It’s been a very weepy day on daytime TV

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Ben Stiller is all but promising that Severance won’t drag out the mysteries:

It was after the release of season one that Stiller learned fans considered Severance a mystery box show, a genre of high-concept shows like Lost and Stranger Things that feature enigmatic stories that are expected to tie together eventually. “I’d never heard the term mystery box show until two years ago,” Stiller says. “They’re like, ‘So you’re making a mystery.’ I’m like, ‘Oh shit, I’m not prepared for this.’ But what I got out of that was that people don’t want to be led down a path or be messed with. With a show like this, there’s always that question, ‘Do they know where they’re going?’ ”… Severance fans will be relieved to know that Stiller, Erickson and the show’s writers do in fact have a plan, that even some of season one’s weirdest flourishes — yes, even the basement full of baby goats — pay off by the end of season two.

I mean, that’s a big promise, guys. That said, I will note that it was because Lost negotiated an endpoint — something that was unheard of at the time — that a show like Severance can build a mystery and then begin answering those questions knowing that they will end the show on their own terms in their own time.

An emotional Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos revealed that their dog Chewie died yesterday, with Kelly Ripa openly crying about it during the host chat. Kelly Ripa has been talking about the decline of the dog that she adopted on the show for a few weeks now, including during the taping I went to. As someone who lost a beloved dog a month ago, I get it — I have spent weeks bursting into tears inappropriately. I can only imagine how awful it would be to have to go on national television the next day.

And poor Sunny Hostin began crying on The View during a segment on heart health with former View host, Star Jones, revealing that her aunt had died of a heart attack just the day before.

Oof, as part of their storyline, poor Laura Wright had to scream at Cameron Mathison on General Hospital the day after Mathison lost his house in the California wildfires last month. But to be fair to Carly, Drew shouldn’t have slept with her son’s (and his nephew’s) wife, so.

Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney tease that the next Sunny/Abbott crossover will be the same story as seen on Abbott Elementary, but told from a different perspective — and it might surprise people:

“I think Rob and I got a little bit excited about the fact that their show is a documentary, and that if there was a crew there filming, what else are they filming that you don’t see during the course of the episode of Abbott?” Day shared at the time. “There has to be other things.”

“We thought there could be something really interesting with finding additional footage that isn’t aired during the Abbott episode. So I can tease that there is some much more R-rated It’s Always Sunny-style content that you get to see when you see our episode,” he explained.

Let’s not drag the Buffy comic books into the new series, please and thank you.

Some Disney business: It doesn’t sound like they are planning to sell ABC; and Disney+ and ESPN lost a ton of subscribers — 700,000 each — in the last quarter of 2025, but Hulu added slightly more than they both lost — 1.6 million subscribers — so … it’s a wash?

And apparently, Disney is going to pay the winners of that Shaquille O’Neal/Gina Rodriguez game show, Lucky 13. The ABC game show was financed using an unusual financing structure. When it was canceled after one season, the special purpose company that was created specifically to produce this show declared bankruptcy. Technically, no one is obligated to pay the winners, but Disney has decided to step in and do the right thing, paying out more than $460,000 to some 13 people.

Did a South Texas station cut away from Lady Gaga’s acceptance speech during the Grammys on purpose? They say it was an accident but …

Howie Mandel is sorry for ambushing Bill Burr with his possible half-brother Billy Corgan.

PolUGHTics

I’m not going to spend time on it now because MY GOD, but yeah, President Ethnic Cleansing declared his intention to take control of Gaza — potentially with U.S. troops — remove all the Palestinians and send them to other countries, and take a “long-term ownership position.” It’s shocking, explosive, and appalling on a humanitarian level, it would get us further enmeshed in the tinder box that is the Middle East — just the opposite of “America First” — all at the same time that this man is trying to purge the CIA and FBI, you know, the folks who keep us safe from terrorist attacks.

It’s such a shocking suggestion that The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — who worked for the man — told her husband he was reading fake news when he told her about it. “God’s honest truth, I was making dinner last night and Justin walks in, and he’s like, ‘Did you hear that Trump is taking over the Gaza strip and America’s going to occupy it?’ I was like, ‘Hon, you’re reading fake news. You’ve got to verify those things first,’” she said with a laugh. “Sure enough, I Google it and it was real.”

Oh, and they’re talking to El Salvador about sending American citizens — CITIZENS — to El Salvadorian prisons, so that’s totally cool and very Constitutional.

We are living in the Upside Down.

The NFL will remove signs reading “End Racism” on the field during the Super Bowl because this is who we are now.

But hey, in a little shred of good news, The Proud Boys have literally lost their name and logo to the Black church they vandalized, so that’s funny.

Renewals

Cancellations

  • Hysteria! has been canceled after one season on Peacock.

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • Love Hotel will premiere on Bravo soon.

  • Denise Richards and Her Wild Things will premiere on Bravo on March 4.
  • A Different Animal will debut on Prime Video on March 11.
  • Don’t Mess With Grandma is streaming on Tubi now.
  • Delicious premieres on Netflix on March 7.
  • Toxic Town debuts on Netflix on February 27.
  • Benefits with Friends debuts on Hulu on February 12.

R.I.P.

David Edward Byrd, Artist who made posters for many 60s and 70s rock bands and Broadway shows

WATCH THIS

Wild Cards: Jason Priestley guest stars in the season premiere. 7 p.m., The CW

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test: Season finale. 7 p.m., Fox

Life Interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s Fight Against Cancer: This new special follows Isabella Strahan’s cancer journey. 9 p.m., ABC

Kinda Pregnant: When a woman becomes jealous of her pregnant friend, she wears a fake baby bump, only to meet the man of her dreams in this new Amy Schumer comedy. Netflix

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Christina Ricci, Ke Huy Quan, the cast of “Cobra Kai”, Gigi Perez
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Nicole Scherzinger, Roy Wood Jr., Michael Solomonov
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Damon Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., Daniel Boulud, Evie McGee Colbert
  • After Midnight: John Hodgman, Urzila Carlson, Jean Grae
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ariana Grande, Bernadette Peters, Victoria Canal
  • The Daily Show: Julia Stiles, host Desi Lydic
  • Watch What Happens Live: Drew Barrymore, Nate Burleson

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(new)		 Super Bowl Greatest Commercials: F.O.A.T. (Funniest Of All Time)
(new)		 Raid the Cage
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CW Wild Cards
(new)		 Inside the NFL
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FOX Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
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