Rob OwenSep 11, 2025
TV Talk: Roberto Clemente's son says new doc celebrates family's legacy + @hbo channels renamed + honors for #PradeepsOfPittsburgh , via @triblive https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-roberto-clementes-son-says-new-doc-celebrates-familys-legacy/
TV Talk: Roberto Clemente’s son says new doc celebrates family’s legacy

In addition to playing in multiple local theaters beginning Friday, at a screening followed by a filmmakers’ Q&A at the Byham Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday and at a $15 per person ticketed showing at PNC Park Sunday, the new documentary “Clemente” will air on cable’s History Channel at

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Rob OwenJul 14, 2025
TV Talk: Pittsburgh teen & grandmas on #ChristmasAtSea @HallmarkChannel show tonight + locally set #Plight on @primevideo + local @RuPaulsDragRace alum hosts series + #Waston back this fall + #ThePitt & #PradeepsOfPittsburgh honored, via @triblive
https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-pittsburghers-on-hallmark-cruise-show-locally-shot-indie-on-prime/
TV Talk: Pittsburghers on Hallmark cruise show; locally shot indie on Prime

For its annual “Christmas in July” programming event, Hallmark Channel created “Christmas at Sea,” a docuseries about last November’s four-night Hallmark Christmas Cruise that features two Pittsburgh grandmothers and their Hallmark Christmas movie-loving 16-year-old grandson. Airing its second episode tonight at 8 (streaming tomorrow on Hallmark+), this week’s installment spends

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🪑Dr Rockstar ♫May 30, 2025

Anyone else watching The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh?

I just started S1.E1.
(about to go to E2)
#pradeepsofpittsburgh

Rob OwenFeb 10, 2025
From the weekend:
TV Talk: @primevideo cancels #PradeepsOfPittsburgh + actors joint locally filmed #MayorofKingstown + skip #TheZSuite - via @TribLIVE https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-prime-video-cancels-winning-comedy-pradeeps-of-pittsburgh/
TV Talk: Prime Video cancels winning comedy ‘Pradeeps of Pittsburgh’

In typical late Friday, take-out-the-trash (e.g. bad news you don’t want too many people to see) fashion, Amazon’s Prime Video confirmed it canceled “Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” its entertaining-for-the-whole-family comedy about an Indian family that immigrates to Pittsburgh. Although filmed in Toronto, the series was created by veteran TV comedy writer

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Rob OwenFeb 8, 2025
TV Talk: @primevideo cancels #PradeepsOfPittsburgh + actors joint locally filmed #MayorofKingstown + skip #TheZSuite - via @TribLIVE https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-prime-video-cancels-winning-comedy-pradeeps-of-pittsburgh/
TV Talk: Prime Video cancels winning comedy ‘Pradeeps of Pittsburgh’

In typical late Friday, take-out-the-trash (e.g. bad news you don’t want too many people to see) fashion, Amazon’s Prime Video confirmed it canceled “Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” its entertaining-for-the-whole-family comedy about an Indian family that immigrates to Pittsburgh. Although filmed in Toronto, the series was created by veteran TV comedy writer

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Rob OwenNov 21, 2024
TV Talk: #PradeepsOfPittsburgh stars visit @Penguins game this weekend + #MayorOfKingstown preps to film season 4 + #AManOnTheInside & #CruelIntentions reviewed, via TribLive: https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-pradeeps-stars-visit-penguins-game-more-kingstown-man-on-the-inside-cruel-intentions-debut/
TV Talk: ‘Pradeeps’ stars visit Penguins game; more ‘Kingstown;’ ‘Man on the Inside,’ ‘Cruel Intentions’ debut

It’s been about a month since “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh” premiered on Amazon’s Prime Video and this weekend two of the show’s stars will be in town for an appearance at Saturday’s Penguins game against Utah Hockey Club (7 p.m. PPG Paints Arena). Ashwin Sakthivel, who plays Vinod, the garbage

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Rob OwenOct 28, 2024
TV Talk: Former German leader reimagined as amateur sleuth in #MissMerkel + #PradeepsOfPittsburgh fact checked + new @sethmeyers special on @hbo + Buffalo Bill house in new doc, via @TribLIVE : https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-german-leader-reimagined-as-detective-pradeeps-fact-checked/
TV Talk: German leader reimagined as detective; ‘Pradeeps’ fact-checked

For the sheer novelty, it’s hard to beat the oddity that is “Miss Merkel,” a two-episode foreign series that imagines former German chancellor Angela Merkel as a Jessica Fletcher-like amateur detective. Now streaming on indie service MHz Choice, the German-language “Miss Merkel” (with English subtitles) stars veteran German actress Katharina

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Rob OwenOct 15, 2024
TV Talk: Funny, (mostly) family-friendly #PradeepsOfPittsburgh streams Thursday on @primevideo - via @TribLIVE : https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-comedic-gem-pradeeps-of-pittsburgh-premieres/
TV Talk: Comedic gem ‘Pradeeps of Pittsburgh’ premieres

Although it filmed in Toronto, don’t hold that against “Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” a genuinely smart, funny, entertaining and timely comedy that streams all eight first-season episodes Thursday on Amazon’s Prime Video and on Amazon Freevee. Created by writer Vijal Patel (“The Middle,” “Black-ish”), who grew up partially in Monroeville, “Pradeeps”

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Rob OwenSep 18, 2024
TV Talk: @primevideo announces premiere date for #PradeepsOfPittsburgh a new Pittsburgh-set comedy (post includes trailer, which looks promising), via @TribLIVE : https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-amazon-announces-pradeeps-of-pittsburgh-premiere-date/
TV Talk: Amazon announces ‘Pradeeps of Pittsburgh’ premiere date

Originally 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 and Amazon’s Prime Video. Filmed last summer in Toronto, the half-hour comedy series was created by Vijal Patel (“Schooled,” “Black-ish”) and inspired by his

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Rob OwenJan 24, 2023
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: @TimBenzPGH and I talk #PradeepsOfPittsburgh + why @JustifiedFX returned to film in Western Pa. + @RobYang007 previews #AmericanRust season two + streamer ups its branding with #TimothéeChalamet ad for @AppleTVPlus via @TribLIVE
https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/pittsburgh-pop-podcast-talking-pradeeps-filmed-in-pittsburgh-american-rust/
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Pradeeps,’ filmed-in-Pittsburgh ‘American Rust’

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 Pittsburgh-set but Toronto-filmed “Pradeeps of Pittsburgh” and locally-filmed “American Rust” and “Justified: City Primeval.” Owen also talks about the end of the winter 2023

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