Former KDKA-TV reporter Julie Grant, now a 12-3 p.m. anchor on Court TV, was back in Pittsburgh briefly last month to interview former Allegheny County coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht, who reviewed the findings of multiple autopsies of George Floyd, the Black Minneapolis man killed by police last year.

In advance of next week’s Court TV coverage of the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with Floyd’s murder, Grant interviewed Wecht about his take on the case.

“The cause of George Floyd’s death will undoubtedly be the most critical issue in the case,” explained Grant, a graduate of Steubenville’s Central Catholic High School who studied mass media and law at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. “We can expect the state to focus on the heartbreaking, viral video of the incident and the defense to focus on the high level of fentanyl in [Floyd’s] system.”

Grant’s interview with Wecht is expected to air during the 2 p.m. hour on March 12. With jury selection in the Chauvin trial set to begin Monday Grant will anchor coverage 2-5 p.m.

Grant attended law school at the University of Akron before serving as a prosecutor in the Allegheny County district attorney’s office from 2009 to 2013. She was a reporter at KDKA from 2016-18, serving as legal editor/reporter/fill-in anchor, before making the jump to Court TV, where she’s based in Atlanta.

Court TV is available locally over the air on Channel 16.3 and Channel 40.2. Court TV is also available via Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Pluto TV, YouTube TV and the network can also be streamed live on the web at CourtTV.com.

Sweeps ratings

In the February sweeps ratings period that ended Wednesday, WTAE-TV was No. 1 in mornings in household ratings and at 6 p.m. KDKA-TV took first place at 12, 4, 5 and 11 p.m.

Ratings released Thursday by Nielsen include both household ratings that reflect a measure of overall popularity and demographic ratings that are used to set ad rates. TV commercials are generally sold on demos, including viewers ages 25-54.

WPXI-TV came in first in the key demo at 5 a.m., tied with WTAE for the top spot at 6 a.m. and was No. 1 at 11 p.m. KDKA ranked first at 12, 4, 5 and 6 p.m. in the demo.

Mister Rogers’ birthday

Tom Bergeron (“Dancing with the Stars”) will host “Happy Birthday Mister Rogers: A Virtual Celebration” (10 a.m. March 20) on the late Latrobe native Fred Rogers’ 93rd birthday.

Created by Dennis Scott, who has produced two albums of Rogers’ music, the virtual show will stream on YouTube and at facebook.com/ThankYouMisterRogers and will feature appearances by Kellie Pickler, Vanessa Williams and Pittsburgher David Newell, who played Speedy Deliveryman Mr. McFeely on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

‘Delilah’

Next week cable’s OWN debuts “Delilah” (9 p.m. Tuesday), an enjoyable enough, middle-of-the-road cable legal drama filmed in Charlotte, N.C.

Maahra Hill stars as the title character, a single mom raising her children whose small law firm takes on underdog cases.

Based on the first episode, it seems like “Delilah” will be more serialized than case-of-the-week. The first episode introduces an ambitious young lawyer who seems destined to join Delilah’s firm and Delilah’s best friend, corporate lawyer Tamara (Jill Marie Jones, “Girlfriends”), who is being set up to become Delilah’s courtroom rival in a whistleblower case.

Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Craig Wright (“Greenleaf”), “Delilah” doesn’t break new ground but it’s a decent legal drama.

Food Network reclaims a show

Some cable viewers have been none-too-pleased to see their favorite series streaming first on discovery+.

Food Network’s Robert Irvine-hosted “Restaurant: Impossible” began releasing new episodes on discovery+ in January and now those episodes will air on Food Network at 9 p.m. Thursday beginning next week.

The episodes will be a mix of premieres and episodes that debuted since Jan. 4 on discovery+. “Restaurant: Impossible” will be paired with new episodes of “Dinner: Impossible” at 10 p.m. Thursday.

Movies debuting at home

Amazon subscribers get access to the Eddie Murphy-starring sequel “Coming 2 America” today via Amazon Home Video.

Disney+ subscribers can pay extra for early “premier access” to the new animated film “Raya and the Last Dragon,” available today for $29.99, or wait until it’s included in their Disney+ subscription on June 4.

Renewed/revived/spun off

The CW renewed “Superman and Lois” for a second season.

Amazon’s fashion competition series “Making the Cut,” starring Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, returns on Prime Video this summer for its second season.

Fox renewed “The Simpsons” for a 33rd and 34th season, keeping the show on the air with original episodes through at least 2023.

Starz is developing a revival of its 2009-10 cater waiter comedy “Party Down.”

“The Patrick Star Show,” a prequel spin-off of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” will debut its 13-episode first season on Nickelodeon this summer.

Amazon’s “Bosch” will end with its seventh and final season on Prime Video this summer but free streamer IMDb TV ordered a spin-off following Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) as he goes to work for attorney Honey “Money” Chandler (Mimi Rogers).

Channel surfing

Sunday’s low-rated Golden Globes telecast had a few Pittsburgh connections – a posthumous win by Chadwick Boseman for filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom;” Sandra Oh of Netflix’s currently filming-in-Pittsburgh “The Chair” doing a riff on “Palm Springs” in the Pittsburgh snow near Chatham University; UPMC’s Dr. Peter Bulova participating via Zoom with nominee Glenn Close in a sketch – including Freeport native Joe Lindsay, lead cameraman on Netflix’s “I Care a Lot,” which won a best actress trophy for actress Rosamund Pike. … As expected, this week state Pa. Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) introduced legislation to raise Pennsylvania’s film tax credit cap from $70 million to $125 million annually. … CNN premieres “Apollo 11: Quarantine” (9 p.m. Saturday), a documentary short about astronauts in quarantine after their return from the moon in 1969. … The latest in the British “Up” series of documentaries that began in 1964, “63 Up” debuts on streamer Britbox on Tuesday.

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