Rose O’Donnell To Host Variety Show (Pictures)

Rosie O’Donnell is returning to television! Rosie will be the host of a live variety show on NBC. Read more about Rose O’Donnell’s new show below.

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NBC will air “Rosie’s Variety Show” which will be an hour-long special the night before Thanksgiving, with the possibility of doing others if it goes well.

Rosie’s special will feature celebrity guests, musical acts, comedy skits and a prize give-away for the show’s in-studio and home audiences.

Rosie’s Variety show will air on November 26.

For NBC, the project’s live aspect is of particular interest, both as a way of distinguishing the product from competitors and to discourage viewers from recording the show for later viewing. NBC has aired “America’s Got Talent” results shows live this year and plans a quartet of “Saturday Night Live” primetime specials.

“This will reinvent the idea of what a variety show is for 2008,” NBC vice president alternative Craig Plestis said. “There’s very few performers willing to put themselves out there live. It makes it more TiVo-proof, and it’s something none of the cable networks can do.”

“This is a genre that everybody is anticipating is going to come back,” said David Friedman, who will executive produce the show along with O’Donnell. “Rosie sort of invented the daytime variety show. Without question, Rosie is the right person to bring this back.”

The project raises the prospect of a new regular TV gig for O’Donnell. Her “Rosie O’Donnell Show” was a daytime syndicated hit for five years until it left the air in 2001. Since then, O’Donnell has appeared in recurring roles on FX’s “Nip/Tuck” and was featured on Showtime’s “Queer as Folk.” She also starred in the CBS telefilm “Riding the Bus With My Sister” and drew raves co-hosting the 10th season of ABC’s “The View.”

So do you think you’ll tune in for Rosie’s Variety show?

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