This chicken was arrested within seconds, according to people familiar with the matter, and placed in solitary confinement until the proper authorities can consider the ramifications of his, um, fowl play. Oops!

MSNBC was known for its primetime progressive-opinion shows. MS NOW will still have them, but has been placing new emphasis on a home-grown team devoted to hard news variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety.com

That is one MASSIVE apartment described in NYT Metropolitan Diary...!

MSNBC was known for its opinion programming. Its successor, MS NOW, is putting a spotlight on news.... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

'Don't adjust your settings....We are MS NOW,' says @CapehartJ as MSNBC changes over.....

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It's only their first date and already there's talk of self-improvement and development goals...

Someone at Amazon was clearly impressed by Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson‘s Olympics commentary last year on Peacock.... variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety

Beehiiv isn't just about newsletters. The company is introducing a suite of services allowing creators to build websites, hook up podcasts, and even sell goods and services. The expansion comes as some predict a looming creator consolidation... variety.com/2025/digital...

'Daddy Daze' Alert: Someone's anti-sentience drugs are wearing off...

NBCUniversal is back in the game of operating a stand-alone sports network. The Comcast-controlled media conglomerate said it would revive NBC Sports Network, and devote it to sports programming that usually streams on the company's Peacock service variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Warren Zevon tribute today in 'Hagar the Horrible'...

Disney‘s carriage fight with Google’s YouTube TV is beginning to create some issues for some of the company’s most popular media properties... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

'Chef. give me an extra bowl of salad for my new best friend!'

U.S. military continues to be saddled with surplus iPods, leaving our personnel on the front lines struggling to catch up on critical digital expertise....

Lonely female character in 'Mary Worth' considers romantic affair with nearby parrot that appears poised to take a chunk out of her ear lobe....

New managers. Same old problems. Paramount Skydance may have new owners, but it continues to be bedeviled by erosion in its core TV business, where ad revenue and distribution fees kept eroding.... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Big streamers ranging from Amazon to Peacock are betting on increasingly aggressive 'pause ads' that pop up only when viewers brings a stop to the video action.... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

TV’s news shows are often brought to you by a sponsor. Now, in the case of CNN, so too is its actual newsgathering -- which will at certain times come with a T-Mobile logo on TV and mobile screens.... variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety.com

Did you say remote-controlled drones have made their way to Forestville, where anthropomorphic fauna outnumber humans ten to one?....

I confess I did not expect to see environmentalist Mark Trail winking his way through a solemn discussion of a beached Oregon whale who was exploded with a half ton of dynamite in my Sunday comics...

Creative problems looming over at 'Luann'....

SNL recappers who spend endless paragraphs critiquing every decision made by Lorne and staff remind me of the old Borscht Belt joke: 'The food here is terrible -- and such small portions!'

Warren Zevon, Bad Company, Soundgarden don't make the cut in D+ graphics for tonight's R&R Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Another fascinating 'Headliner' feature in the NYT's Arts & Leisure section, which presents us with just two of Itzhak Perlman's musical favorites, and then entries such as 'my skillet' and 'garlic and onion'...

NYT Metropolitan diary s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s its parameters to include this tale from Okinawa, which, last time I checked, is not located within the five boroughs of NYC.....

'I love this time of year -- when your parents are forced to make bad puns about us from behind a plate glass window, with only an errant 'Ha' able to escape!'

Parrots aren't supposed to eat sunflower seeds in large quantities, but at least this snack comes from a bag cleverly adorned with a single ink-black depiction of one of the tasty treats, all the better to spur fear of choking, or even death...

R.I.P. Dolly, who was found drowned in a sink basin filled with soapy hot water....

Even the well-to-do Flagstons in 'Hi & Lois' are grappling with rising consumer prices and hard-to-ignore inflation....

Countdown to brutal parrot-pecking incident in 'Mary Worth' starts now....Paging Rex Morgan!

Netflix, eager to bolster its reach for advertisers, wants to use monthly active viewers, not users, as has been the case, as a basis for deals. Will Madison Ave. go for a look at households instead of subscribers? variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Sports advertisers seek a whole new ballgame with aggressive concepts that might include anything from 'owning' two-point conversions across college football on ESPN to an in-stadium sing-along on Fox's Super Bowl telecast... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

CBS News Talent Chief Laurie Orlando is Latest Executive to Exit variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety.com

Jon Stewart signs on for another year at 'Daily Show' during fraught moment for late night TV variety.com/2025/legit/n... via @variety

As advertisers put more dollars into TV sports, they are pressing for intricate sponsorships that might include anything from 'owning' two-point conversions across college football on ESPN to an in-stadium sing-along on Fox's Super Bowl telecast... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Say, it's been a while since anyone checked in on Toby in 'Mary Worth,' and now we've got a problem, because her head has swelled out of proportion with her torso and she's holding telepathic conversations with her snack food....

Billy appears to have a serious crush...on Nancy?

Comcast & NBCU quickly drawing up intellectual-property infringement suit filings against 'Judge Parker' creators....

Maureen Dowd has, for a day, revived the NYT's long- gone Advertising column, with a look at the growing use of male 'bros' -- often famous celebs -- in commercials. Paging Stuart Elliott www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

This episode of 'Judge Parker' brought to you by....

Stock market poised for downturn on post-tariff spending outlook as bellwether economy of Hootin' Holler starts decline...

'Desperate times call for desperate measures!' vows Mary's paramour, Dr. Jeff. 'And that's why here, in the creeping dark off the harbor, I am going to hurl you into the ocean so you can meet a watery doom, freeing us all from your meddlesome ways and hokey plotlines!'

Tough week at NYT Metropolitan Diary....

Can Pat McAfee help Disney prevail over YouTube TV in TV’s never-ending carriage wars? ESPN said it would make Saturday's 'College GameDay' telecast available via McAfee's feed on X as it grapples with a blackout on Google's YouTube TV variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety

CNN has an Election Night surprise: a separate streaming-only live-cast featuring Harry Enten, Charlamagne tha God and Ben Shapiro... Format suggests new focus on live events for CNN's new 'All Access' streaming service... variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety

Daddy Keane wears his usual costume: The father who doesn't want to be associated with his offspring...

It's just like young Elmo -- or any character in decades-old 'Blondie' -- to bring an analog joke to a digital conversation. A better punchline would be 'Everyone keeps running down my battery' or 'Everyone keeps me off free Wi-Fi', but God, son, not that old 'putting me on hold' warhorse...

With her incredible propensity to dispense invaluable advice and crisis consulting at any moment, we've long wondered: Is Mary Worth human? Today, she suggests not, telling her paramour about an ability to shift into 'solution-search mode,' an inelegantly named feature created by her A.I. backers...

Charlie Brown tries to prepare for a life in journalism....