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UPDATE: The Comeback Girl, a limited series which was set to star Kathryn Hahn as late comic legend Joan Rivers, is not moving forward at Showtime, Deadline can confirm. According to Variety, which broke the news first, the comedienne’s life rights, held by daughter Melissa Rivers, was not secured by the series…

E!’s long-running Fashion Police franchise will be taken off life support after one last hurrah on Monday, November 27. Ending its run after more than two decades, the Fashion Police: The Farewell special hosted by Melissa Rivers will include footage from a previously unseen episode featuring show co-creator and…

Shonda Rhimes, the original cast of Saturday Night Live and Joan Rivers will be inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame, the hall’s selection committee announced today. Other inductees include writer/producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing), and art director/production designer Roy Christopher (Frasier, Wing…

Melissa Rivers and other members of comedian Joan Rivers‘ family have settled a malpractice suit against Yorkville Endoscopy and the doctors treating her, following her death in 2014. Lawyers for the family Thursday wouldn’t specify the amount of the settlement, other than to call it “substantial.” They added that the…

Joan Rivers picked up a Grammy Award five months after her death from complications from routine surgery. The award, for best spoken-word album, was for her narration of her memoir Diary of a Mad Diva. It is her first Grammy win. Rivers was matched up in the category with some big names, including actor/director James…

Somehow it feels like 2014 was an especially harsh year for Hollywood passings. From Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman to Joan Rivers and Mike Nichols, the year that just ended saw some iconic names with iconic resumes leave us before they were supposed to. Here’s a list of some notable RIPs in 2014, with…

Nearly four months after Fashion Police star Joan Rivers’ death, here comes our first look at the E! snark fest with new host Kathy Griffin. Timed to her annual attention-grabbing New Year’s Eve gig on CNN, the two new promos for the series exec produced by Melissa Rivers feature Griffin and series veterans Giuliana…

Jay Leno explain to Billy Bush why he never had Joan Rivers on NBC’s Tonight Show:

With a lot of help from host Sarah Silverman, SNL returned to old form with this bit, as Joan Rivers angles for a place in Heaven by roasting the likes of Richard Pryor, Steve Jobs, Lucille Ball — and Ben Franklin. Here’s the clip: <a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/joan-rivers/2816880"…

A record 1.1 million total viewers tuned in to remember Joan Rivers on Friday during E!’s 90-minute special Fashion Police: Celebrating Joan. That’s more than double the year-ago time period average (127%). The special was preceded by Joan Day, an all-day marathon of Fashion Police episodes that started at 7 AM and…

Hours before E! is scheduled to air its Joan Rivers tribute episode of Fashion Police as part of today’s Joan Day marathon, the network has announced it will continue the franchise despite the death of its most important on-air team member. "We are deeply saddened by the loss of Joan Rivers and, for the last two…