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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Hulu’s FX-produced seven-episode limited series “A Murder at the End of the World” assembles all the pieces necessary for a modern-day take on Agatha Christie but excises any sense of fun. Instead, this morose mystery...

WTAE-TV weekend morning meteorologist Kasey Reigner, who joined the station two years ago, posted to her social media accounts Thursday that she chose not to re-up with the station and will depart Channel 4 on Nov. 30. Reigner, who became the fifth member of the WTAE weather team when she...

Given its worldwide popularity, it’s a no-brainer for Paramount Global to extend CBS’s “NCIS” franchise beyond the United States, especially given that the real NCIS has offices in 41 countries. CBS’s “NCIS: Sydney” (8 p.m. Nov. 14, KDKA-TV) leans into the possible conflict with local authorities as NCIS special agent...

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 that the costume worn by Pittsburgh actor David Newell when he played Mr. McFeely on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” is now on display at the...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. ^ The latest — and the last for a while, because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes delaying production — new Taylor Sheridan series isn’t a show he’s written. Instead, Chad Feehan (“Ray Donovan,” “Rectify”)...

It seems likely the Oscars will have at least one other biopic best picture nominee alongside “Oppenheimer:” Netflix’s filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Rustin” easily earns a spot among the superior films of 2023. Streaming Nov. 17 on Netflix and playing at Waterworks Cinema Friday, Colman Domingo (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) delivers a studied,...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Equal parts political thriller and steamy, doomed romance, “Fellow Travelers” proves to be an addictive yarn that, despite its period setting, feels vital and relevant in 2023 America. Now streaming on Paramount + and making...

In season two of “The Gilded Age” (9 p.m. Sunday on HBO and Max), all roads lead to Pittsburgh. From writer Julian Fellowes, “The Gilded Age” (aka the American “Downton Abbey”) continues to unfurl the soapy stories of gloriously costumed upstairs/downstairs families and staff in Manhattan circa 1883. “The Gilded...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. An NFL Hall of Famer, former Steelers coach Bill Cowher is the subject of this week’s episode of “NFL Icons” (10 p.m. Oct. 28, MGM+). The hourlong episode explores Cowher’s youth in Crafton, his stint...

Netflix confirmed filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Rustin” will play in at least one Pittsburgh theater beginning Nov. 3 before it streams on Netflix on Nov. 17. Netflix has not confirmed which Pittsburgh theater (or theaters) will show the movie. Netflix also released a new second trailer for the PG-13-rated bio-pic on gay Civil...

Comedian Steve Hofstetter isn’t an area native – he grew up in Queens, N.Y. – but his career as a stand-up performer brought him to Western Pennsylvania often enough that he opted to move here two-and-a-half years ago. He bought a former Stanton Heights church and turned it into the...

While some TV reboots exist for creative reasons, others are merely a cash grab. Paramount+’s “Frasier” sequel is primarily a cash grab, but also manages to wring some additional humor out of familiar situations and relationships even though Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is the only returning series regular character from the...