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Strong support from Times readers for critic Charles McNulty's
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Strong support from Times readers for critic Charles McNulty's
Print Spoiler alert: Simone Biles won the bronze medal in balance beam at the Tokyo Olympics. If you hoped to avoid that information heading into NBC’s prime-time coverage Tuesday — and save yourself the early wake-up call to catch it live — you either failed, or spent the day hiking a distant mountain pass without cell or internet service. (Jealous!) Which left the network with a now-familiar predicament: How do you transform old news into compelling television? The final event of the Games’ biggest star, and the denouement of the story that’s dominated the headlines coming out of ...
No one said these Olympics would be easy. Not even watching them. Midway through the first week of the Tokyo Games, even the most cautiously optimistic viewer of Friday’s opening ceremony is now likely to be rubbing their eyes: With shocking upsets, unexpected exits, a 16-hour time difference and a thicket of broadcast, cable and streaming options, the most tumultuous Olympics in years are starting to catch up with the NBC stable of networks, which hold the lucrative U.S. television rights to the two-week event. Times television editor Matt Brennan, senior writer Greg Braxton and digital ed...
Los Angeles Times Media : L.A. Times announces new deputies, investigations editor and senior writers in Arts & Entertainment 07/02/2021 | 07:30pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields The following was sent on behalf of Deputy Managing Editor Shani Hilton and acting Arts and Entertainment Editor Mary McNamara. We are thrilled to announce some exciting news out of the entertainment department. Craig Nakano has been promoted to deputy editor, Arts & Entertainment. Nakano, who has been with the Los Angeles Times since 2000 and has run our arts coverage since 2016, is a talented ...
Mental health conditions are not "demons" and remembering Charles Grodin's host stint on "Saturday Night Live."