Jenner Talks to Twentieth About Talk Show

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Kardashian mom Kris Jenner is in early talks with Twentieth Television to test a talk show on the Fox-owned TV stations next summer, according to sources.

The test would follow this summer's successful test of Warner Bros.' Bethenny, starring Real Housewife and Skinnygirl Bethenny Frankel, which Fox picked up for next fall.

Fox has established a pattern of testing shows before it picks them up, including Debmar-Mercury's Wendy Williams and Twentieth's own new entertainment magazine, Dish Nation.

Not all of the tests have met with success, however. Attempts such as TMZ spin-off Beyond Twisted and Debmar-Mercury's Fran Drescher and Father Albert failed quickly.

Besides her appearances on E!'s Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jenner has picked up some talk experience appearing on CBS' The Talk from time to time.

A Twentieth spokeman declined to comment.

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.