Hong Kong Government Intervenes to Buy Olympic Games TV Rights

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentThe Tokyo city government has announced the relaxation of shutdown measures at cinemas and museums.  This is despite the Japanese national government’s recent extension of the current state of emergency to June 20 for nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka.The new policy goes into effect on Tuesday (June 1, 2021) with restrictions on numbers of patrons, opening hours and the serving of alcoholic beverages in place.The change comes after the Japan Motion

said earlier this month the games should be canceled due to the very real risk of causing a new COVID-19 outbreak. And a Reuters poll found that 70% of Japanese companies agree.

Bob Costas, who hosted 12 Olympic Games telecasts for NBC, believes the Tokyo Olympics should not go forward due to risks from Covid-19.

With the 2021 Summer Games just weeks away, the NBC Olympics team is full steam ahead.

SEGA has confirmed that the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game will release on June 22.The officially licensed Tokyo Olympics game came out in 2019 in Japan, and is now releasing worldwide on June 22, for Switch, PS4, PC and Xbox One.Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game is being released even as the actual Olympic Games in Tokyo remain on hiatus amid continued Coronavirus pandemic concerns in Japan.The game sticks to a mostly realistic tone, but has a few more playful

Ahead of its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, NBC has set premiere dates for a slew of new and returning unscripted summer series and its Olympics-themed Jonas Brothers special.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asahi Shimbun newspaper, one of Japan’s most influential media and a partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has called for the cancellation of this summer’s rescheduled Games.In a Japanese-language editorial, published Wednesday local time, the paper cited risks to public health and stress on Japan’s medical system as the reasons for its call.“We ask prime minister Suga (Yoshihide) to calmly and objectively assess the situation and decide on the cancellation of

Olympics’ track and field coverage for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.Diffey takes over for Tom Hammond, who had called Olympic athletics for the network from 1992 through 2016.“They don't label me as the racing guy or the speed guy, but I am,” Diffey told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The Tokyo Olympics must go on, a senior International Olympics Committee executive said Friday.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThree new animated feature films from Asian American creators are coming to Netflix in 2023, including Stephen Chow’s “The Monkey King,” starring the voice talents of Jimmy O.

Laurie Hernandez is currently training several hours a day, multiple times a week to once again earn herself a spot on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team at July’s Tokyo Olympics.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has taken the global rights to Hulu’s Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on a novel of the same name by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty.

NBC is taking sibling rivalry to an Olympic level. The network today unveiled Olympic Dreams Featuring Jonas Brothers, an hourlong special set for summer that pits Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas against one another with help from some of Team USA’s best athletes.

A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now.

said the show’s writers chose to start from scratch on the new season after public outcry over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. The series was also among a handful of Universal Television series whose shooting schedules were interrupted by spikes in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles over the holidays.In addition to Crews, the ensemble comedy stars Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller.

The doors at Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s 99th precinct will close after the Summer Olympics after NBC gave the final season of the comedy the “coveted” post-games slot.

Oh no! Find out why the Olympics may not happen again this year – TMZ Is this celeb couple the cutest or what!? – Just Jared Jr See who smokes weed every day – Celebitchy Find out what celeb kid covered Taylor Swift – TooFab These two are unrecognizable – Popsugar These two co-stars were photographed on set and everyone loves these pics – Just Jared Jr

First Dates maître-d Fred Sirieix couldn't contain his pride after his daughter Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. "Fourth best diver in the world! Best daughter and best sister ever! Well done.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAs millions of people tune in to the Tokyo Olympics later this year, one of the world’s biggest advertisers hopes to give them something during the commercial breaks that is as inspiring as anything they might see around the swimming pool or on the gymnastics pavilion.Procter & Gamble, which has become a regular participant in Olympics advertising over the last decade, will serve up two short films that give viewers a different take of the athletes competing this