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Close to 3,000 athletes will compete at a shot shot for a gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The opening ceremony aired on Friday (July 26) with American athletes decked out in official Team USA merch. Want to watch the Olympics on TV? NBC is the official network to watch the Olympics on TV at home, but you can also watch and livestream swimming, track and field events and more summer sports from their NBCUniversal partners, including the USA Network.
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Having a cable package is the easiest way to watch the USA Network at home, but if you’ve recently cut the cord, there are still options for streaming the channel without cable including live TV streamers.
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To help you save money and watch the USA Network without cable, ShopBillboard listed all the streaming options available below.
How to Watch USA Network Online Without Cable At Home
Peacock is the official streaming platform for NBC and all of the channels owned by the media company — including USA Network. You can watch the 2024 Paris Olympics right on the streaming platform in addition to the USA Network’s original TV series and movies. If you already have a Peacock subscription, you can watch the channel instantly for no additional cost when you log into the platform.
Don’t have Peacock? There is no free trial for new subscribers, but the streaming platform does come with various plans starting at $7.99 a month to choose from based on your budget.
There are two Peacock plans you can choose from: the Premium Plan that’s ad-supported and the cheapest option at $7.99 a month or the Premium Plus plan for $13.99 a month that comes with everything in the Premium Plan in addition to you local NBC channel and the ability to download and watch content offline. Save additional cash when you choose an annual plan, which will give you an entire year of access for the cost of 10 months.
Outside of the 2024 summer Olympics and USA Network content, Peacock comes with its own collection of original TV shows and movies as well as programs from NBC and Bravo. Content you can look forward to watching includes Poker Face, The Traitors, Couple to Throuple, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Bel-Air, Love Island, Love Island Games, One of Us Is Lying, Dr. Death, Yellowstone, Suits, The Office, Modern Family and Parks & Recreation. Bravo fans can also tune into content like Vanderpump Rules, Below Deck, The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip and Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard.
How to Watch USA Network Online Without Cable for Free
Live TV streamers are hosting a variety of promos and free trials that’ll give you access to the USA Network online to stream for free or at a discounted cost. Keep reading to learn more.
DirecTV Stream
You can watch USA Network on DirecTV Stream, which also comes with your local NBC station for even more 2024 summer Olympics coverage. New users are eligible for a five-day free trial through DirecTV Stream when you sign up for one of its four packages. Every streaming package includes USA Network as well as CNBC, MSNBC and dozens of other channels. Bonus offer: you can save $30 when you combine a streaming package with a “Sports Pack.” Right now, the Entertainment + Sports Pack is $85 (reg. $95) for the first three months.
Sling TV
Sling TV lets you watch the USA Network and 2024 Paris Olympics in 4K definition when you prepay for two months of Sling’s Blue package. There are a total of three plans you can choose from, but only the Blue Package and the Orange + Blue Package will get you the USA Network. Within the Blue Package, you’ll receive the USA Network in addition to NBC and more sports, news and entertainment channels, plus 50 hours of DVR storage. Save 22% off when you prepay for two months of the Blue Package for $70 (reg. $90).
FuboTV
Another affordable option that lets you stream USA Network without cable is FuboTV. New users can score a free seven-day trial when you sign up for one of the three packages offered. In addition to letting you watch the USA Network online, Fubo offers access to NBC and hundreds of other channels available in your lineup.
Once you free trial is over, you’ll be charged the normal subscription price starting at $80 a month. For almost double the channels, 4K definition and access to Paramount+ with Showtime for free, you can upgrade to the Premier plan for just $100 a month.
Hulu + Live TV
You can also watch USA Network on Hulu + Live TV, which is offering a rare three-day free trial for new users that sign up. It’s also the one option that offers the most for less. Not only will you get access to the USA Network, you’ll also get more than 94 channels (including NBC) in addition to access to the entire Hulu library — and only for $77 a month once the free trial is over.
What we like: your Hulu + Live TV plan includes Disney+ and ESPN+ for exclusive sports coverage and programming from ESPN, and all the Disney+ originals.
Does USA Network Have a Streaming App?
Yes, you can stream USA Network on its official streaming network Peacock. In addition to USA Network content, you’ll also have access to programs from NBC, Bravo and Peacock-exclusive TV series and movies.
Can I Get the USA Network on Antenna?
The USA Network is considered a paid channel, which means you’ll need either a live TV streamer or Peacock in order to watch USA Network without cable. Digital antennas (like this one from Amazon) will pick up local channels like NBC, which means you can still watch the 2024 Paris Olympics, but you won’t be able to watch the USA Network airing.
In addition to the 2024 Paris Olympics, the USA Network has a lineup of comedies, dramas and sports coverage that you can tune into. Some of the most popular programs include White Collar, Temptation Island, Chicago P.D., Psych, The Courtship, Miz & Mrs, Chrisley Knows Best, NCIS: Los Angeles and 9-1-1. Sports fans can also catch everything from summer Olympics games to NASCAR, WWE NXT, WWE Raw and Premier League.
Lady Gaga shouldn’t have to explain this to you, but when she’s on the big screen she’s not Lady Gaga, or even Stefani Germanotta. So, when you go see her in the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux and notice that the singing voice of her character Harley Quinn is a bit off, it’s called acting, folks.
“People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me as that performer, but that is not what this movie is; I’m playing a character,” Gaga told Empire magazine. “So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee and to not come from me as a performer.” Gaga, who has disappeared into roles before in A Star Is Born and House of Gucci, said the task of becoming the Joker’s fiendish foil was “unlike anything I’ve ever done before.”
In particular, that required Gaga to explore sides of her performance style that she’s never tapped before, including the bad singer one. “For me, there’s plenty of bum notes, actually, from Lee,” she said of her character’s singing in the second movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as the laughing madman. “I’m a trained singer, right? So even my breathing was different when I sang as Lee. When I breathe to sing on stage, I have this very controlled way to make sure that I’m on pitch and it’s sustained at the right rhythm and amount of time, but Lee would never know how to do any of that. So it’s like removing the technicality of the whole thing, removing my perceived art-form from it all and completely being inside of who she is.”
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The follow-up to 2019’s Oscar-winning Joker follows feckless comedian Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) meeting his lady love Harley Quinn (Gaga) while locked up at Arkham State Hospital. After he’s released, the two go on a series of murderous adventures.
Director Todd Philips told Empire that while Gaga retains some of the belovedly bonkers Quinn quirks from the Batman: The Animated Series comic books and her own animated show, the singer definitely made the character her own. “While there are some things that people would find familiar in her, it’s really Gaga’s own interpretation, and Scott [Silver, co-writer] and I’s interpretation,” said Phillips. “She became the way how [Charles] Manson had girls that idolized him. The way that sometimes these [imprisoned murderers] have people that look up to them. There are things about Harley in the movie that were taken from the comic books, but we took it and moulded it to the way we wanted it to be.” Prepare for a performance that’s totally Gaga.”
Joker: Folie à Deux is slated to open in theaters on Oct. 4; watch the new trailer here.
In the meantime, Gaga is set to perform at Friday’s (July 26) opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, alongside other rumored artists who are expected to help kick off the games, including Celine Dion, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, French singer Aya Nakamura and rockers Gojira, though at press time none of those acts had been confirmed.
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Taylor Swift loves a good anti-hero, which is why her love of the new Deadpool movie comes as no surprise. That, plus the fact that Ryan Reynolds — one of her best buddies — produced and stars in the franchise’s latest installment.
And on Thursday (July 25), the pop star showered the film with praise on her Instagram Story, sharing a photo she took with Reynolds — along with Blake Lively, who is married to the actor, and his Deadpool & Wolverine costar Hugh Jackman — at an October Kansas City Chiefs Game.
“Over the past few years I have watched one of my best friends on this planet pour every bit of his heart, soul, sweat, time, energy, jokes, pain, joy, rebellion, darkness, and magic into this film,” she wrote. “He’s created the best work of his life, and this film feels like an actual joy portal, a wild escape from reality, and an abs sandwich.”
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“I don’t know how he did it,” she added before joking, “But that’s just Hugh for you!”
The musician went on to encourage fans to buy tickets if they “like things that are unspeakably awesome,” and added of Reynolds’ character in the film, “Shout out to Wade Wilson, aka my godkids’ sperm donor!”
The Free Guy star quickly reshared Swift’s post to his own Story and wrote, “Omg, this may have just killed @thehughjackman” and added, “i’m also [dead]” with a skull-face emoji.
Reynolds and Lively are parents to four children — James, Inez, Betty and Olin. Swift has been a close friend of the family for years and even used the names of the three oldest kids in her Folklore love triangle songs. Years prior, she borrowed Reynolds’ actual Deadpool suit for her 2016 Halloween costume, after which he returned the favor by wearing a tee with her cats Meredith and Olivia on it in Deadpool 2.
“Yes, I had a T-shirt made,” he said in a recent SiriusXM Town Hall, joking that Swift took legal action against him in response. “I was sued. I lost everything in that one. And getting sued by a friend is tough to swallow. Also, she has just a lot of very, very powerful lawyers. I found out later those are just the paralegals. The real lawyers didn’t even bother with it.”
The “Fortnight” singer’s post will no doubt further fuel rumors that she makes a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine. Fans have been convinced she appears in the film since Reynolds appeared to re-create her Evermore album cover in his Deadpool costume, before which a poster for the project featured Eras Tour-inspired friendship bracelets.
Even so, Reynolds all but shut the rumors down in a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “I wish,” he said when asked about the possibility, joking, “If I ever stop, she’d make a good Deadpool. She’s funny, funny, funny!”
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Canadians have each others’ backs!
Nickelback shared a video on Tuesday (July 23) defending the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine film from any hate. In the clip, all four members of the band rock Deadpool and Wolverine masks, though they soon decide that the costumes are too itchy and unmask themselves.
“We’re Nickelback, experts in navigating irrational hate in the face of tremendous success,” the band’s frontman Chad Kroeger tells the camera. “We have an important preemptive message for anyone thinking of criticizing the film Deadpool & Wolverine or Ryan Reynolds.”
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Kroeger then begins listing off the film franchise’s list of accomplishments, including that the first two Deadpool films grossed more than $1.5 billion at the box office, and accolades including two Critics Choice Awards, four MTV Movie & TV Awards, one GLAAD Award, a People’s Choice Award, two Teen Choice Awards and many more.
“As for Mr. Ryan Reynolds, just look at this photograph,” Kroeger adds, before the screen flashes to a photo of the Deadpool star as Nickelback’s 2005 hit “Photograph” begins to play. “That is a beautiful Canadian man right there.”
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Upon seeing the clip, Reynolds was overjoyed. “My god. I love those guys,” he said in response.
Nickelback’s video was a hilarious parody of a 2018 Once Upon a Deadpool teaser, in which Reynolds’ Deadpool vehemently defends the rock band after someone likened the Marvel franchise to “if the Beatles were produced by Nickelback. It’s music, but it sucks.”
“I’ve had it with all this Nickelback hating. You think that makes you cool with the cool kids in school?” Deadpool angrily says in response, before listing off Nickelback’s array of accomplishments, including selling 50 million albums worldwide, and an array of nominations and awards.
Watch the original video below. Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters on Friday (July 26).
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