Movies/TV category, Page 58
WPXI’s Alby Oxenreiter on the mendVideo
Channel 11 sports anchor Alby Oxenreiter has been off the air for several weeks and WPXI-TV released a statement on his whereabouts Wednesday. “Alby is now at home recovering from open heart surgery, which he had one month ago,” the statement said. “He developed a major blood infection that traveled...
Film review: Musical theater meets mockumentary in ‘Theater Camp’Video
Among the low-hanging fruits of satire, sleepaway theater camps would dangle about as low as social-media influencers and Def Leppard cover bands. But “Theater Camp,” a new comedy by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, energetically wades into the kind of mockumentary territory Christopher Guest would approve of. The spirit of...
‘Succession,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘White Lotus’ lead Emmy nominations
Even in the midst of a writers’ strike and the looming threat of an actors’ strike as soon as tomorrow, the Emmy nominations for the best in TV and streaming were announced as planned. Just don’t hold your breath that the current Sept. 18 date for the 75th Annual Emmy...
Biggest snubs, surprises of the 2023 Emmy nominations
LOS ANGELES — Emmy nominations arrived Wednesday, and with 2,428 performers vying for voters’ attention, the free-for-all to earn a place at the table sometimes gave off the same desperate vibes as that “Succession” finale board vote on the GoJo merger. Was anyone promised a nomination when they were 7...
Trib, WTAE announce partnership to strengthen local news
TribLIVE.com and WTAE announced a new content partnership Wednesday that will deliver enhanced coverage of local news to viewers and readers in Western Pennsylvania. The news partnership brings together two of Pittsburgh’s most trusted, reliable news brands to enable great journalism on issues that matter to the region, leaders of...
TV Q&A: What happened to 2 PCNC local shows?
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: What is happening with PCNC’s “NightTalk” with Ellis Cannon and “Pittsburgh Now” with Chris Moore? Both seem to have just disappeared on July 1. —...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh native has fun but doesn’t win ‘Jeopardy!’
Pittsburgh native Erin Sheedy competed Tuesday on the episode of “Jeopardy!” and though she didn’t win, she clearly had fun, especially with the hometown shout-out in her Final Jeopardy! response. Sheedy, a 2018 Oakland Catholic High School grad who grew up in Thornburg, missed very few questions, but she was...
Movie review: Take the leap with Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’
Wondering if you should choose to accept the latest “Mission: Impossible” entry? Maybe you’re sick of all the bombast at the movie theater lately? Well, put it another way: Do you really want to disappoint Tom Cruise? On the first day cameras were rolling for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning,...
Already full-tilt movie franchise turns it up a notch in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning’Video
NEW YORK — There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise clinging to the side of an Airbus A400M and flinging him out a cargo plane at 25,000 feet. But in the kinetic, headlong world of “Mission: Impossible,”...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking Thornburg native on ‘Jeopardy!,’ more local sports on WPCW-TV
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 Erin Sheedy of Thornburg, who will compete on Tuesday’s episode of “Jeopardy!” (7:30 p.m. weekdays, WPXI-TV). The 2018 Oakland Catholic High School grad (and...
TV Talk: Genre-hopping ‘AfterParty’ returns for vineyard wedding murder mysteryVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. PASADENA, Calif. — Apple TV+ generated buzz with the first season of comedic murder-mystery “The AfterParty,” so a sequel season was inevitable. Season two, streaming Wednesday, begins with Aniq (Sam Richardson) and girlfriend Zoe (Zoe...
TV Talk: Lifetime explores more V.C. Andrews’ stories with ‘Dawn’Video
Disney+ has Marvel and “Star Wars” brands. AMC has “The Walking Dead” and Anne Rice series (“Interview with the Vampire,” “The Mayfair Witches). HBO has “Game of Thrones” shows as its primary intellectual property. Lifetime’s entry in the IP sweepstakes is more down market and tawdry by comparison: Movies based...
TV Q&A: Where did WPXI’s Jessica Faith go?
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: What’s up with Channel 11 meteorologist Jessica Faith? I haven’t seen her on air in weeks. — Lisa, via email Rob: That’s because she left...
Rose Leslie, Kit Harington welcome their 2nd child, a daughter
LONDON — Actors Rose Leslie and Kit Harington have welcomed their second child. A publicist for Harington confirmed Monday that the couple, who famously met on the set of “Game of Thrones” and are now both 36, have added a daughter to their family. Further details weren’t immediately available. In...
This Ohio museum shows that TV is older than you might think
The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna and horizontal hold to watch Lucy, Uncle Miltie and Howdy Doodie. “Everybody thinks TV started in the ’50s or the late ’40s. Almost nobody knows it existed before...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Survivor’ strategy with Pittsburgh runner-up Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen welcome special guest Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt of Jefferson Hills, who came in second on the most recent season of CBS’s “Survivor.” Lagares-Greenblatt reflects on her time on the show, how her engineering background may...
Indiana Jones’ box office destiny? A lukewarm $60 million debut in North America
Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Moviegoers didn’t rush to the theater in significant numbers to see ” Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and say goodbye to Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist. The film, reportedly...
Summer movie season is in full swing. Here’s what’s coming through Labor Day
The summer movie season goes into high-gear in July, with the arrival of the seventh “Mission: Impossible”movie followed by the “Oppenheimer”and “Barbie”showdown on July 21. Not that you have to choose one or the other — as Tom Cruise said on Twitter, “I love a double feature, and it doesn’t...
Review: Harrison Ford gets a swashbuckling sendoff in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’Video
Goodbyes don’t tend to mean much in the Hollywood franchise system. Death isn’t a reliable end for characters or, lately, even actors. Technology, nostalgia and the often-inflated value of brands and IP have created a nightmarish cycle of resurrection and regurgitation, curdling what we love most. And yet when someone...
Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ actor, dies at 89Video
LOS ANGELES — Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89. His sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed...
TV series put on pause by the Hollywood writers strike
As a strike by Hollywood writers approaches the two-month mark, late-night talk shows have been put on long-term hiatus and more and more scripted shows are pausing production, with films not far behind. The looming possibility of unionized actors striking alongside them could mean a far larger shutdown. Here’s a...
TV Talk: PBS explores impact of the ‘Human Footprint’Video
While we hear a lot about the human impact that’s resulting in climate change, the new PBS docu-series “Human Footprint” (9 p.m. Wednesday, WQED-TV) looks at other ways that people have transformed the planet. Princeton University professor Shane Campbell- Staton hosts this six-part science/travel series that begins with “Strangers in Paradise,”...
TV Talk: Apple TV+ Idris Elba airplane-set thriller ‘Hijack’ takes offVideo
Mix elements of the 1970s “Airport” movies with “Air Force One” and a dollop of real-time storytelling (think: “24”) and you have the key ingredients in Apple TV+’s “Hijack,” an entertaining seven-episode thriller starring Idris Elba. Now streaming, “Hijack” won’t be confused with great television but it is pretty good...
Who wants to be a game show host? These days, you already have to be famous
NEW YORK — When producers of “Wheel of Fortune” named Ryan Seacrest — probably the most ubiquitous man on entertainment television — as its next host this week, it surprised virtually no one. The idea that Sony Pictures Television would appoint someone relatively unknown as the figurehead of one of...
TV Q&A: Who are WPXI-TV’s weekend anchors?
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: Any news yet on who the WPXI-TV evening weekend anchor is since Ryan Houston departed in November 2022? — Joseph, via email Rob: Depends on...
