Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Through its first three seasons — in 2003, 2004 and 2013 — there was always a Pittsburgher as the mark on “The Joe Schmo Show,” a faux reality competition where all the contestants are actors
Applying the law of “things come in threes,” Tuesday’s announcement by longtime WTAE general assignment reporter Bob Mayo that he will retire Dec. 31 is appropriate as it’s the third significant on-air retirement from Pittsburgh TV stations this quarter, following the departures of KDKA-TV’s Jon Delano and WPXI’s David Johnson.
Amazon Freevee’s “Jury Duty,” streaming Friday, is “The Joe Schmo Show” by another name. Pittsburghers played the Schmoes in several seasons of “Joe Schmo,” but the “Jury Duty” schmo, Ronald Gladden, is a solar contractor from San Diego. Gladden thinks he’s been picked for jury duty but it turns out