Wendy Williams News

On the heels of record ratings for their second season debuts, two of SHOWTIME'S critically and audience acclaimed original comedy series NURSE JACKIE and the Emmy(R) winning UNITED STATES OF TARA, have both been renewed for a third season. Both half-hour comedy series have received 12 episode orders and will go into production later in the year. The announcement was made today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc.

Television and film star Jennifer Morrison ('Dr. Allison Cameron' on Fox series 'House,' feature film Star Trek), now making her Broadway debut as Kate Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited host Wendy Williams on the set of her nationally syndicated daytime talk show 'The Wendy Williams Show' last week.

Tony winner Lea Salonga visited the set of 'The Wendy Williams Show' last March 15, 2010 to promote her ongoing cabaret series at Café Carlyle, dubbed 'The Journey So Far.' She sang the pop ditty 'Your Song,' which she also performed in her recent year-end concert in Manila.

Corbin Bleu, currently starring as Usnavi in the Tony and Grammy Award winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS, will be a guest on the nationally syndicated 'The Wendy Williams Show,' scheduled to air on Friday, February 26.

The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, an intensive summer boot camp for student actors, is now seeking applications for the 2010 summer program, being held June 7 - 18 in New York City.

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical.

BURN THE FLOOR, the Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that just opened on Broadway, will be burning up the airwaves this week.

BURN THE FLOOR, the Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that just opened on Broadway, will be burning up the airwaves this week.

BURN THE FLOOR, the Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that just opened on Broadway, will be burning up the airwaves this week.

'Ugly Betty' star Vanessa Williams guested on The Wendy Williams Show and spoke on a variety of subjects, including an upcoming musical episode for the ABC comedy series.

Carolines on Broadway, 'America's Premier Comedy Nightclub,' announces its all-star line-up of comedy talent for the month of July 2008, highlighted by headliners PAUL MOONEY, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled,' July 3 - 6 and July 24 - 27; CAPONE, 'The Gangster of Comedy,' from BET's 'ComicView,' 'Showtime at the Apollo' and the film 'Death of a Dynasty,' July 4 - 6; GILBERT GOTTFRIED, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and the film 'The Aristocrats,' July 10; JOEL McHALE, host of E! Entertainment Television's 'The Soup with Joel McHale,' July 11 - 13; ARTIE LANGE, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' HBO's 'Entourage,' FX's 'Rescue Me' and the films 'Elf' and 'Artie Lange's Beer League,' July 17 and 18; SINBAD, one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, from NBC's 'A Different World,' and the films 'First Kid' and 'Jingle All the Way,' July 18 - 20; and BOBBY LEE, from FOX's 'Mad TV,' HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' and the films 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,' and 'Kickin' It Old School,' July 24 - 27.