Rihanna's song "Run This Town" had been scheduled to open CBS' broadcast Thursday night of the NFL showdown between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.

But just a few hours before kickoff, the network pulled the singer and the song in light of the ongoing domestic violence scandal over former Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was cut by the team and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after a video surfaced of him punching his then-fiance -- and current wife -- Janey Palmer in an Atlantic City elevator earlier this year.

Sports Illustrated reported the change was made because Rihanna was a victim of domestic violence in 2009 when her former boyfriend Chris Brown viciously beat her. The song had been planned to play with a narration from actor Don Cheadle.

CBS has also yanked a planned comedic segment and will now open its pregame show with a report from "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell, who interviewed NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell earlier this week about his...

Tim Tebow is joining "Good Morning America" as a contributor, ABC announced Thursday.

The former NFL quarterback will make his debut on the top-rated morning program Sept. 15 as part of the "Motivate Me Monday" series, which will spotlight "amazing stories of triumph," according to the network.

Tebow made history in 2007 when he won the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore at the University of Florida. During his college career, Tebow attracted a great deal of media attention due to his outspoken conservative Christian beliefs, often citing Bible verses in his eye black and declaring his commitment to remaining a virgin until marriage. He also appeared in an anti-abortion Super Bowl ad in 2010 financed by Focus on the Family.

Later that year, Tebow was a first-round draft pick for the Denver Broncos. Despite launching a viral fad known as "Tebowing," his NFL career quickly fizzled. He was traded to the New York Jets after a single season, and released a year later. He was subsequently cut by...

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Kitchen Nightmares Gordon Ramsay updates some of his biggest "nightmares" from the show to see how the restaurants progressed in the season finale. 9 p.m. Fox

The Knick Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) treats one of Collier's (Danny Hoch) wounded men at the hospital in this new episode. Andre Holland and Clive Owen also star. 10 p.m. Cinemax

Z Nation This new zombie apocalypse series follows a band of survivors struggling to make their way from New York to California, transporting the only known survivor of a plague to the last functioning research lab, where they hope a vaccine can be derived from his blood. Harold Perrineau, Tom Everett Scott and D.J. Qualls stars. 10 p.m. Syfy

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48 Hours: Oscar Pistorius Verdict This new special reports on the background, trial and verdict...

President Barack Obama addressed the country on Wednesday night to outline his plan to defeat the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the Middle East. Stephen Colbert didn't get a chance to see Obama's speech before he taped his Wednesday show, but he still took time to comment on it, sight unseen.

"I tape my show at 7 o'clock, folks," Colbert said. "So I have no idea what he said tonight. All I know is that I completely agree with what [Fox News'] Andrea Tantaros said at 5 o'clock, four hours before president's speech."

Obviously, a super-conservative like Colbert's character would find a way to dislike the speech no matter what the content actually was. But what did Tantaros, co-host of "The Five," have to say about the speech?

"I'm very deeply troubled by what he will say," she said.

"I couldn't have agreed more," Colbert responded. "Because I also haven't seen it and I'm furious about what I think it will be."

The curious will need to tune in to Colbert and Tantaros now that...

"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History."  This seven-part, 14-hour chronicle of a family that helped shape not only American history but American identity is a stunning reminder of why Ken Burns, having revolutionized the documentary series, continues to be the best in the business.

Though focusing on the most famous members of the Roosevelt family -- Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor -- Burns and his team carefully construct a vivid context for their remarkable story. Both presidents were plagued by illness -- Teddy almost died during childhood and was a chronic asthmatic, Franklin was stricken with polio as a young man -- all three suffered loss and emerged from dysfunctionally high-status families with a determination to change the world.

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Which they absolutely did. Assembling his inevitably high-wattage team, Burns explains how and...

Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney will be gracing the halls of Downton Abbey on television later this year.

But before you get too excited about what this news could mean -- will Clooney don his tux and roll around in a pigsty with Lady Mary? Or swindle Lord Grantham out of his fortune over a seemingly gentlemanly game of cards? Or meet Lady Edith at a suffragist rally? -- be warned: Clooney will not actually be appearing in the hit period piece. 

Instead the Oscar-winning actor-director-activist will star in a sketch filmed at Highclere Castle -- a.k.a. the real Downton Abbey -- as part of a charity television special, "Text Santa," airing over the holidays on the British ITV Network.

ITV has confirmed Clooney's involvement, but has declined to share further details about the sketch, including whether any of the show's cast members might also be involved. Six different charities will be beneficiaries of the telethon (and don't worry, Lord Grantham, none of them advocate for the...

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The Biggest Loser Former athletes, including Olympians and professional football players, try to get back in shape and change their lives as the weight loss series returns for a new season. 8 p.m. NBC

The Quest The fantasy-reality competition series with a two-hour finale. 8 p.m. ABC

Haven As the eerie series returns for a fifth season, the main characters deal with the aftermath of last season's finale. Audrey's (Emily Rose) body is now being controlled by Mara, Nathan (Lucas Bryant) worries that the woman he loves may be gone forever and Duke (Eric Balfour) is a ticking time bomb, fighting to control the Troubles inside him. Laura Mennell joins the show this season in a recurring role. 8 p.m. Syfy

Project Runway In this new episode, the designers create avant garde...

It's getting a little crowded on that dial: KCET and KLCS are planning to share channel space.

The two public TV stations announced Wednesday that they had begun a partnership to split a single over-the-air broadcast television channel, even as their business and programming operations will remain separate. 

Viewers will most likely not notice any difference, because advanced technologies have allowed broadcasters to compress more data into their available channel space than in the past. The remaining bandwidth would be available for a spectrum auction that the Federal Communications Commission plans to hold in 2015.

That could mean big money for the stations. The free bandwidth would go for unlicensed wireless use, which is eagerly sought by Google and other companies.

The move comes after a closely watched sharing test earlier this year between KLCS -- a PBS station licensed to the L.A. Unified School District - and Spanish-language KJLA. The test determined that the two stations...

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney will join CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday.

Carney will make his first appearance on CNN on Wednesday night in conjunction with President Obama's prime time address outlining his strategy to push back on the Islamic State.  Going forward, Carney is expected to contribute to programs across the network and to special political programming.

"I'm thrilled to be joining CNN at a time when there is so much happening in the nation and the world," said Carney in a press release.

Carney left the White House in June after having served as press secretary for three years. Prior to that, he was director of communications for Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2001. He also brings 20 years of journalistic experience to CNN, having spent two decades at Time magazine. 

Carney is the latest White House press secretary to make the switch to TV punditry. His predecessor, Robert Gibbs, joined MSNBC as a contributor after...

Musical montage intro? Check.

Charlie Hunnam shirtless, brooding in a swirl of smoke? Check.

Sophomoric violence used to solve one problem, a little help from some scantily clad women to solve another? Double check.

And let’s cue up that outro montage.

For the seventh and final time, “Sons of Anarchy” is back with a paint-by-numbers premiere that highlights the flaws (really, another 90-minute episode?) and strengths (Hunnam’s endless but engaging brood, the bromance humor of the Sons’ world) that have made this show FX’s staple for the better part of a decade.

Jax spends this entire episode banged up, but maybe not entirely broken, in the shadow of Tara’s death. He’s run right back into Gemma’s arms, completely oblivious to the fact that mother dearest slaughtered his great love in what might be the show’s most brutal death scene. Tara was Jax’s only tether to a world outside the chaos of the MC, and her passing seems to have wiped out any hope he had of going straight.

For the first...

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Hell's Kitchen It's the men versus the women in the opening challenge of the two-hour season premiere of this cooking competition featuring an appearance by chef Wolfgang Puck. 8 p.m. Fox

America's Got Talent The final six acts are revealed in this results episode, and teenage classical singer Jackie Evancho performs. 9 p.m. NBC

Nova The new episode "Vaccines — Calling the Shots" documents the impact skipping vaccinations is having on the return of such illnesses as whooping cough, measles and mumps. 9 p.m. KOCE

Legends While on leave following his confrontation with the Colonel, Martin (Sean Bean) begins looking into his own past in this new episode. 9 p.m. TNT

Taxi Brooklyn Though he's initially thrilled to get a visit from his son and daughter-in-law, Leo (Jacky Ido)...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell emphasized in his first TV interview since suspending former Baltimore Raven running back Ray Rice in a domestic violence incident that he never saw a video of Rice knocking his then-fiance Janey Palmer unconscious in an Atlantic City casino elevator, an incident that has clouded his leadership of the NFL.

Goodell was questioned by "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell about the video, which was posted Monday by TMZ. Excerpts of the interview were scheduled to be aired Tuesday night on the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley," while the whole interview will be shown Wednesday on "CBS This Morning."

An earlier video had shown Rice dragging an unconscious Palmer out of the elevator.

O'Donnell in the interview asked Goodell: "To be clear, did you know that a second tape existed?"

"Well, we had not seen any videotape of what occurred in the elevator," Goodell responded. "We assumed that there was a video. We asked for a video. We asked for anything...