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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
‘Murder She Wrote’ actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96
NEW YORK — Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She was 96. Lansbury died Tuesday at her home...
Unpacking the wild twists, excessive vomit in ‘Triangle of Sadness’: ‘Maybe it was too much’ 
When Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund won the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for “Triangle of Sadness,” it put him in the rarified class of two-time Palme d’Or winners. The prestigious group also includes Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Haneke, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Emir Kusturica, Shohei Imamura, Bille...
Making the radical case for Sinéad O’Connor: She was right all along 
Thirty years ago this month, Sinéad O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live,” effectively destroying her mainstream career with a single act of protest against the Catholic Church. Then 25, the Grammy-winning Irish singer was an unlikely pop star. Known for the raw,...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking Penn State limited series, new ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast, ‘Midnight Club’
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 a report in The Hollywood Reporter about a limited Hulu series “Death at Penn State,” based on the real-life story of the 2017 hazing...
A look at the Kevin Spacey-Anthony Rapp trial
NEW YORK — The second week of Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo-era trial starts Tuesday in New York — but no criminal charges are involved. Stage and screen star Anthony Rapp has sued Spacey, accusing him of assault, battery and intentionally inflecting emotional distress when Rapp was 14. The trial opened with...
The king gets confused as ‘House of the Dragon’ dances on the edge of war
King Viserys Targaryen has made a lot of bad moves during the first season of “House of the Dragon.” His latest bad move wasn’t exactly his fault, but it certainly fit right...
Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos hit milestone on ‘GMA’
NEW YORK — During a getting-to-know-you dinner shortly after being named co-hosts of “Good Morning America” in 2009, George Stephanopoulos told Robin Roberts that he didn’t really want to do the job. Nearly 13 years later, they’re passed an improbable milestone without public notice. They’re now the longest-serving pair of...
‘Amsterdam’ review: A true-life plot against America, starring Christian Bale and some seriously wrong-headed storytelling 
David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam” is very plush in the looks department. Enjoying the costumes and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s lighting and some of Russell’s shot designs will get you through it. But only if you don’t have to listen to it, or track it, or believe in the people on screen....
Silent films to live on in movie theater lobby card project
CONCORD, N.H. — “Missing Millions” is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like the vast majority from that era, the movie all but vanished in the ensuing century, survived mostly by lobby cards. The cards, scarcely bigger than letter paper, promoted the cinematic romances, comedies and...
TV Talk: Western Pa. natives behind live-action ‘Monster High’ 
Now streaming on Paramount+ and premiering at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 on Nickelodeon, “Monster High The Movie” takes the 12-year-old Mattel fashion doll franchise, already adapted into an animated series, and brings it to live-action life as a movie musical directed by TV veteran Todd Holland (“Wonderfalls”), a Kittanning native...
TV Q&A: Did ‘Curse of Oak Island’ get cursed again by a hurricane?
Q: I was wondering how Hurricane Fiona impacted this year’s search on “The Curse of Oak Island”? News reports say Nova Scotia was hammered, so one would have to assume that Oak Island, just offshore, got it as bad if not worse than the coastline. Has this year’s search season...
TV Talk: CMU grad scrubs in as new ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ cast member 
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Carnegie Mellon University musical theater grad Alexis Floyd is making her mark in Shondaland, the production company founded by “Grey’s Anatomy” creator Shonda Rhimes. First, Floyd was cast in Shondaland’s Netflix series, “Inventing Anna,” playing...
31 key horror movies from the last 31 years
The air is crispy, the leaves are turning and jack-o’-lanterns are starting to show up on front porches. October has arrived. Which means horror movie season is officially here. It’s the best time of the year to sit back with a scary movie, or a whole lot of them, the...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Dahmer,’ regional Emmy Awards for local TV news, ‘Alaska Daily’
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 the Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmys, where TRIBLive.com won three awards, WQED won nine (including overall excellence), WPXI was awarded five, KDKA took home two and...
Sacheen Littlefeather, actor who declined Brando Oscar, dies 
Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of how Native Americans had been portrayed on screen, has died. She was 75. Littlefeather’s niece, Calina Lawrence, confirmed that she died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by loved...
If looks could kill, they wouldn’t need daggers on ‘House of the Dragon’
If looks could kill, no...
TV Talk: Subscribe to ABC’s ‘Alaska Daily,’ a newspaper drama with low-key ‘West Wing’ vibes 
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Comparisons among TV series are tricky. It’s unfair to burden a new show with high expectations by comparing it to a past critical hit. But saying “if you like X, you might like Y” is...
Pittsburgh native, ‘Eyewitness News’ creator Al Primo dies
Many of the conventions of TV news today — on local newscasts or cable news or the “Today” show — originated in the mind of Pittsburgh native Al Primo, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who worked at Pittsburgh’s WDTV, which was re-christened KDKA-TV during his tenure as a news writer,...
Trevor Noah will depart ‘The Daily Show’ after 7 years as host: ‘My time is up’ 
Trevor Noah’s time on “The Daily Show” is coming to a close, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. While taping the series on Thursday, Noah revealed to his audience that he will be departing the late-night series. He started his statement reflecting on his time on the late-night program, which...
TV Talk: Deb Acklin steps down as WQED Multimedia CEO
After 12 years WQED Multimedia president and CEO Deborah Acklin will step down effective Friday to focus on treatment following a diagnosis of non-smoker’s lung cancer. “Leading WQED — my hometown PBS and classical music station -- has been a singular professional honor,” Acklin said in a statement released by...
Network nightly newscasts morph, adapt for the streaming age
NEW YORK — For more than half a century, ABC, CBS and NBC have aired evening newscasts each weeknight on television. This fall, the competition has spread to another medium. The launch of John Dickerson’s “CBS News Prime Time” in September means that all three news divisions have unique streaming...
TV Talk: ‘Interview with a Vampire’ draws blood; ‘Doc Martin’ pulled from PBS stations 
Already one vampire series debuted this fall – teen-focused “Vampire Academy” on Peacock – and soon there will be three more, beginning with “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire,” previously adapted as the 1994 Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt movie. This new “Interview,” premiering at 10 p.m. Sunday on AMC and streaming...
Katie Couric reveals breast cancer diagnosis — ‘Why not me?’
Journalist Katie Couric revealed on her website today that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June of this year on the eighth anniversary of her marriage to John Molner. Couric, who called herself the “screen queen” for colon cancer, underwent a colonoscopy live on the “Today” show in 2000...
Movie review: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ recounts war story that’s stranger than fiction 
For his follow-up feature to his Oscar-winning 2018 film “Green Book,” director Peter Farrelly (known mostly for his comic collaborations with his brother Bobby) has turned to a genial true story from the Vietnam War. “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” isn’t your typical Vietnam film. Based on a wild, wildly...
Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool 3,’ Ryan Reynolds says 
It’s finally happening: Longtime frenemies Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are reuniting onscreen for “Deadpool 3.” Reynolds announced Tuesday on social media that Jackman will return as Wolverine for the highly anticipated Marvel film, coming to theaters Sept. 6, 2024. “We’ve been working very hard on the next ‘Deadpool’ film...


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