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Ellen DeGeneres to end her daytime talk show after 19 seasons: “It’s ‘Not a Challenge Anymore”

The upcoming season 19 of the Ellen DeGeneres Show will be the last, the TV personality announced in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday. She said she shared the news with her staff on Tuesday, and will sit down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss it on Thursday’s show.

“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,” DeGeneres, 63, told THR. I was going to stop after season 16. That was going to be my last season, and they wanted to sign for four more years and I said I’d sign 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. (Laughs.)

Ellen debuted in 2003, and over the years the hit program has earned 64 Daytime Emmys.

Wednesday’s announcement comes almost a year after the show became embroiled controversy last summer amid allegations of workplace toxicity, prompting an internal investigation. Since the September premiere in which DeGeneres addressed the allegations, the show has lost more than a million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings.

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  1. A ‘challenge’? NPR reported The Ellen Show lost 1M viewers after appearing on the show post-scandal for the damage control monologue.

  2. Not a challenge? Ellen seems to have learned nothing from recent scandals and continues to deflect.

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