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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has picked the hosts for its coverage of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics — and two of them have been in the news this week. Figure skating announcers Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joined by Terry Gannon to call the expected extravaganza from Chinese capital, we’ve learned. The…

Hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick filed suit Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court against NBC Sports, saying he was wrongfully dismissed for making a comment about a desired “threesome” with an on-air partner while other commentators said equally racy remarks and went unpunished. Roenick, age 50, said the network applied a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Disney Channel’s forthcoming new animated comedy series Amphibia features the voice of Brenda Song and brings us to a “frog-out-of-water” world that is not only fun and fantastical but brings Thai culture to the forefront. In the new featurette for the series, creator and executive producer Annie…

The well-wired Asian nation's culture and technology was heavily on patriotic display tonight in NBC's coverage of the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Games. However, it was the music of South Korea that really owned the beat and heart of the tape-delayed event and almost turned the Olympics into the best Grammys…

Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, and Terry Gannon will host NBC’s primetime coverage of the Closing Ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Coverage begins in primetime, Sunday, Feb. 25 at 8 pm ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC. The use of the figure skating commentating trio as ceremony hosts was…

EXCLUSIVE: Gold medalist Tara Lipinski, the darling of the 1998 Nagano Olympics who at 15 became the youngest winner of an individual event at the Winter Games, is teaming with producer Michael Shamberg and writer Jonathan Igla (Mad Men, Masters Of Sex) for a new drama series at Hulu offering a behind-the-scenes look…

NBC Sports announced its deploying its figure skating analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski to NBC’s Super Bowl XLIX pre-game show to offer their “unique take on the big game and the events surrounding it.” NBCU unveiled the two as an on-air team during the Sochi Olympics in February 2014.  Following the Sochi…

NBC this morning annointed Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski its lead figure-skating announcing team with play-by-play announcer  Terry Gannon. Three-time U.S. figure skating champion Weir, and 1998 Olympic gold medalist Lipinski, are joining Gannon in replacing NBC Sports Group’s previous lead figure skating team of Tom…

Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are back, on NBC Sports. The two will serve as fashion experts for  NBC Sports Group‘s coverage of the 2014 Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby. NBC Sports Group's live coverage from Churchill Downs begins April 30. Olympic figure skaters Weir and Lipinski were the It Couple of the 2014…

More screen time for Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski at NBCU. The It Couple of NBC’s Sochi Olympics coverage will be part of  NBC’s Today  Oscar show from LA on Monday. Kathie Lee Gifford and Al Roker are hosting the split Today show from LA, where Weir and Lipinski will join them to announce their red carpet winners…

NBCU‘s not done yet with the It Couple of NBC’s Sochi Olympics coverage — announcing this afternoon that Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski — will join the company’s syndicated show Access Hollywood on the red carpet at the Oscars to report on the fashion. The duo got high marks for their ice-skating commentary for the…