

In 2019, the company made a deal with her to produce four programs for its HBO Max streaming platform, including a home-design challenge series a dating show an animated show, “Little Ellen” and a documentary series on inventors made in conjunction with the Albert Einstein estate.

DeGeneres are together for the long haul. Whether or not the next season of “Ellen” is its last, WarnerMedia and Ms. “While broadcast is down across the board and Covid has been challenging for production, we are looking forward to bringing back our live audiences and a 19th season filled with all of the hilarious and heartwarming moments that have made ‘Ellen’ one of the longest running and most successful talk shows in history,” he added. He suggested other reasons for the decline, like changing viewing habits during the pandemic. “‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ remains one of the top three highest-rated syndicated talk shows this season,” David McGuire, an executive vice president of programming at Telepictures, a Warner Bros. DeGeneres declined to comment when asked if the 2021-22 television season would be her last. Warner Bros., the division of AT&T’s WarnerMedia that produces “Ellen,” confirmed that the show would return for a 19th season in September, after her usual summer hiatus. Her talk-show contract runs through next year. DeGeneres, 63, has publicly mused on the possibility of leaving the show in recent years, and the spotlight on her workplace troubles has added to the questions about her future. That has fallen to $105 million for the same period in 2020-21, a drop of about 20 percent. From September to January of the 2019-20 season, “Ellen” brought in $131 million from advertisers, according to the research firm Kantar. And it appears to have put a dent in the show’s ad revenue. The loss of viewers includes a 38 percent decline in her core audience, adult women under 54, according to Nielsen. Now it finds itself uncomfortably close to shows hosted by Maury Povich (1.4 million), Kelly Clarkson (1.3 million), Rachael Ray (1.2 million), Tamron Hall (1.1 million) and Jerry Springer’s former security guard Steve Wilkos (1.1 million). Phil” (2.5 million) and “Live: With Kelly and Ryan” (2.7 million).
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This TV season, “Ellen,” the winner of dozens of Emmys since its start in 2003, is no longer in the same league as traditional rivals like “Dr. The show’s loss of more than a million viewers translates to a 43 percent decline, representing a steeper drop than any of its competitors. DeGeneres, who was at the forefront of an earlier cultural shift when, as the star of a prime-time network sitcom in the 1990s, she announced that she is gay.

It is a startling setback for one of daytime television’s most successful franchises and for Ms. The decline has come at a time when workplace behavior, in Hollywood and elsewhere, has come under intense scrutiny against a backdrop of protest and social change. “Ellen” has lost more than a million viewers since September, according to the research firm Nielsen, averaging 1.5 million viewers over the last six months, down from 2.6 million in the same period last year. Viewers tuned in for the apology: This year’s season opener had the highest ratings for an “Ellen” premiere in four years. And I want to say I am so sorry to the people who were affected.” Those remarks came in the wake of reports of workplace misconduct at “ The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “I learned that things happen here that never should have happened,” she said. When Ellen DeGeneres returned from a summer hiatus to open the 18th season of her daytime talk show in September, she came armed with an apology.
