Show Title Similarities
The show's title closely resembles CBC Television's long-running Hockey Night in Canada franchise. Also, NBC (along with ABC and Major League Baseball in a joint effort called "The Baseball Network") had previously (1994–1995) aired baseball games as the similarly titled Baseball Night in America.
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