Pittsburgh Pop: Ghosts of 2021 pop culture past, present and future

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Pittsburgh Pop: Ghosts of 2021 pop culture past, present and future

Rob Owen | Monday, December 27, 2021 11:02 a.m.

Images courtesy KDKA and WTAE

KDKA-TV’s Stacy Smith and Paul Martino and WTAE-TV’s Chris Lovingood, Kelly Frey and Brittany Hoke are among the on-air TV news staffers who departed Pittsburgh airwaves in 2021.

In this week’s 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 year that was in TV and local TV news anchor changes.

They tick off some of the highlights of the year in TV/streaming – “WandaVision,” “Mayor of Easttown,” “Squid Game” – and debate what TV nostalgia will mean for future generations growing up in the current 500-original-series-per-year environment that has viewers in their own silos, lacking a collective viewing experience.

In the pop culture present the pair talk “Emily in Paris” and more “Selling Sunset.”

And for the future, Benz and Owen consider the Obi-Wan Kenobi “Star Wars” series coming to Disney+ in 2022 and HBO’s “Winning Time,” about the 1980s L.A. Lakers, due to premiere sometime in March.

Listen to Pittsburgh Pop at TribLIVE Podcast Network or on iTunes.