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TV Q&A: How is discovery+ doing as a streaming service?Video
Q: Given the shuttering of CNN+, I’m wondering if you have any info on the state of discovery+? When it started, I couldn’t imagine paying for those reality and DIY shows — even for Chip and Joanna Gaines — as there are so many other similar shows across basic cable....
Review: ‘Doctor Strange 2’ gets weirder, scarier, messierVideo
Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it’s hard to go back. No work of fiction ever needs permission to break the rules or push the boundaries of traditional storytelling, but the multiverse, at least as it’s been served up in recent Marvel movies, practically demands it. And for the moment...
Powerful French abortion drama ‘Happening’ lands in U.S.
It’s 1963 in France and Anne is an ambitious, 23-year-old college student who becomes pregnant. She doesn’t want to be. She’s not ready to be a mother. But abortion isn’t legal in the country and won’t be for another 12 years. In the new film ” Happening,” Anne must find...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Another ‘This is Us’ Pittsburgh connection, ‘We Own this City,’ ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’
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 Tuesday’s Miguel (Jon Huertas)-focused episode of “This Is Us” and a Roberto Clemente tie. Benz talks about the NFL draft televised coverage and revisits...
TV Talk: Pittsburgher impresses Ken Jennings with unusual talent on ‘Jeopardy!’Video
Julian Glander might not have won Friday night’s “Jeopardy!” episode — he placed second to Mattea Roach, who won her 19th game in a row — but Glander did impress host Ken Jennings. The 31-year-old Lawrenceville-based animator can sing the alphabet backward phonetically. “This is the first episode of ‘Jeopardy!’...
TV Talk: ‘Bosch’ story continues in ‘Bosch: Legacy’Video
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Although Amazon Prime Video’s crime drama “Bosch” ended its seven-season run in June 2021, the story of Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) continues in the sequel series, “Bosch: Legacy,” premiering Friday on Amazon Freevee, formerly IMDb...
PBS’ ‘Ridley Road’ holds lessons to America from ’60s London
It took eight long years for Sarah Solemani to get a murky part of Britain’s post-World War II history from the pages of a book to our TV screens. She had been impressed by Jo Bloom’s 2014 novel “Ridley Road” about a Jewish-led underground anti-fascist resistance movement in London in...
‘Carpool Karaoke’ king James Corden to leave CBS late-night show
LOS ANGELES — James Corden will be bowing out of his late-night CBS TV show next year. Corden told of his decision during the taping of Thursday’s “The Late Late Show,” which he began hosting in 2015. In a statement, CBS President and CEO George Cheeks lauded Corden for taking...
TV Talk: Loving ‘I Love That for You,’ rejecting ‘The Offer’Video
The spigot of new content available via cable and streaming services continues to flow this week, but consumers may start to see such gushers subside in the future after Netflix announced last week its first subscriber loss in a decade, sending the company’s stock price tumbling and taking the value...
‘Top Gun 2’ and 50 more summer 2022 movies you need to know about
On the calendar summer is still a ways away, but at the movies summertime is ready to roll. Next weekend’s release of “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” marks the kickoff of the summer box office season, the first true summer movie season in three years, after 2020 was...
TV Q&A: Does a successful comedy writer have any new shows in the works?
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: Does writer/producer Greg Garcia have any new shows in the works? I loved his shows “My Name is Earl,” “Raising Hope” and “The Guest Book.”...
TV Talk: Uniontown’s Hogans on ‘Family Feud’; Mt. Lebanon native Hollander fired from Showtime series
Bob Hogan of Uniontown and his family will appear on Wednesday’s episode of the syndicated daytime game show “Family Feud” (7 p.m., WPCW-TV). It all started in the fall of 2019 when Hogan and his brothers Greg and Brad were watching the show at their parents’ home. “We just had...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking Mason Rudolph’s brother in ‘Killer Rivalry,’ ‘Gaslit,’ ‘They Call Me Magic,’ David Hollander out at Showtime
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 Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph’s brother, Logan Rudolph, starring in Lifetime Movie Network’s “Killer Rivalry.” Benz talks about “Selling Sunset” and the similarities and differences...
Nicolas Cage explains what’s real in the surreal world of ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’
LOS ANGELES — In his more than 40 years of acting, Nicolas Cage has gone to plenty of strange and extreme places for the sake of his art. In the 1988 black comedy “Vampire’s Kiss,” he ate a live cockroach. To prepare for his role as a suicidal alcoholic in...
The Edsel, Quibi and CNN+? New addition to business failures
NEW YORK — The Edsel. Quibi. New Coke. The Segway. DeLorean sports cars. The pantheon of colossal business failures has a new member in the CNN+ streaming service. The news network’s subscription offering hadn’t even been operating for a month before Warner Bros. Discovery announced this week that it would...
TV Talk: Turning 70, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ gets a home video upgradeVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” starring East Liberty native Gene Kelly, gets a home video upgrade with the April 26 70th anniversary re-release of the film in 4K Ultra HD ($33.99) that includes...
TV Talk: Would-be Emmy contenders flood cable/streaming in the week aheadVideo
If you’re a fan of TV/streaming who follows what’s new, your eyeballs may bug out of your head when you look at the next month of new program releases. There are a lot of them. This weekend alone sees the return of HBO’s “Barry” (10 p.m. Sunday), the debut of...
Jerry West demands retraction of his ‘cruel’ portrayal in ‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’
NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West is declaring the depiction of his character in HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” to be “cruel” and “deliberately false,” and is demanding a retraction within two weeks from today. “The portrayal of…West…is fiction pretending to be fact...
TV Q&A: Why do TV newscasts insist viewers go online to get news?
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: Why does every Pittsburgh news station push their viewers to check out more on this story on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.? Social media has become...
New Mexico fines ‘Rust’ for willful gun safety failures
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October by actor and producer Alec Baldwin. New Mexico’s Occupational...
Michelle Yeoh shows Asian immigrant women are ‘Everything’Video
Michelle Yeoh was adamant about one script change before committing to “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” The main character’s name had to go. She was named Michelle as a love letter to her from the directors. “I’m like ‘No, no, no’ because I believe this person, this character that you’ve...
TV Talk: Netflix exorcism thriller ‘Demon House’ to film in Western Pa.
On the heels of filming the Christian Bale movie “The Pale Blue Eye” in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, Netflix will return to town in June to shoot the film “Demon House.” Lee Daniels (“The Butler,” “Empire”) will direct the exorcism thriller that will star Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”), Mo’Nique...
Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark to do ‘Sunday Night Football’
NEW YORK — NBC Sports revealed its new “Sunday Night Football” announcing team with analyst Cris Collinsworth returning and being joined by Mike Tirico in the booth and Melissa Stark on the sidelines. The network said the crew will work for the first time at the Hall of Fame game...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘The Flight Attendant,’ ‘Outer Range,’ USFL ratings and ‘Be My Guest’
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 former Squirrel Hill resident Rob Marshall’s appearance on discovery+’s Food Network show “Be My Guest with Ina Garten.” Benz and Owen talk about Amazon’s...
After 8 seasons, a fond farewell to ‘Black-ish’
In the latest episode of “Black-ish,” advertising executive Andre “Dre” Johnson returns from an unfulfilling day of work with life changes on his mind. “I feel like I’m questioning everything,” he says. His wife, Rainbow, admits she’s feeling the same way. So what else is new? For eight seasons, the...
