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Dan Marino, Scarlett Johansson have fun with almost being champions in Super Bowl ad

LAS VEGAS — Actor Scarlett Johansson and NFL and University of Pittsburgh legend Dan Marino come from different professions, but they have two things in common: Both have a sweet tooth and an infatuation with M&Ms. Johansson and Marino will star in the Super Bowl commercial that will focus on...
Here’s what you can expect from Super Bowl commercials this Sunday

NEW YORK — Big name advertisers will be pulling out all the stops on Super Bowl Sunday — enlisting high-profile actors, investing in dazzling special effects and, they hope, going for laughs as they seek to win over viewers during game breaks. Marketers will use Sunday’s game, which will air...
TV Talk: W.Pa. pups compete in ‘Puppy Bowl XX;’ area native hosts ‘Rescue Bowl’Video

Super Bowl Sunday has gone to the dogs — this time to some dogs with local ties. The annual pet-centric tradition of “Great American Rescue Bowl” (noon-2 p.m. today, Great American Family), hosted by Fox Chapel native Beth Ostrosky Stern, and “Puppy Bowl” (2 p.m. today, Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS,...
TV Talk at TCA: More ‘Dead’ on ABC, AMCVideo

PASADENA, Calif. – The dead live with the return of comedy “Not Dead Yet” on ABC and “The Walking Dead” franchise expanding yet again on AMC. ‘The Walking Dead’ It’s easy to be cynical and suggest AMC has gone to its undead well one, two or three too many times...
Review: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ doesn’t stirVideo

Bob Marley was born in 1945, the son of an 18-year-old mother and a much older white man who had nothing to do with his son. As a boy raised in poverty, he often slept on the cold ground. Five years after moving to Kingston’s Trench Town, he made his...
TV Talk at TCA: Andie MacDowell sees ‘Groundhog Day’ parallels in Hallmark series; PBS profiles ‘Gospel’Video

PASADENA, Calif. – Actress Andie MacDowell stars in Hallmark Channel’s “The Way Home” (9 p.m. Sunday), a multi-generational family drama in its second season about Kat (Chyler Leigh) and her daughter (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) who can travel between the past and present via a pond on the family’s land. They’re in...
Actor Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from ‘The Mandalorian’

LOS ANGELES — Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from ” The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. The lawsuit Carano filed with help from X, formerly Twitter, in federal court...
‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ coming to Disney+ in March

LOS ANGELES — The blockbuster “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert movie will join the Disney+ streaming service March 15. Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday that it secured streaming rights to last year’s smash hit film in a deal that demonstrated, once again, the enormous appeal — and economic prowess...
TV Talk at TCA: CBS premieres ‘Tracker;’ BET+ debuts ‘Diarra’Video

PASADENA, Calif. – For his first post-“This is Us” series, actor Justin Hartley goes the procedural route with CBS’s “Tracker,” debuting Sunday after “Super Bowl LVIII” (approximately 10 p.m.; subsequent episodes will air at 9 p.m. Sundays, KDKA-TV). Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a self-described “rewardist” who tracks down missing...
From Uber Eats’ ‘Friends’ reunion to Bud’s Clydesdales, here are the buzziest Super Bowl ads so far

NEW YORK — If you watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, you no longer have to wait until the big game to see what advertisers have in store for viewers. Many companies now release ads ahead of the game in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz that builds...
Catering to the food movie, ‘The Taste of Things’ serves up a mouthwatering feast

NEW YORK — Think of food and movies and your mind could quickly whip up a five-course meal. Maybe a few hard-boiled eggs, to start, from “Cool Hand Luke.” A side order of toast from “Five Easy Pieces,” followed by the soup from “Ratatouille.” A main course of octopus from...
TV Q&A: Does WPXI have a new sports anchor?Video

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: Is Shelby Cassesse a new sports anchor at WPXI or is she just filling in until Alby Oxenreiter returns? — Ryan, via email Rob: Cassesse...
Actor Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm, Disney over firing from ‘The Mandalorian’

LOS ANGELES — Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from ” The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. The lawsuit Carano filed with help from X, formerly Twitter, in federal court...
TV Talk at TCA: CBS’s ‘Watson’ will be set in Pittsburgh; Apple TV+ explores ‘New Look’ of post-WWII ParisVideo

PASADENA, Calif. – Last month, CBS announced a straight-to-series order for “Watson,” a medical drama starring Morris Chestnut (“The Resident,” “Rosewood”) as Dr. John Watson, who resumes his career a year after the death of his friend and crime-solving partner, Sherlock Holmes. Sounds like the kind of drama procedural that’s...
TV Talk: WPXI-TV goes dark on DirecTV; Waterston exits ‘Law & Order’

As of Saturday morning, WPXI-TV is no longer available to DirecTV customers, the latest retransmission dispute that impacts local viewers, this time between Channel 11 parent company Cox Media Group and DirecTV. In a statement at WPXI.com, the station says, “DIRECTV has dropped WPXI from its lineup.” In its competing...
Actor Carl Weathers, who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ diesVideo

NEW YORK — Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76. Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers...

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