LOS ANGELES – Gold medal winners aren’t the only celebrities expected at this year’s Olympic Games. Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Kenan Thompson, Kelly Clarkson, Leslie Jones, Peyton Manning and Jimmy Fallon will be part of the contingent NBC puts in the venues to tell the story of runners, gymnasts, swimmers and other athletes hoping to make history. The action begins July 24 with coverage of soccer games on USA.
The additions are expected to add new reasons to tune into the primetime broadcasts, when NBC and Peacock have already shown the events live during the day. Snoop Dogg, left, and Mike Tirico will be part of the broadcast team for the 2024 Olympic Games on NBC. The three-hour nightly “curated presentation,” as Executive Producer Molly Solomon calls it, will recap each day’s top performances on NBC and include a host of extras.
“We’re going to be blasting off with ‘Gold Medals’ at 7 p.m. and then we’re going to infuse our storytelling with more behind-the-scenes access, more athlete-generated content and more onscreen technology that will help the viewer appreciate these magnificent athletes,” Solomon says.
“You may know what happened but we’re going to tell you why it happened and advance the story in primetime.” On Peacock, viewers will get “every moment, every medal, every network and cable simulcast,” Solomon says. “Peacock will be the greatest single Olympics destination in U.
S. media history.” Snoop Dogg will be a roving reporter .