Trevor Noah joked Monday about France's World Cup victory, saying Africa won, some team members being of African descent.
Talking to his studio audience, but not as part of The Daily Show broadcast, Noah read a letter from Gerard Araud, Ambassador of France to the U.S., protesting his joke:
I watched with great…
UPDATED with final viewership:Â Twenty years after winning its one and only World Cup, France claimed FIFA's biggest prize again Sunday in a 4-2 victory over Croatia that prompted a now-famous leap and fist pump by President Emmanuel Macron up in the VIP box, cheers and tears in the streets of Paris and all over the…
France's World Cup win helped commercial broadcaster TF1 to its best ratings since 2016 as Les Bleus defeat of Croatia peaked with 22.3M viewers.
The triumph averaged 19.3M with an 82% share across its 90-minutes in France, which was marginally up on its semi-final win over Belgium, which averaged 19.1M viewers and a…
The famed Time Lord popped up Sunday during the final match of the World Cup between France and Croatia — but not on the field like the Pussy Riot protesters.
BBC premiered a promo for the 11th season of Doctor Who that gave us a look at Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteen Doctor and her trusty companions which include…
Russia’s Pussy Riot anarchists briefly disrupted the World Cup game between France and Croatia , sending four people dressed as police onto the field and stopping the game.
The group claimed responsibility via Twitter and said the protest was a message to free political prisoners. The group managed to evade the…
France decisively beat Croatia 4-2 today to win the World Cup in Moscow, a triumph 20 years in the making. The Croatian team battled hard and actually dominated play at times, but France managed to find the holes in the smaller country’s defense and never trailed.
Croatia captain Luka Modric won the Golden Ball…
The 2018 FIFA World Cup final pitting France against Croatia is Sunday at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, with kickoff set for 11 AM ET/8 AM PT. The game to wrap a wild monthlong tournament full of twists and turns, upsets and upstarts will feature one young team built for the long haul that finds itself a win away from…
Fifty-two years after England last won the World Cup, the Three Lions’ dream of playing in the final of the 2018 FIFA tournament came to an end yesterday with a 2-1 semifinal loss to Croatia in extra time. As close as it felt that football really could be coming, to paraphrase the 1996 tune that became the unofficial…
YouTube TV is offering subscribers a free week of service to compensate for an outage during a 2018 FIFA World Cup semifinal match.
The company sent emails today, apologizing for the high-profile service interruption (right smack in the middle of Wednesday’s Croatia-England match).
“To help make this right, we’d like…
Football's no longer coming home but nearly 75% of British television viewers watched England's brave exit from the World Cup.
Croatia's win scored a peak of 26.5M viewers on ITV with an average of 20M viewers across the whole game, which went into extra time. It averaged a 73.3% share.
The game couldn't match the 80%…
UPDATE with service restored. Even YouTube admits the timing was horrible that its YouTube TV service crashed as England and Croatia clash in the 2018 FIFA World Cup semifinals.
Just when fans were starting to show red cards and roll around on the turf in agony, the service came back on line, with apologies for the…
England and Croatia meet today in the second semifinal of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, with the winner advancing to play France in Sunday’s final. In the U.S., the match from Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow will be available to watch live on Fox at 2 PM ET/11 AM PT as well as on Spanish-language Telemundo.
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