Amazing Race 15
8/7c CBS
One of the show's most daunting Roadblocks is revisited when the five remaining teams travel to Stockholm and encounter the game's first-ever Switchback. What's a "Switchback"? It requires teams to complete a task performed on a previous season. In this case, it's unrolling bales of hay to find a clue. Fans may recall in Season 6 that poor Lena Jensen unrolled 100 bales of hay over eight hours and never found a clue. Phil eventually came to the field and told her to stop because she had already been eliminated. Maybe these teams will have better luck.
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Boom! Legendary NFL commentator John Madden is walking away from the broadcast booth after nearly 30 years.
"It's time," Madden said in a statement issued by NBC Sports, where he has worked since 2006 as an analyst on Sunday Night Football, and for whom he called the most recent Super Bowl. "I'm 73 years old. My 50th wedding anniversary is this fall. I have two great sons and their families and my five grandchildren are at an age now when they know when I'm home and, more importantly, when I'm not.
"I still love every part of it — the travel, the practices, the game film, the games, seeing old friends and meeting new people... but I know this is the right time," Madden said.
The former Oakland Raiders coach has called games for all four of the major broadcast networks. He joined ...
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Cold Case
9 pm/ET CBS
Period music is one of the strong points of the series, and occasionally an episode will focus exclusively on one artist, such as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen.
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Dexter
9 pm/ET Showtime
Season 3 comes to a well-executed conclusion. The episode title, "Do You Take Dexter Morgan," is ambiguous and can relate to Dexter's impending nuptials to Rita, or to the possibility that he can be taken out by a vengeful someone with a grudge against him.
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Sunday's ratings summary:
7 pm/ET
The CW's In Harm's Way surged eight percent from its premiere to deliver 729,000 total viewers.
8 pm
Extreme Makeover eked out a W, scoring 11.26 million viewers to the first hour of Sunday Night Football's 11.16 mil. The onset of Fox's baseball coverage (9.5 mil) edged out Amazing Race (9.17 mil), while Episode 2 of the CW's Valentine (1.01 mil) felt only slightly less love than its debut.
NBC's coverage of the Patriots-Chargers game averaged 11.2 mil through 11 pm, and topped everyone except the Housewives in the demos. Baseball averaged 8.5 mil over its first two hours.
9 pm
Desperate Housewives dominated with 15.3 million, more or less on par with a week ago. Cold Case gained 200K to place third with 10.9 mil. The CW's Easy Money (753,000) saw 30 percent of its premiere audience cash out.
10 pm
Football sneaked past Brothers & Sisters (10.1 mil), which was down 500 thou. The Unit (9.12 mil) dropped 14 percent.
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