Category Archives: television

Have you met Pittsburgh Dad yet?

This is a new youtube series that highlights your average Pittsburgh Dad.  The Pittsburgh Dad series was created by Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton.  Chris Preksta is the guy behind the TV series Mercurcy Men who happens to be from Munhall.  Curt Wooton is an actor who appears in Mercury Men and happens to be from Hempfield. JanePitt (aka Virginia more

The Food Network Stops at The Waffle Shop TONIGHT!

Worlds Weirdest Restaurants, a new show that is being taped for the Food Network Canada, will be at the Waffle Shop tonight (Friday, June 10, 2011) from 10pm-3am.  The public is invited to stop by for waffles and to watch the show.  Can’t make it East Liberty – as always you can watch the Waffle Shop streaming live at WaffleShop.org. Worlds more

Jake Gyllenhall talks Steelers Tattoos, Primanti's and the Terrible Towel

Image via Wikipedia I know this was big news last week (see the Post-Gazette story here). Jake Gyllenhaal has been spoted around Pittsburgh this fall – he has been in town filming the movie Love and Other Drugs. Last week he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and share some stories about Pittsburgh, the Steelers, Primanti brothers and the terrible towel. more

Best Holiday Commercial EVER!

Of course it is from Pittsburgh! According to the YouTube comments this commercial has been running since 1982. I was thinking that I had not seen this commercial on TV yet this holiday season. A quick search of YouTube solved that. Eat N’Park’s Public Relations has even put together a schedule of when the commercial will air if you want to watch more

PGH Trivia: Hill Street Blues

I was reading this article today from Bloomberg.com about liens on property in Pittsburgh, how much money is being made and how this complicates redevelopment.  Fun stuff, not so much (It is important stuff though and I reccomend you take a look at the article).  I learned this fun fact from the article – the Hill district was the more

Git Aht! – Things To Do This Weekend

(Things to do while figuring out what the hell happened to the running game… I heard the plane back from Jacksonville still hasn’t landed because someone painted a goal line across the runway.*) (* Recycled Bubby Brister joke.) Friday, September 22 Martini more

smith

set to premiere on september 26th is CBS’s new show ‘smith.’ why do you care, you might ask? well, at least the first episode of this show was filmed in pittsburgh. the trailer, which you can watch here, shows master theif ray liotta and his team busting into the mellon institute to steal a priceless work of art, then escaping by zooming along highways more