| E! News | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 7,500+ |
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| Running time | 60 minutes (2010–2019) 30 minutes (1991–2010; 2020–2025) |
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| Network | E! |
| Release | September 1, 1991 (1991-09-01) – September 25, 2025 (2025-09-25) |
E! News, previously known asE! News Daily andE! News Live, is theentertainment news operation for the cable networkE! in the United States. Its former on-air weekday newscast debuted on September 1, 1991, and primarily reports on celebrity news and gossip, along with previews of upcoming films and television shows, regular segments about all of those three subjects, along with overallfilm andtelevision industry news. The linear operation was cancelled on September 25, 2025.
The program first aired on September 12, 1991.[1] It was originally hosted byDagny Hultgreen. It features stories and gossip about celebrities as well as the film, music, and television industries. Since its launch, it has broadcast under a variety of formats, at one point even airing live during the mid-2000s (at this time, the show was namedE! News Live). Starting in 2006, it was hosted byRyan Seacrest andGiuliana Rancic. In April 2012, Seacrest was replaced byJason Kennedy. Rancic temporarily left the show on maternity leave in August 2012 due to the birth of her first son (through a surrogate), though she reassured viewers that she would return under a new three-year agreement toE! News andFashion Police after her leave;Catt Sadler took over her anchoring duties, and eventually became a main anchor as Rancic reduced her duties over time. From 2006 until late 2010,The Daily 10, hosted bySal Masekela, Sadler, and at one pointDebbie Matenopoulos,lead out ofE! News.
On September 21, 2010, E! announced the cancellation ofThe Daily 10. At this time, it was announced thatE! News would be expanded to a one-hour format. The expansion became effective beginning on October 25, 2010. The series also debuted a new news set and began broadcasting inhigh definition.[2] Some talent previously featured onThe Daily 10, includingCatt Sadler,Clinton Sparks and Robbie Laughlin, were integrated intoE! News, along with the addition of a segment calledThe Daily 10 Take and the inclusion of some formerDaily 10 segments.
TheE! News program was dark on major holidays, includingMemorial Day,Independence Day,Thanksgiving, andChristmas, with special pre-taped programs, the show's weekend edition or other E! programs airing instead, depending on where the holiday fell.
In December 2017, Catt Sadler departed the network upon learning shewas underpaid compared to her male counterpart, Jason Kennedy.[3] In a statement toPeople, an E! spokesperson claimed the network 'compensates employees fairly and appropriately based on their roles, regardless of gender'.[3]
In August 2019, it was announced that at the start of 2020, theE! News newscast would move toNew York, along with the launch of a companion program,Pop of the Morning. It would become amorning program airing live at 7 a.m.Eastern, though at the peril of being too early forWest Coast audiences at 4 a.m.Pacific. The new iteration ofE! News would originate fromStudio 6E at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The move was done to allow the network to become a stop on the common New York morning show circuit, and to allow for morevertical integration promotion for NBCUniversal programming and attractions in an hour where NBC'sToday is usually exclusively devoted tohard news.[4][5]
In October 2019, Rancic announced that she would be resigning her anchor position and staying in Los Angeles, and remain with the network for red carpet coverage, citing that she wanted to be more hands-on with her family and business interests in Chicago.[6] Kennedy announced that he too would be leaving the show, but would remain with the network as the host of a new Los Angeles celebrity home-based interview series,In The Room.[7] The last show from Los Angeles aired on November 15, 2019.
On December 5, 2019, it was announced that Lilliana Vazquez andScott Tweedie would be the new co-anchors of the New York-based morning iteration ofE! News which began airing on January 6, 2020. On March 13, 2020, it was announced that effective immediately, all of E!'s studio programming would go on an indefinite hiatus due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. On August 5, 2020, E! canceled both New York-based shows, along withIn The Room, one of the first of many program and employee cuts and staff realignments announced acrossNBCUniversal that week.[8][9] E! has continued to maintain theE! News website, and its social media pages, includingThe Rundown onSnapchat Discover.
On October 20, 2022, E! announced thatE! News would be revived as a late-night entertainment news program and would return to the E! network after a two-year hiatus;Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester (the latter of whom would return to the show for the revival) would serve as co-hosts. The revival premiered on November 14, 2022.[10][11] On October 31, 2023, Bailon-Houghton announced she was resigning as co-anchor due to wanting to spend more time with her family and living on the East Coast.[12]
On July 24, 2025, it was announced that the linear TV run ofE! News will be cancelled on September 25, 2025, after 34 years. The website and social media run will remain intact.[13]
The show aired weeknights at 7 p.m. until November 15, 2019, with reruns airing at 11 p.m.ET until 2018. An hour-long weekend edition was also produced,consisting of mostly rebroadcasts of stories aired during the weekday editions, airing on Saturdays at 10 a.m. ET; it was discontinued in 2016. As of 2020, the show aired weekday mornings at 7 a.m. ET.
In the UK the show airs weekdays at 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. In Europe, excluding the UK,E! News is often edited into a 30-minute version, but the Hour version is aired at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.CET. The show also keeps changing airing times from week to week. During August 2009, it was only airing once a day at 2:25 a.m. CET.
The German version is produced by Alexander von Roon and broadcast on the Sky network.
In the Philippines, the show airs onETC after the US Telecast Tuesday to Saturday 10:00-11:00 p.m. with replays at 1:00-2:00 p.m.
In India, the show airs onZee Café at 6:00 p.m from Monday to Friday.
InLatin America the show was presented by Daniela Kosán andRenato López. AlthoughE! News Latin America had different anchors, the video clips were the same. The show was cancelled in late 2008 and as of May 20, 2009 the show has been replaced by its American counterpart, with a two-minute recap of Latin American entertainment news retained, along with a 'week in review' half-hour program on Thursday nights. Both were hosted byRenato López until his death in 2016.
Introduced in 2010,E! News Asia was a weekly round-up of entertainment stories from Hollywood and Asia, formerly anchored by Dominic Lau andMarion Caunter.[14] Now produced as short form content,E! News Asia is currently hosted byYvette King, with correspondentsRaymond Gutierrez in the Philippines and Elizabeth andMaria Rahajeng in Indonesia.E! News Asia is available in 15 countries around the Asian region.
In Canada, in addition to the U.S. version, a weekly Canadian program titledE! News Weekend aired from 2008 to 2009 on theE! broadcast system owned byCanwest. This was a weekly 30-minute program hosted by Jason Ruta andArisa Cox from theHard Rock Café in downtown Toronto.[15] The broadcast service ceased operations in August 2009, and this program was not carried over to theunaffiliated cable channel which picked up the E! brand in late 2010.
The aforementioned E! system was unique in that it was transmitted through local broadcast stations which produced and aired their own local newscasts, similar to other North American broadcast networks – however, these programs specifically did not carry theE! News brand. For example, the system's flagship stationCHCH-DT simply titled its newscastsCHCH News. However, this was an anomaly among Canadian networks which by that point had all, apart from E!, adopted network-based branding (CTV News, etc.) for their stations' local newscasts (even the Canadian E! network, under its previous branding as "CH", had used such branding).