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EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Handler has teamed with comedian Heather McDonald, writer and performer on her E! talk show Chelsea Lately, for a comedy based on McDonald’s upcoming book My Inappropriate Life. McDonald is set to star in the single-camera project, which has sold to Fox. It reunites the production entities behind Handler’s NBC comedy Are You There, Chelsea? — Warner Bros TV, studio-based Werner Entertainment and Handler and Tom Brunelle’s Borderline Amazing.
Co-written by McDonald and Dava Savel (Will & Grace), My Inappropriate Life chronicles McDonald’s experience with a stay-at-home husband, two boys and a half-Asian stepdaughter. Tom Werner, Mike Clements, Handler, Brunelle and Savel executive produce, with McDonald co-executive producing. McDonald, who has been on Chelsea Lately since its 2007 launch and also appears on spinoff After Lately, is with WME and ROAR. Borderline Amazing is with CAA; Savel is with APA.
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Heather is an amazing talent. She’s so well suited to a sitcom, this will be a success.
she is a bore –
how bad was CH show?
Go Heather!!!!!
Congratulations Heather!
just reading about this made me laugh already
Poor Heather.
Sarah’s book, Life as I Blow It, was also bought to be produced as a series.
After the “Are You There, Chelsea?” nightmare, I’d say Heather’s chances are gloomy with Handler at the helm!
Handler takes pride in her young, unintelligent audience (read the responses to Handler’s posts on Facebook!) and that audience doesn’t translate to mainstream, network TV.
Everything that Chelsea Handler touches has an immediate source of attention because of her teenaged, Chelsea Lately demographic, but then fails miserably. From her “Pretty Wild” reality show where the main character was arrested in real life as part of the “Bling Ring” that broke into Orlando Bloom’s house to her latest, “Are You There, Chelsea?” Handler has been a bust. The movies she’s appeared have shown clearly, that she can not act. Her production has been less than stellar.
Chelsea has her fans, and I’m sure Heather will capitalize on that because of association. After that fails and they, too, realize that Chelsea Lately fans don’t have the attention span to pay attention to a ‘sit-com’ where they actually have to pay attention, McDonald’s show will fail too.
Unfortunately, for comedians latching onto a crude, slightly famous comedian, for fame is also what brings their demise.
What happened to ‘Are You There, Chelsea?’
Go Heather! Much deserved.
That is so great can’t wait to see it!
Well they’re starting off on the right foot with 5 EP’s and a Co-EP ‘star’.
Chelsea Handler is extremely talented, and although ‘Are You There, Chelsea’ was terrible, i believe with better material and Heather starring, this could be a great comedy and addition to FOX’s growing comedy slate.
wahard up guys@ chelsae!
Dava Savel is a terrific writer. She is the perfect fit for Heather!
Dava is wonderful. Congrats to her!
Fully agree – Heather is an extremely talented lady.Wish all the best on another book and further development of her career….Good luck, Heather ! You are great ! Hanna
Isn’t Dava Savel the Emmy award winning writer/producer of the Ellen Degeneres show? The “Puppy episode”
Who made you so mad?? Settle down – Chelsea’s funny as hell (I’m a 65-year-old grandmother – how do I fit into that demographic??), and while I didn’t enjoy her failed sitcom, I certainly wish her and her team luck. I’d love to see them succeed. Don’t be so negative! :-\
Hey, “gobo” commenter, I think it’s adorable that, considering you’ve got such scathing opinions about the intelligence of Chelsea Handler’s audience, you end your lengthy rant with an utterly nonsensical fragment.
::gobo gently and slowly slides his own foot of his mouth::
Well, im a huge fan of chelsea and heather, and of course ross-even if for some reason this show doesnt work, they can not only use the failure as a good laugh on chelsea, but clearly chelsea could give a fuck considering shes still getting paid regardless…chelsea, put your jewness to work, & squeeze as much time as you can out of this…i have the attention span girl!