Michael Phelps News

'Saturday Night Live' has delivered new season highs and its most-watched October telecast in eight years, according to “live plus same day” official-national ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has generated its most-watched Week 3 telecast in eight years , according to “live plus same day” official-national ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

The Oct. 15 telecast of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has scored the show's highest Week 3 rating in eight years in Nielsen's metered markets.

In Late-Night Metered-Market Ratings for Saturday Night: The Oct. 15 telecast of 'Saturday Night Live' has scored the show's highest Week 3 rating in eight years in Nielsen's metered markets.

Last week's SATURDAY NIGHYT LIVE, hosted by Broadway's Lin-Manuel Miranda, has delivered its most-watched Week 2 telecast in 12 years , according to “live plus same day” official-national ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

USA Today reports that Emily Blunt will host the October 15th episode of NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (11:30 ET/PT) .  

With three days of time-shifting and video-on-demand viewership counted, the 42nd season debut of “Saturday Night Live” is now the show's most-watched premiere in 22 years.

The 42nd season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” has delivered a +31% increase on its season-opening viewership of one year ago to deliver the show's most-watched season debut in eight years

The 42nd season premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' has delivered a +29% increase on its season-opening rating of one year ago to deliver the show's highest season-debut rating in eight years

On last night's LIP SYNC BATTLE: ALL STARS CHAMPIONSHIP, Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps took on Eminem's iconic anthem 'Lose Yourself,' while Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Terry Crews performed his rendition of Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power'.

AT&T* will launch the 3 rd season of the critically acclaimed series, FULL CIRCLE on Sept. 7, 2016, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The 10 half-hour episodes will be available exclusively on AUDIENCENetwork on both DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse.

On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, guest Michael Phelps and Jimmy played a game of Egg Russian Roulette. Watch all the clips from the appearance below!

Phelps is set to receive another honor after his surprise appearance at last night's MTV VMAs. Below watch his reaction live on TODAY as his image on the iconic Wheaties box is revealed!

Last night's episode of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT featured a special guest appearance by Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time!

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with 23 gold medals, including five at the just-concluded Rio Games, will appear as a co-host on the Wednesday, Aug. 24 live telecast of NBC's 'America's Got Talent' at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Whether it was watching Usain Bolt in primetime, streaming Simone Biles on the NBC Sports app, interacting with Michael Phelps on Facebook Live, or watching the highlight of Neymar's game-winning goal in the men's soccer final on NBC Olympics' Snapchat Discover channel, one thing is clear: Millennials love the Olympics.

NBC Olympics' exclusive and unprecedented coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics was the most ambitious media event in history, providing more ways to consume more hours of content across more platforms than any Olympics ever…and Rio 2016 dominated the competition.

Ryan Lochte turned to Twitter this morning to formally apologize for the version of events he told Brazilian police and the NBC network in an interview.