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The Paris Olympics stole the spotlight on streaming in the first week of August, according to Nielsen. The company’s latest streaming report shows no streaming original titles in the Top 10 for the first time since it began sending out these weekly newsletters in the beginning of 2020. Only two…

Netflix’s ‘Gyeongseong Creature’ Season 2 Gets Trailer Season 2 of Netflix’s Gyeongseong Creature now has a trailer. The science fiction K-drama is teleporting the action from Season 1’s 1945 to the present day, and will star the likes of Park Seo-jun, Han So-hee, Lee Mu-saeng and Bae…

Simone Biles is looking out for her Olympics teammate Jordan Chiles amid the gymnast being stripped of her bronze medal. In a new interview, Biles says she has been in contact with Chiles by uplifting her amid the challenging moments. "We've been FaceTiming, texting, just being girls," Biles…

In Shoreditch’s uber-trendy Electric Light Station several weeks back, some of the UK’s biggest disabled stars gathered to usher in Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympics, and there was fire in their bellies. The evening featured talks and appearances from the likes of wheelchair basketball…

He’s a master at the pommel horse. But how’s his cha cha? We’ll soon find out soon whether U.S. Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik has what it takes to win the mirror ball: Good Morning America revealed Thursday morning that he will compete on the 33rd season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. When…

Laura Woods, the British television presenter for Discovery+ and TNT Sports, has revealed that she received death threats after questioning boxer Imane Khelif’s participation in the Olympics. The seasoned sports presenter posted her support on X/Twitter for a Daily Telegraph article, which posited…

Roll up, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here with the outlook on the latest international TV and film news, as the Olympic flag left Paris and began its long journey to LA — certainly no Mission Impossible. Sign up for the newsletter here. Tom Cruise Drops In To Steal The…

Jordan Chiles, stripped of her bronze medal in gymnastics by the International Olympic Committee,  spoke out for the first time today in a social media post. Chiles initially finished fifth in the floor routine final at the Paris Olympics. But her coach, Cecile Landi, filed an appeal, and…

Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif’s legal complaint of online harassment following her appearance at the Paris games. Khelif filed the complaint for “moral harassment” Friday with the national center for combating online hate, a part of the&nbsp…

NBC and its streaming service Peacock saw a big viewership boost from the Olympics, and the Paris Games also gave the network’s nightly newscast two weeks of ratings wins. NBC Nightly News averaged 7.62 million viewers, topping ABC World News Tonight with 7.52 million and CBS Evening News with 4.45…

Very few who challenged Michael Johnson on the race track beat him, and Piers Morgan has found this to be a similar story on social media. The pair have traded barbs in the past, and their semi-serious feud reignited this week when Morgan responded to Johnson about the quality of silver and bronze…

Tom Cruise has leapt from great heights under the guidance of Ben Winston, co-founder of Fulwell73 and creative producer of the Los Angeles Olympics 2028 handover, one time before. This time, however, it was different. The whole world was watching. Cruise, who previously jumped out a plane…