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"Dinner at Lutece is pretty nice, but I could be home watching gymnastics."
This and that, after the jump. …
Olympics sampled so far: Opening ceremonies (mentioned below), swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, badminton, soccer, a smidge of handball, gymnastics, synchronized diving, lacrosse, promos for NBC fall shows and a bunch of political ads ...
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Keeping My Promise
evilbeetgossip.film.com 8/11/2008 — Well, the women of USA gymnastics may have spent the day breaking ankles, stepping out of bounds, falling on their asses and off uneven bars, but Michael Phelps was busy winning his second gold medal in Beijing today in the men’s 400m freestyle ...
evilbeetgossip.film.com 8/11/2008 — Well, the women of USA gymnastics may have spent the day breaking ankles, stepping out of bounds, falling on their asses and off uneven bars, but Michael Phelps was busy winning his second gold medal in Beijing today in the men’s 400m freestyle ...
NBC Hits $1B In Olympic Ad Sales
broadcastingcable.com 8/7/2008 — Reaches stated ad revenue target one day prior to opening ceremonies, but still has avails remaining
broadcastingcable.com 8/7/2008 — Reaches stated ad revenue target one day prior to opening ceremonies, but still has avails remaining
Test Your Knowledge About the Olympics and TV
buzzsugar.com 8/7/2008 — The Summer Olympics in Beijing kick off on Friday, with NBC broadcasting several hours of the opening ceremonies. For the next two weeks, coverage of the Olympics will be all over NBC and its cable networks — but how many hours are we talking here? Test your knowledge of that, and many other Olympics-related TV questions, in my quiz! Source read more
buzzsugar.com 8/7/2008 — The Summer Olympics in Beijing kick off on Friday, with NBC broadcasting several hours of the opening ceremonies. For the next two weeks, coverage of the Olympics will be all over NBC and its cable networks — but how many hours are we talking here? Test your knowledge of that, and many other Olympics-related TV questions, in my quiz! Source read more
Naomi Klein: The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
huffingtonpost.com 8/8/2008 — So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government ...
huffingtonpost.com 8/8/2008 — So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government ...
John Edwards Admits to Affair with Rielle Hunter (Photos)
bittenandbound.com 8/8/2008 — John Edwards , 55, has finally fessed up to an affair with a 44 year old former campaign aide Rielle Hunter. He will be doing a sit down interview tonight with Bob Woodruff on ABC’s Nightline . Savvy move on his part as the rest of the ...
bittenandbound.com 8/8/2008 — John Edwards , 55, has finally fessed up to an affair with a 44 year old former campaign aide Rielle Hunter. He will be doing a sit down interview tonight with Bob Woodruff on ABC’s Nightline . Savvy move on his part as the rest of the ...
Katherine Goldstein: Hook, Line, and Sinker: NBC Swallows Opening Ceremonies Propaganda
huffingtonpost.com 8/9/2008 — First off, I want to say that from an artistic, creative standpoint the Opening Ceremonies exceeded my expectations. Director Zhang Yimou deserves heaping praise for the 2008 drummers, the synchronized, dancing printing blocks, the human calligraphy on the LCD screen, and lighting of the Olympic flame. But despite the beauty of the spectacle, the conscious decision to create a narrative ...
huffingtonpost.com 8/9/2008 — First off, I want to say that from an artistic, creative standpoint the Opening Ceremonies exceeded my expectations. Director Zhang Yimou deserves heaping praise for the 2008 drummers, the synchronized, dancing printing blocks, the human calligraphy on the LCD screen, and lighting of the Olympic flame. But despite the beauty of the spectacle, the conscious decision to create a narrative ...
Olympics: Pay No Attention to Those Fireworks Behind the Anchorman
tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 8/11/2008 — Another consequence of NBC's decision to delay the United States broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday.
tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 8/11/2008 — Another consequence of NBC's decision to delay the United States broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday.
8 Opening Ceremonies Moments That Made Me Crap My Pants
bestweekever.tv 8/11/2008 — During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, we witnessed the sheer power and brilliance of what it looks like when thousands of individuals come together for one purpose: to blowing your f*cking mind. Throughout the event, I felt a mix ...
bestweekever.tv 8/11/2008 — During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, we witnessed the sheer power and brilliance of what it looks like when thousands of individuals come together for one purpose: to blowing your f*cking mind. Throughout the event, I felt a mix ...
Olympic Opening Ceremonies Impressive, Enhanced — RadarOnline.com
Weren't the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics amazing? Particularly the fireworks? They sure were! Also? Depending on where you were watching them from, they were kind of fake!
Fifteen percent of the world watched the Olympics — TV Squad
Various polls taken on Monday indicate that approximately 1 billion people, or 15 percent of the world , tuned in to the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing. NBC has certainly scored a much-needed ratings gold mine with this (they held off showing the Opening Ceremonies for 12 hours in order to reach a prime-time audience). Admittedly, I was hesitant when I ...
Olympics: An Estimated One Billion Viewers For Opening Ceremonies — Media Decoder
An estimated 15 percent of the world's population watched the opening ceremony,
Did the Beijing Opening Ceremony Finally Make Opening Ceremonies Cool Again? — Vulture
Photo: Getty Images
Before this year's Olympics began, we heard a lot of friends and online commentators complaining about the Games, and particularly about opening ceremonies, which have often been stupid and were memorably called "totalitarian gay pride parades" by Gawker. We tended to skip opening ceremonies ourselves, because they always just seem so lame and pageanty. But then ...
The Telefile - Let the Games Begin... — The Telefile
I've been watching the Olympics opening ceremonies since I was a little kid and I don't ever remember seeing one that was as spectacular and breathtaking as this one. Seriously. They are usually some wacky combination of over-the-top wire...
While You Were Cheering On The U.S. National Bulimic Swim Team — Best Week Ever
The Beijing Opening Ceremonies drew a 21.5 rating on U.S. television, the highest ever for a non-U.S. opening ceremony, and nearly equal to Raymond in its heyday.
The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle swim team came from behind to beat France by eight hundredths of a second , keeping Michael Phelps' hope for eight gold medals alive.
Dark Knight edged Pineapple Express to retain the top spot ...
Jenny’s TV Guide: Monday August 11 — the TV addict
Monday marks the season finale of The Mole on ABC at 10/9c.
Tonight’s Olympic coverage includes the men’s team gymnastics final concludes, Americans Michael Phelps (200m free), Aaron Peirsol (100m back) and Natalie Coughlin (100m back) chase gold in the pool, and U.S. beach volleyball action. Also, the men’s 10m synchronized platform diving final.
Also on tonight:
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Caption Hunt: 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremonies — 2GuysTalking Television Review Blogs
Show Viewing Date: 8-8-2008
Show Title: The 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Network: NBC
Reviewed By: MIke Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking
Intro:
There is something magical about what is the opening of the Summer Olympics every four years for me. Regardless of what country, I can recall many of the modern televised opening ceremonies for probably the last 20 years. This year is yet ...
Olympics: Early Ratings For Opening Ceremonies — Media Decoder
"The 21.5 overnight rating was the best on record for a non-domestic Summer Games opener, with the closest being an 18.5 from Sydney in 2000."
As Beijing Olympics Have Opening Ceremonies, An American Tourist (Relative of US Men’s Volleyball coach) is Killed at Beijing’s Drum Tower … Attacker Tang Yongming — Scared Monkeys
As much as the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics were a fantastic and had spectators in awe , this story will most certainly put a dark cloud upon the games.
A knife wielding Chinese man stabbed to death an American man and injured two others who was attending the Olympic Games. With an unprecedented amount of police and military presence at the ...
New "Office" Promo — Oh No They Didn't!
The promo that aired during the opening ceremonies last night. FYI the Office returns September 25th! Source: YouTube
Olympics Opener Scores Ratings Win for Beijing and NBC — Zap2it.com - Zap 2 News & Buzz
2008 has highest overnight ratings ever for non-US Olympic Opening Ceremony
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Whatever happens over the next 17 days at the 2008 Summer Olympics being held in Beijing, China, American viewers came together en masse to watch Friday night's Opening Ceremonies on NBC.
Slapface at the Olympics — OfficeTally
This aired during tonight’s opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
A Debut For the Ages — Film Experience Blog
Since everyone is watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies tonight (that and the closing ceremonies are my favorite parts of the whole thing quite honestly) let's celebrate the Olympics and the Movies by remembering one of the most earth shattering, heart pounding, history making debuts in all of cinema: Bruce Jenner in Can't Stop the Music. Bruce won Gold in 1976 at the Olympics but ...
Well, That Was Cool — The HeldenFiles Online
(Photo from SI.com)
Been a long day, and I expect to head sleepward soon. But I've seen almost two hours of Olympics opening-ceremonies coverage, all in HD, and it has been quite impressive. Loved the creation of images with large casts of people, and the synchronized drumming. In the early going at least, there was also a reasonable acknowledgement of political currents in China and ...
Olympics 2008 open thread — Lost Remote
Watching the opening ceremonies? On TV or online? How’s the NBCOlympics.com Silverlight live streaming experience? Let us know what you think in comments…
Opening Ceremonies Liveontapedelayblog! — Tuned In
7:25: We're set to go Chez Tuned In. The laptop is charged; the chips are ready; and Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr. are primed for their first Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Mrs. Tuned In and I have told...
— A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
THIS! IS! THE O- LYM -PIC THEME SONG! YOU! ARE! WATCHING THE GAMES ON NBC! (See, folks, it does have words.) We're going to pretend like the Olympic opening ceremonies didn't actually start twelve hours ago, and we're all set to liveblog this mofo. As I wrote four years ago : Opening ceremonies are one of those ridiculously self-important and over-the-top things that, well, I'm glad we do ...
Live From The Olympic Opening Ceremonies — Access Hollywood
The opening of the opening ceremony is nothing short of spectacular. The technological prowess is mind numbing. Over an hour in, there was a message of global warming..."Ice caps are melting," etc...the odd thing is nowhere is pollution worse than right here in Beijing it seems. The sky above me every day is daunting.
Sorry, it's the truth. It had to be said, now moving on.
Two hours ...
Olympics score big for NBC — Variety.com
TV News: Opening Ceremonies deliver record ratings -- The Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics delivered record ratings for the opening of a Games not held in the U.S., according to early overnight numbers from Nielsen that include the country's ...
TV News: Opening Ceremonies deliver record ratings -- The Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics delivered record ratings for the opening of a Games not held in the U.S., according to early overnight numbers from Nielsen that include the country's ...
