‘The Talk’ to End With Abbreviated 15th Season on CBS

CBS is bringing its daytime show The Talk to an end.

The network announced Friday that the show will return for a shortened 15th season in the fall and will air its final episode in December.

“The Talk broke new ground when it launched 14 years ago by returning daytime talk to CBS with a refreshing and award-winning format,” CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach and CBS Studios president David Stapf said in a joint statement. “Throughout the years, it has been a key program on CBS’ top rated daytime line-up as it brought timely, important and entertaining topics and discussions into living rooms around the globe.”

The Talk, created by Sara Gilbert, debuted on CBS in 2010 with Gilbert, Julie Chen Moonves, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne and Leah Remini as its hosts. The show has cycled through several groups of hosts over its tenure; the current panel features Sheryl Underwood, Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales and Jerry O’Connell. It has won 14 Daytime Emmy Awards over its run, including two for best entertainment talk show.

“It goes without saying that hosting and producing a year-round talk show is no easy task, and we express our sincere gratitude to our amazing hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood, our executive producer/showrunner Rob Crabbe and the hardworking producing team and crew,” Reisenbach and Stapf said. “We also want to acknowledge our former show hosts and colleagues who contributed throughout the seasons. We truly appreciate the skill, creativity, and dedication everyone involved brought to the show every day.”

The end of The Talk comes as CBS is developing a new daytime drama titled The Gates, which would be the first daytime soap opera to feature a majority Black cast since 1989’s Generations on NBC. Should The Gates earn a series order, it could fill the hour of network time that the end of The Talk will leave open during the day.

CBS says the final season of The Talk will celebrate the show’s run, leading up to a “proper sendoff” in December.