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02-06-2016, 02:37 AM
http://www.adweek.com/news/television/10-tv-shows-you-probably-forgot-debuted-right-after-super-bowl-169357
The long-term effect of airing a "special episode" of an established show in the plum Super Bowl lead-out position has waned in recent years. So this year, CBS shook things up by handing that prime spot to Stephen Colbert and his 5-month-old Late Show.
That's a far cry from the early days of the Super Bowl, when CBS put Lassie behind the first three Big Games it carried. The '70s were populated with golf tournaments and news programs. But as Super Bowl TV audiences started to boom in the '80s and '90s, networks started using the post-game slot to debut new shows. The results have been mixed:
The Wonder Years (1988, ABC)
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This Emmy-winning series is among the most successful to launch out of the Super Bowl. The first episode introduced Fred Savage's Kevin Arnold, along with Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano) and Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), as they began Junior High in the late 1960s. The episode featured a very dark cliffhanger, and viewers had to wait two months to see the resolution.
The long-term effect of airing a "special episode" of an established show in the plum Super Bowl lead-out position has waned in recent years. So this year, CBS shook things up by handing that prime spot to Stephen Colbert and his 5-month-old Late Show.
That's a far cry from the early days of the Super Bowl, when CBS put Lassie behind the first three Big Games it carried. The '70s were populated with golf tournaments and news programs. But as Super Bowl TV audiences started to boom in the '80s and '90s, networks started using the post-game slot to debut new shows. The results have been mixed:
The Wonder Years (1988, ABC)
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This Emmy-winning series is among the most successful to launch out of the Super Bowl. The first episode introduced Fred Savage's Kevin Arnold, along with Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano) and Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), as they began Junior High in the late 1960s. The episode featured a very dark cliffhanger, and viewers had to wait two months to see the resolution.