If ever there was an expedient excuse to cite the proverb "the more things change the more they stay the same," the broadcast networks’ 2019-2020 fall schedule is such an occasion now that the annual hoopla of the upfronts are over. Gotham is gone on Fox, but Gotham City is swinging back to the small screen with the…

Epix is ready for some football. The premium cable net is partnering with NFL Films for NFL: The Grind, a weekly series it bills as the final word on the week in football. The show will kick off at 9 p.m. ET September 11, after Week 1 of the league’s 100th anniversary season. A host has yet to be named for the series…

Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV in February will feature an extra 30-second ad in each break, but fewer breaks overall. The game will feature four fewer breaks than recent editions, going from five breaks per quarter to four. The net number of ads, though, will stay the same. It is the first significant shift of the…

For its upcoming 50th anniversary season, ESPN’s Monday Night Football will bring back play-by-play voice Joe Tessitore and analyst Booger McFarland in the booth. Lisa Salters will remain a sideline reporter, and John Parry joins as a new officiating analyst. Gone will be McFarland’s controversial 12-foot crane, from…

There are NO spoilers for Avengers: Endgame in this post. The Twitter nation is taking a dim view of the NFL superstar known as Shady. Running back LeSean McCoy may well end up in the NFL Hall of Fame once his stellar career concludes but the Buffalo Bills ballcarrier has already cemented his spot in the Spoiler Hall…

EXCLUSIVE: ACE Media, the content subsidiary of the NFL Players Association, has landed a strategic investment by entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing agency Allied Global Marketing. The partnership provides ACE with additional capital, production capabilities, and sales and marketing resources that the union…

AT&T’s U-verse and DirecTV Now services have pulled the NFL Network and NFL Red Zone channels off the air as a deal with the NFL quietly expired, raising questions about whether the league will continue its exclusive long-running NFL Sunday Ticket offering with DirecTV. The channels remain on DirecTV — that deal…

The NFL is out with the schedule for its 100th-anniversary regular season. Check out the list of all 2019 primetime, Thanksgiving and international games below. The regular season again will kick off on a Thursday night. But in a departure from recent years, the defending Super Bowl champion won’t be playing in it…

The Alliance of American Football, an off-season upstart looking to offer a complementary spring alternative to the NFL has suspended operations after just eight weeks of games. Bill Polian, a former NFL GM who co-founded the AAF with Charlie Ebersol, said the new league’s chief investor, Tom Dundon, had decided to…

Departing from its usual custom of allowing the Super Bowl champions to host the opening game of the following season, the NFL said its 100th season will open with the league’s oldest rivalry, between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. NBC will host the contest on Thursday, September 5, under a rights deal that…

The settlement amount that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and ex-teammate Eric Reid reaped from their collusion lawsuit against the National Football League may be far less than previously reported. The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources familiar with the settlement, said Kaepernick…

Ironically, a woman named after a baseball player will host ABC’s opening night presentation for the 2019 National Football League draft, marking its first coverage of the annual player dispersal. Good Morning America's Robin Roberts will be live from Nashville on Thursday, April 25 starting at 8 PM ET on ABC and via…