Opinion | Glee’s homage to Britney Spears changed my life
By Megan Williams, Contributing Editor
October 15, 2020
Seeing gay women on screen in 2010 was like spotting a fox in the wild.
Opinion | Every TV show should have a musical episode
By Alex Dolinger, Senior Staff Columnist
October 7, 2020
There are days when nothing can make me feel a genuine human emotion, with the exception of one single phenomenon, and that phenomenon is musical episodes of television shows.
Opinion | What ‘Rick and Morty’ can tell us about American masculinity
By Genna Edwards, Senior Staff Columnist
May 19, 2020
The showrunners, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, have 70 episodes left. They should use them to change their philosophical tune.
Opinion | “BoJack Horseman” is as real as it gets
By Ethan Tessler, For The Pitt News
February 11, 2020
By the end of the show, you won’t be wondering why you feel emotionally attached to this cartoon alcoholic horse man.
Weekend Watchlist: Spooky shows
October 17, 2019
It’s spooky season! With Halloween less than two weeks away, here are our favorite spooky shows available to stream.
Screen Time: Our best & worst TV finales
October 14, 2019
All good things must come to an end. This includes long-running television series, though sometimes they may not end the way we would like them to. In this week’s edition of Screen Time, TPN staffers share what they believe are some of the best and worst television finales.
Column: Watching sports forges connections, unites in history
By Abbot Zuk | For The Pitt News
September 20, 2017
Whether it was my mother or father taking me to a ball game, or everyone in Catholic grade school sporting Steelers jerseys on Fridays before pivotal games — sports have been ingrained in me since the start. Like most decisions made at a young age, my sports-rooting interests were predetermined by...
Students receive access to stream portable cable television
By Rachel Glasser | News Editor
September 7, 2017
Campus Television is now portable and pocket-sized at Pitt. Comcast Corp. partnered with the University to bring on-campus residents Xfinity on Campus, a service that allows students to watch and record live television and thousands of Xfinity On Demand shows on their laptops, mobile devices or persona...
Warm up to new and returning TV shows with their trailers
By Britnee Meiser / Staff Writer
January 7, 2015
The first weeks of January can be a dumping ground for dozens of pilots that won’t make it to February. But here’s a preview of some of the most-anticipated returning shows (and one new show) — based solely on the so-far-released trailers.“Portlandia”Returns Thursday, Jan. 8 on IFCThe sketch...
Netflix breathes new life into TV
By Shawn Cooke / Staff Writer
October 21, 2013
From its title, “Orange Is the New Black” sounds like a hot new TLC reality program that urges viewers to “say yes to the jumpsuit.” Lucky for the highbrow television viewer, its title is more than a little deceiving.Netflix rolled out all 13 episodes of the show’s excellent first season fr...