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Liam Kelly | Thursday, February 23, 2023
Over the past few weeks, the United States has witnessed a heightening of tensions with China, raising concerns about a potential conflict between the two world powers. On Feb. 4, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean that had made its way across the U.S. after being
Alysa Guffey | Friday, November 11, 2022
The last time Niele Ivey stepped foot in Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, she won an NCAA championship as part of the 2000-2001 Notre Dame women’s basketball team. “I never had an event that I had to go back there to go into the arena,” Ivey said. “So it’s going to be actually really
The Observer | Thursday, October 13, 2022
“Six seasons and a movie.” For one fandom, this was more than a quote. It was a goal — an aspiration for the show that they loved. This is the story of the show “Community” and how its fans were just so dedicated to harassing NBC employees that the show managed to get saved from
Elena Que | Wednesday, September 14, 2022
A team of three Notre Dame students recently appeared on “Capital One College Bowl,” a trivia show on NBC hosted by Peyton and Cooper Manning. The trio appeared on the season two premiere episode, which aired Friday, September 9th. Competing for academic scholarships, the team went up against rival Ohio State University and successfully moved
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, August 31, 2022
“There isn’t a single story. I can’t give you a single instance that I would say sums him up for me,” Notre Dame graduate Anne Thompson said. “When I think of Mickey Gallivan, that’s what I think – commitment.” Michael Dennis Gallivan, known to friends and family as Mickey, died Aug. 22, 2022, after a
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, August 5, 2021
The football home opener for the Irish against Toledo will be streamed exclusively on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. Notre Dame football and NBC Sports’ relationship began in 1991, and this will mark the first time a home game is available exclusively on a streaming service. Peacock did recently stream the 2021 Blue-Gold Game this past May.
Nicholas Ottone | Tuesday, February 13, 2018
After the Super Bowl, 27 million viewers tuned into “This Is Us” to watch Jack Pearson, the show’s beloved patriarch, die. Fans of the show realized the culmination of a season’s worth of emotional groundwork, an episode rooted in grief and guilt, while everyone else probably stared in confusion. “This Is Us” premiered in the
Jimmy Kemper | Wednesday, January 25, 2017
“Saturday Night Live” (SNL), for better or worse, is a fundamental institution in American political comedy. No other late-night show has received as many Emmy nominations, covered so many topics or introduced so many comedians to us as SNL has over its 40-year-plus run. This history of great comedy has made it disappointing over the
Carlos De Loera | Monday, September 26, 2016
SNL creator Lorne Michaels chose not to renew the contracts of Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah and Jon Rudnitsky for the upcoming season. This comes as a bit of a shock because Killam and Pharoah, both cast members since 2010, had become two of the most popular and consistently funny members of the cast. Rudnitsky had been a strong member since
Matt McMahon | Monday, January 18, 2016
The last true bastion of network comedy block scheduling — which the NBC TV network ran as its “Comedy Night Done Right” in different iterations on Thursday nights from 2009 to 2013 — may finally have a worthy successor. However, with NBC’s abandonment of its sitcom programming, its new successor mirrors neither network nor night of