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NBC Picks Up Chelsea Handler Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 8:24am PDTTags: Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea, Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler NBC Comedy, Dottie Zicklin, Julie Larson, NBC Chelsea Handler Pilot, TV, TV Deals, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Latenight queen Chelsea Handler is making a move in primetime with a comedy project based on her books, which, in a competitive situation, landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment. The project titled after one of Handler’s books, Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, is described as an autobiographical multi-camera comedy based on Handler’s life in her twenties. It hails from Warner Bros. and Tom Werner’s studio-based Werner Entertainment. Dharma & Greg co-creator Dottie Zicklin and Julie Larson, both with UTA, will write the adaptation. They will executive produce the project with CAA-repped Handler, who won’t be starring, her producing partner at Borderline Amazing Prods. Tom Brunelle and Werner Entertainment’s Werner and Mike Clements. READ MORE »

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Chelsea Handler Enlists In ‘This Means War’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 5, 2010 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Chelsea Handler, Chris Pine, James Lassiter, Late Night TV, Movie Deals, Movies, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler has landed a juicy role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine in This Means War, the McG-directed 20th Century Fox comedy. Handler will play the best friend and confidante of a woman (Witherspoon) who is lusted after by two best friends. The pals are CIA agents who wage an escalating war for her affection. Overbrook’s James Lassiter and Will Smith are producing with Robert Simonds and Simon Kinberg. This marks Handler’s second studio role, as she just completed the Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment CG-live action film Hop, which stars Russell Brand. Read More »

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