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Actor Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charge in New York
NEW YORK — The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment, authorities said. On Sunday, an attorney for Majors said there’s evidence that he is “entirely innocent.” New York City police said that Majors, star of the recently released “Creed III”...
Protests erupt in New York City — for ‘The Joker’
NEW YORK — Throngs of protesters gathered at the courthouse steps, chanting for freedom for their embattled hero. Police kept watch as passions flared and voices roared. Squad cars and television trucks encircled the commotion. It’s a scene New York City authorities have been bracing for as prosecutors consider an...
Review: John Wick gets even more stylish in 4th episodeVideo
A trip to Paris should be on everyone’s bucket list, even John Wick. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre — what better way to refresh your soul, even as you kick everyone else’s bucket? The un-retired assassin does indeed dive into the City of Lights in the...
TV Talk: Buzz magnets ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Succession’ returnVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming week. For the streaming era, the first three months of the year have been pretty quiet. Sure, there have been new shows to watch, but not the overwhelming number of series. That ends this weekend with the...
TV Talk: ‘Yellowstone’ made Westerns a hot genre — expect to see more, including Hallmark’s ‘Ride’Video
Hallmark Channel’s latest drama series, “Ride” (9 p.m. Sunday), won’t be confused with a great new drama, but it does mark another baby step forward for the cable network. Yes, there’s a potential romance at the show’s center, but this series has characters with more flaws, more secrets and more...
Workplace-safety sanction finalized in Alec Baldwin shooting
No one is objecting to a settlement agreement to resolve allegations of workplace safety violations in the 2021 shooting death of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie. After a 20-day vetting period with no objections, the agreement between New Mexico workplace safety regulators and...
‘The Young and the Restless’ celebrates 50 years of drama
NEW YORK — It all started on a late morning on a highway. A camera panned to the cab of a large semi-trailer truck. The driver wore a plaid shirt and a day’s growth of beard. Next to him was a mysterious hitchhiker in expensive clothes that were ripped and...
‘Jeopardy’ contestants make quick work of ‘Made in Pa.’ category
Some famous Pennsylvania-made products were featured last night, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, on the long-running game show “Jeopardy!” The three contestants even included a Pennsylvania woman - the returning champ Melissa Klapper of Merion Station in Montgomery County. Klapper won again last night and has a two-day total of $42,200....
Springsteen, Kaling, Louis-Dreyfus among 22 honored by Biden
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals — and then stole the show himself with a quip about seeking reelection. Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and Gladys Knight were among...
TV Q&A: Did KDKA-TV ‘s Kristine Sorensen add a newscast role?
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 have noticed that Kristine Sorensen is now the weekday noon anchor at KDKA-TV. Does she now have those duties along with the 4 and...
‘Winnie the Pooh’ film pulled from Hong Kong cinemas
HONG KONG — Public screenings of a slasher film that features Winnie the Pooh were scrapped abruptly in Hong Kong on Tuesday, sparking discussions over increasing censorship in the city. Film distributor VII Pillars Entertainment announced on Facebook that the release of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” on Thursday...
‘John Wick’ stars honor late co-star Lance ReddickVideo
LOS ANGELES — Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne were among the “John Wick: Chapter 4” stars honoring Lance Reddick, their co-star who died unexpectedly last week, at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. “We lost our brother, and in a really sort of very shocking way. I think we’re all still...
Anthony Fauci documentary on PBS covers a career of crisesVideo
NEW YORK — There’s a moment in the new PBS documentary about Dr. Anthony Fauci when a protestor holds up a handmade sign reading, “Dr. Fauci, You Are Killing Us.” It says something about Fauci that it’s not initially clear when that sign was waved in anger — in the...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking with Heather Abraham about ‘Talk Pittsburgh,’ news anchors on maternity leave, ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ season finale
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 conversation with Heather Abraham, host of KDKA-TV’s new afternoon talk show “Talk Pittsburgh.” Owen and Benz also discuss some local news anchors who...
‘Ted Lasso’ visits White House, promotes mental health careVideo
WASHINGTON — Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso used a White House visit Monday to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to “ask how they’re doing, and listen, sincerely,” Comedian Jason Sudeikis, who plays the title...
Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain prize surrounded by celeb pals
WASHINGTON — Adam Sandler placed his hand on the bronze bust of Mark Twain and speculated that it “one day might be the weapon used to bludgeon me in my sleep.” A host of comedic and entertainment royalty gathered at Washington’s Kennedy Center as Sandler was presented with the Mark...
TV Talk: CMU grad sings, acts as ‘belittling voice’ in a man’s head in Hulu’s ‘Up Here’Video
In Hulu’s new musical romantic comedy “Up Here” — all episodes stream Friday — Lindsay (Mae Whitman) and Miguel (Carlos Valdes) meet cute in 1999 New York City, but they both having warring voices in their heads that lead to self-doubt and questionable choices. (Audiences see those voices personified on...
‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ stumbles with $30.5 million debut
” Shazam! Fury of the Gods ” felt the fury of the marketplace in its theatrical debut this weekend. The New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. superhero movie opened to a disappointing $30.5 million from 4,071 theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. The “Shazam!” sequel fell short of its modest...
Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60
NEW YORK — Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” “Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, has died. He was 60. Reddick died “suddenly” Friday morning, his publicist Mia Hansen said in a statement, attributing...
Review: The laughs and the corpses pile up in the Chinese blockbuster ‘Full River Red’
The knives are out and then some in “Full River Red,” a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of “Macbeth” — a...
‘Star Trek’, swear words and TV characters’ changing mores
For nearly four decades, Jean-Luc Picard of “Star Trek” has largely been presented as genteel, erudite and — at times — quite buttoned up. Yes, he loses his temper. Yes, he was reckless as a callow cadet many years ago. Yes, he occasionally gets his hands dirty or falls apart....
TV Talk: Donald Glover’s ‘Swarm’ stings so good; rustbelt-set ‘Lucky Hank’ confoundsVideo
There was a moment in the penultimate season of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” when the gang was in Amsterdam and Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) witness death doulas solemnly prepare a man for his demise – presumably via palliative care — when a contraption suddenly and violently suffocates the...
TV Q&A: Is Amazon’s ‘Daisy Jones’ set in Pittsburgh?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: A new series about a fictional ‘70s band called “Daisy Jones & the Six” is on Amazon Prime Video and the trailer shows a guy...
TV Talk: Amazon will renew ‘A League of Their Own;’ PCNC now available over the air
There’s no crying in baseball and no reason to cry, except perhaps tears of joy, for fans of Amazon Prime Video’s “A League of Their Own.” The streaming service will move forward with a second season of the generally well-reviewed, pricey, filmed-in-Pittsburgh period drama, inspired by the 1992 Geena Davis-Tom...
No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that they will not retry Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of one woman, on counts involving two others that left jurors deadlocked. Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson announced the decision to Superior Court Judge...
