Beyond TV: NFL playoffs to stream live
David Baas #64 of the New York Giants in action against the New York Jets. (Aug. 29, 2011) Credit: Jim McIsaac
WILD-CARD STREAMING The National Football League is breaking ground by live-streaming Saturday's wild-card playoff doubleheader -- Bengals-Texans at 4:30 p.m., Lions-Saints at 8 p.m. -- both online and via NFL Mobile (on Verizon Wireless). The league also plans to stream this year's Super Bowl and Pro Bowl. Watch at nfl.com and nbcsports.com; wireless info at verizonwireless.com/nfl.
'DANCE CREW' AUDITIONS Get ready to move for MTV's "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew." Casting for groups of five to seven dancers will hit New York Jan. 21 at Manhattan's S.I.R. Studios on West 25th Street. Get info, preregister at abdccasting.com.
'SYTYCD' AUDITIONS Also seeking dancers is Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," arriving Jan. 23 at the Manhattan Center. Get details, registration forms at fox.com/dance.
COSBY IS GOLDEN. Manhattan's Paley Center for Media celebrates Bill Cosby's 50 years of comedy by screening his most rarely seen TV outings. Wednesday to Sunday, through Jan. 22, at 12:30 p.m., the first program includes two specials spotlighting Cosby's trademark storytelling, 1968's "The Bill Cosby Show" and 1969's "The Second Bill Cosby Special." Cosby's third and fourth TV specials (1970 and 1971) unreel at the Paley Jan. 25-Feb. 5, with other screenings through March 4. Info at paleycenter.org/events.
