TV Q&A: Where has WPXI's Gabriella DeLuca been?

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.

Question: Where has WPXI-TV reporter Gabriella DeLuca been lately?

— Mike, via email

Rob: DeLuca is on maternity leave. She posted on Twitter about giving birth to her son, Thomas James Pellillo, on Feb. 10, about a month early.

Thomas was in the NICU until March 7 when he was able to go home for the first time. DeLuca is expected to return to Channel 11 in late spring.

After being born a month early, and spending that month in the NICU, — Tommy finally came home today, on his due date!!!

His big sisters can’t get enough of him & keep saying “I wuv Tommy!” ???? pic.twitter.com/Cnt8LEyq81

— Gabriella DeLuca (@GabriellaDeLuca) March 8, 2023

Q: When will new episodes of CBS’s Tuesday night “FBI” shows resume?

— Ken, Indiana, Pa.

Rob: Per CBS, the “FBI” shows return with new episodes on March 14. But then there will be some weeks of reruns and/or pre-emptions before the three-way global “FBI” crossover on April 4 followed by new episodes for the rest of April.

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Q: My wife and I just got into watching “S.W.A.T.” on CBS with Shemar Moore. We watched the first three seasons on Hulu and know that season six is on Paramount+, but we cannot find seasons four and five streaming anywhere. Oh, Amazon Prime Video has it, but it must be purchased. Why would Hulu or Paramount+ not have seasons four and five?

— Kevin, via email

Rob: When a network series is produced by its sister-studio, then its easier for that network’s associated streaming platform to strike a deal to stream all seasons of the program of the current season and of prior seasons.

On “S.W.A.T.,” Sony Pictures Television is the lead studio, not CBS Studios, which is probably why all seasons do not stream on Paramount+. (Seasons one through three are on Hulu and season six is on Paramount+.)

At the moment, seasons four and five are only available for purchase as Kevin noted.

“S.W.A.T.” also had been airing in reruns on WPCW-TV at 12 and 1 p.m. Sunday, but is relocating to 4 and 5 p.m. Saturday effective March 11 with season five episodes airing on that date and on March 18 before switching to season one episodes on March 25.

Q: Do you know why the SAG Awards weren’t broadcast on TNT/TBS or any other cable TV channel this year? (They were only streamed on YouTube.)

— Mark, Squirrel Hill

Rob: Although Turner Networks made the SAG Awards a minor Hollywood mainstay, when the SAG deal with Turner to televise the show expired, Turner declined to renew it.

Apparently there were no other takers until Netflix eventually agreed to stream the Awards in 2024 — but not in enough time to pull it together for 2023. That’s why this year the “SAG Awards” show was on Netflix’s YouTube channel (and on other social media sites) where the stream drew 1.5 million viewers across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.