‘The Talk’ Canceled at CBS After 15 Seasons: What Happened?

The Talk been canceled – officially, definitively, absolutely.

Though shows similar The Talk have faced interruptions successful caller years, the CBS daytime amusement has been airing successful afloat plaything for 15 years.

And now, their days are numbered.

Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Sheryl Underwood, Natalie Morales, and Jerry O’Connell be arsenic “The Talk” hosts sojourn the Empire State Building connected March 07, 2023. (Photo Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)

‘The Talk’ Canceled astatine CBS: Last Premiere Kicks Off With A Song

In a bittersweet moment, The Talk co-hosts kicked disconnected its farewell play connected Monday, Sept. 9.

Their “celebratory sendoff,” which volition lone spot them connected the aerial until December 2024, opening with the co-hosts singing successful a philharmonic montage acceptable to the tune of Bill Withers 1977 chart-topping deed “Lovely Day.”.

“It goes without saying that hosting and producing a year-round speech amusement is nary casual task, and we explicit our sincere gratitude to our astonishing hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood, our enforcement producer/showrunner Rob Crabbe and the hardworking producing squad and crew,” said the statement from the network.

“The Talk broke caller crushed erstwhile it launched 14 years agone by returning daytime speech to CBS with a refreshing and award-winning format,” continued the statement. “Throughout the years, it has been a cardinal programme connected CBS’ apical rated daytime line-up arsenic it brought timely, important and entertaining topics and discussions into surviving rooms astir the globe.”

The penning was connected the partition for awhile, sadly, with fans voicing interest The Talk would beryllium cancelled arsenic aboriginal arsenic past spring.

‘The Talk’ Wasn’t Airing Like It Usually Did

For awhile successful March 2024, the web really yanked The Talk disconnected of the air.

CBS claimed that it’s a impermanent measurement astatine the time, but fans — already acrophobic astir the show’s prospects — weren’t truthful sure.

On Monday, March 18, done Wednesday, March 20, The Talk aired similar always. Then, thing changed.

CBS pulled the amusement from its daytime lineup connected Thursday, March 21. Confused viewers rapidly realized that it would not aerial connected Friday, March 22, either.

Fans feared that the web was doing a small outpouring cleaning. Had CBS canceled The Talk already?

Fans had already been expressing interest astir the speech show’s future. After all, CBS has a caller soap opera, The Gates, which volition request country to grow.

(Notably, we should not confuse this soap with ABC’s criminally underrated 2010 supernatural transgression drama, The Gates)

However, CBS enactment guardant the authoritative story, via a property release: “The Talk is preempted owed to CBS Sports sum of March Madness.”

CBS replaced ‘The Talk’ with WHAT?

March Madness is simply a sports term, referring to a bid of hoops games that are, 1 assumes, precise breathtaking to hoops fans.

(Yes, the Super Bowl was virtually conscionable 1 period earlier, but that was football. Year aft year, determination seems to beryllium nary extremity to sports events.)

Apparently, these sporting events are truthful important that networks are consenting to spot different shows connected hiatus simply for viewers to ticker an orangish shot walk done a net.

Or not walk done the net, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be.

Sheryl Underwood, Akbar Gbajabiamila, Jerry O’Connell, Amanda Kloots, and Natalie Morales be arsenic “The Talk” hosts sojourn the Empire State Building connected March 07, 2023. (Photo Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)

CBS acceptable speech noon until 5 PM (ET) connected Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22 arsenic all-basketball, each the time, airing the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

It’s worthy noting, for those who interest for The Talk’s future, that soap operas were besides placed connected a impermanent hiatus.

Officially, these returned connected Monday, March 25. Even though “March” Madness continued until April 8, its daytime programming was constricted to March 21-22.

‘The Talk’ hosts Aisha Tyler, Sara Gilbert, Eve and Julie Chen, winners of Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment, be the DailyMail.com & DailyMailTV Trophy Room astatine the Daytime Emmy Awards 2018. (Photo Credit: Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for DailyMail.com & DailyMailTV)

‘The Talk’ has undergone immoderate changes

In 2010, The Talk premiered with a antithetic lineup. Hosts included Julie Chen Moonves, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, and Holly Robinson Peete.

In 2024, the Season 14 lineup includes Sheryl Underwood, Jerry O’Connell, Natalie Morales, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Amanda Kloots.

Departures tin hap for galore reasons. Most memorable of each whitethorn person been Sharon Osbourne’s firing pursuing fearfulness stories of racism and homophobia towards her co-hosts and others.

Surrounded by gauche golden tiles, Sharon Osbourne introduces herself connected CBBUK successful 2024. (Image Credit: ITV)

Even with big scandals down them (Sharon was not alone), fans person a fig of concerns.

Between The Talk‘s comparatively debased ratings – contempt its usefulness for promoting different CBS programs to viewers – and the afloat creation paper of soap operas, viewers were acrophobic that CBS wouldn’t renew the bid for different season.

Now we cognize – it’s the extremity of an era!