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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...
‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Succession,’ ‘The Bear,’ ‘Beef’ win big at Golden Globes
Although the popularity of nominees “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” might have drawn more curious onlookers, “81st Annual Golden Globe Awards” host Jo Koy appeared to dare viewers to stay tuned. It was clear early in his 12-minute monologue that the crowd was not with him as evidenced by myriad reaction shots...
‘Oppenheimer’ leading Golden Globes with wins for Murphy, Downey Jr. and NolanVideo
Christopher Nolan’s epic American drama “Oppenheimer” is dominating the 81st Golden Globes, where “Succession” and “The Bear” are also taking multiple honors. “Oppenheimer,” perhaps the Academy Awards frontrunner, picked up four big awards including best director for Nolan, best drama actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey...
Shia LaBeouf converts to Catholicism after being confirmed at New Year’s Eve Mass
Actor Shia LaBeouf, known for his off-screen troubles as well as his film roles, has converted to Catholicism after being confirmed on New Year’s Eve at a Mass presided over by Capuchin Franciscan friars. The Capuchin Franciscans-Western American Province announced the news on its Facebook site where it posted images...
Actor Christian Oliver and his 2 daughters died in a plane crash in the Caribbean, police sayVideo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The crash occurred Thursday just west of Petit Nevis island near Bequia as the...
After star turn in ‘Mean Girls’ movie, will Reneé Rapp finally put her acting aside?Video
Reneé Rapp had a pretty extraordinary 2023, starting last January with a sold-out concert for 2,300 fans of her pop music at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London and ending in December with her being named one of the Associated Press’ five “breakthrough entertainers of the year.” And 2024...
TV Talk: WQED-produced PBS documentary explores ‘The Cost of Inheritance’
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Former WQED-TV vice president of content Darryl Ford Williams executive produced the revealing new one-hour PBS documentary, “The Cost of Inheritance: An America ReFramed Special” (10 p.m. Jan. 8, WQED), which explores the complex issue...
TV Talk: KDKA+ launches 8 p.m. news; Very Local debuts Pittsburgh dating showVideo
On Monday, Pittsburgh’s first 8 p.m. newscast launches on WPKD-TV, Channel 19, also known as KDKA+. KDKA news director Shawn Hoder has a ready response to anyone wondering why they’d put on another newscast when there’s already local news that airs on KDKA from 4-7 p.m. and again at 7:30...
TV Talk: WTAE news director Jim Parsons to retire
Channel 4 news director Jim Parsons will retire from WTAE at the end of February, a few weeks after he turns 65. “I first went to my bosses a year ago and told them I was thinking about this, probably around March of 2023, so it’s been a 10-month secret...
‘Bachelorette’ star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo are calling it quits
LOS ANGELES — The Bachelorette’s Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo are calling it quits. More than six years after Lindsay, 38, gave Abasolo the first and last red rose of “The Bachelorette” Season 13, Abasolo filed to dissolve the marriage. According to court documents obtained by The Times, the chiropractor,...
TV Q&A: Why does KDKA-TV air 3 hours of local news on weeknights?
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: Can you explain why KDKA insists on running three hours of local news between 4 and 7 p.m.? There is never that much actual news...
TV Talk: ChaiFlicks’ ‘Schmoozing’ visits Squirrel Hill’s Milky WayVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. For its first original series, Jewish streaming service ChaiFlicks (pronounced “high-flicks”) opted to go “Schmoozing and Cruising,” a half-hour unscripted series about kosher restaurants and food establishments across the United States. In the episode that...
‘Wonka’ ends year No. 1 at box office; 2023 sales reach $9 billion in post-pandemic best
NEW YORK — Hollywood closed an up and down 2023 with “Wonka” regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for “The Color Purple” and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022’s grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms. The New Year’s...
Marsha Warfield, bailiff Roz Russell on ‘Night Court,’ returns to the show that has a ‘big heart’
NEW YORK — Fans of the rebooted hit NBC sitcom “Night Court” might have been forgiven for tuning in all season long and asking “Where’s Roz?” Roz Russell — played by comedian Marsha Warfield — was the salty, no-nonsense bailiff alongside Bull Shannon who had a world-weary view of the...
