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The present “Queen of Daytime Discuss” is stepping down. It’s been introduced that The Ellen DeGeneres Show is ending with its upcoming 19th season. The ultimate episodes of the syndicated discuss present will air in 2022. The ultimate season will take the sequence properly past the three,000 episode mark.
DeGeneres has been mulling over ending the series for a while and, in 2018, it was reported that her spouse, Portia de Rossi, had been encouraging her to step down from the 180 episodes-a-year sequence. She signed a three-year contract that will take her via the 2021-22 season and privately indicated that will be the tip. The studio hoped that she would rethink.
She additionally informed THR:
I used to be going to cease after season 16. That was going to be my final season and so they needed to signal for 4 extra years and I mentioned I’d signal for possibly for one. They have been saying there was no option to signal for one. “We are able to’t try this with the associates and the stations want extra of a dedication.” So, we [settled] on three extra years and I knew that will be my final. That’s been the plan all alongside. And all people saved saying, even once I signed, “You understand, that’s going to be 19, don’t you need to simply go to 20? It’s an excellent quantity.” So is 19. [Laughs]
DeGeneres additionally mentioned, “While you’re a artistic particular person, you continuously should be challenged – and as nice as this present is, and as enjoyable as it’s, it’s simply not a problem anymore.”
The host knowledgeable her employees of the choice yesterday and can talk about the information on her Could 13th present with buddy Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey was very supportive when DeGeneres got here out on her Ellen sitcom in 1997.
“Whereas we’re dissatisfied, we’re extraordinarily supportive of Ellen’s determination to finish her present subsequent season,” Warner Bros. TV Group Chairman Channing Dungey. “Ellen as soon as mentioned that every one she ever needed to do was make individuals really feel good and chortle, and he or she has achieved that and a lot extra.”
Ending the sequence follows final 12 months’s allegations that The Ellen DeGeneres Present was a poisonous office. DeGeneres says that she realized in regards to the state of affairs within the press. An inner investigation was launched and several other key executives have been dismissed. The host opened the present 18th season with an apology, “I realized that issues occur right here that by no means ought to have occurred. I take that very severely. And I need to say I’m so sorry to the individuals who have been affected.” Many individuals considered the season premiere however the scores have seen an enormous drop since then.
Concerning the allegations, DeGeneres mirrored:
So, there was an inner investigation, clearly, and we realized some issues however this tradition we’re dwelling is [is one where] nobody could make errors. And I don’t need to generalize as a result of there are some unhealthy individuals on the market and people individuals shouldn’t work once more however, basically, the tradition immediately is one the place you possibly can’t study and develop, which is, as human beings, what we’re right here to do. And I can see individuals taking a look at that going, “You don’t care about what individuals [went through.]” I care tremendously. It broke my coronary heart once I realized that individuals right here had something aside from a incredible expertise — that individuals have been harm in any manner. I test in now as a lot as I can via Zoom to completely different departments and I be sure that individuals know that if there’s ever a query or ever something, they’ll come to me and I don’t know why that was by no means thought of earlier than. I’m not a scary particular person. I’m very easy to speak to. So, we’ve all realized from issues that we didn’t understand — or I didn’t understand — have been occurring. I simply need individuals to belief and know that I’m who I look like.
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What do you think? Have you ever loved watching The Ellen DeGeneres Present for all of those years? Will you be sorry to see it go?