How many of u r gonna tune in2 this one? Read on:

Anna Nicole: Ready for Her Close-Up
Fri Aug 2, 5:25 PM ET
By Mark Armstrong

She's been mired in a nasty legal battle for seven years and has been hidden inside of her house like a latter-day (and much better endowed) Brian Wilson. But now, Anna Nicole Smith is ready to bust out all over the place.

Curiosity is mounting for the Anna Nicole Show, E!'s new reality series based on the life of the voluptuous former Playboy pinup-turned-widow of a Texas oil billionaire. So far, the show, (debuting Sunday at 10 p.m.) is generating plenty of buzz, as few people have seen the premiere episode--save for Howard Stern, who predicted this week the series will be bigger than The Osbournes.

Here's the premise: Camera crews follow Smith everywhere, from the bathroom to the bowling alley to the therapist. She eats, she works out, and she's joined by her personal posse--lawyer Howard K. Stern, personal assistant Kim Walther, Smith's 16-year-old camera-shy son Daniel and her Prozac-popping miniature poodle, Sugar Pie.

As for Smith herself, the 34-year-old former stripper says the new series is helping her fight depression and move past her battle with the family of oilman J. Howard Marshall II. In March, a federal judge awarded her $88.5 million in her legal battle over the estate of her late husband. Marshall died in 1995 at age 90, just 14 months after he and Smith were married--prompting a nasty war between the buxom babe and one of Marshall's sons, E. Pierce Marshall. The case remains in litigation.

The E! series "came along at the right time," Smith tells USA Today. "I was in litigation for seven years. I was all depressed, and I lay in bed all day and gained weight. It got me out of bed and got me moving."

E! higher-ups say Smith's boob tube foray is hiding nothing, and the cameras are catching everything. The New York Post reported this week that Smith has had several naked, on-camera romps, but producers are still figuring out how the footage can be used.

"We're all about bringing our viewers closer to the celebrities. We built a business on celebrities and people's fascination with them," says Mark Sonnenberg, E!'s executive vice president of entertainment. "The Anna Nicole Show takes it to the next level. We're not just focusing on her public life, but how intriguing her private life is, when the spotlight is turned off."

And intriguing might just be an understatement. The Anna Nicole Show debuts Sunday at 10 p.m., preceded at 8 p.m. by the original E! True Hollywood Story on Smith.

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I'm gonna have 2 check this out...kinda like how u look at an accident on the freeway, u don't wanna, but u're compelled 2!

Anyway...whaddya think?

eye dont like these real world type shows.. the ozzy thing is stupid.. and this one is too.. but it was a little funny, that cracked out woman is a trip.. but it isnt worth tuning in every week.. maybe once a month..

I Love Her Juicy Sexy Self but She Should Wear Sexy Clothes&Stay on Mute IMHO.

she needs to lose weight badly!!!

This just in:

"Anna Nicole" Scores Record Ratings
Tue Aug 6, 5:45 PM ET
By Mark Armstrong

Anna Nicole Smith was busting out (and busting records) all over E! Sunday night.

The Anna Nicole Show, the new reality series starring the former Playboy pinup turned Texas oil billionaire's widow, notched a 4.1 household rating in its 10 p.m. debut Sunday--the highest rating ever for the cable network and the second best debut for an original series on basic cable.

All told, the curiosity factor gave Anna Nicole higher premiere ratings than MTV's The Osbournes, which nabbed a 2.8 household rating in its debut, before building up an audience throughout the season. For the record, the highest-rated original-series debut on cable belongs to USA Network's The Dead Zone, which pulled in a 4.7 in June.

The highest ratings, of course, came from Smith's hometown of Houston, where the show notched a whopping 9.7 rating.

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It goes on 2 list the top 20, but damn...with ratings like these, expect a lot more of Anna.

Sdldawn said:

Ozzy was hysterical, how could you not like that? I haven't seen the Anna show yet, but I'll check it out. She got real big, huh?

CarrieLee said:

Ozzy rules! I love that show...Anna isn't nearly as cool, she's a little pathetic, really. She hasn't gotten so big, just more curvy...and in parts of the show she seemed sooo sedated...other times she was alert and fine.
I feel sort of sorry for her.

She's a whack job. I feel sorry for her too but I feel more sorry for Ozzy and Sharon. If she dies from this cancer Ozzy will be done.