Emmy Award winning television host Rosie O’Donnell is preparing something for us. NBC has announced that O’Donnell will host a live variety show the night before Thanksgiving and should audiences enjoy it, the project will be expanded towards a series.

Rosie O’Donnell last entertained viewers as a moderator on the tenth season of ABC’s talk show “The View,” which she left prematurely in April 2007.

“Rosie’s Variety Show” is in the works though and will air as an hour-long special on Nov. 26, the night before Thanksgiving. The show will feature celebrity guests, musical performances and comedy skits. Viewers in the studio and at home will also have the chance to win prizes.

NBC vice president alternative Craig Plestis said O’Donnell’s show would “reinvent” the concept of a variety show for 2008. O’Donnell herself said her work would be a tribute to Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan and even Sonny and Cher, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

In recent years, ABC tried its hand at variety with “The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour,” back in 2004, when Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey were still married. NBC has also offered viewers “America’s Got Talent.”

O’Donnell will also executive produce the show, along with David Friedman (“Last Comic Standing,” “Last Call With Carson Daly”). Friedman is full of confidence that O’Donnell will rise to the occasion, as he considers that she “sort of invented” the daytime variety show and is the “right person” for such a project.

The “Rosie O’Donnell Show” aired from 1995 to 2001, was tremendously popular and earned her multiple Emmy Awards.

Hosting is not O’Donnell’s only talent, as she has also ventured into acting, most recently in television series “Queer as Folk” and “Nip/Tuck.” O’Donnell published “Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game” last fall, her second memoir after 2002’s “Find Me.” The book debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction list.