Chelsea Handler

Ratings: Are You There,Chelsea? Gets Off to a So-So Start

• Jan 12, 2012 03:47 PM ET
• by Douglas J. Rowe

Chelsea Handler has three shows... for now. The sitcom based on her life premiered to so-so numbers Wednesday, though they were good for NBC, which crowed that the program attracted the best viewership in the Wednesday-at-8:30/7:30 time slot in more than a year.
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5 Fun Facts About Chelsea Handler and NBC's Are You There, Chelsea?

• Jan 11, 2012 11:39 AM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Via E!'s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately, or After Lately, or her books about one-night stands and booze, Chelsea Handler has become a household name.

Wednesday TV in Review: Chelsea, Face Off, Middle, Harry and More

• Jan 11, 2012 09:29 AM ET
• by Matt Roush

Knock knock. Who's there? Chelsea. Chelsea who?

No, make that Chelsea why? The answer to the question posed in NBC's squalid new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? (8:30/7:30c) is "not really." Based on late-night spitfire Chelsea Handler's potty-mouthed party-girl memoirs — but dropping the Vodka from the title because that might be, you know, offensive — this smutty but toothless misfire puzzlingly reduces Handler to a supporting role: that of a mousy, whiny born-again sister to the fictional Chelsea, played by That '70s Show's Laura Prepon with a one-note husky-voiced crassness that grows stale long before the first scene (in a women's jail cell) ends with Glee's Dot Marie Jones leering at Chelsea. Which is maybe the only sexual advance Chelsea spurns. As long as she can be on top. Which she mentions a lot.

Are You There, Chelsea?'s Chelsea Handler: I Like Myself Much Better As Laura Prepon

• Jan 6, 2012 08:22 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Chelsea Handler thinks that Laura Prepon plays a much better Chelsea Handler than she ever did.

On NBC's new comedy Are You There, Chelsea?, which is based on Handler's saucier titled book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Prepon (That '70s Show) plays a twentysomething version of Handler who, in the premiere episode, is arrested for drunk driving. (In a nice twist, Handler herself plays Chelsea's put-upon sister Sloane.)

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As Dave Catches Jay, Are the Late Night Wars Over?

• Dec 8, 2011 09:44 AM ET
• by Michael Schneider

Remember the late night wars? Now that there are so many choices on TV — even in the bedtime hours — the idea of Jay vs. Dave seems quaint.

That was all the more apparent this November, as the battle between the two late night titans came to a draw. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (3.6 million) still held a slight edge over Late Show With David Letterman (3.4 million) in viewers. But for the first time since 1994, Letterman (with a 0.9 rating) managed to beat ...
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