When will the final season of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ be on Netflix?
Post-Gazette TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions online every Friday in Tuned In Journal blog at post-gazette.com/tv. Here’s a selection of recent queries.
Q: When will the final season of “Schitt’s Creek” be on Netflix? -STEVEN VIA VOICEMAIL
Rob: Netflix hasn’t announced when the show, which already aired its final season on cable’s Pop TV, will stream those same episodes on its platform. But if past patterns are any indication, it’s likely to be in October.
Q: Has ABC canceled “GMA3” or is it just on hiatus during the pandemic? -JEREMY VIA EMAIL
Rob: At the moment it’s just on hiatus due to the pandemic. We’ll see if it eventually returns or not.
Q: Is there an ETA for the complete series of “Modern Family” on DVD? -PETER VIA VOICEMAIL
Rob: The final season is on DVD June 9. A date for the complete series on DVD has not been announced — I’d guess sometime before Christmas — but the complete series is now available digitally.
Q: Was the CBS decision to air a “Sunday Night Movie” made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic? Or was it a
response to it, a chance to have families in lockdown gather around the set to watch a Hollywood classic every Sunday night? And was the programming decision related at all to the cancellation of “God Friended Me”? -MIKE, WHITE OAK
Rob: CBS’s “Sunday Night Movie” and ABC’s Wednesday “Wonderful World of Disney” movie night are a direct result of the pandemic. Many network shows did not complete their full order of episodes which prompted the revival of CBS’s Sunday movie. It had nothing to do with the cancellation of “God Friended Me,” which saw its ratings fall in season two.
Q: I haven’t seen Janelle Hall on WTAE news broadcasts in a while. Is she on vacation, or is it something else entirely?
-JOE VIA EMAIL
Rob: In March, Hall shattered her ankle on a short bike ride with her 10year-old son and has since had two surgeries and a blood clot, as chronicled on her Facebook page. On May 20, Hall posted she was a week away from being able to put weight on the foot on her injured leg and a month or more away from being able to drive.
Q: While in quarantine watching local news has become more than just a pastime, but is now a habit. I’ve noticed an increase in 90-second infomercials by someone named Lisa Robertson, “Steals and Deals” maven who hocks all kinds of things people think they need but don’t. Where did this woman come from and what kind of foothold does she have on the station owners of WPXI-TV to be on so frequently during daytime and evening viewing hours?
-JOE, PITTSBURGH
Rob: With people staying home, advertisers had not wanted to advertise if no one was leaving their homes to make purchases. These new types of commercials were a direct result of the pandemic as TV stations attempted to find new ways to keep advertiser dollars coming in.
As for Robertson, she’s a former QVC host.