Ellen Digital Network Adds Haddish, Kemper Shows

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Slate also includes ‘Game Night’ and “Lady Parts’

Tiffany Haddish (Image credit: Keith Major)

Ellen Degeneres’ Ellen Digital Network said it is working on new projects with Tiffany Haddish and Ellie Kemper.

At its Newfront presentation Tuesday, Ellen Digital Network announced that Haddish will star in a project that is as yet untitled. 

The network is developing a weekly digital series Help Me Gen Z with Ellie Kemper. Kemper, a mother of two, will sit down with Gen Z kids to learn what’s on their minds from slang to TikTok.

Ellen Digital Newtork is also working on Lady Parts, in which actress Sarah Hyland and Dr. Sherry Ross, billed as OBGYN to the stars, talk with celebrity guests about female sex and anatomy in a comedic manner.

Also on the network’s slate is Game Night, in which  Lauren Speed Hamilton and husband Cameron Hamilton from Netflix’s Love Is Blind, host a fun, cocktail-themed virtual game night with four celebrity/influencer couples playing variations of your favorite games!

Ellen Digital Ventures is a business initiative created by Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros.’ Digital Networks that extends Ellen DeGeneres’ award-winning television franchise into a robust digital business, leveraging her vast social and gaming audiences including the Ellen Digital Network . 

Ellie Kemper

Ellie Kemper (Image credit: EDN)

Also on the network’s slate is Game Night, in which Lauren Speed Hamilton and husband Cameron Hamilton from Netflix’s Love Is Blind, host a fun, cocktail-themed virtual game night with four celebrity/influencer couples playing variations of your favorite games!

Ellen Digital Ventures is a business initiative created by Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros.’ Digital Networks that extends Ellen DeGeneres’ award-winning television franchise into a robust digital business, leveraging her vast social and gaming audiences including the Ellen Digital Network .

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.