Remote Games: NBC announcers ready to call action from US

President Joe Biden is making an announcement about the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Sigur Rós have today (February 22) announced details of a huge world tour.It’s the group’s first in almost five years and will see the acclaimed Icelandic collective appear in Mexico, Canada and the United States later this year.Tickets for the gigs in Canada and the US are on sale at 10am local time on February 25, while those in Mexico will go on sale 11am local time on February 26.

This week Call the Midwife star Helen George - who plays Trixie - described how her experience of cholestasis during her second pregnancy with daughter Lark kept her ‘scratching all day and all night’. The 37-year-old actress - whose partner Jack Ashton was also in the hit series - was diagnosed with the liver condition after she gave birth to her first daughter Wren, now four. She told her Instagram followers that her second pregnancy - which resulted in the birth of daughter, Lark, last November - was ‘so uncomfortable and painful’.

Austin Butler definitely managed to get Elvis Presley’s signature dance moves down to a tee as he turns into the King of Rock and Roll in the upcoming biopic.  The 30-year-old actor takes the lead role in Elvis, the Baz Luhrmann biopic about the music sensation, charting his rise to fame.  The trailer for the long-awaited movie has finally been released, seeing Austin take on Elvis’s southern drawl as he meets his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks.

Leading into Wednesday primetime, the lowest-rated evening of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was the very first night of competition pre-Opening Ceremony. However, Wednesday marked new lows for NBC Olympics coverage.

Sasha Urban editorCrimeCon, the annual gathering of true crime content creators and fans, is joining the awards circuit with its launch of the inaugural Clue Awards. The ceremony, which will recognize the best of true crime content produced in 2021, will take place on April 30 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, during the annual convention.“True crime programming has always captivated audiences, but since launching CrimeCon in 2017 the genre has expanded dramatically,” said CrimeCon founder and executive producer Kevin Balfe.

The full-length trailer for “Moulin Rouge!” director Baz Luhrmann’s flashy new musical biopic about Elvis Presley has arrived.

“Bridgerton” meets “The Bachelor” in NBC’s newest reality show dating competition, “The Courtship.”The regency-era-inspired series is dropping on NBC and its streaming service Peacock on March 6.The show takes a page out of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as a modern spin on the classic game of love. It features Nicole Remy, a Seattle woman who is looking for her own Mr.

NEW YORK -- Hollywood will have a strong presence at this year’s Met Gala in May — and not only on the red carpet. A group of top film directors including Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Regina King and last year’s Oscar winner Chloé Zhao will be a key part of the Costume Institute exhibit launching the gala in May.Star curator Andrew Bolton on Tuesday announced the list of eight directors who will create what he called “cinematic vignettes” in the period rooms of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An NBC Olympics executive said Thursday that the network has not made a request to interview Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai after the tennis star at the center of speculation over her well-being attended the Beijing Winter Games.

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.  After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received. “If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017.

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received.“If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017.

Lauren Pope has announced the happy news that she is pregnant with her second child.The former The Only Way Is Essex star, 39, shared exciting news as she posted a snap of her blossoming baby bump on her Instagram page. In the photo the soon-to-be mum of two, who welcomed her daughter 18 months ago, can be seen standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror to debut her bump. Lauren is wearing an off-white ribbed long-sleeved top and a pair of light blue straight leg jeans.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNBC says it has “resolved” a “third-party error” that was inhibiting Leslie Jones’ social media commentary on the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.“This was the result of a third-party error, and the situation has been resolved,” an NBC spokesperson told Variety on Tuesday. “She is free to do her social media posts as she has done in the past. She is a super fan of the Olympics, and we are super fans of her.”Some of the comedian’s posts were blocked because of restrictions on sharing recorded video on social media, with NBC’s rights to the Olympics — which cost them $7.75 billion through 2032 — being very strictly observed.Jones, an Olympics live-tweeter since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and a guest of NBC’s in Rio and at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games, said in a statement tweeted Monday that she is “starting to feel like this should be my last Olympics I live-tweet.” “I know I know, another celebrity bitching.

NBC’s primetime Olympics host will return to the U.S. from Beijing after Monday night’s broadcast, earlier than was originally planned.