September 5 (2024)

We're back in 1972 -- the days of shared satellites and walkie talkies. For the first time in history, the Olympics are being broadcast internationally and the logistics that go along with that are unwieldy, to say the least. ABC Sports has a staff onsite in Munich and only one interpreter, so when shots are heard nearby, it's a scramble for them to find out what's happening and even more difficult to figure out how (or if) to report it.

Though the story takes place almost entirely in crowded temporary offices, it is very much a thriller. Despite the fact that I knew how things actually ended, I was still right with the news team -- feeling their tense excitement and celebrating their innovative methods of getting the story and sharing it across networks. Fantastic storytelling and it looks great too.

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