REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL PRESENTS A ROUNDTABLE REVIEW OF 2019, DEBUTING DECEMBER 17, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL concludes another season of enterprising reporting with a roundtable review of its most memorable moments of the year when the 273rd edition debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 17 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

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Departing from the show's regular format, host Bryant Gumbel leads correspondents Mary Carillo, Bernard Goldberg, Jon Frankel, Andrea Kremer, Soledad O'Brien and David Scott in a spirited discussion, recapping the most significant stories from 2019. In the season finale, Gumbel huddles with the correspondents individually to spotlight one of their most noteworthy pieces, allowing the reporters to drill deeper into their stories.

In 2019, REAL SPORTS traveled throughout the U.S. and internationally to explore unique and compelling subjects, including: Norway's unprecedented and successful youth sports model; the harrowing rise in racehorse deaths at US tracks; the fallout of the deal the city of Detroit gave the Ilitch family to build a new arena amidst the city filing for bankruptcy; the allure behind the nearly three-decade-old Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza in Minnesota; and the annual Varsity Wine Tasting Match between Cambridge and Oxford, among others.

Premiering on HBO in April 1995, REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL has won 33 Sports Emmy(R) Awards, including 19 for Outstanding Journalism; four Columbia University-duPont Journalism Awards; and two George F. Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism.

The executive producers of REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL are Peter Nelson, Rick Bernstein and Joe Perskie; senior coordinating producer, Nick Dolin; coordinating producer, Tim Walker; producers, Lisa Bennett, Maggie Burbank, Chapman Downes, Josh Fine, Nisreen Habbal, Jordan Kronick, Beret Remak and Jake Rosenwasser; associate producers, Evan Burgos, Max Gershberg, Stephen Lorenzo and Katie Melone; production associates, Daniel Litke, Emmett Knowlton and Hannah Vicente-Kliot.