THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- NFL Wild Card weekend ratings were up 8%. Nielsen numbers rose as all four visiting teams advanced.
- Speaking of, the NFL is said to have requested that CBS, Fox and NBC bid to air part and all of the "Thursday Night Football" franchise. CBS and the NFL Network have aired "Thursday Night Football" in recent years.
- In "Guardians of the Galaxy 2," The Collector (Benicio Del Toro) will NOT be in the cast.
- Michael Galeota, star of Disney Channel's The Jersey and Clubhouse Detectives, has died at 31.
- Nick Cannon says he doubts he'll ever marry again after having been with Mariah Carey.
- Tonight's the night -- Powerball drawing.
- A couple in Aberdeen, Scotland, got divorced after 23 years of marriage... waited 23 years... and then got remarried.
- 93-year-old comics guru Stan Lee says he can't read comic books anymore because of his failing eyesight.
- Now Netflix is looking into rebooting the old 80s TV series, "One Day At A Time."
- Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Smokey Robinson and Lionel Richie were among those at Natalie Cole's funeral on Monday.
- Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry were sure flirty at the Golden Globes Sunday night.
- Can you believe Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama have now been together for six years?
- 84-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch and 59-year-old former model Jerry Hall (who had 4 kids with Mick Jagger) are engaged.
- In Flint, Michigan, state officials are handing out bottled water to residents after a serious lead contamination was discovered in the drinking water.
- And now, President Obama is officially retired... from making State of the Union speeches.
- Warren Beatty finished shooting his movie about Howard Hughes in June of 2014. It's been announced that the movie will finally come out later this year.
- There's something about Arizona and Alabama Offensive Coordinator Lane Kitfin. In 2013, he was promptly fired from USC once the team landed in Los Angeles following a blowout loss to Arizona. This past Monday night, when he was done answering questions at the press conference, he went out to discover that the team buses had left without him.
- David Bowie started out as Davey Jones, but before he could get his career going, the Monkees took off. So, he changed his name to Tom Jones... and shortly afterwards, the singer Tom Jones had his first hit. So, he went to David Bowie.
- There will be a giant concert honoring the memory and music of David Bowie at Carnegie Hall on March 31. The Roots, Cyndi Lauper, the Mountain Goats, Heart's Ann Wilson, Perry Farrell, Jakob Dylan will all take part in The Music of David Bowie.
- So you know, the Sunday after New Year's is supposed to be the biggest day of the year for online dating.
- According to match.com there's a 60 percent increase in the new members that they have between Christmas and Valentine's Day.
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