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Michael Lombardo has optioned bestselling author Amy Bloom’s just-published White Houses novel through his Buster Productions to develop for television, with Katie Couric on board to produce with him and Emmy winner Jane Anderson (Olive Kitteridge) attached to direct. White Houses, published by Penguin Random House on…

NBC already apologized for one comment by its team of commentators at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics — Joshua Cooper Ramo’s claim that Japan, which once occupied Korea, is “a cultural and technical and economic example” for Koreans. Now another anchor at the ceremony, Katie Coutic, has issued…

UPDATED 2:10 PM: The actual white tiger and K-Pop filled Opening Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Olympics occurred early on Friday morning in PyeongChang and was widely streamed and disseminated by the time NBC put on its primetime show last night. A tape-delayed opener to the Games in South Korea that brought in 27.8…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Olympics Opening Ceremony from PyeongChang on NBC. Not a single medal has been awarded yet at the XXIII Winter Olympics, but if there was a gold for commentary doubles, then Katie Couric and Mike Tirico were well in the running tonight with NBC's Opening…

Emmy award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown from NBC’s This Is Us will be the voice of the opening film for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games. The seven-minute film, Always Start With the Dreams, will be presented tomorrow at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT to start coverage of the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang…

Officially, the XXIII Olympic Winter Games don't start until Friday with the opening ceremony from the main stadium in PyeongChang, but athletes from the U.S. and Russia debuted mixed doubles curling Wednesday night on NBC Sports Network, and skating and skiing begin tonight on NBC in primetime. With the unspoken…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given an eight-episode order to Unbelievable, a limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) as well as Katie Couric. Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael…

NBC will not “shy away” from covering unplanned protests that might pop up during the upcoming XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, said Katie Couric, whose appointment as co-host of the Opening Ceremony was announced by the network today. “It's hard to predict in advance,” said Couric during a…

Katie Couric will return to NBC to co-host the Opening Ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, it was announced today by Jim Bell, President, NBC Olympics Production and Programming. Couric will join host Mike Tirico in the booth at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony…

Katie Couric came to TCA to talk about her NatGeo series America Inside Out With Katie Couric premiering in April, in which she looks at people shaping conversation about hot-button topics today.  Topics, she said, will include Confederate monuments in America, the weaponization of political correctness, gender…

Katie Couric, the long-time partner of Matt Lauer on the Today show, has issued her first extensive comments on his sexual harassment scandal and subsequent firing. "The whole thing has been very painful for me," Couric said to People magazine. "The accounts I've read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and…

Ending months of speculation, reports of the end of Katie Couric’s  contractual relationship with Yahoo are now accurate. Couric’s future, or not, at Yahoo has been the subject of speculation for some time, and became a sentence or two in some reports a year ago that the former Internet behemoth was selling to Verizon…