E! Bows Richards, Lohan Series On Memorial Day
Networks Sets Original Summer Stage With Pair Of Reality Shows
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 5/26/2008 2:43:00 AM
If Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, then E! Entertainment will start cable’s push into its “original programming season” with a pair of shows focused on celebrity lives ripped from the headlines.
Denise Richards, whose career high notes include playing Dr. Christmas Jones in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough and a rich bitch/bisexual in Wild Things, will open up her life and that of her two young children in Denise Richards: It’s Complicated, premiering tonight at 10 p.m. I
n the show, Richards, whose personal life has been complicated by a very messy, public divorce from actor Charlie Sheen and the death of her mother from cancer, will let the cameras roll as she lives life with her children Sam and Lola, as well married younger sister Michelle and their father Irv.
The second show from Ryan Seacrest Productions, which is also responsible for E! hit Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Denise Richards: It’s Complicated begins with an installment entitled, "Denise Dating," wherein Richards goes on a blind date with a regular guy, rather her usual Hollywood hunk. Additionally, the show description says Richards will play matchmaker to her pet pig.
Living Lohan follows at 10:30 p.m. This eight-episode show puts the spotlight on one of America’s paragons of parenting, Dina Lohan, whose eldest daughter Lindsay has generated as many headlines for her partying, arrests and rehab bouts, as from her acting career.
In the new E! series, Dina plays manager and mother to 14-year-old Ali, as the pair moves from Merrick, Long Island to Las Vegas, where the teen records an album.
Neither Lindsay or Dina’s divorced husband Michael are expected to appear on the show, which begins with the episode called “Mommy Will Fix It,” in which the mom/manager has young music producer and family friend, Jeremy Greene, work with Ali.
