Highlights of Day 2 Events SWIMMING Finals (9:30 p.m., NBC) Katie Ledecky enters Tokyo ranked second in the world this year in the 400m free, which she won in Rio in a world record that still stands. Australian Ariarne Titmus is reigning world champion and is 2.35 seconds faster than Ledecky this year after posting […]
NBC airs its first-ever live morning broadcast of an Olympic Opening Ceremony, live from the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. The Parade of Nations — with delegations encouraged to have one male and one female flag bearer — will have a slightly tweaked order. Greece, which always goes first as the Olympics’ birthplace, will be followed […]
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Nickelodeon has put in to development a new original animated movie, which will be co-produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and SmartStudy, the global entertainment company behind the children’s brand Pinkfong. The news of the movie comes as Nick orders a second season of its animated preschool series “Baby Shark’s Big Show!”, which was recently nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award […]
NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics begins on NBCSN a full three days before the Opening Ceremony with live softball on Tuesday, July 20. Beth Mowins, who has called 27 Women’s College World Series in softball, makes her NBC Olympics debut handling play-by-play of the sport, alongside analyst Michele Smith, a two-time U.S. Olympic softball […]
The Summer Olympics soon arrives in Tokyo, and with it, the Opening Ceremony on July 23 will display the pageantry, pomp and circumstance showcasing Japanese culture. The entire spectacle is meant to be a representation of global unity. The irony is it will all unfold in front of a sparse amount of people inside the […]
The Television Critics Association (TCA) announced the nominees for the organization’s 37th Annual TCA Awards, which honor the outstanding creators, series, and stars of the 2020-2021 TV season. The TCA is made up of more than 200 members, professional television critics and journalists from the United States and Canada, who nominate programming available on broadcast, […]
General entertainment network INSP has ordered two additional seasons of anthology docudrama “Wild West Chronicles.” In “Wild West Chronicles”, the legendary Bat Masterson, once a feared gunslinger and lawman, trades his sheriff’s badge for a pen and becomes a newspaper reporter. Although he once chased outlaws, he now chases stories, and beneath his front-page headlines, fearless […]
