{"id":2267898,"date":"2026-02-05T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2267898"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:12","slug":"thats-entertainment-tv-blog-gears-up-for-super-bowl-blog-xii-02-05-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thats-entertainment-tv-blog-gears-up-for-super-bowl-blog-xii-02-05-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Entertainment? TV Blog Gears Up For Super Bowl Blog XII 02\/05\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body_main\" data-title=\"PBS Plots 'Downton Abbey' Run In Face Of Financial Shortfalls 02\/04\/2026\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/412464\/pbs-plots-downton-abbey-run-in-face-of-financial.html\" data-start=\"None\" data-index=\"0\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><\/p>\n<p>What will this year\u2019s morning-after<br \/>\nSuper Bowl <i>TV Blog<\/i> look like?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">If past Super Bowl blogs are any indication, this year\u2019s edition will comment on the commercials, the pregame and halftime entertainment,<br \/>\nand the quality of the broadcast on NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As always, the <i>TV Blog<\/i> is excited by this Sunday\u2019s big game, despite the fact that the Eagles aren\u2019t in<br \/>\nit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Expectations are as high for Super Bowl LX as they are for Super Bowl Blog XII by the same author of this blog since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Looking back at the previous<br \/>\n11 of them, the commercials have taken center stage, naturally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Negative categories have included tasteless commercials, violent commercials, nonsensical<br \/>\ncommercials, social-message commercials (especially them) and commercials that are so elaborate that the brands they are advertising are easily forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads_inline_640\"><!-- ~advertisement~ big_unit --><\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p><!-- Website big_unit Ad --><\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More often than not, the <i>TV Blog<\/i> gave thumbs-up to commercials that were fun to watch and commercials that communicated a clear, straightforward sales message that says: Here is our<br \/>\nproduct and here are the benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of the latter, WeatherTech got mentioned again and again. So did each network\u2019s promotion spots for upcoming new<br \/>\nshows. These are usually great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I read all of my past 11 post-Super Bowl TV blogs yesterday, but did not actually count the number of commercials deemed bad,<br \/>\ngood or indifferent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the overall impression was that bad commercials outnumbered good ones. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the commercials that were negatively reviewed<br \/>\nhere are so memorable that I did not need to read all of the past Super Bowl blogs to remember them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of them was the Springsteen spot for Jeep in 2021<br \/>\nthat had Buzzkill Bruce driving alone on a highway in middle America and complaining about life in America, the country that made him a rock star.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another was the Kia Telluride spot in 2019 in which a sad-eyed little boy described his small Georgia town as<br \/>\npossibly the worst place on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The problem with these spots, as always, was that somehow their creators thought these depressing commercials were wholly<br \/>\nappropriate for the joyous annual holiday in America known as Super Bowl Sunday &#8212; second only to July Fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other spots I do not even have to look up in<br \/>\norder to remember them include the infamous Cure Auto Insurance spot in which a man reached across a table to cruelly and violently yank out a screw that had mysteriously lodged in the forehead of the<br \/>\nwoman seated across from him; and the Doritos spot in which a fetus shot out of a woman\u2019s womb like a cannon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These were certainly tasteless, but<br \/>\nothers were tasteless for other reasons. One was a 2018 spot that used a portion of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech to sell Dodge Ram trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What were some<br \/>\nof the worst commercials in some of the <i>TV Blog<\/i>\u2019s Super Bowl recaps? In addition to the aforementioned spots, they included a Nationwide Insurance spot in which a little boy lamented that<br \/>\nhe did not live long enough to enjoy a full life (2015); a commercial in which Michelob Light was positioned as a health drink (2016); and the nonsensical Coca-Cola Energy spot that had Martin<br \/>\nScorsese, 76, desperately trying to connect with Jonah Hill, 36, so they could go out nightclubbing together (2020).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Plenty of commercials came in for praise<br \/>\nin the Super Bowl blogs over the years, but one still towers over all the others for its simplicity and innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It was the 2022 Coinbase spot that was nothing more than a<br \/>\nsquare QR code bouncing lazily off the sides of the TV screen like the ancient Pong video game.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This activity<br \/>\nlasted for a full minute, giving viewers plenty of time to scan the code, which a great many of them did.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It<br \/>\nwas mesmerizing, which is a rare thing for a TV commercial in a Super Bowl or anywhere else in the television universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n            if (f.fbq)return;\n            n = f.fbq = function () {\n                n.callMethod ?\n                    n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n            };\n            if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n            n.push = n;\n            n.loaded = !0;\n            n.version = '2.0';\n            n.queue = [];\n            t = b.createElement(e);\n            t.async = !0;\n            t.src = v;\n            s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n        }(window, document, 'script',\n            'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1353226008029768');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mediapost.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will this year\u2019s morning-after Super Bowl TV Blog look like? 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