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UPDATED with details about impact on employees: E! has unveiled its 2020 slate of entertainment news programming, which includes multiple additional hours of original weekday content, including two new New York-based series. The expansion follows the appointment of Tammy Filler, EVP & Editor-In-Chief, E! News who…

Rhiannon Macdonald has been set as SVP Global Content for E! News. John Najarian, EVP, E! News and Digital, said Monday that her position will be effective immediately. Macdonald will report to Najarian and lead content strategy across E! News platforms. Prior to E!, Macdonald oversaw global editorial operations for…

Giuliana Rancic is returning to E! News and will co-host the weeknight program with Jason Kennedy starting September 4, E! Entertainment announced today. The hire announcement is the first since co-host Maria Menounos' departure from E! News last July after she revealed she’d been diagnosed with a brain tumor; she…

Longtime E! News host Catt Sadler has exited the network after learning, she says, that her counterpart Jason Kennedy was being paid close to double her salary for some time — and despite attempts to renegotiate her contract. “My team and I asked for what I know I deserve and were denied repeatedly," she writes on her…

As more and more allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct emerge in Hollywood, Ryan Seacrest today took the preemptive move of denying acting badly before an accusation went public. “Recently, someone that worked as a wardrobe stylist for me nearly a decade ago at E! News, came forward with a complaint…

Maria Menounos, who has been co-anchor of E! News since 2015, is exiting the post, she and the network announced today. The news comes as Menounos revealed to People magazine that she was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year and recently underwent surgery to remove it. A SiriusXM host and veteran of E!, Extra…

After a nearly three-year stint as co-anchor of E! News, Terrence Jenkins is leaving to focus on acting and producing full-time, he announced today on the show. Tomorrow will be his last day. Jenkins joined E! in 2012, first co-hosting the news alongside Giuliana Rancic and then with Maria Menounos beginning this past…

Three weeks after the announcement that veteran Giuliana Rancic would be ceding her E! News anchor chair, Maria Menounos is taking it over. She had been serving as a fill-in anchor on the showbiz news show for more than a year and regularly appears on E! Online's daily roundtable series Live From E!. Menounos joins…

E! said today that longtime anchor Giuliana Rancic “will be officially transitioning out of her day-to-day role” on E! News next month. The network offered no specifics about the move but said Rancic will continue as a co-host on Fashion Police and Live From The Red Carpet. "During her time here, Giuliana played an…

John Najarian, EVP News and Digital for E!, will oversee the combined operation of E! News and digital divisions, the network said today. "Creating an integrated organization is an important step as we evolve the network's linear news strategy and multi-screen approach," said Najarian. "We are positioning the network…

E! has extended its overall deal with one of the network's top personalities, Giuliana Rancic, for two more years, through April 2016. As part of the agreement, Rancic will continue as anchor and managing editor of E! News. Additionally, she currently hosts E!'s Live From The Red Carpet specials, anchors interview…

E! News has promoted Jennifer Lavin to Executive Producer and Melanie Bromley to Chief News Correspondent, the NBCUniversal cable network said today. It also added US Weekly West Coast Executive Editor Dina Sansing as Executive Entertainment Director. Lavin joined E! News as supervising producer in 2007 and most…