{"id":931156,"date":"2026-10-13T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931156\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:22:09","slug":"high-potential-lands-post-super-bowl-lxi-slot-on-abc-next-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931156\/","title":{"rendered":"‘High Potential’ Lands Post-Super Bowl LXI Slot on ABC Next February"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tABC will take advantage of the post-Super Bowl<\/a> glow to promote the Kaitlin Olson drama \u201cHigh Potential<\/a>,\u201d the network announced Monday. That means the show will air immediately following Super Bowl LXI on ABC and Disney+ on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s not the only show that Disney hopes to give a Super Bowl halo effect. As Variety previously reported<\/a>, Hulu plans to launch the new Dan Fogelman-produced football drama \u201cThe Land\u201d on Super Bowl Sunday as well.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis reps the first time ABC has aired the Super Bowl since 2006. That year, the network ran an episode of \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d behind Super Bowl XL. Before that, in 2003, it ran an episode of \u201cAlias\u201d after Super Bowl XXXVII.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther ABC shows that have received the Super Bowl lead-out slot include \u201cThe Practice\u201d (2000, Super Bowl XXXIV). In 1995, the network used the slot to launch the pilot episode of a long-forgotten series titled \u201cExtreme.\u201d (The James Brolin adventure drama was canceled after seven episodes.) It ran the comedy pilot \u201cDavis Rules\u201d in 1991; and most successfully, launched the series \u201cThe Wonder Years\u201d behind Super Bowl XXII in 1988.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, NBC didn\u2019t schedule a lead-out behind the Super Bowl, instead sticking with Winter Olympics coverage (which it also did in 2022). In 2025, Fox ran the game show \u201cThe Floor\u201d behind Super Bowl LIX, and in 2024, CBS aired the series premiere of \u201cTracker\u201d after Super Bowl LVIII, attracting 18.44 million viewers. That reps the last scripted show to air after the Big Game.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHigh Potential\u201d is set to return for Season 3 in early 2027 on Tuesday nights (streaming the next day on Hulu), the network noted. \u201cHigh Potential\u201d ended the 2025-2026 broadcast season as the No. 1 show among adults 18-49, according to the Alphabet net, with a 3.35 rating after 35 days of viewing on ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms. In viewers, the show averaged 16.01 million viewers in the same multiplatform, 35-day results.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHigh Potential\u201d stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, Daniel Sunjata as Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev \u201cOz\u201d Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot and Judy Reyes as Selena.<\/p>\n

\n\t20th Television is behind \u201cHigh Potential,\u201d which is based on the French series \u201cHaut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI)\u201d and was created in the U.S. by Drew Goddard. Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles, Nora and Lilla Zuckerman and Kaitlin Olson serve as executive producers. Andrea Massaro (Goddard Textiles) serves as co-executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the announcement of the post-Super Bowl move, as revealed during Monday night\u2019s \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d game:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC will take advantage of the post-Super Bowl glow to promote the Kaitlin Olson drama \u201cHigh Potential,\u201d the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,60398,19501,348],"class_list":["post-931156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-high-potential","tag-super-bowl","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}