East Liberty native and resident Jordyn Ford went on a “60 Day Hustle” last year, competing in season two of the competition series that’s now streaming all six episodes on Amazon.
“60 Day Hustle” is different from many reality competitions because it was not commissioned by Prime and is not a Prime Original. Instead, the show was produced independently by Sonic Gods Studios.
Ford, a 2022 University of Pittsburgh graduate, is one of 20 initial entrepreneurs competing for the $100,000 grand prize while gaining guidance from business leaders who serve as mentors and judges on the show. It’s hosted by business personality Rudy Mawer and Sonic Gods founder Michelle Delamor.
Ford started her first business in 2018, selling wigs, shoes and flat irons online. She rebranded as Hairport in 2023 with a focus on hair products, including a styling gel brush, adhesive lace glue, edge tamer and beard oil.
“Hairport came about because I travel all the time,” Ford said. “I need things that are convenient for me.”
Most of the products Ford sells at ShopHairport.com are sized for TSA approval in carry-on luggage.
Ford said an edge brush is her top seller.
“It’s one of my most innovative products,” she said. “Whenever you squeeze the brush, the gel comes out of the brush part so you don’t have to use multiple tools to slick your flyaways or hair down, you can just use this one tool. It’s super-convenient, small, people keep it in their purses.”
In addition to her online store, Hairport products are stocked locally at Sky’s the Limit Hair Beauty in East Liberty, Hair Land Beauty Supplies in Wilkinsburg, Hair World in Penn Hills, Yerimah’s Sisters Beauty Supply in Downtown Pittsburgh, B. Hive Beauty Supply in Forest Hills and Good Hair Boutique in Tarentum.
After applying to be on the show, Ford, 25, learned she’d been cast in mid-March 2025, just two weeks before filming began.
“I was in cosmetology school as a full-time student at the time, and you can’t miss 14 days straight or else you get dropped,” said Ford, a 2018 graduate of Penn Hills High School. “So when they told me the show was [filming for] two months …”
“60 Day Hustle,” filmed in Santa Clarita, Calif., had breaks in filming that allowed Ford to return to Pittsburgh to clock in at Empire Beauty School to avoid getting dropped.
Filming on “60 Day Hustle” sometimes lasted from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. as contestants competed in challenges.
“I got to meet more like-minded people who were serious about their businesses,” Ford said. “I got to meet mentors and coaches. I was able to really see my full potential in such a small period of time. We had to work on our feet fast. We had to think fast. It was overall just a challenging experience, but for the better.”
Post-“60 Day Hustle,” Ford hopes to grow Hairport.
“I do want my brand to expand to more retail stores,” she said. “I want to get more products and I do want to get a vending machine inside of the airport [stocked] with the product.”
‘Expedition X’
A new episode of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition X” (9 p.m. Feb. 25) features paranormal investigator Heather Amaro and scientist Phil Torres visiting the Laurel Highlands for an episode devoted to the search for a thunderbird, an avian species from Native American myth.
Local witnesses Fred Stull and Aaron Schachte detail their encounters with a possible thunderbird.
“I really don’t care what people think,” Stull says in the episode that looks like it was filmed last summer. “I seen what I seen.”
But like in every episode of “Finding Bigfoot” — spoiler alert! — Amaro and Torres are unlikely to come away with conclusive proof of the thunderbird’s existence. Even “Expedition X” host Josh Gates quips, “Don’t count your thunderbirds before they hatch.”
‘Pursuing Light’
Earlier this month WQED-TV premiered “Pursuing Light,” a documentary from an outside studio about how Pittsburgh’s Bill Strickland built Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center into a model for community development.
WQED sent an announcement a day before the Feb. 2 premiere. “Pursuing Light” reairs at 10:30 p.m. Feb. 20, 1:30 p.m. Feb. 22 and 3 p.m. Feb. 25 on WQED-TV.
‘oneBurgh toNight’
Local media brand oneBurgh sent an announcement about the launch of its weekly, one-hour TV show the morning of its premiere, Feb. 14. OneBurgh is buying time on WPNT, Channel 22, where episodes will premiere at 11 p.m. Saturdays. The first episode is streaming on YouTube.
Hosted by Brian Carothers, the first “oneBurgh toNight” features a parody of the January video sent to Post-Gazette workers announcing the newspaper’s closure, which is described as “a staffwide promotion outward;” a commentary by Carothers about former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin “breaking up with Pittsburgh” and the hiring of new Steelers coach Mike McCarthy; a faux commercial for Bob Nutting’s House of Ribs; gags about the show’s low-rent production values; conversations with Allegheny County Council’s Bethany Hallam and an urban explorer known simply as Seikers; and homemade commercials.
Fox’s spring schedule
Fox announced premiere dates for new and returning series this spring, including drama event series “The Faithful: Women of the Bible” (8 p.m. Sunday, March 22-April 5), “The Floor” (8 p.m. April 8), “The 1% Club” (8 p.m. April 13), “The Quiz with Balls” (9 p.m. April 13), “MasterChef” (8 p.m. April 15), “Farmer Wants a Wife” (8 p.m. April 21) and “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” (9 p.m. April 21).
Further down the road, Fox’s “Baywatch” sequel, ordered as a 12-episode series for the 2026-27 TV season, will star Stephen Amell (“Arrow”) as Hobie Buchanon, the now-grown son of lifeguard Mitch Buchanon, played by David Hasselhoff in the original series. So far Fox has not announced Hasselhoff’s return for this new show, but David Chokachi will reprise his role as Cody Madison.
Canceled
Netflix canceled the animated franchise reboot “Terminator Zero” after a single season, per the show’s creator.
The CW canceled “Good Cop/Bad Cop” after a single season.
Hulu’s “Tell Me Lies” ended its series run with its third season finale this week.
