"We Sure Could Use A Little Good News Today"

And I actually have some, for a change - the chance that we will have an Alex-less three-peat is no more.  She appears in the promo for this week's episode about two-thirds of the way through, as part of Cam's story:

Models and role models. We have them all on a new #ModernFamily tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/goYQnKRemk

— Modern Family (@ModernFam) January 22, 2019

I'll have more to say in a few hours with the "official" pre-show post as to how much this moves any meters.  But at least one part of that post won't happen.