Movies/TV category, Page 45
Grand jury indicts Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting of cinematographer on movie set in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in...
TV Talk: WTAE hires meteorologist and Butler native Jill Szwed
A couple of months after the departure of weekend morning meteorologist Kasey Reigner, WTAE-TV hired Butler native Jill Szwed to join its weather team, which will again be back up to five forecasters. Szwed is currently at the Albany, N.Y., ABC-Fox duopoly affiliates WTEN-TV/WXXA-TV, as a weekday morning meteorologist until...
TV Talk: WQED-TV GM looks ahead, plans station move from Oakland
It’s been six months since Jason Jedlinski took over as president of WQED Multimedia, so I wanted to check in on what he’s learned so far, where things stand regarding the station’s spate of technical hiccups and what’s on the horizon regarding local linear TV programming. But first, some news:...
Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day to sing during Super Bowl pregame
LOS ANGELES — Country music star Reba McEntire will grace next month’s Super Bowl stage to sing the national anthem while Post Malone will perform “America the Beautiful.” The performances will take place Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas before the championship matchup and halftime show featuring Usher....
TV Talk: Pittsburgher returns to ‘Jeopardy!’
Daniel Moore of Brighton Heights returns to “Jeopardy!” next week for the “Season 39 Champions Wildcard” tournament, just six months after his first appearance on the show that lasted three episodes and netted him $41,800. Moore will compete on the episode that airs Monday, Jan. 22. Moore, who works as...
In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor seek the roots of racismVideo
NEW YORK — Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfrey kept telling her to read it. But she put it off. It seemed an imposing read. Copies kept...
TV Q&A: With SportsNet Pittsburgh changing tiers on Comcast, what does that mean for regional sports network fees?
Q: I’m one of the subscribers to Comcast’s Xfinity Popular TV package that will apparently be losing access to SportsNet Pittsburgh on Jan. 16 to watch Penguins and Pirates games. I have been paying $13.30 as a regional sports fee. I wonder if that fee will be removed since I...
Emmy Awards get record low ratings with audience of 4.3 million viewers
LOS ANGELES — The Emmy Awards telecast on Fox reached a record low audience of 4.3 million viewers, as the long-term trend of diminishing ratings for the show continues. The Nielsen company said Tuesday that the Monday night show hosted by Anthony Anderson with “Succession” and “The Bear” raking in...
TV Talk: Excellent Emmys telecast leans into viewers’ love of TV
There were not a wealth of Emmy winners with Western Pennsylvania ties but host Anthony Anderson managed to kick off the “75th Emmy Awards” Monday night on Fox with images and music ready-made for Pittsburghers. Anderson came on stage to the “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” theme with the title changed to...
Quinta Brunson, ‘The Bear’ and ‘Beef’ snag wins at long-delayed Emmys
LOS ANGELES — “The Bear” was making a meal out of the acting awards at Monday night’s Emmys, Quinta Brunson scored an emotional and historic win for “Abbott Elementary” and the Netflix series “Beef” made its own mark with five victories. “The Bear,” the FX dramedy about a squabbling family...
TV Talk: KDKA-TV, WPXI ground shared chopper; Mister Rogers moment ranks Top 10
After decades of competition, the Pittsburgh TV station chopper wars are over with just one helicopter left flying. The beginning of the end started two years ago when KDKA-TV and WPXI-TV decided to share one helicopter. Prior to that, each station contracted for its own chopper. Now, KDKA and WPXI...
‘The Honeymooners’ actress Joyce Randolph has died at 99; played Ed Norton’s wife, Trixie
NEW YORK — Joyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actress whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on “The Honeymooners” provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, has died. She was 99. Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on the Upper West Side...
TV Talk: ‘Children in Crisis,’ 8 p.m. news, ‘Ted,’ ‘Death’ premiereVideo
Filmmaker Scott Galloway looked back on his coming of age in Pittsburgh for his latest project, “Children in Crisis: The Story of CHIP,” premiering at 9 tonight on WQED’s WORLD Channel (Channel 13.3 over the air, Channel 1013 on Comcast Xfinity and Channel 473 on Verizon’s FiOS TV) and already...
TV Talk: SportsNet Pittsburgh, Comcast agree on new deal with a tier change
The new year began without a new retransmission dispute – those often happen as one year slips into the next — and now there’s a deal that will keep SportsNet Pittsburgh, home to Penguins and Pirates games, on Comcast’s Xfinity cable systems. But there will be one change. Beginning Tuesday,...
TV Talk: Jodie Foster’s ‘Night Country’ delivers best ‘True Detective’ yetVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Your next crime fiction obsession arrives with the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective,” this time subtitled “Night Country,” which debuted Sunday night (9 p.m. Jan. 14). It’s far superior to the show’s disappointing second...
Pat McAfee announces Aaron Rodgers’ appearances are over for the rest of this NFL seasonVideo
Aaron Rodgers’ Tuesday appearances on “The Pat McAfee Show” are over for the rest of this NFL season. Or possibly longer. McAfee announced at the beginning of his Wednesday show on ESPN that his fourth season of doing a weekly segment with the New York Jets quarterback had concluded. As...
NFL regular-season games see 7% increase in viewers
NFL regular-season games averaged 17.9 million viewers, tied for the second highest since averages were first tracked in 1995. Buoyed by increases of at least 24% in two of the five packages, the first year of the league’s new television contracts saw a total increase of 7% from last season....
SAG Awards nominate ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ snub DiCaprio
NEW YORK — The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday heaped nominations on “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie” and “American Fiction,” while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor. As they were at the Golden Globes, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” were again the lead nominees. Each film picked up...
TV Q&A: Why no noon newscast on weekends?
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: Your recent column about KDKA+ starting an 8 p.m. newscast reminded me of something that’s puzzled me for some time. Local news coverage has expanded...
TV Talk: What you need to know with the Chiefs-Dolphins game only available via Peacock
Saturday’s 8 p.m. AFC Wild Card game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs will only be available via streaming on Peacock in Western Pennsylvania. Here’s what viewers need to know about how to watch that game: What is Peacock? Peacock is NBCUniversal’s attempt to create a Netflix streaming...
Actor/musician Creed Bratton on his new album, his time in the Grass Roots … and a reboot of ‘The Office’?Video
Creed Bratton doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as an actor or a musician. “I believe you just do what you are,” Bratton said in a recent Zoom call with TribLive. “You find the thing that makes you, that fills you up with light, that thing that fills you up with...
The Emmy Awards: A guide to how to watch, who you’ll see, and why it all has taken so long
LOS ANGELES — The 2023 Emmy Awards are arriving in 2024. Hollywood’s two strikes meant a four-month delay for television’s annual celebration of itself. But both have now been resolved and the show will go on. Here’s a look at the telecast, the ceremony, and the series and stars up...
Golden Globes ratings rebound to 9.4 million viewers, up from 2023 telecast
NEW YORK — Reviews have been poor for Sunday’s 81st Golden Globes, but the telecast pulled in an average of 9.4 million viewers, up about 50% from last year, according to CBS. The ceremony had the benefit of an NFL lead-in, as well as an especially starry gathering that drew...
Jonathan Majors says he was ‘shocked’ when assault case verdict was handed down
In his first interview since his assault and harassment conviction last month, actor Jonathan Majors said he was shocked by the New York jury’s verdict. “I was absolutely shocked and afraid,” Majors said in the interview that aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I’m standing there and the verdict...
List of 2024 Golden Globe winners
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Winners at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. BEST MOVIE DRAMA “Oppenheimer” BEST MOVIE MUSICAL OR COMEDY “Poor Things” TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES “The Bear” TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES “Succession” LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION “Beef” CINEMATIC AND BOX OFFICE ACHIEVEMENT “Barbie” MALE ACTOR IN...
