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Template:Infobox TV channel E! (Entertainment Television) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. It was formed in 1987 as the Movietime channel. Three years later, Movietime became E! As of 2005, it is owned by a joint venture between Comcast (50%), The Walt Disney Company (40%), and Liberty Media (10%).

E! emphasizes coverage of the celebrity-industrial complex; contemporary film, television and music; entertainment awards shows; daily Hollywood news and gossip; and fashion. E! is available to 80 million subscribers in the U.S. and 400 million homes internationally. E!'s sister channel is the Style Network.

E! has also licensed its name and brand identity to regional cable television networks in Latin America, Brazil, the Philippines (currently shutdown), Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. It also has an international network that is broadcast from the United Kingdom.

E! is now also broadcast in a Spanish language version in the United States.

1 Current original programming
2 Canceled/retired original programming
3 Personalities
4 Michael Jackson trial
5 External links

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Current original programming

E! True Hollywood Story
The Anna Nicole Show
The Soup (formerly Talk Soup)
Fashion Police
The Girls Next Door
Revealed with Jules Asner
The Gastineau Girls
Dr. 90210
Fight for Fame
Hollywood Hold 'Em
My Crazy Life
Life is Great with Brooke Burke
Kill Reality
Kill Reality 2
The Simple Life (Moves from Fox; Will debut Summer 2006)
#1 Single
Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive
Party At The Palms

Additionally, it has an evening news broadcast, E! News. The channel also broadcasts classic episodes of Saturday Night Live (Not aired on E! Australia).

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Canceled/retired original programming

Howard Stern
Love Is in the Heir
The Entertainer starring Wayne Newton
It's Good to Be
Celebrities Uncensored
Star Dates
Love Chain
Talk Soup (however The Soup is a reworked version of this show)
Taradise
Wild On!

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Personalities

Template:Expand Award shows and the red carpet events, premieres and E! News have been hosted 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 hosts The Awful Truth while Kristin Veitch hosts all season premieres and events for television programming. Past hosts include 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, 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.

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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. E! previously did re-enactments for the O.J. Simpson trial.

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