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Posted 27 days ago on Pollstar

So how about those opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics on Friday We haven't seen fireworks like those since that nasty McCartney/Mills divorce last spring. We're guessing it probably didn't do much to help the city's smog problem though.

Internet Fails to Kill Olympics

Posted 27 days ago on TIME.com: Tuned In

The ratings—and/or the highly speculative guesswork—are in, and it turns out a billion people watched the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, over 34 million of them in the U.S. (That's a smaller percentage of our population, but to be...

Tragedy strikes Olympic Games

Posted 27 days ago on Entertainment Gossip | Celebrity News | Star Photos | The Buzz | SheKnows.com Blogs

Although the opening ceremonies were lavish and impressive, a dark cloud hung over the Olympic Games’ opening in Beijing. Our hearts go out to the families impacted by the tragedy on Saturday. During the first day of the Olympics , a Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the US Olympic men’s volleyball team at a tourist site. He killed one and injured the other and ...

Fifteen percent of the world watched the Olympics

Posted 27 days ago on 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 ...

Did the Beijing Opening Ceremony Finally Make Opening Ceremonies Cool Again?

Posted 27 days ago on 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 ...

Caption Hunt: 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Posted 28 days ago on 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 Opens Huge for NBC

Posted 29 days ago on Jossip

NBC, which is banking on all-stars like Michael Phelps to pull in audiences , delivered a promising start during last night’s opening ceremonies broadcast — part of the network’s $894 million licensing deal. Some 35 million Americans tuned in during the primetime show from Beijing, 19 percent more than 2004’s Athens games, according to Nielsen’s preliminary ...

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

Posted 29 days ago on 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 ...

Time of My Life - Bejing Olympics

Posted 29 days ago on American Idol

By popular demand… David Cook’s “Time of My Life” was used as a montage at the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. It was broadcast on NBC last night. Rickey has the clip HERE .

Olympics Opener Scores Ratings Win for Beijing and NBC

Posted 29 days ago on Zap2it.com - News

2008 has highest overnight ratings ever for non-US Olympic Opening Ceremony > 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.

Live From The Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Posted 30 days ago on 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 ...

TV Tonight: The Olympics Kick Off

Posted 30 days ago on BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.

Today, the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the millennium, the 2008 Olympics kick off in Beijing. Or rather, they've already kicked off: The opening ceremonies began at 8:08 p.m. locally — which is 8:08 a.m. on the East Coast. Still, in just a few hours, we'll get to see the ceremonies for ourselves, as NBC will carry a tape-delayed version of the ceremonies starting ...

2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

Posted 30 days ago on HOTORNOTGOSSIP.COM | THE AUTHORITY ON WHAT'S HOT OR NOT IN POP CULTURE BY CELEBRITY BLOGGER ZACK TAYLOR

It's August 8th 2008, and that means the 2008 Summer Olympics are here!! The opening ceremonies in Beijing have taken place and now athletes from across the globe will compete and live out their dreams... Follow all the action on our website by going here !! You can also vote for which athletes you think are HOT or NOT by CLICKING HERE !! Catch the opening ceremonies in North ...

Lavish Start to the 2008 Olympics

Posted 30 days ago on Gothamist

The 2008 Olympics in Beijing were officially kicked off, and the NY Times reported that the festivities were an "opening ceremony of soaring fireworks, lavish spectacle and a celebration of Chinese culture and international good will." The ceremonies were produced by director Zhang Yimou , and NBC will be broadcasting the ceremony beginning at 7:30 p.m. EST tonight, but in case you want to ...

Here Come The Olympics!

Posted 30 days ago on Watching Reality TV

The wait is over! Tonight the Beijing Summer Olympics officially kick off and you can catch it all on NBC. Opening ceremonies begin at 7:30 PM EST. Every four years the world gathers to watch the greatest athletes come together to see who will win the gold. Events range anywhere from archery, to swimming, to gymnastics. NBC will be airing various events through out the two-weeks, including ...

For Olympic Viewers, a Long Wait

Posted 30 days ago on TV Decoder

American television viewers are in for a 12-hour wait to see the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on Friday, as NBC is waiting until the evening in the United States to show the three-hour spectacle from the Bird's Nest in Beijing. The ceremony started at 8 p.m. in Beijing and at 8 a.m. on the East [...]

Born in Sudan; Made in the USA

Posted 8/7/2008 on baldilocks

Gotta love this.BEIJING - Lopez Lomong, a former Lost Boy of Sudan who spent a decade in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to America, will carry the United States flag during Friday's opening ceremonies in Bird's Nest Stadium. "This...

Live: Boredoms at the La Brea Tar Pits

Published 28 days ago on L.A. Times - Music News

The Japanese art-punk ensemble rolls out the percussion for the L.A. premiere of the avant-garde '888 BoaDrum.' > Boredoms' free Friday night concert at ...

Olympics score big for NBC

Published 29 days ago on 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 ...

Friday-Night To-Do: Olympic Fireworks and John Edwards' Affair

Published 30 days ago on Celebrity Fix

Friday nights are usually pretty dull in TV land because it's when we're supposed to go on dates, drink heavily or see The Dark Knight again. But tonight, for the first time in forever, there is something to entertain the whole family on network ...

Gritty Renegade Now Directs China’s Close-Up

Published 30 days ago on NYT > Movies

Zhang Yimou’s films were once banned. Now he is presiding over the Olympic opening ceremonies. >

Ad sales for Olympics tops $1 billion

Published 8/7/2008 on Variety.com

Front Page: Surge in ad dollars called a 'milestone' -- Madison Avenue has ignored a debilitated advertising marketplace and bought more than $1 billion of advertising time in advance of the 3,600 hours of NBC coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games, ...

Hongmei Li: Pledging as a Way to Motivate Paid Staff and Volunteers at the Beach Volleyball Ground

Published 8/7/2008 on Entertainment on HuffingtonPost.com

After working at the beach volleyball ground for a month, I have found that pledging has become an important way to motivate people to serve the Beijing Olympics here. Various pledging ceremonies have been held in the past few months. In June, there ...