Rob Owen
@robowentv.bsky.social
Pittsburgh @TribTotalMedia
TV critic. I watch TV so you don't have to. Tweets/retweets are my own, not endorsements. @syracuseu alum
TV critic. I watch TV so you don't have to. Tweets/retweets are my own, not endorsements. @syracuseu alum
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and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
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Jake Lacy is such a gifted on-screen yuppie shithead
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Jake Lacy is such a gifted on-screen yuppie shithead
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it's very funny that tracker has such a high turnover in the "person who reads some exposition paragraphs about the weekly case" department, especially since he mostly interacts with those people over the phone
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
it's very funny that tracker has such a high turnover in the "person who reads some exposition paragraphs about the weekly case" department, especially since he mostly interacts with those people over the phone
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The infamous flop has released its long-unseen final eight episodes for free, allowing U.S. Friends diehards to watch the spinoff's full run for the first time.
Friends Spinoff Joey Releases 8 'New' Episodes Online — Nearly 20 Years Later - TVLine
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November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The infamous flop has released its long-unseen final eight episodes for free, allowing U.S. Friends diehards to watch the spinoff's full run for the first time.
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Things are getting hot enough to melt ice on HBO Max: Find out when the gay hockey romance "Heated Rivalry" will premiere on the streamer.
Save The Dates: Heated Rivalry On HBO Max, Emilia Clarke's Peacock Thriller And More - TVLine
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November 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Things are getting hot enough to melt ice on HBO Max: Find out when the gay hockey romance "Heated Rivalry" will premiere on the streamer.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
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A veteran FBI employee training to become a special agent was fired last month for displaying at his workspace an LGBTQ+ flag, which had previously flown outside a field office, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Veteran FBI employee sues bureau after being fired over displaying a pride flag | CNN Politics
A veteran FBI employee training to become a special agent was fired last month for displaying at his workspace an LGBTQ+ flag, which had previously flown outside a field office, according to a lawsuit...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A veteran FBI employee training to become a special agent was fired last month for displaying at his workspace an LGBTQ+ flag, which had previously flown outside a field office, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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A former Fetterman advisor texted me: “I think what comes across is the reality of who he is, which is a petulant child who never became a man and is always the victim of his own narrative—even though he’s never had a real job and lives off his dad’s money. It's all pretty sad and pathetic."
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A former Fetterman advisor texted me: “I think what comes across is the reality of who he is, which is a petulant child who never became a man and is always the victim of his own narrative—even though he’s never had a real job and lives off his dad’s money. It's all pretty sad and pathetic."
TV Q&A: How did Pittsburgh-set #Watson get a local bridge fact wrong? Why so many different pronunciations of local places on Pittsburgh newscasts? via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
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, w...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
TV Q&A: How did Pittsburgh-set #Watson get a local bridge fact wrong? Why so many different pronunciations of local places on Pittsburgh newscasts? via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
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Is it amazing to travel around the world by racing on The Amazing Race? Kinda and not really! Let's explore what you don’t see. #AmazingRace #Travel
Is Amazing Race an amazing way to travel?
Is it amazing to travel around the world by racing on The Amazing Race? Kinda and not really! Let's explore what you don’t see.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Is it amazing to travel around the world by racing on The Amazing Race? Kinda and not really! Let's explore what you don’t see. #AmazingRace #Travel
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz.bsky.social talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social triblive.com/aande/movies...
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 ta...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz.bsky.social talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social triblive.com/aande/movies...
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
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 ta...
triblive.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz.bsky.social talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
TV Talk: #ThisIsUs star @chrissymetz.bsky.social talks filming the new @AppleTV crime drama #Parallax in #Pittsburgh and her character, who speaks with a Western Pa. dialect, via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
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BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
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Spent some time over the past 6 months with NY Times Magazine writer Irina Aleksander and talked about this transformational (and frightening) moment in Hollywood history... and chronicling it all in real time. ⬇️⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...
The Man Yelling ‘Iceberg!’ on the Hollywood Titanic
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November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Spent some time over the past 6 months with NY Times Magazine writer Irina Aleksander and talked about this transformational (and frightening) moment in Hollywood history... and chronicling it all in real time. ⬇️⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...
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Amazing clip of Shelly Winters (age 55) giving advice to Sally Kirkland (age 34) circa 1975-76.
Shelly on TV: “I don’t think acting on television matters. It’s like acting on toilet paper.”
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Shelly on TV: “I don’t think acting on television matters. It’s like acting on toilet paper.”
youtu.be/GVftBYEz540?...
Making it in Hollywood Sally Kirkland '1976
YouTube video by Media Burn Archive
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Amazing clip of Shelly Winters (age 55) giving advice to Sally Kirkland (age 34) circa 1975-76.
Shelly on TV: “I don’t think acting on television matters. It’s like acting on toilet paper.”
youtu.be/GVftBYEz540?...
Shelly on TV: “I don’t think acting on television matters. It’s like acting on toilet paper.”
youtu.be/GVftBYEz540?...
Today:
TV Talk: Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Ali Larter talk #Landman season 2 where Tommy remains besieged on all sides, streaming Sunday on @paramountplus via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
TV Talk: Tommy’s still besieged on all sides in ‘Landman’ season 2
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Paramount+’s “Landman,” streaming its second season Nov. 16, remains writer/creator Taylor Sheridan&rsqu...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Today:
Tonight:
TV Talk: Beginning Sunday, Ken Burns recounts #TheAmericanRevolution in his latest @PBS docu-series, airing locally on @WQED - via @triblive.bsky.social - triblive.com/aande/movies...
TV Talk: Ken Burns recounts ‘The American Revolution’ for PBS
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with colleag...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tonight:
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Pam Bondi has posted rants and videos saying that there’ll be no mercy for those who threaten federal agents.
But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.
Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.
Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.
Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.
Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
Trump Pardons Two for Crimes Related to Jan. 6
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Pam Bondi has posted rants and videos saying that there’ll be no mercy for those who threaten federal agents.
But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.
Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.
Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.
Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.
Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
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The creators of The CW's Gossip Girl explain how early test audiences almost got Kristen Bell's iconic voiceover cut from the show.
Why Gossip Girl Nearly Scrapped Kristen Bell's Voiceover - TVLine
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November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The creators of The CW's Gossip Girl explain how early test audiences almost got Kristen Bell's iconic voiceover cut from the show.
Filmed in Pittsburgh!
In 1992, "The Jacksons: An American Dream" premiered on ABC. The two-part miniseries chronicled the meteoric rise of the singing Jackson family, from their working-class background in Gary, Indiana to Motown super stardom.
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Filmed in Pittsburgh!
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Yes, if you've decided you're cool with Marge cuz the enemy of your enemy is your friend, that means you're willing to overlook her trafficking in conspiracy theories about Jews & also this! ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yes, if you've decided you're cool with Marge cuz the enemy of your enemy is your friend, that means you're willing to overlook her trafficking in conspiracy theories about Jews & also this! ⬇️
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Hype turns to frustration for residents as “College GameDay” bus takes whole block of limited Oakland street parking.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hype turns to frustration for residents as “College GameDay” bus takes whole block of limited Oakland street parking.
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Disney and YouTube TV have announced an end to their carriage beef. Disney networks like ABC and ESPN have been dark on YouTube TV since October 30. Channels and recordings currently are returning to YouTube.
The Disney-YouTube TV Standoff Is Finally Over
Disney and YouTube TV have announced an end to their carriage beef. Disney networks like ABC and ESPN have been dark on YouTube TV since October 30. Channels and recordings currently are returning to YouTube.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Disney and YouTube TV have announced an end to their carriage beef. Disney networks like ABC and ESPN have been dark on YouTube TV since October 30. Channels and recordings currently are returning to YouTube.