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We know many of you spent Thanksgiving Day eating turkey (well, most of you), visiting with relatives, and watching football. Apparently, a whole lot of you were watching football, as a record 42 million viewers tuned in to Fox Sports and its streaming platform, taking in the Dallas Cowboys against the…

Keegan-Michael Key’s substitute teacher Mr. Garvey, one of the signature characters from former Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele, has returned to the head of the class to promote Paramount+. The streaming service has booked a 60-second spot during tomorrow’s Thanksgiving Day NFL telecast for…

The NFL and its NFL Films subsidiary have formed a joint venture with Skydance Sports to create a multi-sport production studio. The teaming brings together the media division of the dominant sports league in the U.S. with the new sports arm of the David Ellison-led entity behind Top Gun: Maverick…

John Madden, the ex-coach and broadcaster who became synonymous with Thanksgiving thanks to his turkey leg awards to star players, will be honored by the NFL this year with several commemorative features. With his telestrator and his penchant for yelling “Boom!” after a big play, Madden was as much…

The NFL, its commissioner Roger Goodell, the Washington Commanders and their controversial owner Dan Snyder just got slammed by a scathing lawsuit from DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Launched off the District of Columbia's Consumer Protection Procedures Act, Racine is going after the league, team…

Netflix is looking to get off the bench and into the live sports game. Over the past few months, the streamer has been quietly looking into acquiring the rights to a number of leagues and events, Deadline can confirm. In particular, deals were under discussion for several tennis tours as well as a…

The New York Jets have endured some mighty strange happenings in the NFL. There was the “fake spike.” Bill Belichick’s one-day “HC of the NYJ” resignation. The infamous “Butt fumble.” So Jets fans could be forgiven if they were nodding their heads and expecting the worst when a CBS SkyCam cable broke…

A special episode of CBS’ freshman drama series Fire Country will air January 29 after the network’s coverage of the AFC Championship game. The announcement was made during CBS’ Sunday broadcast of the NFL game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fire Country, starring Max…

NFL quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen confirmed they are filing for divorce, ending a 13-year marriage that spanned football and fashion. In a statement, Brady said the couple “arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together. We are blessed with…

Despite strong tune-in for the start of the NFL and college football seasons, broadcast and cable TV viewership still didn’t measure up to streaming in the month of September, Nielsen said. The firm’s monthly edition of The Gauge, released this morning, has streaming as a category at 36.9% of overall…

Just weeks after the milestone debut of Thursday Night Football as a streaming-only franchise on Prime Video, Amazon and the NFL have announced plans for an annual game on the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday. The first contest will be held in 2023 and the venture is open-ended. Amazon…

CBS viewers were subjected to new camera angles while watching the NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants which has gotten mixed reviews from fans. After the first quarter with no scores from either team, things in the second quarter got a little bit more interesting. The…