The Super Bowl will air on NBC on February 1st, but before lots and lots of us tune into watch the big game NBC’s sister network USA is going to air three Super Bowl themed episodes!
BURN NOTICE kicks it off on Thursday, January 29 at 10/9c in “Hot Spot” when Michael (Jeffrey Donovan), Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and Sam (Bruce Campbell) pose as a gang of ruthless car thieves to stop a thug who is threatening a local high school football star. Meanwhile, Fiona and Michael track down the man responsible for the explosion at Michael’s loft. Former Dallas Cowboy and University of Miami Hurricane and football great, Michael Irvin makes a special guest appearance as the local football coach.
On Friday, January 30 at 9/8c, MONK suits up to play in “Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs,” when Monk (Tony Shalhoub) scores tickets to the biggest football game of the year, but he and Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) can’t go inside until they figure out who tried to blow up a fan in the parking lot. Famed sports announcer Bob Costas stops by.
Immediately following on PSYCH, Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dule Hill) are drafted in, the appropriately titled, “Any Given Friday at 10/9c,†when the guys sign up for training camp after the foot of a professional football kicker is discovered. Mykelti Williamson (“Forest Gumpâ€Â) joins this episode as a special guest star.
I can’t wait to see all of those episodes!
BTW both Monk and Psych are back with two hysterical episodes this Friday and Burn Notice is back on January 22nd!!!
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform during the coveted halftime show at the Super Bowl according to Billboard. I know I should be excited about this, but I just never got on the Bruce Springsteen train and I know I am one of the few who feels that way. Positive note at least we won’t have to worry about wardrobe malfunction unless his tight pair of jeans burst at the seams.
According to Variety Fox has given House the post-Super Bowl time slot on February 3rd. Normally the nets wait to announce who gets that time closer to the game, but Fox felt why wait. The head of Fox Scheduling, Preston Breck said, "Of all the shows we have, this is the biggest scripted one. And to maximize revenue, you want to put a big show behind the Super Bowl." You know this episode is going to be way off the charts exciting. It might even top the excitement of the Grey's Anatomy bomb episode! You go House!!!
Katie Couric’s going to the Super Bowl. The "CBS Evening News" anchor will contribute a feature to CBS’ four-hour Super Bowl pregame show on Feb. 4, the network said on Thursday. She will also anchor the evening news from Miami, the site of the big game, on the Friday before the game. There’s precedent at other networks for the news anchors to be involved in sports coverage, including Brian Williams and Couric during NBC’s Olympic broadcasts, said Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports. "It is the biggest event of the day and it makes sense for us to showcase what she does before the biggest audience of the year," McManus said. Couric’s evening newscast is in third place in the ratings behind NBC and ABC. She’s tentatively scheduled to do a feature on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his Korean heritage.
I understand that her show desperately needs viewers, but this is not the place or time to do it. She is like Off Spray to a mosquito when it comes to the average viewer of the Super Bowl. Why should we suffer for CBS’s mistake of hiring her?
I love Super Bowl ads and if this is a preview for what’s to come on Sunday…I can’t wait! I don’t understand what the controversy is all about, I think it is funny as all heck!
Katie Couric’s going to the Super Bowl. The "CBS Evening News" anchor will contribute a feature to CBS’ four-hour Super Bowl pregame show on Feb. 4, the network said on Thursday. She will also anchor the evening news from Miami, the site of the big game, on the Friday before the game. There’s precedent at other networks for the news anchors to be involved in sports coverage, including Brian Williams and Couric during NBC’s Olympic broadcasts, said Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports. "It is the biggest event of the day and it makes sense for us to showcase what she does before the biggest audience of the year," McManus said. Couric’s evening newscast is in third place in the ratings behind NBC and ABC. She’s tentatively scheduled to do a feature on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his Korean heritage.
