It was announced earlier this year that Maroon 5 would headline the 2019 Super Bowl’s halftime show, though it appears they weren’t the organizers’ first choice. Yesterday, Us Weekly reported that Rihanna was initially offered the slot, but that the Anti singer turned it down as a show of support to Colin Kaepernick,…
There’s no real surprise to Super Bowl advertising anymore. The biggest, most star-studded commercials debut online days before Super Bowl Sunday, the result of an accelerated hype machine and the declining fortunes of broadcast TV. By kickoff last night, you could already stream Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman’s …
Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles had a great night this past Sunday evening, as the team defeated the New England Patriots to become Super Bowl champions for the first time ever. NBC and the NFL more generally, however, might be a bit disappointed by the outcome.
Today, man of the woods Justin Timberlake returned to civilization for a press conference about his upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, taking a moment to shoot down everyone’s hopes for any special guests he might be bringing along to Minneapolis. As reported by Reuters, Timberlake said that he had “a ton…
The announcement that Justin Timberlake would play this year’s Super Bowl halftime show—as is strangely the norm now for the midgame, Pepsi-sponsored concert widely hailed as “eh, just leave it on”—has already become a firestorm of controversy. While choosing a performer as broadly popular and blandly inoffensive as…
Alex Jones is dangerous. He is a stone-cold lunatic who preaches conspiracy under the guise of Christianity to an Infowars audience of more than 50 million people. Read Jon Ronson’s new Kindle single, The Elephant In The Room: A Journey Into The Trump Campaign And The “Alt-Right,” for some context or, y’know, just…
Even those of us at The A.V. Club are aware that Super Bowl LI is going down this weekend, if only because it’s carte blanche to scarf nachos and chili. We kid—it’s obviously a big deal for a lot of people, including Conan O’Brien, who held a special “Big Game” edition of his Clueless Gamer segment. O’Brien was joined…
Variety reports that the NFL and Fox have selected country music superstar Luke Bryan as the singer of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at this year’s Super Bowl. Bryan—whose songs include mainstream country fuck anthems like “Play It Again,” “That’s My Kind Of Night,” and the sonically indistinct “Drink A Beer”—will be the…
Lady Gaga, whose new album is due out at the end of October, will have a huge platform for that new material: She’ll be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show next year. The pop star announced she’d be performing during the portion of the football game for people indifferent to sports on Twitter. Us Weekly actually…
Adele’s been pretty busy since releasing 25, her long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s break-up opus 21, last fall. She’s broken download and sales records while keeping the album off the digital shelves of Spotify (though she later relented), and has been on the Adele Live 2016 tour since February. Amid that flurry of…
Citing the fact that the event “is not about music,” Adele recently announced during a concert in Los Angeles that she turned down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. That’s according to Variety, which says rumors had begun popping up over the last week that said the organizers behind the halftime…
As any fan knows, Prince kept his public image on lockdown. He didn’t let people cover his tracks on YouTube, and he didn’t post old videos all over random Tumblrs. Instead, he trusted his fans would want to buy his music—and they did, with more than 100 million records sold worldwide to date.
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, February 7. All times are Eastern.
A guide to what we’re barely putting up with this week.
This Sunday, as the Panthers take on the Broncos at Levi’s Stadium, the major Hollywood movie studios will be engaged in their own very public showdown: For upwards of $5 million a pop, executives will bid for the patronage of American moviegoers, subjecting a captive audience to 30-second commercials for the biggest…
In 1991, when Whitney Houston agreed to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, America had just gone to war in the Persian Gulf and was looking for signs of hope and encouragement. What Houston delivered was a performance that forever altered the way America’s national anthem is performed in…
A guide to what we’re barely putting up with this week.
If Roman numerals are the kind of thing that gets your blood pumping, the news that Super Bowl L would be switched to Super Bowl 50 was likely a crushing blow. If you’re in the even narrower cross section of the population that dislikes Coldplay as well as being a Roman numeral aficionado, maybe it’s best you skip our…
As reported by Variety, CBS is hoping to give its hip new late-night hosts a big boost by airing special episodes of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show With James Corden in the highly coveted post-Super Bowl time slot on February 7 of next year. Well, sort of. The Late Show will air immediately…
Back in June, The A.V. Club ran a clip of Steven Spielberg losing the best director nomination for Jaws in 1976. The bearded one didn’t just have a camera set up in his house to document he and Joe Spinell hanging out on a Los Angeles morning; it was actually a “guerilla video collective” known as TVTV (Top Value…
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