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Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 14The new season of NBC's 'The Voice' (8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, WPXI-TV) features two contestants with Western Pennsylvania ties, including 2021 'American Idol' contestant Sloane [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 10The Pittsburgh-filmed 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' has seen its share of parodies, most notably Eddie Murphy as Mister Robinson on 'Saturday Night Live.' PBS's classic children's show [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 9Q: When Jon Delano interviewed Kamala Harris on Oct. 1, it looked like he was on a different set. I do not remember seeing that screen [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 7Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Note: This column contains spoilers for the premiere episode of CBS's [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 3Before we talked about the second season of Max's animated 'Gremlins' series, there was a local matter to discuss with actress Ming-Na Wen: Her family's business, [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Oct. 2Q: Is WTAE-TV still looking for a weekend morning news anchor? William, via email Rob: Following the July departure of weekend morning anchor Tom Garris, Channel [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 26HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Every now and then a feel-good series comes along and becomes part of the cultural conversation. That's more difficult to achieve than ever in [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 25Q: Why are they taking 'Blue Bloods' off the air? I don't believe their ratings suddenly fell. I think it's because they prayed on every episode! [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 23Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. PASADENA, Calif. Pittsburgh native Zachary Quinto first hit it big in [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 20Natalie (Ashley Williams) relocates to Pittsburgh in Hallmark Channel's Pittsburgh-set 'Falling Together' (8 p.m. Saturday, World Alzheimer's Day), which features Natalie falling for her apartment building's [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 19As a sufferer of superhero fatigue, I skipped the 2022 Robert Pattinson-starring 'The Batman' and had no real interest in HBO's 'The Penguin' (9 p.m. today, [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 18Q: Does Suzie Cool now work for KDKA-TV? She reports on their high school and college football broadcasts, Nightly Sports Call and she is a co-host [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 18Originally ordered as an Amazon Freevee series, when Pittsburgh-set 'The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh' debuts all eight episodes Oct. 17 the show will stream on both Freevee [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 15--January's strike-delayed Emmys telecast succeeded by giving viewers what they want: A celebration of the medium and its most successful shows, including cast reunions of 'Ally [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 12PASADENA, Calif. Producer Ryan Murphy understands one of the few truisms in current pop culture: Crime pays. Or at least true crime stories do because American [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 10June's presidential debate was the most consequential in modern political history it led President Joe Biden to drop out of the race. So the debate on [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 10Want to know when your favorite broadcast network shows will be back? Find out below: 'Abbott Elementary' (9:30 p.m. Oct. 9, ABC). 'Accused' (8 p.m. Oct. [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 9Max's upcoming 15-episode, Pittsburgh-set medical drama 'The Pitt,' executive produced by Carnegie Mellon University grads John Wells and Michael Hissrich and starring Noah Wyle ('ER'), is [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 5There will be a minimum number of changes in syndicated daytime TV this fall on local stations KDKA and WTAE will stand pat with no significant [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 4Q: Have you heard anything as to where Katherine Amenta, formally of WPXI, has landed? I was very surprised when I heard of her exit in [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Sep. 3Over the weekend, a retransmission dispute between the Walt Disney Co., owner of ABC, and DirecTV erupted, taking ABC-owned channels (ESPN, Disney Channel, ABC-owned affiliates) off [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 30Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. FX deservedly cleaned up in this year's Emmy nominations its 'Shogun' [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 29It's a busy week for performers with Western Pennsylvania ties: Friendship's Learnmore Jonasi competed and advanced to the semifinals on 'America's Got Talent.' (He'll next perform [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 28KDKA-TV meteorologist Ray Petelin and his daughter, Elizabeth, have experience appearing on-camera together in his 'Hey Ray!' segments that air on Channel 2, but the pair's [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 28Q: I noticed that KDKA now has five meteorologists on its staff with the addition of Trey Fullbright. I am curious to know if there are [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 26Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Director Lee Daniels approached his filmed-and-set-in-Pittsburgh exorcism thriller 'The Deliverance,' streaming [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 21Q: Is everyone at WPXI-TV pregnant? Rodney, via email Rob: Not sure about everyone assume that would come as a surprise to the station's male on-air [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 15Ashley Liotus was a freelance reporter off and on at WTAE beginning in 2022, but in July she joined Channel 4 full-time, anchoring weekends and reporting/fill-in [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 14Q: Just wondering what your reaction is to the current 'The Bear' season? After last year's great series, I find this season to be boring and [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 12Pittsburgh native Jeff Goldblum will guest host ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (11:35 p.m., WTAE-TV) Monday-Thursday this week. Goldblum's guests tonight will be Mark Wahlberg, Rob Delaney [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 8New, young faces on local newscasts are common on Pittsburgh TV these days, but it's unusual to have back-to-back arrivals in weather and sports as viewers [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 5Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. When you sign up to attend the taping of [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 2It's been a year since Jason Jedlinski became president and CEO of WQED-TV and at a board of directors meeting Thursday he announced a new series [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Aug. 1Paramount+'s filmed-in-Pittsburgh drama 'Mayor of Kingstown' ends its third season with guns blazing. Streaming Sunday, it's an episode overflowing with gunfire, including a massive shootout filmed [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 24Trib 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: What [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 19Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. There's probably been no series to live a more tortured, pushed-and-pulled [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 19Amazon's Prime Video will not renew the filmed-in-Pittsburgh drama series 'American Rust,' whose second season was largely set in Pittsburgh, for a third season. The show's [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 17Trib 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: What [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 16PASADENA, Calif. This fall 'Masterpiece Mystery!' debuts 'Moonflower Murders' (9 p.m. Sept. 15-Oct. 20, WQED-TV), a follow-up to 2022's 'Magpie Murders.' Book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 16Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The next few weeks should bring new subscribers to Peacock with [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 15PASADENA, Calif. Procedural dramas episodic shows that tell a story with a beginning, middle and end in one hour were TV staples from the 1950s through [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 15Pittsburgh native Leah Peters, a 26-year-old 'VIP cocktail server' living in Miami, is among the competitors on this year's 26th season of 'Big Brother' (9 p.m. [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 14PASADENA, Calif. CBS enters the 2024-25 TV season this fall from a position of strength thanks to the successful launches of 'Tracker' and 'Elsbeth' earlier this [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 13--PASADENA, Calif. -- Friday night at the Langham Huntington Hotel the 40th annual Television Critics Association Awards offered the most recognition to FX's 'Sh gun' (best [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 12PASADENA, Calif. No two Hollywood premieres are alike but often they are lavish affairs, the swankiest wedding reception you've never been invited to, only more extensively [...]

Byline: Rob Owen Jul. 5Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder has been a mainstay of [...]