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:''This article is about the American entertainment television channel and some of its international variants. For its Canadian equivalent, see E! (Canada).''
'E!: Entertainment Television' is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. As of November 2006, it is wholly owned by Comcast.
The network was launched by Larry Namer, Alan Mruvka, Brian Owens, and others, on July 31, 1987 as 'Movietime', a low-budget service that aired movie trailers, entertainment news, event coverage, and interviews. Early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, and Richard Blade. Three years later, in June 1990, Movie Time was renamed 'E! Entertainment Television' to emphasize its widening coverage of the celebrity-industrial complex, contemporary film, television and music, entertainment awards shows, daily Hollywood news and gossip, and fashion. In November 2006, Comcast bought the Walt Disney Company's 39.5% share of E! for $1.23 billion. E! is available to 88 million subscribers in the U.S. and 600 million homes internationally. E!'s sister networks are the Style Network and G4.
E! has also licensed its name and brand identity to regional cable television networks in nearly every country worldwide. It also has an international network that is broadcast from the Netherlands across most of Europe and joint-venture channels in Israel and throughout Latin America.
In Canada a similar channel, Star!, previously aired most original E! programming. In September 2007, the E! library was reassigned to CanWest Global, which relaunched its secondary over-the-air network, CH, as a Canadian version of E!, combining the American channel's entertainment programming with primetime programming mainly acquired from the major U.S. broadcast networks.
The network has the unusual distinction of showing the technical end credits at the beginning of the program in order to seamlessly transition between shows without losing viewers (most other cable channels and even broadcast networks do this nowadays), meaning there is no commercial break between two shows. Another unusual distinction is that some sponsor tags credit current Broadway shows running in New York City, obviously and subliminally meant only for those viewers.
Award shows and the red carpet events, premieres and ''E! News'' have been hosted and are scheduled to have host Heidieh Croce the late Jim Croce's daughter and by a variety of personalities. Currently, Ryan Seacrest (who is also the host of ''American Idol'') and Giuliana DePandi host award shows and ''E! News''. Ted Casablanca still interviews various celebrities and has ''The Awful Truth'' column online while Kristin Veitch hosts all season premieres and events for television programming along with her online column ''Watch With Kristin''. Previous hosts include Michael Castner on ''Inside Word'', ''Behind the Scenes'', ''Live From the Red Carpet'' and ''Sex On the Riviera'', Brooke Burke on ''Wild On!'' and ''Rank'', Jules Asner on ''Revealed with Jules Asner'' and Alisha Davis with John Burke on ''E! News''. Red carpet events, now called ''Live From the Red Carpet'', have been hosted previously by Joan Rivers (often with daughter Melissa Rivers), Star Jones, Kathy Griffin, and even Nicky Hilton.
Other hosts have included Emme on ''Fashion Emergency'', Suzanne Sena on ''Celebrity Homes'' (now with Kristin Malia) and A.J. Benza on ''Mysteries and Scandals''. Adult models Jenny McCarthy and Anna Nicole Smith hosted ''Party @ the Palms'' and ''The Anna Nicole Show'' respectively.
E! reported on Michael Jackson's 2005 trial and acquittal. As no cameras were allowed in the courtroom, E! used the transcripts of the court case and actors to reenact the day's proceedings. The nightly airings of these reenactments attracted high ratings (for a basic cable channel). E! previously did re-enactments for the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and covered the earlier criminal trial live.
During the week of Dimebag Darrell Abbott's birthday E! Channel producers contacted Pantera publicist Jane Hoffman to license the video tape of Dimebag's murder and to have permission to reenact it for a show titled ''20 Most horrifying Hollywood Murders''.[1] In a letter made public, Hoffman among turning down the request wrote, "I realize there is nothing anyone can do to stop E! from producing garbage like this below, as you've built your audience on the backs of other people's private lives." The letter closes with:
:I ask that you all please take a moment from your busy days and close your eyes. Live out the fantasy of playing your favorite instrument onstage. Your closest friends in the world surround you, either in the band or in your crew. From one side of the stage, a man approaches. Thinking he's a security guy or a drunk fan who's just a bit out a line, you continue to perform. Two seconds later, he lifts his arms, aims a rifle at your brother, your best friend, your buddy and blows his brains out, not three feet from where you are.
:Now imagine it's a few years later and you turn on the TV set. Just in case you may be having at least a five minute respite from that scene that plays over and over in your head, just in case .....you flip through the channels and there it is. Again. Only with some two bit actor who thinks this is his big Hollywood break.[1]
★ ''E! True Hollywood Story''
★ ''The Soup'' (formerly ''Talk Soup'')
★ ''The Daily 10''
★ ''Fashion Police''
★ ''The Girls Next Door'' (international title: ''Girls of the Playboy Mansion'')
★ ''Dr. 90210''
★ ''Chelsea Lately''
★ ''Kill Reality 2''
★ ''Child Star Confidential''
★ ''House of Carters''
★ ''Love Ride''
★ ''Starveillance''
★ ''Sunset Tan''
★ ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams''
★ ''Paradise City''
★ ''Katie & Peter''
Additionally, it has an evening news broadcast, ''E! News''. The channel also broadcasts classic episodes of ''Saturday Night Live'' (Not aired outside the United States). The network also simulcasts Bloomberg TV in the early morning hours, and airs ''Totally Outrageous Behavior'', a show shared with sister channel G4 (TV channel).
.
★ ''#1 Single''
★ ''The Anna Nicole Show''
★ ''The Gossip Show''
★ ''Mysteries & Scandals''
★ ''Howard Stern''
★ ''Love Is in the Heir''
★ ''The Gastineau Girls''
★ ''My Crazy Life''
★ ''The Entertainer'' starring Wayne Newton
★ ''It's Good to Be''
★ ''Celebrities Uncensored''
★ ''Star Dates''
★ ''Love Chain''
★ ''Revealed with Jules Asner''
★ ''Talk Soup'' (however ''The Soup'' is a reworked version of this show)
★ ''Night Stand''
★ ''Taradise''
★ ''Wild On!'' (A Spanish version is aired in Latin America)
★ ''Inside Word with Michael Castner''
★ ''Kill Reality''
★ ''
★ ''Party At The Palms''
★ ''E! Hollywood Hold'em''
★ ''Fight for Fame''
★ ''7 Deadly Hollywood Sins''
★ ''Life is Great with Brooke Burke''
★ ''The Simple Life''
★ ''Best in Show''
★ ''Office Space''
★ ''Pleasantville''
★ ''Waiting to Exhale''
★ List of DirecTV channels
★ List of Dish Network channels
★ Reelz Channel (has same concept as original Movie Time)
★ Leslie Gornstein (Answer B!tch)
★ Ted Casablanca (The Awful Truth)
★ Kristin Veitch (Watch with Kristin)
★ Marc Malkin (Planet Gossip)
★ Sydne Summer (Hollywood Party Girl)
1. http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4865
2. http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4865
★ E! Online
★ E! Online International Official Site
★ E! - UK TV Listings and Schedules
★ E! - Latin America Official Site (In Spanish)
★ E! Career Opportunities listed on EntertainmentCareers.Net
:''This article is about the American entertainment television channel and some of its international variants. For its Canadian equivalent, see E! (Canada).''
'E!: Entertainment Television' is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. As of November 2006, it is wholly owned by Comcast.
| Contents |
| About the network |
| Personalities |
| Michael Jackson trial |
| Criticism |
| Original programming |
| Current |
| Canceled/retired |
| Movies We Love |
| See also |
| Online content |
| References |
| External links |
About the network
The network was launched by Larry Namer, Alan Mruvka, Brian Owens, and others, on July 31, 1987 as 'Movietime', a low-budget service that aired movie trailers, entertainment news, event coverage, and interviews. Early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, and Richard Blade. Three years later, in June 1990, Movie Time was renamed 'E! Entertainment Television' to emphasize its widening coverage of the celebrity-industrial complex, contemporary film, television and music, entertainment awards shows, daily Hollywood news and gossip, and fashion. In November 2006, Comcast bought the Walt Disney Company's 39.5% share of E! for $1.23 billion. E! is available to 88 million subscribers in the U.S. and 600 million homes internationally. E!'s sister networks are the Style Network and G4.
E! has also licensed its name and brand identity to regional cable television networks in nearly every country worldwide. It also has an international network that is broadcast from the Netherlands across most of Europe and joint-venture channels in Israel and throughout Latin America.
In Canada a similar channel, Star!, previously aired most original E! programming. In September 2007, the E! library was reassigned to CanWest Global, which relaunched its secondary over-the-air network, CH, as a Canadian version of E!, combining the American channel's entertainment programming with primetime programming mainly acquired from the major U.S. broadcast networks.
The network has the unusual distinction of showing the technical end credits at the beginning of the program in order to seamlessly transition between shows without losing viewers (most other cable channels and even broadcast networks do this nowadays), meaning there is no commercial break between two shows. Another unusual distinction is that some sponsor tags credit current Broadway shows running in New York City, obviously and subliminally meant only for those viewers.
Personalities
Award shows and the red carpet events, premieres and ''E! News'' have been hosted and are scheduled to have host Heidieh Croce the late Jim Croce's daughter and by a variety of personalities. Currently, Ryan Seacrest (who is also the host of ''American Idol'') and Giuliana DePandi host award shows and ''E! News''. Ted Casablanca still interviews various celebrities and has ''The Awful Truth'' column online while Kristin Veitch hosts all season premieres and events for television programming along with her online column ''Watch With Kristin''. Previous hosts include Michael Castner on ''Inside Word'', ''Behind the Scenes'', ''Live From the Red Carpet'' and ''Sex On the Riviera'', Brooke Burke on ''Wild On!'' and ''Rank'', Jules Asner on ''Revealed with Jules Asner'' and Alisha Davis with John Burke on ''E! News''. Red carpet events, now called ''Live From the Red Carpet'', have been hosted previously by Joan Rivers (often with daughter Melissa Rivers), Star Jones, Kathy Griffin, and even Nicky Hilton.
Other hosts have included Emme on ''Fashion Emergency'', Suzanne Sena on ''Celebrity Homes'' (now with Kristin Malia) and A.J. Benza on ''Mysteries and Scandals''. Adult models Jenny McCarthy and Anna Nicole Smith hosted ''Party @ the Palms'' and ''The Anna Nicole Show'' respectively.
Michael Jackson trial
E! reported on Michael Jackson's 2005 trial and acquittal. As no cameras were allowed in the courtroom, E! used the transcripts of the court case and actors to reenact the day's proceedings. The nightly airings of these reenactments attracted high ratings (for a basic cable channel). E! previously did re-enactments for the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and covered the earlier criminal trial live.
Criticism
During the week of Dimebag Darrell Abbott's birthday E! Channel producers contacted Pantera publicist Jane Hoffman to license the video tape of Dimebag's murder and to have permission to reenact it for a show titled ''20 Most horrifying Hollywood Murders''.[1] In a letter made public, Hoffman among turning down the request wrote, "I realize there is nothing anyone can do to stop E! from producing garbage like this below, as you've built your audience on the backs of other people's private lives." The letter closes with:
:I ask that you all please take a moment from your busy days and close your eyes. Live out the fantasy of playing your favorite instrument onstage. Your closest friends in the world surround you, either in the band or in your crew. From one side of the stage, a man approaches. Thinking he's a security guy or a drunk fan who's just a bit out a line, you continue to perform. Two seconds later, he lifts his arms, aims a rifle at your brother, your best friend, your buddy and blows his brains out, not three feet from where you are.
:Now imagine it's a few years later and you turn on the TV set. Just in case you may be having at least a five minute respite from that scene that plays over and over in your head, just in case .....you flip through the channels and there it is. Again. Only with some two bit actor who thinks this is his big Hollywood break.[1]
Original programming
Current
★ ''E! True Hollywood Story''
★ ''The Soup'' (formerly ''Talk Soup'')
★ ''The Daily 10''
★ ''Fashion Police''
★ ''The Girls Next Door'' (international title: ''Girls of the Playboy Mansion'')
★ ''Dr. 90210''
★ ''Chelsea Lately''
★ ''Kill Reality 2''
★ ''Child Star Confidential''
★ ''House of Carters''
★ ''Love Ride''
★ ''Starveillance''
★ ''Sunset Tan''
★ ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams''
★ ''Paradise City''
★ ''Katie & Peter''
Additionally, it has an evening news broadcast, ''E! News''. The channel also broadcasts classic episodes of ''Saturday Night Live'' (Not aired outside the United States). The network also simulcasts Bloomberg TV in the early morning hours, and airs ''Totally Outrageous Behavior'', a show shared with sister channel G4 (TV channel).
.
Canceled/retired
★ ''#1 Single''
★ ''The Anna Nicole Show''
★ ''The Gossip Show''
★ ''Mysteries & Scandals''
★ ''Howard Stern''
★ ''Love Is in the Heir''
★ ''The Gastineau Girls''
★ ''My Crazy Life''
★ ''The Entertainer'' starring Wayne Newton
★ ''It's Good to Be''
★ ''Celebrities Uncensored''
★ ''Star Dates''
★ ''Love Chain''
★ ''Revealed with Jules Asner''
★ ''Talk Soup'' (however ''The Soup'' is a reworked version of this show)
★ ''Night Stand''
★ ''Taradise''
★ ''Wild On!'' (A Spanish version is aired in Latin America)
★ ''Inside Word with Michael Castner''
★ ''Kill Reality''
★ ''
★ ''Party At The Palms''
★ ''E! Hollywood Hold'em''
★ ''Fight for Fame''
★ ''7 Deadly Hollywood Sins''
★ ''Life is Great with Brooke Burke''
★ ''The Simple Life''
Movies We Love
★ ''Best in Show''
★ ''Office Space''
★ ''Pleasantville''
★ ''Waiting to Exhale''
See also
★ List of DirecTV channels
★ List of Dish Network channels
★ Reelz Channel (has same concept as original Movie Time)
Online content
★ Leslie Gornstein (Answer B!tch)
★ Ted Casablanca (The Awful Truth)
★ Kristin Veitch (Watch with Kristin)
★ Marc Malkin (Planet Gossip)
★ Sydne Summer (Hollywood Party Girl)
References
1. http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4865
2. http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4865
External links
★ E! Online
★ E! Online International Official Site
★ E! - UK TV Listings and Schedules
★ E! - Latin America Official Site (In Spanish)
★ E! Career Opportunities listed on EntertainmentCareers.Net
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