E! Entertainment has extended the run of latenight talk show Chelsea Lately through 2009.
Host Chelsea Handler struck a chord with its audience and saw its median household rating spike 21 percent year to year in the third quarter, reports Variety.
The half hour show features...
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ABC has a mother of a show on its midseason schedule. The network has put in a 13-episode order for Web series In the Motherhood in an effort to bring it to primetime television, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Based on real-life stories submitted by moms, the online series starred Chelsea Handler, Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy acting out said mommy-related incidences; however, only Handler is expected to make the jump to the ABC series.Former Will & Grace star Megan Mullally and Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines are currently in negotiations to fill the other two roles.Jennifer Konner, Alexandra Rushfiled, Stu Bloomberg, and David Lang and Peter Tortorici of MindShare – the company behind the online series – will executive produce. — Joyce Eng
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The big Season 4 premiere of The Hills is tonight, so Audrina Patridge stopped by to chat with the less-than-timid Chelsea Handler for a little Q&A. The "pap" shots of the reality starlet and her new man were great, but Chelsea's point-blank question about the last time Audrina had sex with Justin Bobby was just the icing on the cake.
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In an interview Monday, Dancing pro Karina Smirnoff opened up about the news that her recent ex (and former dance partner), Mario Lopez, had been cheating on her for close to a year, even while the pair lived together. Reports surfaced over the weekend that Lopez had been secretly involved with Hooters waitress (and upcoming reality show contestant) Meagan Cooper. Speaking with E!'s Chelsea Handler, Smirnoff fought tears as she admitted how hard it was to go through the breakup, especially in the public eye, much less hear this latest news. "It could be worse," Smirnoff said. "It could be [Hugh Grant's prostitute] Divine Brown." Handler quipped that what really would've been worse would've been learning that Mario cheated on her with another man. Smirnoff gave a little laugh, but the slinky dancer still looked a little morose:How do you think Smirnoff handled it all? After watching this clip, the bigger question seems to be how Lopez could possibly have been unfaithful to the sultr...
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The boys of late night get some brassy company tonight at 11:30 pm/ET when former Girls Behaving Badly hellcat Chelsea Handler unleashes E!'s Chelsea Lately, her new nightly tart-tongued attack on the increasingly sordid world of celebrity news. We rang her up for the lowdown on what to expect.
TV Guide: So how does this show work?Chelsea Handler: We have a roundtable setup and we'll be [looking at] gossip and what's going on in the pop-culture world, depending on what's happened that day. Like if Paris Hilton goes back to jail three or four times in one afternoon. [Laughs]
TV Guide: Like a threesome between Entertainment Tonight, The Daily Show and Colbert.
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