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White House deletes then posts new Sabrina Carpenter video promoting ICE raids
The Trump administration is trying to get the last word after Sabrina Carpenter blasted the White House for using her song “Juno” in propaganda videos promoting ICE raids. On Friday afternoon, after deleting the first video it shared to X earlier this week, the White House posted a new clip...
Trump awards medals to the Kennedy Center honorees in an Oval Office ceremony
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled. This year’s recipients are actor Sylvester...
Pittsburgh CLO's 'Yippee Ki Yay' a heartwarming, hilarious tribute to 'Die Hard'
Let’s get this out of the way: I don’t buy into the whole “ ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie” thing. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy this 1988 action flick classic that (deservedly so) launched Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman into super-stardom. But “taking place at Christmas” does not,...
TV Talk: What does Netflix buying Warner Bros. mean for consumers?
Friday morning’s news that Netflix will buy the Warner Bros. film studio, HBO and HBO Max for $83 billion marks a huge earthquake in the entertainment industry, but what it means for consumers remains unclear. Warner Bros. began its life in Western Pennsylvania when brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack...
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in 'Mortal Kombat,' has died at 75
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, a Tokyo-born actor known for his roles in the film “Mortal Kombat” and TV series “The Man in the High Castle” has died. He was 75. Tagawa died surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara from complications due to a stroke, his manager, Margie...
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
NEW YORK — Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant’s studio and streaming business for $72 billion. The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two of the industry’s biggest players in film and TV under one roof. Beyond its namesake television and motion...
The best movies of 2025, ranked by AP film writers
The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good year for movies. Filmmakers working in and out of the studio system managed to make bold, personal, wildly imaginative and singular works. Some of them even broke through to the mainstream — how extraordinary that “Sinners” is among the...
CBS News to host prime-time 'town hall' with Erika Kirk, widow of activist Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK — Turning Point USA leader Erika Kirk will speak about the aftermath of her husband Charlie’s killing in a prime-time “town hall” event televised by CBS News on Dec. 13, the network said Thursday. The event will be moderated by Bari Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief and founder...
TV Talk: Gillian Anderson, Lena Headey make ‘Abandons’ worth watching
Netflix’s matriarchal Western “The Abandons” offers a terrific showcase for stars Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey, and creator Kurt Sutter (“Sons of Anarchy”) knows how to build a season-long story that’s propulsive and entertaining, even if this is no “Deadwood.” But there’s also reason to be wary that “The Abandons”...
Lauren Graham and Amy Sherman-Palladino to release 'Gilmore Girls' book in 2027
NEW YORK — After years of advice books, children’s books and cookbooks inspired by “Gilmore Girls,” an upcoming work promises a more personal take on the beloved series. The co-writers are “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and star Lauren Graham. Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers, announced Wednesday that...
TV Q&A: Why doesn’t a Christmas classic air on TV anymore?
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: Can you explain why “Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas” is not on TV? I’ve searched the Christmas listings for the past several years and it’s...
TV Talk: ‘Farscape’ star Claudia Black is the Lady MacBeth of new ‘Spartacus’ 
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. You can have “Outlander,” “Power” and all their spinoffs: There’s never been a better Starz series than “Spartacus,” the graphic swords, sandals and sex drama that spilled gallons of CGI blood and prosthetic genitalia across...
'Zootopia 2' roars to record-setting global box office with $556M opening 
“Zootopia 2” had a roaring and record-setting opening at the box office. The animated animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday...
A welcome form of inflation: Balloons take shape for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
NEW YORK — Giant balloons got into shape Wednesday for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as crews inflated the giant characters on the streets of New York City. The parade kicks off Thursday morning, with dozens of huge balloons set to take to the skies. Floats, entertainers, marching bands and...
TV Talk: ‘Stranger Things’ begins its end run; ‘Rivalry’ heats up; KDKA-TV reunion 
The first thing viewers will notice about the new season of “Stranger Things” is that the show’s kid characters are no longer teens and try as they might, producers cannot hide this fact, especially when it comes to Will (Noah Schnapp), Lucas (Caleb MacLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo). Because of...
TV Talk: How Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade evolved through the decades (and how it stayed the same) 
“Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” (8:30 a.m. Thursday, WPXI) has always been an inherent promotional opportunity for its namesake department store, an effort to jump-start the holiday shopping season. But as TV evolved over the decades, so has NBC’s parade telecast. A static camera trained on a parade may have been...
'Stranger Things' season 5 debuts tonight; here's a recap of what has happened 
It’s been more than three years since viewers had the opportunity to see a new episode of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” The last new episode streamed in July 2022. That all changes tonight at 5 p.m. when the first batch of episodes in the final season drops. Since it’s been a...
TV Q&A: Where did a KDKA-TV forecaster go?
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 noticed KDKA hired a new weatherman, Rob Wilson, in place of the retired Kristin Emery. I saw him once and haven’t seen him since....
TV Talk: WTAE’s ‘Project Bundle-Up’ holiday tradition turns 40 
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers local viewing tips for the coming holiday season. Since it began in 1986, Channel 4’s “Project Bundle-Up Telethon” (7-8 p.m. Dec. 5, WTAE) and the Salvation Army of Western Pa. have raised a cumulative $17.5 million over 40 years and served 310,000...
‘Wicked: For Good’ is even more popular than the first, soaring to a $226 million global debut
Universal Pictures’ two-part “Wicked” gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after part one brought droves of audiences to movie theaters around the country, even more people bought opening weekend tickets to see the epic conclusion, “Wicked: For Good.” According to studio estimates on Sunday,...
Trump steps up attacks on ABC and Jimmy Kimmel, says network should 'get the bum off the air'
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against ABC and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, urging the network to “get the bum off the air” in a social media post sent shortly after the comic’s latest episode ended. The president this week had also expressed anger...
TV Talk: CMU grad Ted Danson talks ‘Man on the Inside’ 
From CBS’s “Becker” and “CSI” to NBC’s “The Good Place” to “A Man on the Inside,” which is now streaming its eight-episode second season on Netflix, 1972 Carnegie Mellon grad Ted Danson continues to be a reliable presence on American TV screens 32 years after his first hit, NBC’s “Cheers,”...
For conservative media, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani quickly becomes attack target
New York City’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, hasn’t taken office yet. But he’s already the new avatar of evil for conservative media figures. He’s been called “downright sinister” and “incompatible with America.” His labels include commie, Marxist, jihadist sympathizer and “seething leftist.” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham warned her viewers not...
TV Q&A: How did ‘Watson’ get a Pittsburgh bridge fact wrong?
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 am watching “Watson” on CBS, which is set at a leading research hospital in Pittsburgh. In the Nov. 10 episode, they talked about the...
TV Talk: ‘This Is Us’ star films Apple series locally, uses Pittsburgh dialect
Starring in the hit NBC drama “This Is Us,” actress Chrissy Metz got to know Pittsburgh vicariously through her character, Pittsburgh native Kate Pearson. But it doesn’t take long talking to Metz before you realize she picked up more than just her character’s backstory. “If the Stillers are playing, I’m...
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