NBA rights / Super Bowl LVII viewership / "Arrested Development" exits Netflix / Showtime layoffs

Plus today's calendar, "Ted Lasso" S3 teaser, "Queen Charlotte" first trailer, "Sex/Life" new season, "Beef" first look, and more

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According to a report from CNBC, NBCUniversal plans to bid on broadcast and streaming NBA rights. NBC was formerly the TV home of the NBA before losing the rights to Disney and Turner Sports in 2002. More: NBC Sports apparently hopes to secure a package that would bring playoff games exclusively to NBC's broadcast network, along with regular season games on Peacock. CNBC reports that the NBA may require its broadcast partners to make all games available via streaming, in hopes of reaching the largest possible audience. Apple and Amazon are also apparently seeking streaming NBA packages for their own platforms. NBA rights become available once more at the end of the 2024-2025 season; Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney have until April 2024 to make new bids or waive their exclusive negotiation windows. CNBC

Super Bowl LVII averaged around 113 million viewers, according to early Nielsen data. That would make the most watched Big Game in six years, since the 2017 match-up between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. More: The game aired on Fox and also streamed for viewers with cable subscriptions or replacement streaming platforms, such as YouTube TV. Fox said it was the most-streamed Super Bowl in history, with around 7 million viewers watching online. Rihanna's halftime show received around 118.7 million viewers, the most since Katy Perry's performance in 2015, which still holds the record for the most-watched halftime show of all time. Last year's game -- which aired on NBC and streamed on its digital platforms -- received around 112.3 million average viewers. DEADLINE

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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 PLANET SEX WITH CARA DELEVINGNE: Six-part UK docuseries, originally produced for BBC Three, in which the actor and model chats with various experts about human sexuality, including relationships, eroticism, pornography, and more. [Hulu] PERFECT MATCH: Veterans of previous Netflix reality shows including "Love is Blind," "The Mole," and "Too Hot to Handle" reunite for this dating competition series. Newly-formed couples first demonstrate their own compatibility, then receive the power to make or break up other competitors' matches. Nick Lachey hosts. [Netflix] JIM JEFFERIES: HIGH N' DRY: The comedian's fifth Netflix special features material about stoned koalas, baldness treatments, and abstinence lessons from his father. [Netflix] A SUNDAY AFFAIR: English-language romantic comedy feature from Nigeria, starring Nse Ikpe-Etim and Dakore Akanda as best friends who fall in love with the same very eligible bachelor (Oris Erhuero). [Netflix] IN LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN (TODAS LAS VECES QUE NOS ENAMORAMOS): Debut romantic coming-of-age series from Spain, starring Georgina Amorós as a young film student in the year 2003 who falls for the actor (Franco Masini) starring in her new short film. [Netflix] RE/MEMBER (KARADA SAGASHI): 2022 Japanese coming-of-age horror film, based on the manga by Welzard and Katsutoshi Murase. The story centers on six high school students who find themselves trapped in a time loop by a homicidal spirit, and must investigate the ghost's previous victims in order to escape. "Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness" vet Eiichirô Hasumi directs. [Netflix] ALL THE PLACES (A TODAS PARTES): Spanish-language comedy-drama feature from Mexico, based on the 2018 German film "25 km/h." An estranged brother and sister (Mauricio Ochmann and Ana Serradilla) reunite at their father's funeral and spontaneously decide to take a road trip across the country on their old motorbikes. [Netflix] HIDDEN PASSION (PASIÓN DE GAVILANES): The Colombian telenovela debuted in 2003, then returned last year to Telemundo for a second season. Both seasons hit Netflix in the US today. The series centers on the intertwined destinies of members of the Reyes and Elizondo families. [Netflix] KING STAR KING !/!/! Animated Christmas special spun off from the Adult Swim series "King Star King," in which the god-like fantasy hero (Tommy Blancha) is now a middle-aged family man. The new special aired Monday night on cable and hits HBO Max today. [HBO Max] HALLOWEEN ENDS: 2022 slasher film completing filmmaker David Gordon Green's new "Halloween" trilogy, and following up directly on 2021's "Halloween Kills." Rohan Campbell stars as Corey Cunningham, an outcast in the suburban community of Haddonfield who has a memorable encounter with infamous killer Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney). Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton co-star. [Amazon] ACCIDENT, SUICIDE, OR MURDER: The Oxygen true-crime docuseries examines cases involving suspicious deaths, where the investigations took a number of surprising turns. Season 4 comes to Peacock today. [Peacock] HEARTBREAK ISLAND: Reality dating series from New Zealand, in which singles from New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the US travel to Fiji to find their perfect partner and compete for $100,000 in cash. Season 3 hits Discovery+ in the US on Tuesday. [Discovery+]

All five seasons of the classic comedy series "Arrested Development" will leave Netflix on March 15. That includes the fourth and fifth seasons, which the streamer co-produced along with 20th Television and Imagine Entertainment. More: Fox aired "Arrested Development" for three years, before canceling the show in 2006. In 2012, Netflix -- still relatively new to producing original series -- revived the show for a fourth season; Season 5 debuted in installments in 2018 and 2019. The first three seasons of "Arrested" also currently stream on Hulu. This will mark one of the first times Netflix has opted not to renew licenses for its own original content; the streamer planned to drop the crime drama series "Lilyhammer" last year before reversing course at the last moment. VARIETY

Showtime's "Billions" Showtime laid off 120 staffers on Monday as it prepares to integrate with Paramount+. According to Variety, the cuts equal around 25% of the premium cable network's total workforce. More: Showtime co-presidents Gary Levine and Jana Winograde will both exit their posts; Winograde plans to exit Paramount Global entirely, while Levine will shift to an advisory role. A number of other top Showtime executives also plan to depart, including Paramount Global Premium Group CFO Michael Crotty; SVP of docs and unscripted Vinnie Malhotra; EVP of content acquisition Kent Sevener; and creative director of originals for Paramount International, Rob Rosenberg. The joint SkyShowtime platform completes its rollout this month across Europe, with launches in Spain and Andorra; it will keep the name SkyShowtime for now. VARIETY

"Ted Lasso" Season 3 debuts on Apple TV+ on March 15. As with Season 2, the third season will feature 12 total episodes. More: Jason Sudeikis stars in the series as Lasso, an American football coach who accepts a job coaching the UK's AFC Richmond soccer club. Season 3 will focus on Lasso's rivalry with his former assistant Nate (Nick Mohammed), who has now taken a coaching job with West Ham United. Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, and Anthony Head co-star. VARIETY

Netflix posted a trailer for the first "Bridgerton" spinoff series, focused on the rise to power of a young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio). "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story" hits the streamer on May 4. More: Golda Rosheuvel reprises her role as adult Queen Charlotte from "Bridgerton," along with Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, and Hugh Sachs. New cast members include Corey Mylchreest, Arsema Thomas, Michelle Fairley, Sam Clemmett, and Freddie Dennis. "Bridgerton" will return at some point in 2023 for a third season; the main series has been renewed through Season 4. "Bridgerton" co-creator Shonda Rhimes serves as writer and executive producer of the spinoff series; her long-time collaborator Tom Verica ("How to Get Away with Murder") directed. VARIETY

QUICK HITS Athletic Brewing is pioneering a non-alcoholic craft beer revolution and donating 2% of sales towards protecting and restoring local trails.* Netflix posted a trailer for the second season of the romantic comedy-drama series "Sex/Life," starring Sarah Shahi as a bored and frustrated suburban mom of two; the series returns on March 2. Netflix shared some early images from the dark comedy series "Beef," featuring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong; the show, from "Dave" and "Silicon Valley" vet Lee Sung Jin, arrives on April 6. Peacock greenlit a second season of the reality series "Paris in Love," which will center around Paris Hilton, her husband Carter Reum, and their new baby boy. HBO's "The Penguin" series -- featuring Colin Farrell reprising his role as the DC Comics villain from the 2022 film "The Batman" -- added several new actors to its cast, including Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Deidre O'Connell. Roku signed an exclusive deal with the studio Pocket.watch to produce four TV specials and one series featuring popular kid YouTube creators.  Netflix canceled plans to release the Hindi-language drama feature "Tees"; filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee is now seeking a new home for the film, which the streamer greenlit in 2019. *This is sponsored content

Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." Editor Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade.

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