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Anthony Carrigan, a 2006 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, is having quite a summer. In addition to a co-starring role in box office hit “Superman” as Metamorpho, this week Carrigan introduces a classic video game character in the second season of Peacock’s “Twisted Metal,” based on...

WTAE will shake up its forecaster assignments, moving weekend evening meteorologist Brian Hutton Jr. to noon and 4 p.m. weekdays beginning Sept. 1. Jeff Verszyla, who had been working that weekday shift, relocates to weekend evenings (and subbing weekdays). “Brian has been a steady voice for our viewers during severe...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The opening scene of Apple TV+’s Jason Momoa-starring “Chief of War” brings to mind Momoa’s “Aquaman” as he lassoes a shark. After that, this nine-episode historical fiction drama most resembles FX’s “Shogun.” “Chief of War”...

After Congress voted last week to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR, Pittsburgh’s WQED Multimedia announced an open-to-the-public “State of the Station” webinar to address the resulting $1.8 million federal funding cut, about 11% of WQED’s annual funding for each fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2025, and...

The story of a former Pittsburgh-area dentist convicted of murder gets the true crime docuseries treatment in ABC News Studios’ “Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari,” now streaming on Hulu. The three-episode program (about 40 minutes each) chronicles the story of Larry Rudolph, who was convicted of killing his wife, Bianca,...

This week, Netflix dropped the first trailer for the final season of “Stranger Things,” which lives up to its title with some of the new hairstyles on the ever-aging lead characters. (“Terminator” alum Linda Hamilton joins the cast with a ’do that resembles ’80s-era Lucille Ball.) Set in fall 1987,...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Is the “Star Trek” franchise running out of steam on Paramount+? “Star Trek: Discovery” got unceremoniously canceled after five seasons without an opportunity to wrap its story in a satisfactory fashion. Animated comedy “Lower Decks”...

For its annual “Christmas in July” programming event, Hallmark Channel created “Christmas at Sea,” a docuseries about last November’s four-night Hallmark Christmas Cruise that features two Pittsburgh grandmothers and their Hallmark Christmas movie-loving 16-year-old grandson. Airing its second episode tonight at 8 (streaming tomorrow on Hallmark+), this week’s installment spends...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Maybe Dexter shoulda stayed dead. Alas, you can’t keep popular IP down. Despite serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) dying at the end of 2021’s “Dexter: New Blood,” Showtime reanimates him in “Dexter: Resurrection,”...

In January, veteran Emmy-winning design director Paula Zetter filed an age discrimination lawsuit against WQED after the public broadcaster eliminated her position in 2024. The case settled late last month. Sam Cordes, Zetter’s attorney, declined to comment, but the court docket shows the case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. It’s been more than two decades since the advent of PBS’s living history series that began with 1999’s “The 1900 House” and 2002’s “Frontier House.” These quasi-social experiment series took a diverse array of everyday...

This 50th anniversary summer since the release of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” which ushered in the box office blockbuster era, got the attention of local theatergoers last month with Barebones Productions’ “The Shark Is Broken,” a stage play set behind the scenes during the making of “Jaws.” And “Jaws” content remains...

Spoiler alert: This column addresses Season 4 of “The Bear,” now available in its entirety, with mild thematic spoilers. There was general consensus that Hulu’s restaurant dramedy “The Bear” declined in quality last summer during the show’s third season. But, good news: “The Bear” returns much improved, fresher and with...