Puppy Bowl XVII Laps Up 2.1 Million Viewers
Team Ruff avenged last year’s loss to Team Fluff in 2021 Animal Planet competitionTony Maglio and Tim Baysinger | February 9, 2021 @ 3:07 PM Last Updated: February 12, 2021 @ 6:52 AM
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It’s ratings casts and dogs! Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl lapped up 2.1 million total viewers on Sunday, when Hallmark’s Kitten Bowl attracted far fewer human eyeballs.
Last year, Puppy Bowl XVI adopted 1.852 million viewers, exactly 2,000 fewer audience members than Puppy Bowl XV. Puppy Bowl XV had dropped 39% from its own predecessor. This year’s Puppy Bowl reversed two straight years of declines.
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The nickname for this Sunday s Super Bowl could be the Super Streaming Bowl.
That s because the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will likely set new streaming records.
Americans have streamed more online video since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing requirements will nix most Super Bowl parties this year – meaning more viewers will watch on their own.
In any traditional year, the Super Bowl remains a historically huge TV viewing event, with more than 102 million watching last year s game, according to broadcaster Fox Sports. It was also the most live-streamed Super Bowl in history, drawing an average of 3.4 million viewers per minute, up 30% over the previous year.
Typically the cold opens of “Saturday Night Live” parody the politics of the past week, but for its second show of 2021, the NBC late-night sketch comedy series looked ahead to Sunday’s Super Bowl.Kenan Thompson, who portrayed sportscaster James Brown in the sketch, kicked things off acknowledging the complications of late, but that “today we come together in the spirit of football and to murder millions of chickens for their delicious wings.”
Xena on the football field? Now that’s our kind of game. The 17th annual Puppy Bowl of which one battle-ready player is named after Lucy Lawless’ iconic warrior princess goes down today at 2/1c on Animal Planet, and TVLine has your guide to the big game’s starting players. Other notable names include Chunky