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NEW YORK — An estimated 24.6 million television viewers watched President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the smallest audience for the quadrennial ceremony since Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. The Nielsen Company said Tuesday that viewership was down from Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, which reached 33.8 million, and Trump’s first...

The Grammy Awards are sticking with their man: Trevor Noah will host the show for the fifth consecutive time, the Grammys announced Tuesday. The comedian, best known for hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” from 2015 to 2022, will once more be front and center Feb. 2, when the awards...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall, a...

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before his 79th birthday. His family announced the death in a Facebook post on Thursday. “There’s a big hole...

LOS ANGELES — Fox will stream the Super Bowl on Tubi for the first time, giving streamers and cord cutters a chance to watch the big game on Feb. 9 for free. Tubi was acquired by Fox Corporation in 2020. It is a free, ad-supported streaming service. It is the...

Four sixth graders in the Shaler Area School District are wearing some cool T-shirts. The image on the front is inspired by the “Wizard of Oz” film. The text on top reads “I am a proud member of the team making this movie.” “We sent the students who are part...

When the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles last Tuesday, Hollywood’s awards season was in full swing. The Golden Globes had transpired less than 48 hours earlier and a series of splashy awards banquets followed in the days after. But the enormity of the destruction in Southern California has...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Best-selling British author Neil Gaiman released a statement Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual sex after a magazine this week published allegations from several women, accusing him of sexual assault. The 64-year-old author of “The Sandman” comic book series and novel “American Gods” was responding...

The Steel City will be well represented on the gridiron in February despite the Pittsburgh Steelers being out of the NFL playoffs. Centaur, a mixed breed from Animal Friends was one of the pups drafted from rescue groups nationwide to play in Puppy Bowl XXI. The original and longest running...

Pittsburgh native Leanne Ford, who starred with her brother Steve Ford for a few seasons on HGTV home makeover shows, posted to Instagram last week that less than a month after getting the keys to a new home in Los Angeles’ Rustic Canyon, the house was consumed by the Palisades...

The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house and a motel owned by William Randolph Hearst are among some of the famous structures that have been damaged or destroyed by the California wildfires. Los Angeles is a town full of landmarks,...

LOS ANGELES — The first episode of World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Monday Night RAW” on Netflix averaged 4.9 million viewers globally and 2.6 million households in the U.S., according to VideoAmp. Monday’s three-hour show from the Intuit Dome outside of Los Angeles kicked off WWE’s 10-year partnership with Netflix. The agreement,...

The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house and a motel owned by William Randolph Hearst are among some of the famous structures that have been damaged or destroyed by the California wildfires. Los Angeles is a town full of landmarks,...

WASHINGTON — As movie theaters worked to entice Americans back into seats after covid-19 lockdowns and labor strikes, the industry marketed blockbuster films like “Wicked” and the dueling releases of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” as no less than cultural events. But when certain movies become “events” unto themselves, sometimes different behavior...

The first two episodes of streaming-only series “The Pitt” are available on Max (new episodes drop in subsequent weeks on Thursdays through April 10), and ultimately this Pittsburgh-set hospital drama proves to be fast-paced with well-developed doctors, med students and sometimes patient characters. It’s a grab-you-by-the-throat drama with each episode...

As expected, WPXI announced morning anchor Gordon Loesch will succeed longtime Channel 11 anchor David Johnson, who retired last month. Loesch will anchor alongside Lisa Sylvester during the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. WPXI newscasts beginning Jan. 20. He’ll also co-anchor at 6:30 p.m. with Liz Kilmer and at 10...

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. Q: I’m watching Channel 11, and Cara Sapida is doing her excellent reporting as usual. I know she wore a wig while she was going through...

After bringing the romance of Peter Parker and Mary Jane to the big screen, “Spider-Man” co-stars Tom Holland and Zendaya are engaged after three years of dating. TMZ first reported the couple’s engagement on Monday. The media outlet stated that a source shared that Holland proposed to the “Euphoria” and...

August Wilson is receiving a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Constanza Romero Wilson, Wilson’s widow, will be accepting the award, according to the Hollywood Walk of Fame website. The playwright and Hill District native died from liver cancer in 2005, and the recognition continues to celebrate the Pulitzer Prize...