TV Q&A: Who are WPXI-TV’s weekend anchors?
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review.
Q: Any news yet on who the WPXI-TV evening weekend anchor is since Ryan Houston departed in November 2022?
— Joseph, via email
Rob: Depends on the day.
Rich Pierce anchors Saturday evenings and Amy Hudak is now the anchor on Sunday nights.
Q: I was wondering if you know when the remainder of season three of “Bluey” (after episode 27) will air on Disney+?
— Jerry, Greensburg
Rob: Disney+ will debut 10 new “Bluey” episodes on July 12, including an episode with a talking horse voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Q: Any news on when the next season of For All Mankind will be out? Will this be its last season?
— Connie, via email
Rob: Apple TV+’s “For All Mankind” is one of my favorite current series so I’m eager for more news on season four, too. I can confirm production wrapped but given all the special effects work that goes into the series in post-production, the fourth season remains a work in progress.
“For All Mankind” was not included in a trailer for new and returning series that will premiere in “the coming months” that Apple TV+ released on May 30, so my guess is the earliest we’ll see season four of “For All Mankind” is fall. And given the vagaries of the writers’ strike and streamers’ eventual need to further space out premieres of their in-the-can programming, I won’t be surprised if the new season gets pushed to 2024.
Will season four be the show’s last season? That’s not something Apple TV+ has announced but I suspect it could be as streaming services have taken to curtailing series that are not drawing new viewers to their service. “For All Mankind” garners critical acclaim and awards consideration for Apple TV+ but I’m not sure it drives new subscriptions.
Q: What is up with “Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorres vanity cards?
They are not on long enough to read but from what I can quickly scan, they range from political statements to personal topics.
Are these published somewhere the viewer can read or are these just a function on a Hollywood ego that makes these because he can? I am not sure of the point.
— Beth, McCandless
Rob: Vanity Cards are shown at the very end of the credits of a TV episode and they’re usually the same week-to-week (the MTM cat, Gary David Goldberg’s “Sit, Ubu, sit”) but Lorre’s vanity cards are ever-changing as he offers opinions, observations or tells a comedic short story. Why go the effort? Because he can. He’s Chuck Lorre, creator of hit-after-hit for production company Warner Bros.
Lorre has been writing new vanity cards for episodes of his series for almost three decades. They’re all cataloged online at ChuckLorre.com and he even had a book of them published back in 2012, “What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Bitter.”