Fox Stations Group has decided not to renew the Emmy Award-winning panel show for its ninth season, Variety reported on Friday.
The consortium series premiered in 2013 and has seen a rotating roster of presenters during its nearly ten-year tenure, including Tamar Braxton and Amanda Seales.
Axed: Daytime talk show The Real, starring Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love and Jeannie Mai Jenkins, has been canceled after eight seasons.
“In the end, Real’s cast and crew did everything they could to reduce the show,” co-host Loni Love said in a statement. “We shot 7-8 shows in 3 days, without an audience, we made a conference room in a studio, but in my opinion the cost of Covid killed that show.”
He added: “It was a great ride and I thank the viewers for 8 great seasons!”
The current landscape of TV selections during the day will be very different in the 2022-23 season, as many key shows will not return.
The Long running staples, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Maury, The Doctors and Dr. Oz they end.
Speaking out: Loni Love is the first of the hosts to talk about the cancellation, revealing that they did everything they could to save the show
Problems; In 2020, after just six months on the show, former co-host Amanda Seales revealed that she left The Real because it was a ‘break [her] spirit’
In addition, some newer screenplays, The Nick Cannon Show and The Good Dish, have also been canceled.
When The Real premiered, it featured a panel of five female hosts: Tamera Mowry, Jeannie Mai, Tamar Braxton, Adrienne Bailon and Loni Love.
Tamar left in 2016 and in 2020 Insecure star Amanda Seales was added to the cast as a replacement. However, her term was short and she left after just six months.
Tamera left shortly afterwards and was later replaced by RHOBH star and actress Garcelle Beauvais.
After the departure of Seales, the actress did not have good words to say about her time on the show.
“I left The Real because it broke my spirit. I was asked not to talk about certain things that seemed like betrayal to my people and to me as a human being,” he told comedian Godfrey on a modern-day Instagram live.
Shuffle: When The Real premiered, it included a group of five female presenters: Tamera Mowry, Jeannie Mai, Tamar Braxton, Adrienne Bailon and Loni Love. Tamera and Tamar have since left and Garcelle Beauvais has been added
“Besides, I did not want to be somewhere where people did not feel honest with me and where people were afraid of me because of my black wife,” he added.
A specific occasion on the show raised a red flag in her mind when she was commissioned by a white female producer to help her create a section called Smart, Funny and Black.
“I was so excited to play my Smart, Funny and Black game on The Real,” she said before voicing concern about the choice.
Seales believed that these four black producers were better equipped to work in the department.
I was saying to myself: Why are you producing this? and said, “I was assigned it anyway,” the 39-year-old Los Angeles native said of his conversation with the white female producer at the time.
Changes: Long-awaited daily shows like Ellen and Wendy Williams will not return for a new season
“And I said, ‘But why produce it?’ You are a white woman. “You do not understand what we are going to talk about.”
Seales went on to clarify its thinking process on how sections and stories are usually assigned, along with its own proportion.
“Assign the different sections to people who will be able to produce them as best they can. It’s like we did a part at Saturday dinner, [and] was the only Jew in the staff, she should be in charge of this department because she has the most specialization in it.
He went on to say, “I could not stay in such a place.”
While many well-known daily shows will be absent next season, shows such as The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Drew Barrymore Show have been updated.
“I’m honored and grateful, but I also want to take this show to the next level and continue to innovate and change the game in the daytime,” Barrymore, 47, said in a statement after renewing her series for a third season.
Drew’s new season will change form and be produced in two half-hour episodes and affiliates will have the option to perform them back to back or in two separate sequences with the first 30 minutes following local newscasts on all CBS stations.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Hudson and Sherri Shepherd will be among the presenters of a series of shows that will reach the stage as well.
Jennifer Hudson’s show “will be the new flagship” on Fox television once Ellen DeGeneres finishes her 19th season later this year, according to Variety.
Sherri’s eponymous series will replace The Wendy Williams Show. The vet has been hosting Wendy during the day since the star left for medical leave.
New prospects: Sherri Shepherd will replace Wendy Williams with her talk show of the same name and singer Jennifer Hudson will have her own show to fill the hole left by Ellen
