a href="/myfiles/Images/2015/04/05/li02_big.jpg" title="In this March 25 photo released by NBC, comedienne Grace Helbig speaks during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," in New York. — AP" In this March 25 photo released by NBC, comedienne Grace Helbig speaks during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," in New York. — AP NEW YORK — Grace Helbig loves working from home. Home is where your stuff is. Where there's no boss on your back. Where, if you're Grace Helbig, you can blend the creative solitude that propels you with entertaining millions of your closest chums. Now Helbig — whose YouTube channel, "It's Grace," is the repository of her comic videos playing to more than 2 million subscribers — is branching out. Without leaving home. Home for "The Grace Helbig Show" — premiering on E! Entertainment on Friday at 10:30 pm EDT — in an LA residence from which this half-hour talk-and-whatever TV show will originate while also serving as home base for its staff and crew, all of whom will also be on view. "I think the process is as interesting as the outcome," Helbig said last week on a visit to New York. "The Internet medium is so personal and so intimate, and I want to bring that intimacy to television." Thus will Helbig arrive as a television pioneer, having landed this mainstream TV gig thanks to her end run around the media gauntlet, launched instead by her homegrown Internet initiative. — AP
