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Ellen DeGeneres is coming back to television with her own variety/talk strip that will highlight her comedy and her "everywoman" approach to life.
"Ellen is a sensational talent who has spent the past twenty years preparing herself to do this show," says Jim Paratore, executive vice president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television and president of Telepictures Productions.
DeGeneres is so connected to Hollywood royalty that to do a test-drive of the show's concept she called up her friends Tom Hanks, Alanis Morrisette and Helen Hunt, and had them come over to her house to do some sample...