It looks like Sheryl Underwood, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O’Connell, Akbar Gbajabiamila and Natalie Morales will be looking for new jobs later this year. CBS confirmed earlier today that The speech has been renewed for a 15th and final season, which will officially conclude the long-running daytime talk show in December 2024.
CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach and CBS Studios President David Stapf announced the news in a joint statement obtained by Deadline.
“The speech broke new ground when it launched 14 years ago by turning CBS daytime talk show around with a refreshing, award-winning format,” they said. “Over the years, it has been a key part of CBS’s top-rated daytime lineup as it brought timely, important and entertaining topics and discussions into living rooms around the world.”
After expressing “sincere gratitude” to the current co-hosts as well as executive producer/showrunner Rob Crabbe and the rest of the team, the statement added: “We would also like to thank our former hosts and colleagues who contributed to the thread seasons. We truly appreciate the skills, creativity and dedication that everyone involved brings to the show every day.
They promised to “celebrate the show” with “the fitting farewell it deserves when it ends in December 2024”.
Deadline reported last month that The discussions The future was up for debate after CBS announced plans to develop a new soap opera titled The doors. While The speech is the third most-watched daytime talk show behind View And Live with Kelly and Markthe show was still the lowest-rated title on the network’s daytime lineup, according to Deadline.
The speech The broadcast began in 2010 with Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Marissa Jaret Winokur as hosts. Throughout its run, the series won 11 Daytime Emmy Awards, a People’s Choice Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Talk Series, according to Variety.
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