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Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment is joining forces with Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit to create a new syndicated daytime talk show that the Queen herself will host. Starting in 2013, this will be the popular actress and singer’s second talk show — the first, ‘The Queen Latifah Show,’ ran from 1999 to 2001.

Former talk show host Ricki Lake is reportedly eyeing a return to daytime television. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lake, whose eponymous show ran for about 11 years, has signed a development deal with Twentieth Television for a potential launch in fall 2012. (Memo to Katie Couric: Watch your back.) The hourlong show will cover topics ranging from marriage, to divorce to weight loss, the re