Rob Owen stories, Page 35

The School of Communication at Point Park University will celebrate its first Myron Cope Day on Feb. 7, celebrating the Pittsburgh broadcasting legend at 200 Lawrence Hall. Three panels will include a look at his career as a print journalist (10-10:45 a.m.), broadcast journalist (10:45-11:30 a.m.) and as a radio...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming week. There’s promise in ABC’s latest prime-time soap, but its makers sure don’t make it easy on viewers initially. Premiering at 10 p.m. Monday on WTAE-TV, “Promised Land” introduces the large, wealthy Hispanic family that owns Heritage...

Local TV news reporter Tori Yorgey will begin her new job at Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV in February, but her last week on the job at WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W.Va., has been eventful: She was struck by a car during a live broadcast and continued reporting, becoming a viral sensation on Twitter...

Retired Pittsburgh boxer and boxing referee Rick Steigerwald has previously shared his story of how, at age 24, he snuck into the 1979 Super Bowl, where the Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys. But until now, he’s never had the tale re-enacted by a cast of professional comic actors, including Adam...

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 Peacock’s six-episode docu-series about Joe Montana, who grew up in Monongahela, which is featured prominently in the first episode. Benz and Owen discuss the...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. More a spiritual spin-off than a true sequel series, Hulu’s “How I Met Your Father” does a gender swap on the 2005-14 CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother.” Streaming Tuesday, “How I Met Your...

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: Help settle a debate between my mother and I: Various websites list Bob Pompeani as 5’6” tall, but I say those sites are poppycock and...

Filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Archive 81,” streaming on Netflix Friday, is more supernatural thriller than horror series, with minimal gore but plenty of moody atmosphere, intriguing mystery and a few jump scares. Adapted from a podcast of the same name by writer Rebecca Sonnenshine (“The Boys,” “The Vampire Diaries”), “Archive 81” starts strong...

The new year’s TV offerings bring two reality series with Western Pennsylvania ties with the debut of TLC’s “I Am Shauna Rae” (10 p.m. Tuesday) and the return of Netflix’s “Cheer” for its nine-episode second season Wednesday. ‘Cheer’ James Thomas, a 2017 graduate of Union Area High School in New...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. To prepare for her role as a mid-1990s documentary filmmaker in filmed-in-Pittsburgh Netflix supernatural thriller “Archive 81,” actress Dina Shihabi (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) got her hands on the kind of camera her character, Melody...

When actress Adrienne Warren showed up on the set of Netflix’s bio-pic “Rustin,” which is filming in Pittsburgh through mid-January, the period wardrobe looked familiar from her work playing Mamie Till-Mobley on ABC’s “Women of the Movement” (8 p.m. Thursday, WTAE-TV). Both projects take place during the 1950s/60s civil rights...

This year broadcast networks tried a different premiere pattern with both NBC (“American Auto” and “Grand Crew”) and ABC (the excellent comedy “Abbott Elementary”) debuting some series in December but then not rolling them out weekly until the new year. Here are the other midseason series you can expect to...

Jeremiah “Jay” Voithofer of Farmington, Fayette County, remembers going to a Holiday Inn in Uniontown at age 8 to meet Terry Drury, a host of TV shows about hunting. “I made a turkey sound call and he gave me – and signed – his box call,” Voithofer said. “It’s just...