He appeared in not one but two ads during the broadcast, stood alongside the Grammy honcho Neil Portnow during the essay portion, and performed a flashy retro number.
So I am deeply, deeply thankful that ABC, CBS and NBC are joining together in a simultaneous - and potentially life-saving - broadcast: Stand Up to Cancer, an informational and fund-raising special.
A better strategy for the broader college athletes' rights movement may be to leave 'bad enough' alone, and to instead focus on cases brought in forums more favorable to an antitrust challenge against the NCAA and where college athletes' publicity rights in game broadcasts stands on firmer grounds.
Branagh, who will play Leontes, said he wanted to ensure the broadcasts stood as a piece of art on their own terms.
The range of offerings has expanded to include variety of music concerts, live sport events, documentaries and lectures, faith broadcasts, stand-up comedy, museum and gallery exhibitions, and TV specials such as the record-breaking Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special The Day of The Doctor.
The number of replicates in the broadcast tree stands for the data's broadcast frequency.
And so during that lunchtime broadcast I stood above a pile of belongings, pointing to items strewn across the ground.
On the broadcast, they stood side by side with Stevie Wonder, Bono and Alicia Keys in an awkward all-star rendition of the Beatles' "Across the Universe".
From those winning to those watching: another figure that received attention in media pages last week was the rating for the BBC1 broadcast, which stood at 3 million against BBC2's 4 million for the Winter Olympics and ITV's 7.6 million for Miss Marple.
Netflix has also decided not to broadcast a stand-up comedy special that was to have been streamed this week.
