不會直接飛撲她)，感謝JBC網友提供消息：Jennifer will be on Chelsa Lately Show on E! Channel Thurs Feb 3, 11 pm ET or 10 Central time.

這裡好像可以看線上播放：http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/chelsea/index.jsp

今年過年太幸福了，有JB的節目和訪談陪跨年！

2011/01/29 TCC新預告片：The Chicago Code - "TV's Most Anticipated Drama" (Promo Commercial) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5nDsINpaCg

2011/01/28 一條沒辦法確認時間跟發言人的Twitter：i MET and talked for a wile with Jennifer Beals,Laurel Holloman,Rachael Shelley, the are awesome,funny and HUMBLE, they LOVE their fans and NONE is a DIVA!They are Hollywood royalty,movie stars! so i guess i have to review my concepts about what beeing famous is REALLY is.

這是JBC網站的Erika.網友提供的，一位巴西網友在Twitter上說她/他(?)碰到女王、Lu跟海大媽，有人質疑是L5 Convention，但Erika.網友說這是1/28幾個小時前收到的，不可能拿這麼遠的事出來講，也有人說可能是TVGuide記者講的週末(1/15或1/8?)TLW Crew dinner場合，如果是後者，我去放個仙女棒再回來。

2011/01/31更新：已經證實，發這條Twitter的人回覆說這是L5 Convention，害大家白高興一場。

2011/01/27 上面的預告片是目前最完整的女王在TCC片段和角色訪談，JB迷必收。

Jennifer Beals - Teresa Colvin (Trailer & Interview) By jbealsfan, 2011/01/27

還有這一部：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKVZhc1oBY，

另一個版本：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdIE0zNA7kk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

TCC 另一個略為不同的Preview：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnsWtcSwGc

2011/01/27 Lu最近的Twitter把粉絲嚇到了：

@MegBull kisses back. my boyfriends from argentina. oxoxoxox 7:27 PM Jan 27th via web in reply to MegBull

@mikiturner HAVE YOU SEEN THIS THREAD#agoodboyfriend it's cracking me up 7:34 PM Jan 27th via web

@Magdaishere no way awesome my man is playing soccer right now 8:42 PM Jan 27th via web in reply to Magdaishere

害魚要出來安撫一下民心，第一條一個巴西網友跟Lu打招呼，Lu說她的男朋友們來自阿根廷，是的這是開玩笑，她用的是複數。第二條，Lu跟Miki說她受不了#agoodboyfriend上的格言，好像是說男朋友要可以大方的在別人面前說我愛你之類的話。第三條Lu回一位阿根廷網友說她的男人正在玩足球，是的Lu不知喝了幾罐啤酒？不過可憐的Miki好像被眾網友問翻了，結論是雙子座發酒瘋的時候不要理她。(雖然我心中突然跑出第五季第五集Tina喝多了跳到游泳池又睡在Bette沙發上那段。)

2011/01/28 女王要上CBS日間The Talk節目(2/4 Friday 2pm ET) ，還有JB的好友MM(MarleeMatlin/Jodi)(怪了最近提到誰誰就會出現)。節目網站：http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_talk/，大家等善心人士放到Youtube吧。

2011/01/28 TCC另一隻新預告：

The Chicago Code - 'Best New Show Of The Season' (Promo Commercial) By jbealsfan, 2011/01/28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcyWSC48zaQ

2011/01/28 TVSquad在TCA會場的訪問影片：'The Chicago Code' Cast Previews the Show's Big Drama (VIDEO) by Maggie Furlong, posted Jan 28th 2011 11:00AM

2011/01/28 nwitimes上的報導：Jennifer Beals fired up for police drama By Molly Woulfe Posted: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:00 am

全文如下：

Chicago's top cop is a woman in "The Chicago Code," the new Fox crime drama premiering at 8 p.m. Feb. 7.

She's local, too. Creator Shawn Ryan tapped South Side native Jennifer Beals ("Flashdance," "L Word") as scrappy Police Superintendent Teresa Colvin.

Just one problem. Her Chicago twang is history, admits Beals, 47, who divides her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver.

"Oh, gosh, I have to work so hard to get my accent back," said the Francis Parker grad, who shot the pilot and several episodes last year on the West Side.

At this point,  Aussie costar Jason Clarke ("Public Enemies") sounds more Grabowski than she does.

"I listen to him and his coach, and I've had a few sessions myself," Beals said.

Yet she's walking the walk as well as talking the talk. She's gone on ride-alongs with Chicago's finest, honed her shooting at a target range, and has adopted subtle police mannerisms.

When you're a cop, "you rest your hand on the gun," she noted. "And your thumbs are on your vest, when you're hanging out on the street."

The Chicago-based series, occupying "Lone Star's" Monday time slot, follows detective Jarek Wysocki (Clarke) as he takes on big-time corruption in the City of Big Shoulders. His pet target: Big, bad Alderman Ronin Gibbons (Delroy Lindo).

It's up to Colvin -- already under scrutiny -- to play diplomat as Wysocki crusades for justice.

Besides hitting the firing range, the Yale-educated Beales hit the books to research her role. Her reading list included Len O'Connor's "Clout: Mayor Daley and His City" and municipal guides to wards, districts and aldermen. Next up: Mike Royko's "Boss."

It pays to do one's homework. The eagle-eyed Beals has corrected a few errors in scripts, pointing out that "a certain ward does not incorporate a certain neighborhood, or an alderman can't possibly be alderman of this ward and the other," she said.

If she could tape anywhere in her hometown, the Bears fan's first choice would not be Soldier Field ("Don't get me started," she growled) but the lakefront. Second choice: The Field Museum. Beals loves the nature dioramas that have enthralled schoolchildren for generations.

Her favorite shows a golden eagle, gripping a rabbit in its claws, descending to its nest of hungry offspring.

The scene could be a symbol of justice, or the predatory nature of politics. Or not,  Beals agrees. She can just picture a Teresa Colvin-informer rendezvous there. "I think it would be a good place to meet a mole, at a weird nature exhibit," she said.

2011/01/28 rrstar上的TCC介紹(現在都趕星期五發稿嗎？)：Review: Solid cast, locations make 'Code' worth watching By Will Pfeifer GO.RRSTAR.COM Posted Jan 28, 2011 @ 12:24 PM

全文如下：Shawn Ryan’s “The Chicago Code” lacks the in-your-face punch of “The Shield” and the scruffy charm of “Terriers,” but as a cop show, it’s solid. And as a showcase for the Windy City, it’s fascinating.

Though the stars are listed as Jennifer Beals, Jason Clarke and Delroy Lindo (more on them a bit later), the real star of the show is Chicago itself. Locations range from the plush offices on Michigan Avenue to some of the city’s dicier neighborhoods, and Ryan and company make the most of each setting. There have been cop shows set in Chicago before, but few felt as down-to-earth (and occasionally down-and-dirty) as this one. It’s not as gritty or ambitious as HBO’s “The Wire,” but “The Chicago Code” has an evocative sense of place that echoes the Baltimore-based drama.

The story itself isn’t ground breaking, but it’s compelling and offers plenty of dramatic possibilities: The city’s first female police superintendent (Jennifer Beals, returning to her real-life Chicago roots) is determined to battle the city’s ever-present corruption, and she chooses a powerful alderman (Delroy Lindo) as her first potential target. To help her, she chooses her ex-partner (Jason Clarke), a legendary detective best known for alienating his partners in a day or less, to lead the fight.

All three actors bring a distinct sense of urgency to their roles, with Beals clearly relishing a part with some meat on its bones and Clarke nicely burying his actual Australian accent underneath a believable Chicago growl. Best of all is Lindo, skillfully underplaying each scene but managing to convey a sense of silky menace at the same time. You don’t need a lot of detailed background on this guy — at first glance, you know he’s bad, and you know he’s going to be tough to beat.

Amid all the cops, robbers and corruption, “The Chicago Code” also has some fun with the standard tropes of the police genre. In the opening episode, each character narrates his or her own life story as they’re introduced into the plot. It’s an efficient way to bring us up to speed on who’s who, but toward the end of the hour, one character is busy relating his background in a voice over when he’s shot and suddenly, the narration stops midsentence.

It’s a nice twist that shows some imagination went into the show. And in a later episode, when a tough-as-nails older cop confronts Beals’ character, he surprisingly doesn’t act like every cop cliche ever written and instead reveals a bit of humanity and depth.

Judging by the first three episodes, I’m guessing “The Chicago Code” is going to do the same thing.

2011/01/28 Chicago Magazine 2011/二月號TCC的專文介紹：The Chicago Code Makes the Windy City Its Headquarters SIREN SAYS: A rookie cop drama has been filming everywhere from Millennium Park to rough parts of Austin and the South Side. By Rod O’Connor

全文如下：

It’s a bright Saturday afternoon in the fall, and extras in business attire are puttering along the sidewalk as if it were just another weekday. A black SUV halts in front of City Hall and out steps the Chicago-born actress Jennifer Beals in a crisp police uniform, trailed by a cluster of cameramen filming a scene for the new television cop drama The Chicago Code (premiering February 7th on Fox).

But this crew isn’t grabbing a few downtown exteriors to slap together with scenes shot in L.A. studios, as was the case with the show ER. The expensive equipment currently lining LaSalle Street has been working overtime for the past six months, filming everywhere from Millennium Park to rough parts of Austin and the South Side. The goal: to craft a realistic portrait of Chicago for TV.

Shawn Ryan, 44, the show’s Rockford-born creator, whose gritty police series The Shield was a cable hit, is aware locals may be dubious. “I understand the feeling that Hollywood isn’t interested in delving too far into the city,” he says, perched on the marble stairs inside City Hall. “But we’re shooting the city in a way that no other show or movie has.”

The Chicago Code stars Beals (The L Word) as the city’s first female police superintendent, Jason Clarke (Public Enemies) as a tough Polish cop, Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights) as his eager young partner, and Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X) as a shady alderman. Flashbacks explore the characters’ connections to Chicago history, from the origins of the Cabrini-Green housing projects to the city’s relationship with organized crime. Over the first season, the story unfolds in Chinatown and Boystown—neighborhoods rarely chosen by location scouts. “When I pitched it, I viewed it as a police show. Now I view it as a city show through the lens of police officers,” Ryan explains.

In the pilot, local details are spot on: the street sweeper truck in the background; the familiar back porches of three-flats. References to baseball allegiances feel natural. And to keep the police action true to life, the show’s consultant, an active Chicago homicide detective named John Folino Jr., parses every script for inaccuracies that would make real cops cringe.

With plot lines highlighting suspicious construction deals and police sit-downs with gang leaders, one might mistake the show for a ripped-from-the-headlines procedural—or an indictment of corruption in the vein of HBO’s The Wire. But Ryan is quick to say that he’s not looking to denigrate the city—or state, which provided generous tax breaks to help make the show a reality: “We are showing the city’s underbelly. But it’s fictional. I look at the city with a great deal of fondness.”

That affection comes from his years traveling back and forth to Chicago from his childhood home in Rockford. Ryan recalls attending hockey camps led by former Blackhawk Tony Esposito and playing in sports tournaments throughout the city and suburbs. He also remembers feeling like a bit of an outsider. “In the same way that Chicago can get overlooked by New York, Chicago tends to look down on Rockford,” he says.

That underdog aura fuels his drive to share an authentic portrayal of the Midwest with national audiences. “What I bring is the eye of an outsider with the heart of an insider,” he explains. “There’s definitely a New York– L.A. lean to what gets made [by Hollywood]. I think it took someone who was really committed to doing it here. It’s easy for a big production like Transformers 3 to come here and destroy downtown. But that’s only one aspect of the city.”

2011/01/27 EW上的TCC評論：The Chicago Code Reviewed by Ken Tucker Jan 27, 2011

全文如下：

The Chicago Code provides superior cop drama thanks to its cast — starting with Brotherhood’s Jason Clarke and Friday Night Lights' Matt Lauria as tough street police — and its creator (Shawn Ryan, who gave us The Shield). And it has two nicely contrasting foes: Jennifer Beals as Chicago's police superintendent versus Delroy Lindo as a corrupt alderman.

That said, you can feel the strain watching The Chicago Code. Unlike Ryan's previous employer, FX, Fox doesn't allow very strong language, so the solution is to make Clarke's detective Jarek Wysocki a tough guy offended by obscenity. Everyone around him uses euphemisms such as ''jag-hole,'' which is just distracting.

But there's a nice layering of plots and characters. Wysocki has a complex relationship with Beals' Teresa Colvin, a niece who's also on the force (Devin Kelley), and a grudge against life that becomes clear in the second episode.

Even better, Lindo's Alderman Gibbons is dishonest without being oily about it — he goes after power with subtlety. After a week or two, I might even be able to look at the slender Beals in her absurdly oversize police-officer cap without giggling. Here's hoping The Chicago Code continues to get richer, deeper, and less obliged to follow the standard code of cop shows.

2011/01/26 一篇提到JB的短文：Jay-Z Producing 'Annie' Remake Starring Willow Smith By ANNA BRESLAW DATE POSTED January 26, 2011 - 1:27pm

摘要如下：

And Jennifer Beals should play Miss Hannigan, because we just saw her on the cover of this month's More Magazine and forgot how much we straight-up love her. She does NOT get enough work. It's a crime.(大推這一句，不讓女王演更多戲是罪惡的)