Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 17, 2018

Pilot news:

With the success of "Roseanne," "Will & Grace" and other rebooted shows, it's probably not a huge surprise that CBS is talking to PAUL REISER and HELEN HUNT to come back in an updated version of "Mad About You."
TV Line reports a CBS VP says "It's been pitched; it's still being discussed," and that the new series would revolve around Paul and Jamie Buchman grappling with empty-nest syndrome in the wake of now-17-year-old daughter Mabel's admission to college.

Today's police blotter:

Texas police have charged a grown man with posing as a high school student.
Prosecutors say 25-year-old SIDNEY BOUVIER GILSTRAP-PORTLEY falsified records and enrolled as a student at two different Dallas high schools. He allegedly posed as a 17-year-old and claimed to be a displaced victim of Hurricane Harvey. School officials think Gilstrap-Portley scammed them just so he could play high school basketball. He faces multiple charges. (Still)

Trendspotting:

Teachers around the country are on strike demanding fair pay, wearing "Red for Ed" to make their message heard. Racked.com says the reason for the crimson tide is among educators is not random. Striking teachers have taken to wearing "Red for Ed" shirts as a symbol of public schools being in a constant state of "red ink" fiscal crisis. Also, many of the states where teachers have demanded more pay are in Republican "red" strongholds, like West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona. (Bartha)

Royalty Report:

Royal wedding update: a new poll published by the Huffington Post yesterday says although everybody's talking about the Royal Wedding on Saturday, most Britons --and most Americans-- couldn't care less.
The YouGov poll of 16-hundred adults in the UK and two-thousand in the US, shows only 28-percent of people here in the US are interested in the Royal wedding --and only 30-percent of Brits care about it, either.