Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on THURSDAY March 2, 2023.

Where most of Wakeup Poll voters yesterday (about 61%) think FOX CORP survives the DOMINION lawsuit situation but with a big “but…” after that. Otherwise a decent contingent (23%) thinks FOX beats it and gets out of this one without major damage.

AND: THE WEEKND fired back at Rolling Stone with this clip from his upcoming HBO series The Idol (where the characters are not too impressed by RS’s reach), after the publication released an… unflattering story on the troubles & long road for his new HBO series The Idol to date.

A show which still doesn’t have an air-date, despite releasing 2 teaser / trailer spots last year.

PLUS: TIKTOK is setting a 1 hour a day screen-time limit default setting for users under 18-years-old. Always important to keep a potentially dangerous habit in a young, still-developing body to a pack a day hour a day.

In the story it sounded like Teens can turn this feature off (or at least bump it up to 100 minutes easily), and younger Tok’ers will have to enter a passcode of some sort. Just like grandma used to have to do.

IN TODAY’S EDITION:

• Kind of feast or famine on industry news this week… so you should get up to speed pretty quick today.

• NYC Regional Sports Network MSG NETWORK reveals DtoC plan to launch this Summer. KNICKS & RANGERS cord-cutting fans – get ready to pay up as the Cable TV bundle faces its next big challenge.

• DeNiro is doing TV at NETFLIX.

• FOX orders 3 seasons of Dan Harmon series before it even airs.

• Exec moves at ESPN, VICE and FOX, as the German owner of Politico, Insider and Morning Brew moves their chips to the US, and a few other items.

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

JUST A FEW THINGS

• PAR adds Busy Phillips to Mean Girls the Musical pic, playing the role played by Amy Poehler in the original film (and mom to Renee Rapp’s character in this version). /Deadline

• A24’s The Whale has…