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TV Talk: Netflix’s ‘Maid’ impresses with authentic performancesVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Watching Netflix’s “Maid,” a fictionalized limited series inspired by author Stephanie Land’s 2019 memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” it’s striking how the series can all at once be...
TV Talk: PBS Kids’ ‘Alma’s Way’ brings ‘Sesame Street’ actress back to her start in PittsburghVideo

For former “Sesame Street” actress and writer Sonia Manzano, creating a new PBS Kids show, the animated “Alma’s Way” (8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays beginning Oct. 4, WQED-TV), brings her full circle to where her career began. While a student at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1960s, Manzano...
TV Q&A: Why are there fewer meteorologists at WPXI-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: Is WPXI-TV under some kind of budget crunch? They have only three full-time meteorologists when the other two Pittsburgh stations have four. — Joey via...
TV Talk: Another Pittsburgh TV reporter hopscotches to a rival station

Earlier this month Nicole Ford jumped from KDKA-TV to WPXI-TV, and now Shelley Bortz is doing the reverse. Bortz, who has been freelancing at Channel 11 since 2015, will join KDKA-TV as a full-time reporter in the near future. She’s expected to start at KDKA the first week of October....
TV Talk: Hill District native Carter Redwood stars in CBS’s ‘FBI: International’Video

For Carter Redwood, his first series regular role starring in CBS’s “FBI: International” checks several boxes of what he hoped for in his acting career. “As a part of my visualization for what I wanted in my career, and what I wanted for myself, I really told myself that I...
TV Talk: Emmy telecast welcomes comedy newcomers ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Hacks;’ shows off Billy Porter’s latest fashion

Sunday night on CBS, the 73rd Emmy Awards began with an opening that was equal parts cringe and joyful fun as host Cedric the Entertainer was joined in rapping about his love of TV by Lil Dickey, Rita Wilson and LL Cool J and the celebrities in attendance who joined...
TV Talk: Previewing fall streaming, cable and PBS showsVideo

There’s no dearth of content in the months ahead on streaming, cable and PBS. Here are a few highlights of what’s coming soon: Streaming Returning series include “Dear White People” (premiering Wednesday, Netflix), “Doom Patrol” (Thursday, HBO Max), “Creepshow” (Thursday, Shudder and AMC+), the fourth and final season of Billy...
TV Talk: When your prime-time broadcast favorites return

Unlike a year ago when fall premiere dates for returning series were uncertain due to the pandemic, this year most shows are back right on time. One big exception: NBC holds back the final season of partially Pittsburgh-set “This is Us” until early 2022. Here’s when you can expect your...
TV Talk: Broadcasters introduce reboots, spin-offs and a few original seriesVideo

Viewers who savor the comfort of the familiar will be satisfied with the recognizable titles broadcast networks are trotting out as “new” series this fall. Anyone seeking a surplus of originality will be disappointed. That said, not all reboots are created equal and not all original shows are winners. The...
TV Talk: Former ‘Dance Moms’ star, Pittsburgh native stars in Lifetime movie; ‘The Morning Show’ returnsVideo

Viewers who couldn’t get enough of the train wreck that was Lifetime’s Pittsburgh-based “Dance Moms” likely remember Nia Sioux Frazier and her mom, Holly Hatcher-Frazier, as the most poised, sensible and seemingly stable of that show’s regulars. Nia, who now goes by Nia Sioux, was just 9 when “Dance Moms”...
TV Q&A: Could Jackie Cain return to a Pittsburgh TV station?

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: Former WTAE-TV news anchor Jackie Cain has left her Minneapolis station. Does she end up back in Pittsburgh? And at what station? — Jodi via...
TV Talk: Greenfield woman competes on ‘Jeopardy!’ during Mike Richards’ brief tenure as host

Gabbie Kim, a mother of two and birth doula from Greenfield, will compete on Monday’s 38th season premiere of “Jeopardy!” (7 p.m., WPXI-TV). And what a week to appear on the show. Not only is she up against Matt Amodio — who’s on an 18-episode winning streak that netted him...
TV Talk: Daytime changes for fall include Jay Leno-hosted game show, Nick Cannon talk showVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Already “Dr. Oz” has moved over from WTAE-TV to 10 a.m. weekdays on WPGH-TV, but perhaps the most noteworthy syndicated debut of the Fall 2021 season is “You Bet Your Life” (6 and 6:30 p.m....
TV Talk: KDKA-TV reporter Nicole Ford jumps to WPXI-TV

It’s not the norm in TV news for a reporter to file her last report for one station on a Friday and then turn up reporting on a rival station a few days later. But when a reporter is part-time and not under contract with the first station, such circumstances...
TV Talk: Is filmed-in-Western Pa. ‘American Rust’ worth watching?Video

Showtime’s Western Pennsylvania-set series “American Rust” (10 p.m. Sunday) gets off to an exceedingly slow start as it introduces its characters and their situations. In Sunday’s premiere, Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), the police chief of Buell, Fayette County, covers up a possible crime for the benefit of the woman he...
TV Talk: Jeff Daniels accomplishes his quest to bring filmed-in-Western Pa. ‘American Rust’ to fruitionVideo

For actor Jeff Daniels, Showtime’s filmed-in-Western-Pennsylvania “American Rust” (10 p.m. Sunday) is more than another role. It’s the fulfillment of an idea he had more than a decade ago to adapt the 2009 Philipp Meyer novel of the same name into a filmed project after Daniels’ agent (now his manager)...

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