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EXCLUSIVE: Ricki Lake, who hosted her first daytime talkshow at the age of 24, is launching her own podcast. Lake has teamed up with Lemonada Media to launch Raised By Ricki. The series is part re-watch podcast and part cultural re-examination of her show. It will dive into Ricki's life, exploring how she came to host…

AXS TV has revealed that it will premiere the 16th season of the UK version of The X Factor on October 14 at 8PM — and this year it will have a celebrity twist. The X Factor: Celebrity, made by Syco Entertainment and Fremantle-owned Thames Television for ITV, will feature stars including Ricki Lake, Glee's Kevin McHale…

Ricki Lake, Glee's Kevin McHale and Hayley Hasselhoff are some of the stars lined up for ITV's The X Factor: Celebrity. The British broadcaster has tweaked its long-running reality competition series to feature celebrities beginning in October. Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh will judge, while Dermot…

Two Paramount Insurge films, Area 51 and Drunk Wedding, will get exclusive one-weekend runs at 16 Alamo Drafthouse theaters around the country in May alongside day-and-date releases on VOD and digital platforms. Area 51, a found-footage horror film, debuts May 15. It was co-written and directed by Oren Peli, and stars…

EXCLUSIVE: After exploring the economics of childbirth in their 2008 documentary The Business Of Being Born, director Abby Epstein and exec producer Ricki Lake are reteaming to take a similar a look at another health issue affecting women all over the world. Docu Sweetening The Pill, which just launched production…

UPDATE, 12 PM: The numbers for all of yesterday’s daytime syndicated talk shows are in. Not surprisingly, the 10th-season premiere of Ellen featuring guests Patrick Dempsey, Pink and the Fierce Five, came up on top with a 3.0 household rating/8 share in the metered markets, 50% time period improvement vs. last year…

Who said syndication was boring? In one day this week, the usually sleepy industry offered more action that a Michael Bay movie. Wednesday started off with several shows: newbies Jeff Probst, from CBS TV Distribution, Twentieth's Ricki Lake, Warner Bros' Bethenny Frankel as well as Warner Bros’ rookie Anderson, vying…

This ABC show now in its 13th season is the bane of my existence (because I hate it so much) and returns on Monday, September 19th, with a fall season lineup of spandex-sporting contestants that’s as bewildering as ever. The full roster is: — Nancy “J’accuse” Grace, TV blonde who rants about white trash murders. — Davi…