Peacock Will Stream All NBCUniversal Coverage Of Beijing Olympics, Including Live Events, Via Premium Tier

Anna Tingley Olympic athletes will head to the Beijing Games in style this year, all thanks to Kim Kardashian and Skims.Skims’ new capsule collection marks Team USA’s ongoing partnership with Kardashian’s shapewear company, which became the official undergarment outfitter for Team USA during the Summer 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The new capsule collection is a mix of loungewear, athletic apparel and sleepwear, each piece color blocked in red, white and blue and bearing official Team USA and Olympics imagery.

Gus Kenworthy has a special guy in his life – and they’ve been dating for over two years!

With the Winter Olympics set to begin next week in Beijing, a U.S. State Department human rights report paints a chilling picture of censorship, violence against reporters, and the suppression of dissent during the last Olympic Games held there. Even the Olympic torch relay was censored at the Beijing summer games of 2008 when dissidents protesting China’s occupation of Tibet were forcibly removed from the route by police, allegedly for their own protection.

CBS News and Stations announced an overhaul Monday that included a new studio in New York, and a new slate of programming. CBS News Miami also became the company’s 13th local streaming service, launching Monday.

Naman Ramachandran “Picabo,” co-directed by Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn and Hollywood producing legend Frank Marshall (the Jason Bourne, Jurassic World and Indiana Jones franchises), is among the programming revealed by the Olympics Channel ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, which commences Feb. 4.The programming includes stories of winter athletes past and present.

NBC Sports this week made the not-too-surprising announcement that much of its Beijing Olympics team would be covering next month’s Winter Games from afar, in Stamford, CT, as the Covid pandemic once again disrupts the event.

coronavirus pandemic began.The documentary comes as China has renewed similar lockdowns in three other cities since mid-December to contain COVID-19 outbreaks. The number of people confined to their homes totaled some 20 million people in early January.The government's decision to commandeer Wuhan's hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients meant many people with other problems were turned away.The film begins with a woman in tears outside a hospital that wouldn't admit her husband for treatment of lung cancer.

The 2022 Winter Olympic games will be going underway soon, despite previous concerns that the pandemic could delay it.

ESPN said Thursday that due to concerns over Covid and Covid-related restrictions that it will not send its news personnel to the Winter Olympics next month in Beijing. The news comes a day after rightsholder NBC said it will keep most of its announcing teams in the U.S. during the Games, which are set to run February 4-20.

2022 Winter Olympics. These 2022 Olympic Games make Beijing the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games, following the city’s Olympic debut back in 2008.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese regulators teamed up on Wednesday to issue a volley of orders that will crimp the expansion of the country’s entertainment and tech giants, including Alibaba, Tencent and TikTok-owner Bytedance.The directives came in the same week that the U.S. increased its pushback against some of the same Chinese firms, pointing to security concerns, and a Canadian researcher found the app for athletes at Beijing’s Winter Olympics to be full of security flaws.Nine different departments, including China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Cyberspace Administration of China, issued joint statements about how to regulate and tame development of what it labels “the online platform sector.” Prominent among the new policy directives is the strict regulation of the tech companies’ activities and investments in the finance sector.“Platform operators must not use data, technology, market, or capital advantages to restrict the independent operation of other platforms and applications,” said one of the opinions in the NDRC document.That appears to be most problematic for Alibaba and Tencent, which have both hatched vast online transfer, deposit-taking and insurance services.

not be sending announcers or the majority of hosts to Beijing for its coverage of the winter Olympic games. Instead, the network’s play by play coverage and the majority of other coverage will be handled from the Stamford, Connecticut headquarters of NBC sports.“Something significant has changed virtually every day for the last three months, forcing us to adjust our plan numerous times.

Covid-19 concerns have led NBC Sports to keep most of its announcing teams at home for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a report.

Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is headed to the 2022 Beijing winter games as a primetime correspondent for NBC.

complicated, factors regarding the host nation for this year’s Winter Olympics, which take place in Beijing.This year’s host country, China, is facing intense criticism for its human rights abuses, particularly its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which the U.S. has termed genocide. The Chinese government has consistently denied all allegations of human rights abuses.

In a video presentation released this afternoon, NBCUniversal executives touted their rare February combo of the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics while only briefly touching on the “complicated” situation in Beijing.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterFox will debut its new celebrity competition series “The Real Dirty Dancing” next month in the time slot that was previously reserved for the now-pushed-to-fall, high-profile Susan Sarandon drama “Monarch.”The Stephen “tWitch” Boss-hosted dancing show, which was ordered to series by the network last fall as part of its 2021-2022 programming lineup, follows eight celebrities — Brie Bella, Corbin Bleu, Tyler Cameron, Cat Cora, Howie Dorough, Antonio Gates, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes and Loni Love — “as they fully immerse themselves” in the ultimate “Dirty Dancing” experience in the hope of becoming the next “Baby” and “Johnny” (the characters played by Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze classic ’80s film). The special event series is set to air Tuesdays on Feb.

Disney/20th Century Studios’ Death On The Nile has been confirmed for a China release, slated to go out on February 19. The date falls just after the Chinese New Year period ends, and is the day before the culmination of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.