Rob Owen stories, Page 25

Q: Why isn’t Heather Abraham anchoring KDKA-TV’s morning newscast anymore? — Donna, Leechburg Rob: We reported in September that after almost 12 years of early mornings, Abraham requested to step way from anchoring the morning newscasts. Lindsay Ward succeeded Abraham as morning co-anchor. “It was not easy to come to...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including Will Smith’s “Emancipation,” directed by Pittsburgh native Antoine Fuqua, and the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception, which will be celebrated during the Christmas...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Of all the Taylor Sheridan-produced shows — “Yellowstone,” “1883,” “Mayor of Kingstown” — his two most recent are the best yet. Last month, it was the premiere of the Sylvester Stallone-starring “Tulsa King,” which added...

On the first-year, nationally-syndicated series “WOW — Women of Wrestling,” wrestler Chantilly Chella is from Indio, Calif. In real life, the woman who plays Chella, Rachel Kelvington, is from Western Pennsylvania. But the rest of Chella’s backstory, as revealed in a November episode (supportive mom, alcoholic dad), syncs up with...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the status of Pittsburgh-filmed “A League of Their Own.” It’s now been roughly four months since the premieres of filmed-in-Pittsburgh series Amazon Freevee comedy...

Pittsburgh native Antoine Fuqua (“The Equalizer,” “Southpaw”) directed Will Smith in Apple TV+’s action-heavy, would-be awards contender “Emancipation” well before Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier this year. “Four hundred years of slavery is bigger than one moment,” Fuqua told Vanity Fair. “My hope is that people will...

WQED’s Saturday morning cooking franchise series “QED Cooks” returns with its first new episode since the March 2020 onset of the covid-19 pandemic with “When in Rome” (10 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday and airing in the same time slot Dec. 17 and 20). Taped in late October and once again featuring...

Yinzerific web comedy series “Greg & Donny” hasn’t produced regular episodes since 2016, save for two pandemic specials in March and April 2020, but the series returns Dec. 6 with the first in a batch of new episodes. Unlike in past seasons where episodes were shot in advance and rolled...

In the ongoing quest to revive and dump everything-and-the-kitchen-sink onto streaming platforms, Disney+ introduces “Willow,” a series follow-up to the 1988 fantasy film about young farmer Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) who is tasked with protecting the baby Elora Danan from evil queen Bavmorda. At the time, “Willow” was a modest...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including why the local simulcast of tonight’s ESPN Steelers game, usually on WTAE-TV, is on WPXI-TV. It seems likely that WTAE parent company Hearst lost...

The dirty little secret of all the streaming services: Even though they pour all their energy into promoting their original series, it’s often the reruns of existing shows that keep subscribers watching. It’s why HBO Max reclaimed “Friends” and Peacock clawed back rights to “The Office.” (The week of Oct....

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Things were not looking great for the humans in the penultimate episode of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” They were surrounded after zombies breached the perimeter of the Commonwealth just as Daryl (Norman Reedus), Maggie (Lauren...