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3 | Short for [[https://www.eonline.com E! Entertainment Television]], E! is a channel dedicated to news and gossip about the entertainment industry. It is owned by Creator/NBCUniversal (which in turn is owned by Comcast), thus is a sister channel to Creator/{{NBC}}, Creator/USANetwork, Creator/{{Syfy}}, etc. From its founding in 1987 until 1990, the network was known as ''Movietime''. |
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5 | Notable for its ''E! True Hollywood Story'' documentary series, which is essentially the general entertainment version of Creator/VH1's ''Behind The Music''. |
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7 | Their Canadian counterpart had previously been known as Star!, and was owned by CHUM Limited before [=CTVglobemedia=] (now Creator/BellMedia) bought them in 2006; Star! rebranded as E! in 2010. Prior to then, the E! name, logo, and some programming were licensed to Canwest (owners of Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork), which rebranded its secondary TV system, CH[[note]]named after its flagship station, CHCH, in Hamilton, Ontario[[/note]], as E! in 2007. But due to a crippling debt load, Canwest went bankrupt in 2009, resulting in the CH/E! system being dismantled as the stations were either sold off or shuttered. |
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9 | !! Original programming: |
10 | * ''Series/AfterLately'' (2011-2013) - Features InsultComic Chelsea Handler, who also headlined ''The Chelsea Handler Show'' (2006) and ''Chelsea Lately'' (2007-2014) |
11 | * ''Series/{{The Arrangement|2017}}'' (2017-2018) |
12 | * ''{{Series/Bridalplasty}}'' (2010) |
13 | * ''The Dance Scene'' (2011) |
14 | * ''Dr. 90210'' (2004-2008, 2020) |
15 | * ''E! True Hollywood Story'' (1996-2021) |
16 | * ''Fashion Police'' (2010-2017) |
17 | * ''The Girls Next Door'' (2005-2010) aka ''[[MarketBasedTitle Girls Of The Playboy Mansion]]'', and its spinoffs ''Kendra'' (2009-2011) and ''Holly's World'' (2009-2011)[[note]]Bridget is the only one of the series' three stars who never got her own show[[/note]]. Both co-produced with [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox Television Studios]]. |
18 | * ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians'' (2007-2021) and its multitude spin-offs. A ''major'' CashCowFranchise for the network. |
19 | * ''Love You, Mean It With Whitney Cummings'' (2012-2013) - Produced with Borderline Amazing Productions (Chelsea Handler's company). |
20 | * ''Series/TheRoyals'' (2015-2018) - E!'s first scripted series. Produced by [[Creator/LionsGate Lionsgate Television]] and [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Cable Productions]] (E! is owned by [=NBCUniversal=] Cable). |
21 | * ''Series/TheSoup'' (2004-2020) - A {{retool}}ed version of ''Talk Soup'' (1991-2002), which was hosted by Creator/GregKinnear from 1991 to 1995, a few years before his film career took off. |
22 | * ''Series/TotalDivas'' (2013-2019) |
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24 | !! "Trope of Culture": |
25 | * {{Documentary}}: ''The E! True Hollywood Story''. |
26 | * {{Reality Show}}s: Their stock in trade, and they seem capable of making these about anyone. |
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