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‘The Thing About Pam’: Renée Zellweger transforms in a darkly funny true-crime series

Actor makes a convincing killer in NBC’s fictionalization of the real-life Pamela Hupp murder case.

Chicago Sun-Times

New this week: 'Turning Red,' Ryan Reynolds and Mooski album

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Canadian rocker Bryan Adams and a Stephen Sondheim tribute from Betty Buckley, Ryan Reynolds starring as a time-traveling pilot in Netflix’s “The Adam Project” and a small-town murder case gets some big-star wattage in NBC’s “The Thing About Pam” with Renée Zellweger

The Independent UK

The Thing About Pam Turns an Actual Murder Into a Campy Melodrama

One of Dateline NBC’s favorite true crime cases gets a wild mini-series adaptation.

Reason

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Review: NBC miniseries ‘The Thing About Pam’ is smug, smarmy and so, so dull

Condescension is an ephemeral concept; it exists only as an idea. You cannot see it, feel it, touch it or taste it.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

How Renee Zellweger's obsession with Pam Hupp saga led to new NBC series

ST. LOUIS — Renee Zellweger’s dog needed a new hip.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Deloris MeBain, who was WMAQ-TV’s station relations chief, has died at 74; memorial Saturday

Dr. Ian Smith: ‘It was very inspiring to see an African American woman in the position she was in at the station.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sends news network ratings up

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent television viewers to the cable news networks for updates, with Fox News Channel gaining the largest audience and CNN the most dramatic increase

The Independent UK

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Two-thirds of U.S. watched Super Bowl

Nielsen reported the total audience on NBC, Telemundo, Peacock and NFL digital platforms averaged 112.3 million viewers. However, the audience swells to 208 million-plus when trying to take into account people watching the game in groups or out of the home.

Chicago Sun-Times

NBC News, known for TV, makes aggressive podcasting push

Projects on Title IX, British Royalty and internet conspiracy theories are coming up in the next few months as part of NBC News' aggressive moves into podcasts

The Independent UK

New CNN boss Chris Licht is known as ‘Captain Intense’

NEW YORK — Nearly 12 years ago, self-described “maniac producer” Chris Licht was lying in a hospital bed wondering if he was going to survive a brain aneurysm.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine crisis: Front pages call it invasion, channels battle for ‘world exclusive’

In an op-ed for the New York Times in 2017, Ronald Steinman, the NBC bureau chief in Saigon in 1966, said that his role in the first televised war – the Vietnam war – was clear: “to supply NBC News with an endless story of the war”.

Newslaundry

The injustice of "Law & Order" returning

What is the role crime shows play in lionizing the police? The O.G.'s return proves that TV hasn't learned much

Salon

Review: 'Law & Order' is back, and it hasn't changed. That's exactly why it's lasted so long

Back after a 12-year interregnum is "Law & Order," the Coca-Cola Classic of NBC's Dick Wolf universe. It's not as if the brand, or its sister brand of shows that begin with the word "Chicago," has been moribund in the meantime, with its hot-button topics, its where-and-when title cards, accompanied…

Los Angeles Times

‘Law & Order’ review: The Dick Wolf drama that launched a TV empire returns for Season 21. Verdict: Sad trombone

The original “Law & Order” premiered in 1990 and it is the show that launched the Dick Wolf TV empire, running on NBC for 20 seasons and 456 episodes before coming to an end in 2010. But apparently no show is truly gone forever. And so here we are, more…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

'Rust' Shooting Victim Husband 'Angry' as Baldwin Denies Blame

The husband of the "Rust" crew member shot dead by Alec Baldwin on a movie set said he holds the US actor responsible and was "so angry" to see him denying blame. Baldwin was holding a Colt gun during a rehearsal for the low-budget Western in New Mexico in October…

Reuters

Blinken believes Russia will invade Ukraine before night is out -NBC

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News on Wednesday that he expected Russia to invade Ukraine before the night was over but still sees a chance to "avert a major aggression".

Los Angeles Times

Despite historic ratings low for the 2022 Winter Games, NBCUniversal remains bullish on Olympics

NEW YORK — Faced with the lingering effects of a global pandemic, empty stands and a politically fraught situation in Beijing, NBC Sports was prepared for the worst with the Winter Olympics, and from a TV ratings standpoint that’s what it got.

The Independent UK

NBC's scores are in: Record low Olympics ratings

NBC will be happy to put the Beijing Winter Olympics in the rear-view mirror, as the event had a record low viewership for an American audience and the Olympics

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Benzinga

Ouch! NBC's Winter Olympics Coverage Down 42% From Four Years Earlier

The Beijing Winter Olympics was anything but a gold medal performance for Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniversal division, with viewership down 42% from the 2018 games held in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Tribune News Service

NBC’s ‘The Endgame’ squares off with a supervillain and an FBI agent

When a criminal mastermind is put up against an FBI agent, the sides are supposed to be easy: Black and white, good and bad. But in “The Endgame,” a New York City-set heist drama series that premiered Monday on NBC, everything is a little gray.

Axios

Beijing Winter Olympics viewership drops to record low

The event still drew a sizable digital audience, per NBC.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘America’s Got Talent’ singer Jane ‘Nightbirde’ Marczewski dies after cancer battle

The fan favorite withdrew from NBC competition show midway through the 16th season in August.

The Independent UK

Once savvy, NBC's Olympics deal is shakier after Beijing

When NBC set a long-term deal to carry the Olympics through 2032, it seemed like a savvy deal

The Philadelphia Inquirer

How to watch the Olympics Closing Ceremony on TV and streaming

After two-and-a-half weeks of triumph, loss and all kinds of controversy in and out of competition, the Winter Olympics in Beijing come to a close on Sunday.

The Independent UK

New this week: 'Law & Order,' Madea and Tears for Fears

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Tears for Fears, that familiar “cha-CHUNG” sound effect signals the return to TV of NBC’s “Law & Order” and Tyler Perry’s gun-totting grandmother Madea in a fresh Netflix film

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