Movies/TV category, Page 61
After making Oscar history, Troy Kotsur pays tribute to his father in new short filmVideo
NEW YORK — When Troy Kotsur made history as the first Deaf male actor win an Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards, he was thinking about his father. By then, Kotsur had already become a hero to the Deaf community, widely celebrated for his acclaimed performance in the family drama...
TV Talk: ‘Spider-Man’ star Tom Holland enters Apple TV+’s ‘The Crowded Room’Video
Hollywood has yet to produce a new movie star since the start of the social media era for many reasons — social media made stars overly accessible and less like chiseled faces on a Hollywood Mt. Rushmore; film devolved into all superheroes, all the time, sending actors scurrying to premium...
Under house arrest, fake heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin launches podcast to rehab public image
NEW YORK — It’s a weekday morning and Anna Sorokin is on house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life. So she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast. “So many...
TV Talk: Kaley Cuoco charms again in true-crime satire ‘Based on a True Story;’ PFO launches podcastVideo
There may be no actor today as in tune with her strengths as Kaley Cuoco. Coming off “The Big Bang Theory,” Cuoco wisely threw herself into “The Flight Attendant,” a flight-attendant-turned-spy caper that made excellent use of Cuoco’s gift for wide-eyed facial contortions and physical comedy. She deploys those skills...
CNN head Chris Licht is out at the global news network after a brief, tumultuous tenureVideo
NEW YORK — The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network’s journalists were losing confidence by the day. Chris Licht’s very bad year culminated...
TV Q&A: Why does David Johnson change up his eyeglasses?
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 noticed that David Johnson on WPXI-TV switches among several pairs of glasses that he wears on Channel 11 newscasts. I’ve seen Lester Holt on...
CNN Chairman Chris Licht apologizes to staff as questions grow about his future
CNN Chairman Chris Licht is trying to win back the support of his troops following a disastrous magazine piece about his first year at the network. Licht expressed regret Monday to staffers about the Atlantic profile by journalist Tim Alberta, described by many media industry longtimers as an unusually damaging...
Meet the Stephen King-endorsed maestro who’s ready to shake up horror moviesVideo
Hours before hopping a red-eye from Los Angeles to London to promote the biggest film of his career, one of horror’s fastest-rising filmmakers is too busy waxing ecstatic over his love of scary movies to worry about making it to the airport on time. Why horror? Let “The Boogeyman” director...
‘Cheers’ bar sells for $675,000 at auction of items from classic TV shows
DALLAS — The bar from the television series “Cheers” sold for $675,000 at auction over the weekend, garnering the highest bid among the nearly 1,000 props, costumes and sets from classic TV shows offered up from a collection amassed by one man over more than three decades. Heritage Auctions said...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Ted Lasso’ finale, ‘Stars on Mars,’ HBO’s ‘The Idol’
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including a local fitness instructor/mortgage broker who will attempt to find love on ABC’s “The Bachelorette.” Benz and Owen break down the “Ted Lasso” finale...
Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’ and being replaced by Kristen Welker
NEW YORK — Chuck Todd said Sunday he’ll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker. Todd, 51, told viewers that “I’ve watched too many friends and family let work consume them...
Pittsburgh Film Office and Pittsburgh Public Theater launch training partnership Create PA
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis walked to the podium, mentioned the word “persistence” and looked directly at Dawn M. Keezer. “When you look up that word in the dictionary you will see a picture of Dawn Keezer,” Davis said Wednesday morning inside the O’Reilly Theater, Downtown, referring to the Pittsburgh...
TV Talk: Fox puts ‘Stars on Mars’ for competition showVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. If you’ve paid enough attention to TV for long enough, sometimes just a title alone will tell you what network the show airs on. The cheekiness of the title (“Stars on Mars”) and the ridiculousness...
TV Talk: Pittsburgher looks for love on ‘The Bachelorette’Video
Tanner Courtad, a 30-year-old mortgage lender from Pittsburgh will be one of 25 men vying for the affections of Charity Lawson on the 20th season of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” (9 p.m. June 26, WTAE-TV). Courtad’s Instagram suggests he works in the mortgage business for Kiavi Inc. and is also a...
TV Talk: Taking the temperature of Pittsburgh’s TV market
Pittsburghers love TV, and data from a January 2023 Nielsen Insights report proves it. Even though Pittsburgh is now the 26th largest TV market nationally, it’s No. 1 in TV viewing in the top U.S. markets with the most advanced Nielsen measurement. Pittsburgh viewers ages 18 and older spend an...
TV Q&A: Will WPCW still air 10 p.m. news after dropping CW affiliation?
Q: If WPCW-TV will no longer have an affiliation with The CW come September, does that mean their 10 p.m. news and “Nightly Sports Call” programs will be canceled? — Xavier, via email Rob: It does not. I reported when I broke the news that WPCW will shed its CW...
Natasha Lyonne wants to grow old with ‘Poker Face.’ No one’s arguing
LOS ANGELES — Natasha Lyonne is laying her (credit) cards on the table, along with her Nicorette and Tea Tree Therapy mint toothpicks. We’re sitting in the back house of the Studio City office she shares with producing partner Maya Rudolph, and this emptying of pockets came as a response...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking possible ‘Succession’-baseball connection, ‘FUBAR,’ ‘Survivor,’ WPXI newcomers
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including new on-air talent at WPXI-TV and a suburban Pittsburgh woman who came in second on the recently-concluded season of CBS’s “Survivor.” Benz and Owen...
‘Succession’ finale: Fans react to end of Emmy-winning hit drama
WASHINGTON — With the end of the critically acclaimed drama’s fourth and final season, dedicated fans of “Succession” now know the answer to the series’ central question: Which of the Murdoch-esque Roy family siblings will prevail? Oh, and — for those who haven’t yet watched, here’s the spoiler alert. The...
‘The Little Mermaid’ makes box office splash with $95.5 million opening
“The Little Mermaid” made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. Disney’s live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. And Disney estimates the film starring Halle Bailey...
5 questions to consider as you get ready for the ‘Succession’ finale
There’s no Iron Throne, but the stakes feel just as high. “Succession,” the critically acclaimed drama chronicling a Murdoch-esque feuding billionaire family, wraps its four-season run on Sunday with a highly anticipated 88-minute finale. And just like another tentpole HBO show, “Game of Thrones,” there’s no shortage of theories over...
CBS is television’s most popular network for 15th straight year
NEW YORK — CBS claimed the distinction of most-watched television network for the 15th straight year, even as those bragging rights don’t mean what they used to. The network averaged just under 6 million viewers on a typical moment in prime time for the season that just concluded, the Nielsen...
Court says Hugh Grant’s lawsuit alleging illegal snooping by tabloid can go to trial
LONDON — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him. Justice Timothy Fancourt said a trial in January will have to determine whether...
TV Talk: Streaming services, cable networks schedule scripted summer seriesVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming season. There are still a few summer series that don’t yet have premiere dates — notably Disney+’s “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka” — but here are the new and returning scripted cable and streaming shows viewers can expect...
‘Brady Bunch’ house on the market — for $5.5 millionVideo
Here’s the story … of one of the most famous TV homes of all time. And it’s now for sale. The iconic Brady Bunch house in Studio City, Calif., is on the market via Redfin for $5.5 million. The house has quite a storied history. It began as just the...
