Not saying Ellen is a nice person or anything, but frankly, what celebrities aren't total turds? Why was she singled out?
Posted on 05/12/2021 9:47:13 AM PDT by EdnaMode
At the end of a rocky 2020-21 season, following a toxic workplace environment controversy and amid declining ratings, Ellen DeGeneres is ending her daytime talk show. DeGeneres’ current contract takes The Ellen DeGeneres Show through the upcoming 2021-2022 season, the show’s 19th, and it will now be the program’s final chapter.
Like this past year for the show, the announcement of its end was messy, with the news leaking to a tabloid, The Daily Mail, which broke it early Wednesday morning, thwarting DeGeneres’ and the show’s producer Warner Bros.’ plans of announcing the news on their own terms. DeGeneres will speak about the pending end of her daytime talker in the Ellen opening monologue she will be taping later today.
After a long reign as daytime’s top entertainment talk show and a slew of Daytime Emmys, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, produced by Warner Bros.’ Telepictures, has struggled during the pandemic-impacted 2020-21 season, with its ratings falling 40% year-to-year, pushing the program down the daytime rankings. The Ellen DeGeneres Show‘s ratings dive was examined in a March story of the New York Times, which got a lot of attention and raised questions about the talker’s future.
Following a string of reports about a toxic workplace on the show last spring and summer and an internal investigation by Warner Bros., The Ellen DeGeneres Show made a number of behind-the-scene changes last fall, including ousting long-time executive producers, and DeGeneres apologized to her staff.
DeGeneres previously had indicated that she was seriously considering ending her show, most recently in 2019 when she ended up signing a new three-year deal to extend the program through 2022.
“Although all good things must come to an end, you still have hope that the truly great things never will,” Mike Darnell, President, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, said in a statement provided to Deadline. “The Ellen Show started as the little program that could and became an absolute phenomenon. Over the years, it established itself as the premiere destination for both superstars and incredible heartfelt human interest stories. The show and Ellen brought comedy, joy, happiness, comfort (and dancing!) to countless millions every day for 18 years. It was and is an indelible piece of the television landscape, and it will be sorely missed.”
Who is she?
Oh no...but I’m confident that an equally woke leftist show will fill the time slot...like Managing Your Credit Cards with Stacey Abrams...
I saw her game show a couple of times. She may have a sadistic streak.
I couldn’t care less. Hers was one of the more useless TV shows there ever was.
who?
Next up the View, hopefully.
Never watched it!!!
Yes that would be great.
I did do that before I wrote this. There are a lot of people saying it is said she is mean but not a lot of people saying this that were in the direct path of her said meanness.
But I did find this guy Kevin T. Porter pissed off because she had the nerve to be friends with George W. Bush and was seen at a sporting event with him and so he went on to encourage ‘stories’.
“There’s proof that Porter was incensed by DeGeneres being friendly with Bush.
In an editorial for Medium called “The Cheap Kindness of Ellen,” he wrote, “Why would the queen of daytime television and queer icon Ellen DeGeneres share anything more than a begrudging handshake with former Republican president George W. Bush?”
Like Ruffalo, he went on to accuse Bush of hindering LGBTQ rights advocacy and committing “war crimes.”
I really wonder if it’s not all backstabbing and bs to kill her show because she stepped on somebody’s toes.
Yes, that’s what I heard, that she is not a good boss; very demanding.
That’s true.
I always loved her in the Capital One commercial where she was dressed in old fashioned clothes.
Maybe it was some other credit card.
I have never understood the appeal of this singularly unattractive and unfunny woman.
You gotta make his mouth move .. ;)
“Where will all of the brain-dead leftist females go for their mid-day sustenance ?”
Well if not already, it will be The View, Whoppie and Behar will dish out their words of “wisdom” to the delight of these knuckle dragging Leftist ‘women”
Ellen who?
Yeah,We’re al broke up....
No problem, I’m sure networks already have talk shows to be hosted by lesbians galore - even WORSE than ellen ever was - in the planning stages....WON’T THAT BE WONDERFUL????
Not saying Ellen is a nice person or anything, but frankly, what celebrities aren't total turds? Why was she singled out?
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