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Maria Menounos has had a rough year as she was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer and undergoing surgery all while expecting a baby via surrogacy. “I was feeling so good, and then I got slapped in the face with a new diagnosis,” Menounos told People. “I’d scream out loud, I was…

Roku, which offers its nearly 54 million active account holders tens of thousands of titles, wants to simplify the often fraught process of deciding what to stream. The company’s solution is a new weekly 15-minute program, Roku Recommends, which premieres today. It is co-hosted by Maria Menounos, who is best known for…

Movie theater advertising network National CineMedia has inked a deal with Harkins Theatres, expanding its foothold in the Southwestern U.S. as it hopes movie-going will pick up this year. Privately-owned Harkins, the nation's fifth-largest exhibitor and biggest independent chain, has signed a long-term cinema…

There’s good news for those who just can’t get enough Oscars glitz and glamour: "Live From Hollywood: After the Awards" is making sure Hollywood's biggest night doesn't end too soon. The one-hour live broadcast from outside the Governors Ball will highlight the best moments of the evening, from the red carpet to the…

Talk show host Steve Harvey will ring in the new year once again on Fox, the network announced today. Along with co-host Maria Menounos, Harvey will count down to 2019 from Times Square beginning at 8 pm ET on Monday, Dec. 31. Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square marks Harvey’s second annual…

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…

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…

National CineMedia’s big merger with rival Screenvision came a cropper. But the movie theater ad sales power says it hasn’t missed a beat: Today, at its upfront presentation, NCM unveiled a new branding effort — it’s calling itself “America’s Movie Network.” It plans to put a face on its pre-movie First Look package…

AfterBuzz TV, an online channel created by E! host Maria Menounos and producer Keven Undergaro, has signed with Collective Digital Studio, the big YouTube multichannel network. AfterBuzz specializes in creating “after shows” focused on the latest episodes of popular TV programs. The channel receives more than 20…

Roundtable series Live From E! will expand to three nights a week beginning September 8, Cyndi McClellan, President, Network Strategy & E! News, E! said today. Jason Kennedy, Maria Menounos, Ross Mathews and one additional rotating panelist will host the half-hour series, which features the latest news, celebrity…

After months of speculation that Maria Menounos might be leaving syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Extra, she has made the move, signing a deal with E! Under the multi-year pact, Menounos will host her own one-hour entertainment newsmag series, Untold with Maria Menounos. She also will be featured on the…

I hear that Oxygen, which is presenting at TCA today, has ordered a 10-episode docuseries starring Extra co-host and recent Dancing With The Stars contestant Maria Menounos. The series is produced by Left/Right, which is behind such reality series as VH1’s Mob Wives and Showtime’s This American Life. Menounos and…