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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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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Girls Gone Wild mastermind Joe Francis knows how to capitalize on a good thing when he sees it, and the recent scandal with former governor Eliot Spitzer is no exception. On Friday, Francis is announcing on E!'s Chelsea Lately that he'll be adding a free DVD of call girl Ashley Dupré in the premiere issue of Girls Gone Wild Magazine.Dupré will be the first lucky lady to star in his seven-disc series, Hookers Gone Wild. Ever the logical businessman, Francis tells Lately host Chelsea Handler, "We could release it on the Internet.... The problem with the Internet [is] the minute we put it up there, even if we're charging, it's out. Everybody sees it for free regardless, and we didn't want to charge for it. So, we're going to give it away."The DVD isn't Dupré's first appearance with the Francis franchise. In 2003, she spent a week on the GGW bus in Florida; some of her trip was taped, and the recording has been making the rounds this week. Her latest production will be av...
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As part of TVGuide.com's Strike Survival Guide, we've asked our staff of... staffers to tell you what they are biding their time with in these TV-anemic times. Up first is associate video producer Adam Schubak.I tend to take in a little of everything when it comes to my TV-watching habits. I even admit to getting some enjoyment out of the VH1 celebreality lineup. But with VH1 still prepping its next batch of shows and this whole strike nonsense showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, I've had to look elsewhere to get my fill of the tube (that is, until Lost comes back, of course!). So here's what I've been watching while waiting to return to my regularly scheduled programming: 1) Project Runway (Season 4 is currently airing Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET, Bravo)This is actually the first season I've caught from the beginning and not during some Bravo marathon. Everyone needs a little reality television in their life, and Project Runway is without a doubt the best one TV has to offer.2) ...
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Fox will preview the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Yahoo! for a 24-hour period beginning Friday at midnight ET, on Yahoo!.... E! has greenlit a second season of the late-night talker Chelsea Lately, to begin airing Monday (talk about cutting it close).... Biggest Loser champ Bill Garmanakos and his twin Jim rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning.... ABC Family's annual "25 Days of Christmas" event delivered its best-ever ratings, with an average of 2.64 million viewers tuning in for some part of the programming. The Dec. 9 TV-movie Holiday in Handcuffs (6.99 mil viewers) was the cabler's highest-rated program of all time.
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