In news today, Busy Philipps is returning to the late-night scene with a new show called Busy This Week that will be airing on streamer QVC+. In other news, QVC has a streaming service! Did you know that? We sure didn’t. Neither did Wikipedia, Consumer Reports, or literally any of the numerous other “List of all Streaming Services” articles this writer personally checked while doing research for this piece. Now you too can get in on the ground floor of this technology. Congrats!
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Anyway, Busy This Week is the Girls5EvaBusy Tonight was canceled by E! in 2019. Per an official synopsis from QVC+ (via Variety), “during each half-hour episode, viewers will join Busy on the couch to get an unscripted take on whatever has kept us busy this week. From celebrity guest interviews and laugh-out-loud moments to personal stories and her favorite curated shopping finds, Busy will give her audience a healthy dose of [retail] therapy.”
“When we tried to get a seat at the late-night table to bring this concept to life, there didn’t seem to be any room for women,” Philipps said in a statement. “But when we came to QVC+, they immediately recognized this was something special and we recognized their platform was perfect for reaching our audience. Instead of just giving us a seat, they gave us the whole table.”
“While late-night comedy shows have experienced a sea of change over the last few years, the one constant has been the lack of representation by women and for women in the category,” added Caissie St. Onge, Philipps’ production partner. “There’s an audience of women today who feel largely forgotten when it comes to late-night shows. That’s why Busy and I wanted to create a show where they finally felt represented and could see themselves reflected in every episode.”
After Midnight’s Taylor Tomlinson is the most recent, and still one of the only, woman to anchor a current late-night show, so it will be nice to have a new voice added to the mix—you’ll just have to download yet another platform to hear it. Season one of Busy This Week premieres May 8 at 10 p.m. ET with the first 10 episodes airing weekly on Wednesdays, followed by four holiday-themed episodes which will air in November and December.