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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.Top athletes across the world are already headed to Beijing ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony this weekend.Although the 2022 Winter Olympics will look a little different this year due to recent surges of the Omicron variant, the games will officially commence February 4 and run through February 20. Out of safety precautions, organizers have announced that international spectators will be barred from attending, with only a limited number of spectators allowed at any of the in-person events.This year there will be a total of 109 events on the roster, the highest in history.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Battle at Lake Changjin II” lived up to its blockbuster billing with a more than $75 million box office haul by lunchtime on Tuesday, its opening day in mainland Chinese theaters.The film, aka “Watergate Bridge” had grossed RMB487 million ($76.5 million) by 1.30 pm, according to online ticketing agency Maoyan and Alibaba’s Beacon data service. At this pace a $100 million opening day is possible.State media has forecast that the film may propel the Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival) week to over $1 billion and that the 149-minute film could eventually become the highest-grossing film of all time in China.To do that, it would have to surpass “The Battle at Lake Changjin” which was released on Oct.

Kevin Bickner has accomplished a lot by 25! The ski jumper, who currently holds the U.S. record and is competing in the upcoming 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, is more than excited to take his skills to the snow. “My goals are to improve upon my results from last Olympics,” Kevin told NBC Chicago on Jan. 31.

NBC’s midseason Sunday lineup is starting to take shape with reality series Weakest Link and Canadian medical drama Transplant making their Season 2 debuts on the night March 6 at 9 PM and 10 PM, respectively.

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.

After being forced to sit out the annually lucrative Chinese New Year period as the Covid crisis was just beginning in 2020, Chinese box office blasted to an all-time high during the comparable 2021 session. This week, the Year of the Tiger will be ushered in beginning February 1 with eight movies poised to potentially set new records. Projections are in the RMB 7B-8B+ range ($1.1B-$1.26B). Last year in the world’s biggest box office market, the week-long holiday reached RMB 7.8B ($1.2B at historical rates).

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who infamously slept on cardboard in Tokyo — jealous after revealing that the beds at the 2022 Winter Olympics are apparently fit for a queen. The 27-year-old competitor detailed the luxuriant sleeping accommodations in a TikTok video with over 181,200 likes.Addressing a fan query on the boudoirs in Beijing’s Olympic village, Britcher exclaimed: “I am so excited you asked this question because I have something incredible to share.“Because not only do we not have cardboard beds here, but it’s as if the Beijing organizing committee said, ‘How can we just absolutely just one up Tokyo?'” the Baltimore native gushed.Reply to @angellin471 #fyp #Olympian #Olympics #olympicbed #sport #athleteThen, to demonstrate the slumber pad’s lavishness, Britcher panned to a shot of the bed’s remote, which showed that its angle could be adjusted for max comfort a la an airplane seat.If that wasn’t enough to rub salt in the summer Olympians’ wounds, the lounging luger filmed herself snuggled under the covers of her plush sleep sack.“I’m in Zero-G mode [neutral sleep position] now.

Oksana Masters took social media to thank Kim Kardashian for featuring her in the most recent SKIMS campaign for Team USA. The 32-year-old Paralympian shared a photo of a billboard with her image while wearing SKIMS’ latest collaboration with Team USA.“I’m beyond honored to be a part of the @Skims for @TeamUSA collection,” Masters wrote on an Instagram Story post.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina Media Group has launched CCTV-8K, an 8K ultra-high-definition TV channel, to broadcast the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, state-owned news agency Xinhua reports.To deliver the channel, CMG had to accelerate development of its nascent 8K production, broadcasting and transmission operations, said the Asian Broadcasting Union.CMG has started to install giant 8K screens in public places across the country, starting with four railway stations in Beijing and Olympic venue Zhangjiakou.Other media novelties this year include Kuaishou, a short video and live-streaming platform, being set as an official broadcast partner. Kuaishou claims more than a billion downloads of its app and to be catching fierce rival Bytedance (which owns both TikTok and its Chinese equivalent Douyin.) Along with streaming platform Tencent Video, Kuaishou sub-licensed the China rights to last year’s Tokyo summer games and the 2022 Beijing Olympics from China Central Television.The games are set to go ahead in an ultra-strict anti-COVID bubble.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNBCUniversal is about to begin broadcasting the second half of a rare Olympics doubleheader — and fatigue has set in.The Winter Games in Beijing begin Feb. 4, just six months after the close of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games that were postponed from 2020 because of the pandemic.

Nina Dobrev couldn’t be more excited to witness her boyfriend Shaun White doing what he does best.During an appearance on E! News’ Daily Pop on Tuesday, January 25, where she talked about her excitement for the beloved snowboarder.“I am really excited for him,” she said of his upcoming endeavor. “Just to get into the Olympics at all is one of the hugest accomplishments, let alone to get in five times. I’m so excited.

Two top Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have fired off a letter to NBCUniversal, calling for them to answer questions about their concerns that China’s ruling communist party may influence the upcoming coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lusia “Lucy” Harris, the pioneering women’s basketball player who became the first female to score a basket in the Olympics, one of the only women to be drafted into the NBA and later the first female collegiate player inducted in the National Basketball Hall of Fame, died unexpectedly Tuesday in her native Mississippi. She was 66.

via Reuters). When pressed further about the social media post that has since been deleted, she said “there are a lot of misunderstanding[s], so there’s nothing to say… about this interpretation and distortion.”Peng was attending a cross-country skiing exhibition in Shanghai as part of the run-up to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

and a trade with CBS) would have it, NBC, Telemundo and Peacock get the NFL’s championship game this year. (NBC will be airing 2022 Winter Olympics competition coverage immediately after the big game — huge ratings on top of huge ratings.)Live coverage of Super Bowl LVI begins at 1 p.m.

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Rebecca Davis editorThree-time Olympian tennis player Peng Shuai is one of China’s best-known and beloved sports figures.

The anchor called on American businesses to follow the example of the Women’s Tennis Association, which canceled events it was scheduled to hold in China after tennis player Peng Shuai accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her.

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Winter Olympics programming in February, until the series finale in May., which returns for its 21st season after a decade off the air, will anchor an all- lineup on Thursday nights starting Thursday, Feb. 24 with and closing out the evening. alum Jeffrey Donovan is currently the only star confirmed for the «revival.»Renee Zellweger's six-episode limited crime series, , is set to launch Tuesday, March 8 at 10 p.m.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNBC will try a completely different strategy for its lead-out to next year’s Super Bowl. Instead of airing an episode of a new or existing series behind Super Bowl LVI, the network will immediately flip back to Winter Olympics coverage.

Broadcast networks have generally used the Super Bowl to launch their big-ticket scripted dramas and comedies such as CBS’ launch of The Equalizer last year.

Getting their game faces on! With less than 100 days to go to the 2022 Winter Olympics, athletes are gearing up to go for gold at the Beijing games. Besides strict workouts and training schedules, top-tier competitors also have to prep their skin, hair and body for the cold weather. After all, Beijing’s temperatures in March are predicted to be about 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. Watch the exclusive video above to hear Team USA’s must-have winter products.

Celebrity Big Brother is set to return in 2022 and CBS revealed the news in a press release revealing the midseason schedule.

CBS has unveiled its midseason schedule with the return of a long-delayed The Amazing Race and freshman hospital drama Good Sam taking the place of the 10-episode revival of CSI: Vegas. The network also has set season premiere dates for Winter Olympics counter-programming Celebrity Big Brother and unscripted veteran Undercover Boss.