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TV Talk: Hill District native Carter Redwood stars in CBS’s ‘FBI: International’Video
For Carter Redwood, his first series regular role starring in CBS’s “FBI: International” checks several boxes of what he hoped for in his acting career. “As a part of my visualization for what I wanted in my career, and what I wanted for myself, I really told myself that I...
TV Talk: Emmy telecast welcomes comedy newcomers ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Hacks;’ shows off Billy Porter’s latest fashion
Sunday night on CBS, the 73rd Emmy Awards began with an opening that was equal parts cringe and joyful fun as host Cedric the Entertainer was joined in rapping about his love of TV by Lil Dickey, Rita Wilson and LL Cool J and the celebrities in attendance who joined...
TV Talk: Previewing fall streaming, cable and PBS showsVideo
There’s no dearth of content in the months ahead on streaming, cable and PBS. Here are a few highlights of what’s coming soon: Streaming Returning series include “Dear White People” (premiering Wednesday, Netflix), “Doom Patrol” (Thursday, HBO Max), “Creepshow” (Thursday, Shudder and AMC+), the fourth and final season of Billy...
TV Talk: When your prime-time broadcast favorites return
Unlike a year ago when fall premiere dates for returning series were uncertain due to the pandemic, this year most shows are back right on time. One big exception: NBC holds back the final season of partially Pittsburgh-set “This is Us” until early 2022. Here’s when you can expect your...
TV Talk: Broadcasters introduce reboots, spin-offs and a few original seriesVideo
Viewers who savor the comfort of the familiar will be satisfied with the recognizable titles broadcast networks are trotting out as “new” series this fall. Anyone seeking a surplus of originality will be disappointed. That said, not all reboots are created equal and not all original shows are winners. The...
TV Talk: Former ‘Dance Moms’ star, Pittsburgh native stars in Lifetime movie; ‘The Morning Show’ returnsVideo
Viewers who couldn’t get enough of the train wreck that was Lifetime’s Pittsburgh-based “Dance Moms” likely remember Nia Sioux Frazier and her mom, Holly Hatcher-Frazier, as the most poised, sensible and seemingly stable of that show’s regulars. Nia, who now goes by Nia Sioux, was just 9 when “Dance Moms”...
TV Q&A: Could Jackie Cain return to a Pittsburgh TV station?
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: Former WTAE-TV news anchor Jackie Cain has left her Minneapolis station. Does she end up back in Pittsburgh? And at what station? — Jodi via...
TV Talk: Greenfield woman competes on ‘Jeopardy!’ during Mike Richards’ brief tenure as host
Gabbie Kim, a mother of two and birth doula from Greenfield, will compete on Monday’s 38th season premiere of “Jeopardy!” (7 p.m., WPXI-TV). And what a week to appear on the show. Not only is she up against Matt Amodio — who’s on an 18-episode winning streak that netted him...
TV Talk: Daytime changes for fall include Jay Leno-hosted game show, Nick Cannon talk showVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Already “Dr. Oz” has moved over from WTAE-TV to 10 a.m. weekdays on WPGH-TV, but perhaps the most noteworthy syndicated debut of the Fall 2021 season is “You Bet Your Life” (6 and 6:30 p.m....
TV Talk: KDKA-TV reporter Nicole Ford jumps to WPXI-TV
It’s not the norm in TV news for a reporter to file her last report for one station on a Friday and then turn up reporting on a rival station a few days later. But when a reporter is part-time and not under contract with the first station, such circumstances...
TV Talk: Is filmed-in-Western Pa. ‘American Rust’ worth watching?Video
Showtime’s Western Pennsylvania-set series “American Rust” (10 p.m. Sunday) gets off to an exceedingly slow start as it introduces its characters and their situations. In Sunday’s premiere, Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), the police chief of Buell, Fayette County, covers up a possible crime for the benefit of the woman he...
TV Talk: Jeff Daniels accomplishes his quest to bring filmed-in-Western Pa. ‘American Rust’ to fruitionVideo
For actor Jeff Daniels, Showtime’s filmed-in-Western-Pennsylvania “American Rust” (10 p.m. Sunday) is more than another role. It’s the fulfillment of an idea he had more than a decade ago to adapt the 2009 Philipp Meyer novel of the same name into a filmed project after Daniels’ agent (now his manager)...
TV Talk: WPXI ends its annual holiday parade tradition
WPXI-TV announced it will no longer stage and broadcast its annual holiday parade in Downtown Pittsburgh, a 40-year tradition. A post to the WPXI Holiday Parade Facebook page says while the station was proud to broadcast the seasonal special, “At this time we cannot continue to produce and broadcast the...
TV Q&A: What’s happening to Benny on ‘Bull’?
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: When is CBS’s “Bull” starting a new season? And why is Benny really leaving? — Millie via email Rob: Many returning series will start rolling...
TV Talk: Pitt, CMU grad reboots ‘Doogie Howser, M.D.’ for Disney+Video
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Veteran TV writer and University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University grad Kourtney Kang knows the bad rap reboots get among critics and some viewers. She purposefully took a different, more personal approach to writing...
TV Talk: Martha Plimpton replaces Illeana Douglas on filming-in-Pittsburgh comedy ‘Sprung’
Only a week into filming streaming comedy “Sprung” in Pittsburgh and there’s been a change on the call sheet of the IMDb TV series: The role played in scenes shot last week by actress Illeana Douglas will be played going forward (and in re-shoots) by Emmy-winner Martha Plimpton. Recasting is...
TV Talk: Joe Manganiello visits ‘A.P. Bio;’ Billy Porter’s ‘Cinderella’ and Michael Keaton’s ‘Worth’ debutVideo
Streaming services offer a trifecta of Pittsburgh natives in new entertainment offerings this weekend. Porter in ‘Cinderella’ Does the world really need another Cinderella movie? Writer/director Kay Cannon, with an assist from Pittsburgh native Billy Porter as the Fab G, delivers a spirited, modern, musical “Cinderella” that proves it has...
TV Q&A: What happened to Marisa Tomei’s role in ‘Sweet Girl’?
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: Word is that Marisa Tomei was fired from the movie “Sweet Girl” as she was a difficult diva. Truth to that is the fact that...
TV Talk: Netflix’s ‘Rustin’ seeks 2,000 extras during filming in Pittsburgh
When the Netflix bio-pic “Rustin,” about the late civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, comes to film in Pittsburgh beginning Sept. 27, casting director Rose Locke has a big task on her hands: Hiring 370 extras for the film’s re-creation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1963 March on Washington, a...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh’s success featured in PBS’s ‘Future of Work’Video
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Pittsburgh’s revitalization is featured in the first episode of the three-part PBS series “Future of Work” (10-11 p.m. Wednesday, WQED-TV), which explores changes in the workplace and its potential for long-term impact on workers, employers,...
TV Talk: Michael Keaton talks Steelers with Seth Meyers on ‘Late Night’Video
Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s “Late Night,” didn’t grow up in Pittsburgh, but his father is from East Liberty and the late-night host has made no secret of his love for the Steelers, even going so far as working references into an episode of IFC’s “Documentary Now” that he wrote....
TV Talk: More on ‘The Chair,’ including that celeb cameo; 9/11 rememberedVideo
Now that the six-episode, easily bingeable, filmed-in-Pittsburgh “The Chair” has been out for a week on Netflix, it’s time to share more from my interviews with series co-creator Amanda Peet and star Sandra Oh, spoilers included (if you don’t want to be spoiled, skip to the next subhead). “The Chair”...
TV Q&A: What’s up with the ‘Jeopardy!’ host debacle and who could host now?
Q: If you had been choosing the next host of “Jeopardy” who would it be? What do you think of Mike Richards? — Barb via email Rob: This query arrived a week before briefly tenured Mike Richards exited the “Jeopardy!” host role. I started writing a response during the day...
TV Talk: ‘The Other Two’ remains one of TV’s best comedies as it relocates to HBO Max
Sometimes when a series has been MIA as long as “The Other Two” — its last new episode premiered in March 2019 — it can be difficult to remember exactly why you loved it. There’s also this concern: Will the show be as good as I vaguely remember it was?...
TV Talk: Are Netflix’s filmed-in-Pittsburgh ‘Sweet Girl’ and ‘The Chair’ worth watching?Video
Here’s an inside-entertainment tip: When networks/studios/platforms put an embargo date (that is, when stories can be published) on reviews of a new movie or TV show that is well in advance of the release date that the project becomes available to the public, it’s because those in charge of publicity...
