Splitsider

2 Broke Girls has already been renewed, since it's the biggest new comedy of the year and all, and Whitney seems very likely to get renewed but that isn't enough for Whitney Cummings. This morning, E! announced that it will be adding Love You, Mean It With Whitney Cummings to its schedule. I'm going to go out on a limb and say she doesn't in fact "mean it." It's going to be paired with The Soup on Wednesday nights and will feature Whitney and sidekick Julian McCullough making fun of pop culture. Considering that both of her other shows also feature a lot of that sort of [...]

The Community cast visited Joel McHale during The Soup (skip to about 0:45 for them to show up if you don't care about the fate of Mr. Cotton the dog, and if so, what are you, some kind of monster?). They've left Chevy at home, but poking fun at Karate Dog seems to be the new cast pastime – it makes an appearance in this fun video too. It's soon revealed that Chevy, Adam Scott, Nick Kroll and the rest of the cast are all just figments of Joel's imagination. "If Community were real, don't you think you would have seen a commercial for it on NBC?" [...]

- Rob Schneider's midseason sitcom has been given an inverted exclamation point and a start date. ¡Rob! will premiere on January 12. Lord help us, every one.

- Chelsea Handler signed a deal with E! that says she'll continue hosting Chelsea Lately till 2014 and also develop and produce new shows for E! and NBCUniversal. So, even if Are You There, Chelsea? fails to captivate us all in its post-Whitney Wednesday timeslot, we'll still see plenty more sitcoms with brassy Chelsea Handler-ish heroines. Hurrah.