UPDATED with schedule changes: NBCUniversal is airing programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties, the programming schedules for which are constantly shifting this year. Deadline is updating this list daily from multiple official sources. See schedule below for full event listings. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service
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Simone Biles took to the balance beam today at the Tokyo Olympics and proved she is every inch a true champion as the Covid conflicted NBC broadcast games head into their final days. Yet, as Emmy campaigning truly ups its game and the Delta variant brings masks and vaccination mandates across the nation, there’s a
UPDATED, 8:16 PM: Elite gymnast Simone Biles has pulled out another Olympic event: the individual floor exercise, scheduled for Monday. Whether she’ll compete in the balance beam event taking place Tuesday remains to be determined. USA Gymnastics confirmed the development on Saturday night, via their official Twitter account. “Simone has withdrawn from the event final
“Please don’t make the Olympics into the Oscars,” Bill Maher pleaded in his show-ending New Rules monologue in tonight’s return of Real Time to HBO after a month’s break. Last April, as he reminded the audience, he said the theme of this year’s Oscar show was, “We dare you to be entertained.” Its producers, he
As the world’s athletes gather in Japan for the Summer Olympics the country is experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections. Country-wide, case numbers have risen 20% in the past week, with 4,204 new infections reported on Friday. While the 7-day average of infections per 100,000 is still relatively low at 3.3, so are the
UPDATED with complete schedules: NBCUniversal will air programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties. The Games take run from July 23-August 8 in the Japanese capital. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service will launch a Tokyo Olympics destination on July 15 that features extensive live coverage of
The Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics isn’t until Friday, but televised competition on NBCUniversal channels actually kicks off Tuesday night with three softball games, one of which features the much-vaunted Team USA. The U.S. team is the most decorated program in the sport’s history, winning three consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in 1996, 2000
Coco Gauff tested positive for Covid-19 and as a result, pulled out of competing at the Tokyo Olympics where she was set to lead the U.S. Olympic tennis team. The news comes days before the July 23 opening celebration amid an ongoing global pandemic that has forced the home country to make multiple modifications including
Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide, NBC’s new reality competition series that scored the plum post-Olympics slot for its premiere, has been pulled from the schedule, sources close to the production confirmed to Deadline. The move comes a month after production was shut down due to a non-Covid illness outbreak among the show’s staff. The show was