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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…

Turns out that lawsuit over the Katie Couric-backed documentary Under the Gun was firing blanks. A Virginia District Court judge today dismissed the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s action claimed that the gun advocacy group’s members were shown in the documentary apparently to be stumped for several seconds when…

National Geographic Channel says it will team with Jay-Z and The Weinstein Company on a six-episode documentary series, with the working title Race, that will provide “a stark and provocative look into systemic injustices in America.” It’s due to air in 171 countries and 45 languages and stems from a first-look deal…

FYI and Sur La Table are teaming up to produce Scraps, a new culinary series where Sur La Table Chef Joel Gamoran will travel across the U.S. creating meals in unexpected places, using the most out-of-the-box ingredients: food waste and scraps. Set to premiere Sunday, May 21, the series is produced by Katie Couric…

CBS has given a pilot order to a character-based procedural from writer Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married) and producers Katie Couric, David Marshall Grant (Brothers & Sisters), Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin. CBS TV Studios, where Kurtzman's company Secret Hideout is under an overall deal, is the studio. Penned by…

This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman told TCA press corps today that Katie Couric and Brian Tyree Henry will guest star on future episodes of the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominated series. Former Today host Couric will make a cameo appearance as herself while Henry will play a friend from William’s (Jermel…