NBC to Promote New Comedies After Final Night of Olympics, Closing Ceremony

Leveraging an audience of some 20 million

NBC is putting an end to all the post-Olympics monkey business.

Two years after making viewers go ape by interrupting the closing ceremony of the London Games with a preview of the simian sitcom Animal Practice, the broadcaster is taking a much more cautious approach in Sochi.

The plan for next Sunday’s prime-time broadcast is to air two hours of edited curtain-closing footage, followed by the commercial-free premiere of Growing Up Fisher. The single-camera effort stars J.K.

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