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Q: Is Celina Pompeani no longer a part of the KDKA-TV news team? Sherry, Latrobe
Rob: Pompeani is a freelancer and has never been on staff at KDKA. She continues to be part of Channel 2’s “Pittsburgh Today Live” show but she’s no longer anchoring traffic coverage during the station’s morning newscasts.
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Courtesy of Starz Outlander stars Graham McTavish and Sam Heughan go on a road trip through Scotland in Men in Kilts.
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Over the next seven days, NBC premieres two comedies, Starz debuts a road show and HBO Max introduces an excellent British drama.
‘Young Rock,’ ‘Kenan’
Of NBC’s two new single-camera, laugh-track-free comedies, “Young Rock” (8 p.m. Tuesday, WPXI-TV) proves funnier and altogether better than “Kenan” (8:30 p.m. Tuesday).
There’s a bit of a “Wonder Years” vibe to “Young Rock” filtered through the writing of executive producer Nahnatchka Khan, showrunner of the former ABC comedy “Fresh Off the Boat.”
Courtesy Nick Danko
Courtesy Nick Danko
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For his directorial feature film debut, Western Pennsylvania’s Nick Danko looked no further than his own backyard.
Danko’s “Red Woods” is a found footage film in the vein of “The Blair Witch Project” (minus the shaky-camera effect) that follows an urban explorer group as they tromp through abandoned houses in the woods. Much of it was filmed on Danko’s property in Lawrence County that borders McConnell’s Mill State Park.
Photos Courtesy of HGTV
Photos Courtesy of HGTV
Leanne and Steve Ford (at left) bring Vicki and Dave Sawyer (at right), as well as their daughter, Kristi and her husband, Sam Sptizer, into their newly renovated Carnegie home that they will all be living in for the reveal, as seen on HGTV’s “Home Again with the Fords.”
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Front exterior of the Sawyer’s old farm style home, as seen on HGTV’s “Home Again with the Fords.”
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As seen on HGTV’s “Home Again with the Fords,” brother and sister duo Steve and Leanne Ford put the finishing touches on Adam and Jenna Bell’s home in Fox Chapel. The home was Adam’s grandparents’ home, and Jenna and Adam bought it and Leanne and Steve renovated it completely.
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Q: I was watching the fifth episode of the third season of CBS’s “S.W.A.T.” on Hulu recently. In one scene, actress Lina Esco wears a Beaver County Times T-shirt. In another scene, actor Alex Russell is in a bar with an Iron City Beer sign on the wall. Since the series is set in Los Angeles, there’s obviously a Western Pennsylvania connection on the production staff. Do you know what it is?