Posted Today At 5:00am

Warner Music GroupBlake Shelton is all over NBC's Super Bowl-centered programming Sunday. He and wife Miranda Lambert are set to sing "America the Beautiful" before the game kicks off between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. Following the game, he returns to his role as a mentor on NBC's The Voice. The show's second season premieres in the plum post-Super Bowl time slot. Expectations for The Voice are higher this time around -- it was a summer show last year, but this season it will regularly air Monday nights opposite other networks' first-run programming.

Blake is especially looking forward to reuniting with his fellow mentors Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine for the new season. He recently admitted that he sometimes feels like a stepchild in country music because of his really big personality and outrageous tweets. During a recent interview with his fellow mentors, Blake said, "I swear it, when I met these...feel like I actually have met my true family up here because these people are freaks."

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Posted Today At 8:37am

James Cameron (L) and Mike DeGruy during 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California, United States. (Ray Mickshaw/WireImage(SYDNEY) -- Two National Geographic filmmakers, American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight, died in a helicopter crash in Australia on Saturday, according to the company's website.

Wight, the owner and pilot of the Robinson R-44 helicopter, and deGruy crashed shortly after takeoff, according to a statement released by National Geographic. Police said Wight, 52, and deGruy, 60, took off from an airstrip in Jasper's Brush, about 80 miles south of Sydney, prior to the crash.

“We are grieving over the loss of these two extraordinary friends,” said Tim Kelly, president of the National Geographic Society. “Andrew and Mike were part of our extended family at National Geographic, and our hearts, prayers, and thoughts go out to their loved ones. They accomplished so much, but were taken too early, and our world is greatly diminished by their leaving it.”

The pair were in Australia working on a documentary film with award-winning director James Cameron.

Cameron released this statement: “Mike and Andrew were like family to me. They were my deep-sea brothers, and both were true explorers who did extraordinary things and went places no human being has been. They died doing exactly what they loved most, heading out to sea on a new and personally challenging expedition, having fun in the way they defined it for themselves, which was hardship and toil to achieve something never done before. They were passionate storytellers who lived by the explorer’s code of humor, empathy, optimism, and courage. Their deaths are a tremendous loss for the world of underwater exploration, conservation, and filmmaking.”

No further details relating to the crash were released.

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