'Gossip Queens' to Launch in Slow Roll-Out Sept. 20

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Entertainment Studios
will premiere half-hour strip The Gossip
Queens in broadcast and cable syndication on Monday, Sept. 20.

Four comedians will
host The Gossip Queens -- Loni Love,
Alec Mapa, Michelle Collins and Bernadette Pauley - as they chat and joke about
celebrity news and gossip.

To start, the show
will roll out on just a few TV stations, including Weigel's WCIU Chicago, NBC's
KNTV San Francisco, Gannett's WTSP Tampa, Cox's WRDQ Orlando and Sinclair's
WBFF Baltimore. The show, which is being shot in high definition, also will air
on Viacom's gay-themed cable network Logo and on ES' Comedy.TV.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.