Chelsea Handler has found a new home for her talk show — Netflix.
The streaming service has signed the outspoken comedian to host its first late-night talk show, as The Post first reported last April.
The new show — which will premiere on Netflix in 2016 — will update the format of Handler’s E! series “Chelsea Lately” while still featuring her take on entertainment and cultural issues as well as guest interviews.
Handler will make her Netflix debut much sooner, however, as the deal also includes a one-hour stand up special based on her comedy tour “Uganda Be Kidding Me” Live to premiere on Oct. 10. She will also create four docu-comedy specials for Netflix next year following her efforts to better understand subjects like NASCAR, politics, Silicon Valley and the NBA draft.
“If I was going to continue working in this industry, I knew I had to do something outside the box to keep myself interested,” Handler said in a statement. “I wanted to sit with the cool kids at lunch so I approached Netflix to make sure they were as cool as I thought they were, and when I confirmed my suspicions, like with any other future lover, I made my move. I’m more excited than I’ve been in awhile, and the team at Netflix is the most forward thinking, alert group I’ve sat down with in ages. No offense to the Shahs Of Sunset.”
Handler had been vocal about her desire to move on from E! for months, slamming the cable network in an interview with Howard Stern as “a sad, sad place to live…They don’t know what they’re doing. They have no ideas. It’s a failure.”
Last month, E! said “Chelsea Lately” would air its final episode on Aug. 26, four months before Handler’s contract was set to expire.