The Talk ending with shortened 15th season at CBS
Kaitlyn Huamani April 12, 2024
The Talk will
close out its final season come to an end
in December after 14 years and 15 seasons on the air.
The popular CBS daytime talk show will have an abbreviated 15th season,
ending concluding
with a celebratory sendoff.
when it wraps in December.In a joint statement on Friday from
Amy Reisenbach,
the
president of CBS Entertainment
,
and David Stapf,
the
president of CBS Studios,
the executives
said
in a joint statement on Friday that
the show broke new ground when it premiered and commended the long-running series.
Throughout the years, it has been a key program on CBS top
–
rated daytime line
–
up as it brought timely, important and entertaining topics and discussions into living rooms around the globe, the statement read.
It goes without saying that hosting and producing a year-round talk show is no easy task, the statement continued, and we express our sincere gratitude to our amazing hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry OConnell and Sheryl Underwood, our Executive Producer/Showrunner Rob Crabbe and the hardworking producing team and crew.
In the Instagram
announcing that the The show’s official Instagram page announced that the show would return this fall for its final season.
Kloots
,
and OConnell chimed in via the comments section. Kloots wrote, Love this job, the people, the crew, the audience! and OConnell
wrote said
, Fun times! Lets have a great season!
The announcement about The Talk
came amidst comes amid
a season of change for daytime television. Legacy shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Wendy Williams Show and Dr. Phil are no longer on the air. “The Real” was also cancel
l
ed in 2022 after eight seasons, with co
–
host
Loni Love
citing an effort to “scale the show down.” New
er
players in the daytime TV scene, including Jennifer Hudson, Sherri Shepherd, Tamron Hall, Kelly Clarkson and Drew Barrymore , are building up their audiences.
Daytime shows also took a hit during the Hollywood writers and actors strikes in 2023, which caused several shows, including The Talk
,
to postpone
their premieres or take a
pause
on
production
and
their premieres
.
The Talk
premiered bowed
on CBS in 2010 and featured original co
–
hosts
Sara Gilbert, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne
.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
also hosted a segment on the show.
Roseanne alum
Gilbert
, an actor,
helped
to
develop the show and said in 2010 that she was inspired to create a space where moms could share stories and chat organically about current events. The show has expanded since its original focus on mothers and its panel of c
o-
hosts has
turned over changed
in its 14-year run. In addition to the current slate of hosts,
Aisha Tyler
also hosted.
The series earned 14 Daytime Emmy Awards and 56 nominations during its run, including wins for outstanding talk show entertainment in 2016 and 2018. The Talk also won the Peoples Choice Award for
d
aytime TV hosting team in 2016 and the NAACP Image Award for outstanding talk series the same year.
