Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 19, 2022

A “Jeopardy!” spinoff --“Celebrity Jeopardy!”-- is coming to ABC this fall, on Sundays at 8 p.m. But who will host? Don’t know yet, but maybe Mayim Bialik or Ken Jennings, who’ve been hosting regular “Jeopardy.”

Producers of “The Music Man” are in talks with “SexyBack” singer Justin Timberlake to take over the iconic role of Professor Harold Hill currently played by Hugh Jackman in the Broadway musical. Whoever is chosen will star with Sutton Foster as Marian the librarian.

Fast food news: CNN sez the folks at McDonald's are adding a new Chocolatey Pretzel McFlurry to their lineup, starting May 25 for a limited time.

New survey shows Mississippi is the fattest state in America, with two in five adults obese or morbidly obese. Runner-up states were West Virginia and Alabama. The states with the lowest number of obese people were Colorado, Massachusetts and Hawaii. New Jersey was sixth on the list of least obese, with 27.7 percent of its residents obese.

Find your state here: Most Obese States 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)