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TV Talk: WQED-TV profiles Pittsburgh’s broadcasting pioneer women
As part of its lineup of Women’s History Month programming, WQED-TV will broadcast the half-hour “mini doc” “Broadcast Pioneers” at 8 p.m. March 21.
View ArticleTV Q&A: Why are some stations’ digital subchannels on cable but not others?
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.
View ArticleTV Talk: ‘American Rust’ season 2 set largely in Pittsburgh
For its second season, the filmed-in-Pittsburgh drama “American Rust” moves from Showtime to Amazon’s Prime Video. The show’s setting also shifts.
View ArticleTV Talk: ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners launch ‘3 Body Problem;’ KDKA-TV adds...
For their first series after showrunning HBO’s mammoth hit “Game of Thrones,” writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (with Alexander Woo, “The Terror,” “True Blood”) adapt Chinese sci-fi author Liu...
View ArticleTV Talk: Pittsburgher ‘The Chase’ star back on ‘Jeopardy!’ 20 years later;...
Victoria Groce of Point Breeze first competed on the daytime game show “Jeopardy!” in 2005, winning $23,801 over two episodes just before she moved to Pittsburgh, where her husband works at Carnegie...
View ArticleTV Talk: CMU grad John Wells sets Noah Wyle medical drama in Pittsburgh;...
John Wells, a 1979 Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama grad, will executive produce “THE PITT,” a Pittsburgh-set medical drama to star his “ER” alum Noah Wyle that received a straight-to-series...
View ArticleTV Q&A: Why did ‘9-1-1’ move from Fox to ABC?
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.
View ArticleTV Talk: ‘American Rust’ makes case for renewal with a twisty 2nd season
The first season of filmed-in-Pittsburgh “American Rust” started too slow and painted most of its characters and the fictional town of Buell, Fayette County, with the same turbid gray. It’s no wonder...
View ArticleTV Talk: Filmed-in-Pittsburgh ‘Kingstown’ gets season 3 premiere date
Often streaming series are in the can for months before they show up on a streaming service — “American Rust,” which premiered on Amazon’s Prime Video earlier today, was locked in August 2023 — but...
View ArticleTV Talk: National cooking show comes to WQED-TV
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
View ArticleTV Q&A: Where did WTAE sportscaster Ashley Liotus go?
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.
View ArticleTV Talk: CMU grad checks into ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
It was appropriate that Meredith Grey’s voiceover narration in the March 28 episode of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” (9 p.m. Thursdays, WTAE-TV) was all about the early transplant work of Pittsburgh’s Dr....
View ArticleTV Talk: ‘Ripley’ is a bore; ‘Mary & George’ delights
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
View ArticleTV Talk: ‘American Rust’ showrunners on season 2 twists, season 3 prospects
NOTE: Spoilers for the end of season two of “American Rust” are included in this column.
View ArticleTV Talk: Point Breeze's Victoria Groce wins ‘Jeopardy!’ Invitational Tournament
Victoria Groce of Point Breeze won the “Jeopardy!” Invitational Tournament Tuesday night, including the grand prize of $100,000 and a place in the “Jeopardy!” Masters Tournament that’s expected to air...
View ArticleTV Q&A: Did KDKA-TV's Kristin Emery get married?
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.
View ArticleTV Talk: Voice actor appearing at Steel City Con credits his career to...
There will be famous actors galore at Steel City Con, April 12-14 at the Monroeville Convention Center, including Geena Davis, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson and the cast of “Beverly Hills 90210,” but...
View ArticleTV Talk: Creator imagines ‘Dinner with the Parents’ set in Squirrel Hill
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
View ArticleTV Talk: Katherine Amenta out at WPXI-TV
After anchoring this morning’s newscasts, Katherine Amenta is no longer with WPXI-TV.
View ArticleTV Talk: CBS starts a fire of controversy cutting off Billy Joel, reschedules...
After promoting “Billy Joel: The 100th at Madison Square Garden – The Greatest Arena Run of All Time” for weeks, CBS blundered nationally by cutting off the program mid-“Piano Man” to go to late local...
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