It’s the end of an era!
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is coming to an end after 19 seasons and 18 years on air. The hostess and comedian, Ellen DeGeneres, confirmed the unfortunate news that her long-running daytime talk show will end after its final 19th season.
“When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged — and as great as this show is, and as fun, as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.
“I was going to stop after season 16,” she explained elsewhere in the conversation. “That was going to be my last season and they wanted to sign for four more years and I said I’d sign for maybe for one. They were saying there was no way to sign for one. ‘We can’t do that with the affiliates and the stations need more of a commitment.’ So, we [settled] on three more years and I knew that would be my last. That’s been the plan all along. And everybody kept saying, even when I signed, ‘You know, that’s going to be 19, don’t you want to just go to 20? It’s a good number.’ So is 19.”
The announcement also comes after recent reports of toxic work culture, discrimination, and sexual harassment on the show that first sparked in 2020, when a BuzzFeed News article was published that details those allegations. At that time, Ellen acknowledged that the atmosphere had developed into something that did not reflect the values when she started the show and pledged to do better.