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Sidney Poitier leaves a rich legacy: the ‘freedom to choose’
LOS ANGELES — The long and rich life of Sidney Poitier, who died Jan. 6 at age 94, leaves behind many legacies. But it is his career in Hollywood that may have been the most transformative, changing both an industry and a culture. Having already found some success in the...
Will Smith, Lady Gaga, Ben Affleck score SAG nominations
NEW YORK — Hollywood’s awards season may be missing in-person glitz this year, but it doesn’t lack for star power. Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Ben Affleck landed individual nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, while the casts of “Belfast” and “CODA” were among those nominated...
TV Q&A: How tall is KDKA-TV’s Bob Pompeani?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: Help settle a debate between my mother and I: Various websites list Bob Pompeani as 5’6” tall, but I say those sites are poppycock and...
TV Talk: Is Netflix’s filmed-in-Pittsburgh ‘Archive 81’ worth watching? ‘Peacemaker,’ ‘Wolf Like Me’ also debut this weekVideo
Filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Archive 81,” streaming on Netflix Friday, is more supernatural thriller than horror series, with minimal gore but plenty of moody atmosphere, intriguing mystery and a few jump scares. Adapted from a podcast of the same name by writer Rebecca Sonnenshine (“The Boys,” “The Vampire Diaries”), “Archive 81” starts strong...
Pittsburgh Pop: ‘This is Us’ returns, ‘Boba Fett’ makes more sense and why are Penguins games on a streaming service now?
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 why some Penguins games are no longer on cable and have moved to Hulu and/or ESPN+. There’s also conversation about what might happen if...
Bob Saget, known for ‘Full House,’ ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos,’ dead at 65Video
Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died while on a stand-up tour. He was 65. Deputies in Orange County, Florida, were called Sunday about an “unresponsive man”...
Golden Globe Awards carry on, without stars or a telecast
The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s so-called biggest party that regularly drew 18 million television viewers, was reduced to a live-blog Sunday night for its 79th edition. The embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association proceeded with its film awards Sunday night without a telecast, nominees, a red carpet, a host, press or...
Sidney Poitier was inspiration to Pittsburgh’s Black actors, playwrights
Sidney Poitier’s groundbreaking work as a film actor and director is being hailed by prominent figures in Pittsburgh’s rich arts and entertainment community as the inspiration for their careers as actors, directors and playwrights. Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Oscar for his performance as a handyman in...
Sidney Poitier — Oscar winner, groundbreaking star — dead at 94
Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has died. He was 94. Poitier, winner of the best...
TV Q&A: Who covers the cost of digging on ‘Curse of Oak Island?’
Q: Where does all of the money come from to pay for the investigation, digging, testing, machinery, manpower, archaeologists, etc., for “The Curse of Oak Island?” I know Marty Lagina is a millionaire, but there are a lot of people, resources and services on the payroll to investigate what might...
TV Talk: Reality stars with Pittsburgh ties in ‘Cheer,’ ‘I Am Shauna Rae’ kick off 2022 TVVideo
The new year’s TV offerings bring two reality series with Western Pennsylvania ties with the debut of TLC’s “I Am Shauna Rae” (10 p.m. Tuesday) and the return of Netflix’s “Cheer” for its nine-episode second season Wednesday. ‘Cheer’ James Thomas, a 2017 graduate of Union Area High School in New...
TV Talk: ‘Archive 81,’ filmed in Pittsburgh, offers supernatural thrillsVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. To prepare for her role as a mid-1990s documentary filmmaker in filmed-in-Pittsburgh Netflix supernatural thriller “Archive 81,” actress Dina Shihabi (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) got her hands on the kind of camera her character, Melody...
TV host Seth Meyers contracts covid, show dark this week
NEW YORK — This week’s remaining episodes of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” have been scrapped after the host tested positive for covid-19. Meyers tweeted Tuesday about his positive result but said he felt fine, thanking the vaccine and a booster shot. He hosted an original broadcast on Monday. NBC...
TV Talk: ‘Rustin’ actress Adrienne Warren stars in ABC’s ‘Women of the Movement’Video
When actress Adrienne Warren showed up on the set of Netflix’s bio-pic “Rustin,” which is filming in Pittsburgh through mid-January, the period wardrobe looked familiar from her work playing Mamie Till-Mobley on ABC’s “Women of the Movement” (8 p.m. Thursday, WTAE-TV). Both projects take place during the 1950s/60s civil rights...
TV Talk: Mandy Moore previews final season of ‘This Is Us’
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Pre-pandemic, “This Is Us” co-creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman, who lived in Bethel Park as a child, suggested the possibility of shooting scenes for the partially Pittsburgh-set family drama at a Steelers game in the show’s...
2021 box office closes with more fireworks for ‘Spider-Man’
NEW YORK — Hollywood closed out 2021 with more fireworks at the box office for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which topped all films for the third straight week and already charts among the highest grossing films ever. But even with all the champagne popping for “No Way Home,” the film...
Pittsburgh Pop: Remembering the legendary Betty White; reactions to ‘Boba Fett’
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 the passing of Betty White and her connection to Pittsburgh native Bill Cullen through the TV game show “Password.” They also set their sights...
TV Talk: Steve Harvey as a judge, a new culinary competition and a Jules Verne classic highlight midseason broadcast TVVideo
This year broadcast networks tried a different premiere pattern with both NBC (“American Auto” and “Grand Crew”) and ABC (the excellent comedy “Abbott Elementary”) debuting some series in December but then not rolling them out weekly until the new year. Here are the other midseason series you can expect to...
TV Q&A: How are ratings for ‘Nightly Sports Call?’
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 back to see if the now-accurately named “Nightly Sports Call” — because most nights they only take one call — has increased ratings by...
Brian Baumgartner gets ‘meta’ about his beloved ‘The Office’ character Kevin
Brian Baumgartner hasn’t landed a high-profile role since playing awkward accountant Kevin Malone on “The Office.” But he’s too busy leading tours down memory lane to complain. Baumgartner started a podcast last year that serves as the main source for his new book, “Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Oral History...
5 questions to help you figure out if you’ll love ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
As a wise Oracle once said, “Everything that has a beginning has an end.” Well, maybe she meant everything but the “Matrix” movies. Four films, one “Animatrix,” video games and two decades of enormous cultural influence later, the franchise borne of Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s 1999 sci-fi opus has rebooted...
Pittsburgh Pop: Ghosts of 2021 pop culture past, present and future
In this week’s episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the year that was in TV and local TV news anchor changes. They tick off some of the highlights of the year in...
‘Spider-Man’ surpasses $1B globally in second weekend
Peter Parker’s good fortune continued over the holiday weekend as Hollywood prepares to close the books on a turbulent 2021. Even with some mighty competition from new Matrix and Sing movies, and rising concerns over the omicron variant, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” stayed in the No. 1 spot and netted...
Jason Bateman named Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Jason Bateman was named the 2022 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Thursday, the first recipient of the award since 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Bateman, an actor, producer and director on the Netflix series “Ozark,” who also played a starring...
Actor who played ‘Home Alone’ brother arrested in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — “Home Alone” actor Devin Ratray surrendered to authorities in Oklahoma on Wednesday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend, police said. Ratray, who played older brother Buzz McAllister in the 1990 Christmas movie, was released from jail shortly after his booking on two domestic assault and...
