Chelsea Handler

Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is pulling the curtain on "The Rosie Show" after five months on the air. The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost about half that audience within days of its debut. Recently, it changed the format from taping before a studio audience to a one-on-one interview setting with celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler and former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich. In a statement released by OWN, Winfrey thanked O'Donnell.

Pats coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, StyleBoston correspondent Linda Holliday, were among the familiar faces Tuesday at the Time 100 Gala celebrating Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Belichick traded his hoodie for a tux while Holliday wore a navy silk gazar trumpet gown from designer Michael De Paulo's spring 2012 collection. "Michael and I are friends and he'd been after me to look at his spring collection," Holliday said. "This dress was just perfect.

The Year With Katie Couric 9 p.m., Channel 5 ABC News and People magazine gathered around the watercooler to cook up this two-hour 2011 recap. Couric reexamines events both gravely serious (the Arab Spring, the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world economic crisis) to the profoundly less so (l'affaire de Kardashian-Humphries, the royal wedding). In addition to interviews and news footage, Couric will get a hand from celeb pundits including Chelsea Handler. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 11 p.m. Comedy Central Homeboy Matt Damon is the guest and, though we're interested to see his new Cameron...

Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is pulling the curtain on "The Rosie Show" after five months on the air. The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost about half that audience within days of its debut. Recently, it changed the format from taping before a studio audience to a one-on-one interview setting with celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler and former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich. In a statement released by OWN, Winfrey thanked O'Donnell.

Pats coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, StyleBoston correspondent Linda Holliday, were among the familiar faces Tuesday at the Time 100 Gala celebrating Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Belichick traded his hoodie for a tux while Holliday wore a navy silk gazar trumpet gown from designer Michael De Paulo's spring 2012 collection. "Michael and I are friends and he'd been after me to look at his spring collection," Holliday said. "This dress was just perfect.

If you don’t have even a little crush on Chelsea Handler, America’s own Mary Hartless, you probably have no business here. “After Lately’’ is a new weekly mockumentary series that follows Handler and her staff before and after the filming of her nightly E! series, “Chelsea Lately.’’ The loosely constructed comedy is geared primarily for those, like me, who are smitten with Handler’s fierce, crude wit when it comes to pop culture and the underside of human nature.

When comic/talk show host Chelsea Handler was in her 20s, she enjoyed cocktails and the company of men in bulk. She turned some of those stories, and others from her life, into several bestsellers, including "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. " NBC has in turn taken inspiration from those books for this sitcom, which now bears the alcohol-neutered title of "Are You There, Chelsea?" Laura Prepon ("That '70s Show") plays a version of Handler, a vivacious and bawdy cocktail waitress in a New Jersey sports bar who prays to vodka for guidance.

We've turned a real cultural corner when Reese Witherspoon is more vulgar than Jim Carrey. But there we were at the MTV Movie Awards last night, far around the corner. On the one hand, the show was a fiasco. As a broadcast event, it has alway been both a mess and up against the NBA Finals, but it was often conducted with an air of excitement and suspense, even when it was prerecorded. The Movie Awards rebuffed the Oscar's seriousness. Decorum was frowned upon. A degree of wit was not. Last night was an afterparty at the badly art-directed house of a friend whose parents are out of town.

Even the title of PBS's new addition to its "American Masters" series, "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night," tells you how much the television landscape has been transformed since Carson's reign as host of "The Tonight Show" came to an end two decades ago. Who today could legitimately be called king (or queen) of late night? Jay Leno? David Letterman? Conan O'Brien? Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Chelsea Handler, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson? With all due respect to those talented (in a few cases immensely so)

You can imagine how the ball got rolling on "This Means War. " You can also imagine how the folks who rolled the ball started to lose their minds. What if a woman was dating two guys? What if the two guys were friends? What if the friends were also co-workers? What if the co-workers were CIA spies? What if the spies started doing their work on each other? What if that work culminated with combat at a Los Angeles restaurant while the woman is talking to herself in the ladies room only to return to an obliterated dining room?

When comic/talk show host Chelsea Handler was in her 20s, she enjoyed cocktails and the company of men in bulk. She turned some of those stories, and others from her life, into several bestsellers, including "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. " NBC has in turn taken inspiration from those books for this sitcom, which now bears the alcohol-neutered title of "Are You There, Chelsea?" Laura Prepon ("That '70s Show") plays a version of Handler, a vivacious and bawdy cocktail waitress in a New Jersey sports bar who prays to vodka for guidance.

The Year With Katie Couric 9 p.m., Channel 5 ABC News and People magazine gathered around the watercooler to cook up this two-hour 2011 recap. Couric reexamines events both gravely serious (the Arab Spring, the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world economic crisis) to the profoundly less so (l'affaire de Kardashian-Humphries, the royal wedding). In addition to interviews and news footage, Couric will get a hand from celeb pundits including Chelsea Handler. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 11 p.m. Comedy Central Homeboy Matt Damon is the guest and, though we're interested to see his...

We've turned a real cultural corner when Reese Witherspoon is more vulgar than Jim Carrey. But there we were at the MTV Movie Awards last night, far around the corner. On the one hand, the show was a fiasco. As a broadcast event, it has alway been both a mess and up against the NBA Finals, but it was often conducted with an air of excitement and suspense, even when it was prerecorded. The Movie Awards rebuffed the Oscar's seriousness. Decorum was frowned upon. A degree of wit was not. Last night was an afterparty at the badly art-directed house of a friend whose parents are...

If you don’t have even a little crush on Chelsea Handler, America’s own Mary Hartless, you probably have no business here. “After Lately’’ is a new weekly mockumentary series that follows Handler and her staff before and after the filming of her nightly E! series, “Chelsea Lately.’’ The loosely constructed comedy is geared primarily for those, like me, who are smitten with Handler’s fierce, crude wit when it comes to pop culture and the underside of human nature.

The Jessica Simpson baby watch is finally over. Simpson gave birth to a daughter named Maxwell Drew Johnson in Los Angeles on Tuesday, said publicist Lauren Auslander. Maxwell weighed 9 lbs. 13 ounces. Since announcing her pregnancy last Halloween over Twitter, Simpson posed nude for the cover of Elle magazine, shared her cravings like salted cantaloupe and pop tarts and joked about her excess of amniotic fluid on "Jimmy Kimmel Live. " Maxwell is the first child for 31-year-old Simpson and her 32-year-old fiance Eric Johnson, a former NFL player.

NBC's entertainment chief insists that it wasn't squeamishness over booze that got "vodka" dropped from the television version of Chelsea Handler's memoir. Robert Greenblatt said Friday that the 2008 book's title, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," was just too long. Initially, NBC considered just calling the show "Chelsea" but settled instead on "Are You There, Chelsea?" and it debuts on the network next Wednesday. "There was no mandate from anyone saying don't put vodka in the title of the show," the entertainment president said.