DAVID BIANCULLI

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2008
Aug
15
 
 
Tonight is Michael Phelps' penultimate Olympics event, his last individual one, and the one in which he faces a competitor who, rather than he, holds the world record. The race is televised live in prime time tonight on NBC, and the audience ought to be huge...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
15
 
 
Nobody can say NBC's Beijing Olympics coverage doesn't root for the home folks. The network is hyping how it'll lead Friday night's 8 p.m. ET network coverage with a 20-minute recap of the women's gymnastics triumphs of American gold medalist Nastia Liukin and silver medalist Shawn Johnson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
14
 
 
So far, NBC's prime-time coverage of the XXIX Summer Olympics has averaged more than 31 million viewers. That's a huge number that's bound to get even bigger, because this weekend, if Michael Phelps makes it to the point of eclipsing swimmer Mark Spitz's single-Olympics gold-medal record, the number of viewers drawn to their TV sets should be astronomical...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
12
 
 
Excuse me for being excited about this, but there's no hiding my enthusiasm or pride here. After decades as one of the last important TV series never released on home video, the influential 1967-69 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" is finally being released...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
11
 
 
OLYMPICS-swimming-lanes.jpg Sunday night's NBC prime-time telecast of the XXIX Olympic Games -- part live, part replayed from hoarded video coverage -- was nothing short of fabulous. The U.S. athletes shone in some events, faltered in others and barely missed in still others, but NBC, in its first weekend of Olympics coverage, has been a winner all the way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
9
 
 
The opening ceremony of the XIX Summer Olympics was a transcendent TV event. Every time you think the Chinese couldn't top themselves, they did. "A picture is worth a thousand words," usually cited as an ancient Chinese proverb, actually isn't ancient or Chinese at all. But with the Olympics opening ceremony handled so stunningly by China, only an annotated photo album does the evening, or the NBC telecast, justice. So here goes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
9
 
 
I'm becoming a quick fan of NBC's online Olympics video. Like a kid set loose in a candy store, you get to taste whatever you want...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
9
 
 
Bernie Mac, gone? At 50? Even more surprising than the comedian's early death from pneumonia is the fact that his fine Fox sitcom The Bernie Mac Show doesn't seem to be repeating nationally anywhere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
8
 
 
Since you never know when you're gonna wanna see North Korea play Nigeria in a pre-Olympic women's soccer match, you should go now -- NOW -- to NBCOlympics.com and download the Silverlight plug-in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
8
 
 
And cable wonders why customers are exasperated. Even when this industry does something good for viewers, they don't manage to tell you about it...