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Everybody in TV knows that fortune in a fickle beast, but today is a good day to be Lachlan Murdoch. After eight long years without topping the rankings, the Masked Singer- and Super Bowl-injected Fox is poised to take first place among adults 18-49 for the 2019-20 television season. While the leaner Fox will score…

The NFL is expected to release the official schedule for its 2020 season imminently, with a plan for its grand finale at the Super Bowl on February 7, 2021 airing this cycle on CBS. Business as usual. Of course we know all about “plans” in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, and as one event after another has had to…

Fox Corp. generated $600 million in gross revenue in one day on Super Bowl Sunday, said CEO Lachlan Murdoch, as advertisers flocked and paid for the gamut – pre-show,  game and the Season 3 premiere of The Masked Singer immediately following the game. Murdoch said the company is now headed towards "the political…

Dee Snider did not like what he saw during Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show. The Twisted Sister frontman criticized Jennifer Lopez and Shakira for what he considered too sexy performances for the NFL’s family-friendly audience, and insisted a rock band would have brought a different vibe. “Beginning to pole humping…

UPDATED with more numbers: The Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday in Super Bowl LIV in Miami drew 102 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox, NFL and Verizon’s digital properties, according to Nielsen numbers special-ordered by Fox Sports. That was up slightly from the…

Jeep’s revisiting of Groundhog Day with Bill Murray was among the most popular ads on Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV, according to several measurements of commercial time on the big game. The mini-reboot of the 1993 film, shot in Illinois barely a week before the Super Bowl, topped USA Today‘s Ad Meter and also…

As the Houston Texans sadly learned, you can’t be comfortable with any lead over the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s a lesson that the San Francisco 49ers found out the hard way at Super Bowl LIV, as the Chiefs stormed back from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit to win the NFL championship, 31-20. Chiefs quarterback Patrick…

Jennifer Lopez arrived on the Super Bowl halftime stage at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium atop a model of the Empire State Building, danced on a stage shaped like the female Venus symbol and donned, at one point, a remarkable Puerto Rican red white and blue cape-gown that appeared to be constructed of massive feather…

Here’s a sign of the times: Hollywood’s most impressive assemblage of big-screen heroes for any Super Bowl commercial this year was promoting a small-screen project. The advertiser was Disney+, the subscription streaming platform, and the pitch was for the upcoming slate of Marvel Studios series that will showcase the…

A decade after Demi Lovato predicted that she would perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl the New Mexico native delivered on her dream by performing a towering version of The Star Spangled Banner at the NFL’s championship showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Lovato’s robust…

Universal-Illumination Studios has just dropped a teaser to its July 3 prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. The full trailer is set to premiere on Wednesday. The new teaser gives us the untold story of how Gru came to be. As seen in the first-look teaser, we see that the prequel will have all the on-brand subversive…

Two flashy teams got into an old-fashioned grind ’em out game in the first half of the Super Bowl, as the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers battled to a 10-10 tie in the first half. It was only the fourth time the Super Bowl was tied at half-time in the game’s long history, and the lack of big plays was…