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“Oliver Stone is doing a movie about last night,” Dancing With The Stars host Tom Bergeron snarked this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America about the two middle-aged protesters who’d rushed the stage after disgraced Olympian Ryan Lochte performed his foxtrot. “Drama on the Dance Floor!” GMA announced breathlessly at…

The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Thursday that gold medalist Ryan Lochte has been suspended from swimming events for 10 months over an incident at a Rio gas station during the Olympics last month. Lochte will be banned from the 2017 world championship meet in Budapest in July, and you won’t see Lochte at the White…

Season 7 of BBC One’s The Great British Bake Off got cooking on Wednesday with a sweet new record. Watched by an average 10.4M viewers in the 8PM slot, it drew a 47.5 share. The peak audience for the cooking competition that has risen to phenomenon status in the UK was 11.2M last night. That tops the network’s…

“When I exaggerate I tell people I’m 6′ tall. When I over-exaggerate I tell them I’m 6′ 5″,” NBC’s Olympics wrangler Bob Costas tells NBC’s late night star Seth Meyers. He called Lochte a “great swimmer and a nice guy” who did one thing right – “he rinsed the blonde out of his hair” before doing his “I…

NBC News programs dominated Olympics weeks, though programs experienced some Summer Games slippage. Today show scored an Olympics bump from Rio, though Week 2 slid 14% in overall audience (5.104M) compared to the London Summer Games, and 16% in the news demo (2.038M). ABC's Good Morning America stats also slipped…

CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert last night did the best “interview” with U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte about his gas station encounter in Rio – based on which, it’s probably safe to say, Lochte never will actually sit down for an interview with Colbert. Speaking to Edited Lochte, Colbert “asked” the question we all…

Newly un-blonded U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte told Matt Lauer this morning he and his fellow swimmers peed in the bushes at that gas station in Rio, during which he ripped a metal-framed poster off the wall, making a lot of noise. “I have no idea” why he destroyed the outdoor display, he added. “I was very…

Japan’s Prime Minister stole the show at the Rio Games closing ceremony tonight, when he showed up via warp pipe as Super Mario to commemorate Rio passing the torch to Tokyo ahead of the 2020 Summer Games. NBC’s coverage of the Rio Olympics closing ceremony was a celebration of Brazilian dance, music, and lace making…

Following an apology by Ryan Lochte for misrepresenting a weekend incident in which he claimed to have been robbed along with three teammates, the University of Georgia has released a statement from fellow U.S. Olympic swimmer Gunnar Bentz that provides a contrite, and highly detailed account of the events in…

NBC’s Monday Rio Olympics clocked a primetime crowd of 24.3 million viewers. The evening featured gymnast Simone Biles’ balance beam gold-medal bid, men's beach volleyball and a desperate dive that cost Allyson Felix the gold in the women’s 400 meter race. In the demo, the Games broadcasts logged a 7.0 rating. NBC’s…

Lots of parents must have pried their kids away from Minecraft or Pokemon Go last night — for 10 seconds, at least. NBC said today that nearly 35 million people watched its coverage of the Men’s 100M final from the Rio Olympics, which saw Planet Earth’s fastest human secure yet another place in sporting lore. Usain Bol…