Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Nov 13, 2019

Fast food: Like those Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshakes that Chick-fil-A rolled out last year? They're back for the holiday season and the company says they'll be sold thru early January of next year, or while supplies last.

See ya: Word leaked out yesterday that producers of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" have released the entire cast from their contracts. Even if you don't watch the show, you probably know the opening line, "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives." And there's been a lot of sand, since the show began back in November, 1965.
Sources say although the show has not been cancelled, it's gonna go on "an indefinite hiatus" at the end of the month.
Apparently Sony Pictures Television and NBC are still tied up in negotiations to renew the series, but even if it goes ahead, there won't be new episodes until next March.

WILL FERRELL will be hosting "SNL" for a fifth time, Nov 23. Other members of the elite Five-Timers Club include DWAYNE "The Rock" JOHNSON, MELISSA McCARTHY and SCARLETT JOHANSSON. The guy who's hosted the most times, however, is ALEC BALDWIN, who's done it 17 times.

Hey, Hey --there's a MONKEES tour coming! The two remaining members of the group --MICKY DOLENZ and MICHAEL NESMITH-- are supporting the tour with a new, live album, poetically called "The Monkees Present: The Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz Show." Then, in April of next year (2020), they're off, starting in Vancouver, BC, and wrapping up later that month in Nashville. Tickets go on sale November 15th.