Movies/TV category, Page 117
TV Talk: Bethel Park’s Joe Serafini stars in ‘High School Musical’ Disney+ seriesVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. When the Disney+ series “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” debuted in late 2019, Bethel Park native Joe Serafini had a recurring guest role in the show while still studying musical theater at the...
Elon Musk shows humility and hubris as ‘SNL’ hostVideo
Elon Musk showed a combination of humility and hubris as he opened his highly anticipated hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live.” The 49-year-old Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder and one of the world’s richest men opened his monologue by mocking his monotonal speaking style, saying no one can tell when he’s...
What to expect from the star-studded Vax Live fundraiser
LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden, Prince Harry and Jennifer Lopez are among the big names advocating the importance of vaccine equity during the Global Citizen fundraising concert airing Saturday. The pre-taped event brought together celebrities and political leaders at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the Word,” which was...
TV Talk: CMU grad, ‘Hamilton’ star sings lead in comedy from ’30 Rock’ writersVideo
Carnegie Mellon University musical theater grad Renee Elise Goldsberry, who played Angelica Schuyler in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” stars in the new Tina Fey-produced comedy series “Girls5eva,” now streaming all episodes on Peacock, included as part of a Comcast Xfinity subscription. The show follows members of a ‘90s girl group who attempt...
TV Q&A: Which shows are ‘on the bubble’ for renewal?
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: Recently you wrote about several CBS shows that have been renewed, but there was no mention of “SEAL Team.” Do you know the renewal status...
Star Wars strong: May the 4th be with youVideo
It’s May the 4th, and you know what that means. It’s Star Wars Day, the unofficial holiday celebrating the storied movie franchise and a play on what is arguably its best-known line: “May the Force be with you.” The Force gives certain people in the Star Wars universe extraordinary abilities...
Fifth graders’ Jeff Goldblum obsession gets love from Pittsburgh actor
Sometimes, school can be really fun. Not to mention a brush with your celebrity obsession. The fifth graders at Bristol Elementary in Webster Groves, Mo., have been working remotely this year because of the pandemic. The class’s teacher Samantha Brown decided — as great teachers are apt to do —...
Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning ‘Moonstruck’ star, dies at 89
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s mother in the romantic comedy “Moonstruck,” has died. She was 89. Allison Levy, her agent at Innovative Artists, said Saturday that Dukakis died Saturday morning in her...
Jason Momoa’s filmed-in-Pittsburgh movie gets streaming debut date
The Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” which filmed in Pittsburgh in late 2019, got a release date from Netflix this week: Aug. 20. Momoa stars as Ray Cooper, who vows to bring justice to those responsible for the death of his wife while protecting his daughter (Isabela Merced). The film, directed...
TV Talk: ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ spin-off ‘Donkey Hodie’ debuts on PBSVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Even after the director says, “Cut!,” sometimes puppeteers stay in character. “I said all my lines right!” said Donkey Hodie, as performed and voiced by former Point Park University student Haley Jenkins. And she said...
TV Talk: Billy Porter’s ‘What If?’ to film in PittsburghVideo
Pittsburgh native and TV’s “Pose” star Billy Porter will bring his feature film directorial debut home, shooting the movie “What If?” in Western Pennsylvania this summer. Porter confirmed the filming during an interview on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Tuesday while promoting the final season of FX’s “Pose,” which kicks off...
TV Q&A: Why don’t laid off TV news anchors get rehired?
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: Just reading your articles about the new reporters at KDKA, and I’ve been wondering for a while now with all the new reporters coming to...
Oscars telecast draws 9.85 million viewers for ABC, a record lowVideo
Despite a night of historic firsts and a major upset in the best actor category, the 93rd Academy Awards could not avoid the TV ratings slide that has hit all award shows during the pandemic. ABC’s telecast of the Oscars hit an all-time low with an average of 9.85 million...
Academy Awards TV audience plummets to record-low 9.85 million
NEW YORK — The Academy Awards television audience plunged to 9.85 million viewers on ABC, less than half of the Oscars’ previous low and continuing a startling trend of viewer tune out for awards shows. The Nielsen company’s preliminary estimate shows that the audience who watched “Nomadland” win best picture...
Anthony Hopkins honors Chadwick Boseman after Oscar winVideo
LOS ANGELES — Anthony Hopkins has honored the late Chadwick Boseman after winning the best actor Oscar, hailing his fellow performer as a man “taken from us far too early.” The 83-year-old Hopkins took the award for his performance in “The Father,” becoming the oldest actor or actress to win...
TV Talk: Worst Oscars ever?
It’s tough to remember Oscars ceremonies from one year to the next, but the 2021 Academy Awards telecast may stand the test of time for all the wrong reasons. It was bad. Really bad. Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh decided to eschew so many of the regular...
Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao, ‘Nomadland’ take home Oscars
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. The “Nomadland” victory, while widely...
Oscars pit 2 Pittsburgh natives in production design raceVideo
In her long career, Diana Stoughton has worked on some 50 film and TV productions. With “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” she could tell it was special. “I think it was something magical about this show,” said Stoughton, who lives in Bloomfield. “I think the Karma gods were with us, and...
TV Talk: ‘Good Doctor’ star Paige Spara auditioned from her family’s bathroom in Washington, Pa.
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. On ABC’s “The Good Doctor” (10 p.m. Monday, WTAE-TV), Washington, Pa., native Paige Spara stars as Lea, girlfriend of Shaun (Freddie Highmore, “Bates Motel”), the show’s title character. Spara has played Lea since midway through...
Oscar slate holds ‘firsts’ for Asian actors, filmmakers
It may be hard to believe that there are still many “firsts” left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there were a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers. Steven Yeun (“Minari”) became the first Asian American actor to be nominated for best...
TV Talk: Western Pa. ‘Worst Cooks’ contestant returns for all-star editionVideo
If you’re invited to be on an all-star edition of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America” (9 p.m. Sunday), does that make you among the best of the worst or the worst of the worst? “Definitely the worst of the worst,” says “Worst Cooks” contestant Sadie Manda, a Canonsburg native...
LeVar Burton, Joe Buck among new ‘Jeopardy!’ guest hosts
The final group of “Jeopardy!” guest hosts for the show’s current season were announced Tuesday. Their episodes will air in the summer and the group of new guest hosts for the NBC game show include: -LeVar Burton, actor and former host of “Reading Rainbow” -Joe Buck, Fox sportscaster -Robin Roberts,...
TV Talk: ‘A League of Their Own’ series will film in Pittsburgh
A streaming series based on the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” about the first female professional baseball league, will film in Western Pennsylvania. Stars attached to the series include Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”), D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”) and Chante Adams (“Bad Hair”). Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn...
Michael Keaton to reprise Batman role in new film
Michael Keaton famously once said, “I’m Batman.” Well, he’ll be Batman again in a new movie that has already begun shooting. The Wrap reports ICM Partners, Keaton’s talent agency, has confirmed the Pittsburgh native will don the black suit in “The Flash,” which launched its production Monday in London with...
TV Q&A: Who’s the new meteorologist on WTAE-TV?
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: Cam Tran left WTAE-TV weekend morning weather reporting a couple weeks ago for a station in Florida. Will she be replaced or will Regina Miller,...
