Exclusive: Daytime talk show maven Wendy Williams will host and produce a new series for ID called “Death By Gossip With Wendy Williams,” recounting murders fueled by rumor and innuendo.
“It’s the stuff that happens in towns and cities everywhere, where you’ve got the principal sleeping with the manager at the local store and she’s married — and it ends in death,” says Williams. “They’re cases full of gossip, like the game of ‘telephone.’”
The six-episode series will air this fall, is based on real-life cases and will feature ID’s trademark re-enactments — with Williams narrating and appearing on camera a la Susan Lucci and her ID series, “Deadly Affairs.” It’s produced by Wendy Williams Productions in association with m2 Pictures, which is repped by APA.
Williams also launches her eponymous clothing line this Saturday on HSN. “I had no idea people are looking at what I’m wearing on my talk show … every day, whether I love it or hate it, the clothes are the co-stars,” she says.
So what’s in a name?
Sandra Bernhard, just back from a string of live performances in Australia, makes her debut on this Monday’s episode of CBS’ “Two Broke Girls” as Joedth (pronounced “Joe”) — the gay, highly opinionated manager of Manhattan eatery The High who hires Max (Kat Dennings) as pastry chef and Caroline (Beth Behrs) as hostess while dealing with her younger, druggie girlfriend, Allie (Shantel Wislawski).
Bernhard is slated to appear on five episodes, according to a CBS spokeswoman.
More comedy: Actor/comedian Gabriel Iglesias (Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Revolution,” ABC’s “Cristela”) will appear April 17 at Madison Square Garden. He just sold out the Nokia Theater and Honda Center in LA — and reprised his role as Tobias the Bartender in “Magic Mike XXL” (at the request of star Channing Tatum), opening this summer.
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Last, but not least …
Flushing’s Evy Poumpouras is honored on Wednesday’s “Steve Harvey” (3 p.m./Ch. 4) for her work with the Secret Service … A first: The entire hour of “Live With Kelly and Michael” airs live from the White House Easter Egg Roll (April 6) … Lois Robbins guest-stars on “Law & Order: SVU” April 8 and will star in Meg Ryan’s directorial debut, “Ithaca.” She’ll also be seen in “Juvie” opposite Eric Roberts and “Blowtorch” (Billy Baldwin) … Comedian Maureen Langan will be at Don’t Tell Mama this Friday and The Regency (Pompton Plains, NJ) on Saturday … “Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons met tongue-lolling, head-cocking Web star Marnie the Dog: “She showed up on our set … I was utterly starstruck,” he tells the April 6 issue of People.