Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?

— Elmo (@elmo) January 29, 2024

Elmo asked his friends on Twitter how everyone is doing and was met with sad responses. One person replied, quote, “Elmo I’ve got to level with you baby we are fighting for our lives.”

Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes signed a $100 million deal to take their “SmartLess” podcast to Sirius.

Both hospitalized royals have headed home. Kate Middleton was released after being in hospital for nearly 2 weeks following a planned abdominal surgery. And a smiling King Charles was photographed leaving the same hospital with Queen Camilla yesterday afternoon, 3 days after his procedure for an enlarged prostate.

In a report analyzing TV viewership in the US throughout 2023, Nielsen found that “Suits” beat a record held by “The Office” for number of minutes watched in a single year. The legal drama racked up 57.7 billion total minutes watched in 2023, it just ahead of the 57.1 billion minutes of viewership accumulated by The Office in 2020.

Dolly Parton has a new TV variety special coming, and dog lovers will want to tune in. “Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala” will air February 21 on CBS and Paramount+. There will be “pink carpet” arrivals featuring stars and some adorable pets. Her songs, including ‘9 to 5’, ‘Jolene’ and ‘Puppy Love’, will all be performed during the show.

U2 performed an acoustic cover of the 1986 Crowded House hit ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ during its first Las Vegas Sphere show of 2024. U2 also played their 1987 B-side ‘The Sweetest Thing’ for the first time since 2017.

AC/DC will reportedly be touring this year, but without bassist Cliff Williams. No word on a replacement. According to a Brazilian newspaper, the band has already booked 4 shows in that country, including 2 at this year’s edition of the legendary Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro.

Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, are teasing a new duet, following the smash success of their previous collab, ‘Thank God’. They posted a short clip of him singing along to the audio of the track while Katelyn and their daughter Kingsley sway to the music, laughing.

Rumors that Taylor Swift will perform in some capacity at the Super Bowl are probably not true. And even though she has a show Friday night in Tokyo, she’ll have plenty of time to get there.

Chance and Shadow from “Homeward Bound” topped an “Entertainment Weekly” list of the best dogs from movies and TV shows. They’re followed by all of the Dalmatians in “101 Dalmatians” and Frank in “Men in Black”.

SZA, who leads this year’s Grammy nominations with a total of nine, will also be performing live at the ceremony this Sunday. She joins a star-studded lineup that also includes Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, Burna Boy, Billie Eilish, Luke Combs, Travis Scott, Olivia Rodrigo, Billy Joel, and Joni Mitchell, who will perform at the ceremony for the first time.

Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me” returned to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for its fourth non-consecutive week. It replaced Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?,” which fell to No. 6 a week after becoming her eighth No. 1 hit.

Sophie Turner is moving on following her divorce with Joe Jonas. The actress shared a collection of photos from a ski trip with friends to Instagram on Monday. One photo shows herself sitting next to her new beau, Peregrine Pearson, on a ski lift. Another photo shows them standing next to each other and smiling on a snowy mountain.