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TV Talk: Tommy’s still besieged on all sides in ‘Landman’ season 2Video

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Paramount+’s “Landman,” streaming its second season Sunday, Nov. 16, remains writer/creator Taylor Sheridan’s best, most entertaining series thanks in large part to the pitch-perfect casting of Billy Bob Thornton as oil company executive Tommy Norris....
TV Talk: Pittsburgh native helps relaunch MSNBC as MS NOW

Beginning Saturday, MSNBC will be no more. The cable news network’s new name will be MS NOW, a rebrand necessitated by NBCUniversal’s decision to spin off most of its cable networks into a separate company, Versant. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh native Meghan Rafferty, a 2003 Oakland Catholic High School grad,...
TV Q&A: Why did CBS kill off a lead character on ‘Fire Country’?

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: Did the actor who played Vince on CBS’s “Fire Country,” Billy Burke, quit the show, get fired, go do different things, or did he die?...
TV Talk: Seth Meyers talks Steelers, state of late-night TV; ‘The Pitt’ on TNTVideo

NBC’s “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, whose father grew up in East Liberty, makes no secret of his appreciation for Pittsburgh, whether he’s interviewing Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton, doing stand-up, writing a mockumentary or calling a politician a jagoff. And Meyers is always keen to talk about the Steelers. In...
TV Talk: YouTube TV vs. ABC unleashes new wrinkle in retransmission spats, taking out WTAE

Pay TV subscribers are accustomed to losing channels when negotiations go south between station groups and cable or satellite providers. In those instances, TV stations get yanked from the cable lineup until a deal is reached, which can take hours, days, weeks or months. If the dispute is between Disney...
TV Talk: ‘Breaking Bad’ creator returns to his ‘X-Files’ roots with ‘Pluribus’Video

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. It’s impossible to write much about “Pluribus,” the new Apple TV series from “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, without giving too much away. Suffice it to say, “Pluribus” is the most original, unexpectedly thought-provoking and...
TV Talk: ‘Death by Lightning’ unearths forgotten U.S. presidential assassin historyVideo

One of the more welcome aspects of the streaming era is that it’s opened space for a greater diversity of stories, including forgotten tales from American and world history. While I still await the day some global streamer recounts the tale of how an Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess...
TV Q&A: Is KDKA-TV only firing women?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: Anyone else notice that CBS is only firing women at KDKA-TV? — Lindsay, via Facebook Rob: After the first round of corporate-mandated layoffs in August...
TV Talk: Ken Burns recounts ‘The American Revolution’ for PBSVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with colleagues on his expansive documentary series. Burns’ latest six-part, 12-hour opus, “The American Revolution,” was made...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh native Margot Bingham brings Pittsburghese to CBS’s ‘Watson’Video

Already this season on CBS’s “Watson” (10 p.m. Monday, KDKA-TV), Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) returned, after being presumed dead, to investigate “The Pittsburgh Mystery,” and there were references to Kennywood, the Thunderbolt coaster and Prantl’s Bakery’s burnt almond torte. “Best cake I’ve ever had,” Ingrid Derien (Eve Harlow) said in...
TV Talk: Paramount job cuts impact roles at KDKA-TV, WPKD

With the new ownership of Paramount by Skydance comes another round of job cuts, including a dozen positions cut at Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV and WPKD. Most of the roles eliminated were behind the scenes, but the cuts also claimed the jobs of three members of the on-air talent team, including “Pittsburgh...
TV Q&A: Why is the background music so loud on TV?

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 love “Chicago Med,” but the background music is so loud it drowns out the conversations. Why is this and is this really necessary? —...
TV Talk: ‘It’ returns, ‘Talamasca’ debutsVideo

If a Western Pa. “Scariest House” wasn’t enough Halloween-spirited TV for local viewers, on Sunday two supernatural-themed shows debut, both spinoffs, though one is significantly better than the other. ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ A prequel to director Andy Muschietti’s 2017 “It” and 2019 “It: Chapter Two,” HBO’s eight-episode “It: Welcome...
TV Q&A: Will Brit actor use American accent on ‘CIA’ show?

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: Do you know if Tom Ellis will be using his natural British accent in the new CIA series on CBS? The British accent is preferable...
TV Talk: ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ introduces new characters for 4th seasonVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. A few months ago, “Mayor of Kingstown” star Jeremy Renner suggested the show’s fifth season will be its last. But during a conversation to preview season four, streaming its premiere episode Oct. 26 on Paramount+,...
2-tank trip takes Western Pennsylvanians to hobbit resort built by Penn State gradVideo

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — It’s an eight-hour, 500-mile drive from Pittsburgh, but for fans of “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter,” a visit to a Middle Earth-inspired mini-resort might fit the bill, especially as leaves burst with fall color. Mountain Shire offers travelers perhaps the best approximation of J.R.R....

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