The celebrity-focused news show “E! News” has been canceled after more than three decades on the air.
This announcement comes after the show was put on hiatus in 2020, then brought back in 2023 as a nighttime program after running as a daytime show for most of its existence. Now the formerly popular entertainment news source will wrap up for good and stop making new episodes after September 25 of this year, per Variety.
The half-hour program launched in 1991 and currently airs at 11:30 p.m. It is hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester. Former E! News hosts include Ryan Seacrest, Giuliana Rancic, Jason Kennedy, Catt Sadler, and others.
A source said that this decision comes as customer preferences increasingly favor digital and social platforms for news coverage, the outlet noted.
The E! network is not thought to be affected by this change as it’s currently being spun off from NBC Universal to its new parent company, Versant. It’s expected that E! will still have live awards show coverage from the red carpet and will still produce original programming such as “E!’s Dirty Rotten Scandals.”
This latest entertainment news comes on the heels of CBS announcing the cancellation of “The Late Show” hosted by Stephen Colbert. Other hosts and celebrities have been furious on Colbert’s behalf, insinuating that the show being axed was instigated by the network settling a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump for election interference.
Colbert dropped a ton of f-bombs during his monologue Monday night. He mentioned that the financials for the show were “leaked” as a way to distract from the alleged Trump conspiracy. This was in reference to reports that “The Late Show” lost $40 million per year in revenue.
“Over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. $40 million is a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million? Oh, yeah,” he said.