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‘Chicago Fire’ & ‘Chicago PD’ Showrunner Matt Olmstead Inks Overall Deal With Uni TV

 

Matt Olmstead, der ausführende Produzent von NBC's Chicago Fire und Co-Creator/ausführende Produzent des kommenden Spinoffs Chicago PD hat einen 2-jährigen Vertrag mit Universal Television, dem Studio hinter den beiden Serien, gemeinsam mit Wolf Films, unterschrieben. Omstead wird weiterhin als Showrunner bei Chicago Fire und auch bei Chicago PD arbeiten und bei beiden Serien mit den Machern/ausführenden Produzenten Michael Brandt und Derek Haas, wie auch Dick Wolf zusammen arbeiten.

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EXCLUSIVE: Matt Olmstead, executive producer of NBC’s Chicago Fire and co-creator/executive producer of its upcoming spinoff Chicago PD, has signed a rich two-year overall deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the two series, along with Wolf Films. Under the seven-figure pact, Olmstead will continue as showrunner on Chicago Fire and also will serve as showrunner on Chicago PD, working on both series with Chicago Fire creators/exec producers and Chicago PD co-creators/exec producers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, as well as exec producer Dick Wolf. Making things a bit easier logistically is the fact that Chicago PD has a midseason order. “Matt is an experienced and creative showrunner and we were thrilled with his stellar work on Chicago Fire, Uni TV EVP Bela Bajaria said. “We look forward to extending our relationship with him on Chicago PD and at Universal TV”.

Breakout Kings co-creator/executive producer and Prison Break showrunner Olmstead joined Chicago Fire after the pilot. He steered the firefighter drama through a successful first season, which posted ratings growth, earned an early renewal and spawned a spinoff, something almost unheard of for a freshman series. WME-repped Olmstead has strong cop drama credentials going into Chicago PD having spent three years on ABC’s NYPD. Wolf, Olmstead, Brandt and Haas executive both series with Peter Jankowski and Danielle Gelber.

Source / Quelle: Deadline

5 Secrets to Chicago Fire’s Success and What’s Next on the Season Finale

The Firehouse 51 team has battled all kinds of fires and disasters on Chicago Fire this season. However, it seems the producers have saved the biggest, and best, blaze for last.

"For the first time this season, Firehouse 51 is going to face a harrowing episode-long rescue call that will affect them all collectively," executive producer Danielle Gelber tells TVGuide.com of Wednesday's season finale (10/9c, NBC). "Our season finale is going to be chock-full of cliff-hangers across the board. We're going to leave everybody in some intense state of unrest."

This last rescue call marks the end of a banner first year for the NBC drama. In what was otherwise a tough TV season for the network, which canceled seven other freshman series earlier this month, Chicago Fire has slowly grown into one of NBC's surprise hits. Since its October debut, the firefighter drama has become an hour of must-Tweet TV and spawned a spin-off, Chicago PD. So how did it happen? Here are five secrets to Chicago Fire's success:

Make viewers invested: Dick Wolf's Law & Order paved the way for the modern-day television procedural, with its focus on the intriguing, twisty cases of the week, rather than the cops and lawyers working on these cases. More than 20 years later, that playbook has been tossed out. "It's very diametrically opposed to what he succeeded with in the past, but I knew that in this day and age, what people really come back for every week is the people, the characters," Gelber says. "We've tried really hard to weave the characters' emotional lives and their relationships into their daily work. They never really go on a call that doesn't somehow resonate with what's going on in their personal lives." 

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