Sherri Shepherd’s daytime talk show Sherri is ending its syndication run after four seasons. Its producer-distributor Debmar-Mercury is planning to explore continuing the show on a digital platform.
Sherri, which tapes live at New York City’s Chelsea Studios in front of a studio audience, will continue to air its current Season 4, with episodes to wrap in the fall.
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“This decision is driven by the evolving daytime television landscape and does not reflect on the strength of the show, its production – which has found strong creative momentum this season – or the incredibly talented Sherri Shepherd,” Debmar-Mercury co-presidents Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus said in a statement today. “We believe in this show and in Sherri and intend to explore alternatives for it on other platforms.”
The show fronted by Shepherd, actor-comedian and onetime co-host of The View debuted on the Fox stations in September 2022 as a replacement for Debmar-Mercury’s The Wendy Williams Show, after Williams exited her show amid health concerns.
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The challenging economics of syndicated daytime talk shows are believed to be behind Fox Stations’ decision not to continue with Sherri; the station group continues to carry Deb-Mer’s hit syndicated game show Family Feud.
Earlier today, NBCUniversal announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show also will be ending after the current season, leaving The Drew Barrymore Show and The Jennifer Hudson Show as the two remaining daytime talkers produced under the traditional syndication model.
The talk show format, both daytime and evening/late night isn’t great is was and seems to be declining.
Donahue, Carson, Oprah, Sally Jesse, Conan, Cavett, Pivich..talk show hosts first and foremost, with maybe a bit of acting on the side (Oprah).
Now, hosts are actresses, singers and hosts on entertainment shows, like TMZ and Entertainment Tonight. Guests are usually entertainment industry focus first as well.
Sad for the production teams losing jobs
With Sherri Shepherd and Kelly Clarkson’s shows wrapping up at the close of the 2025-26 season, I’m anticipating the likely transition to stations that carried their shows going with local programming, especially with the Fox O&O and NBC O&O groups. Meaning we could see local newscast expansions or new local advertorial type talk shows (similar to those seen on legacy Gannett/TEGNA stations), which would be cheaper to produce and more profitable than spending millions on acquiring nationally syndicated shows, and would allow for stations to build up new content creators. Stations losing Clarkson’s show could easily opt for a new 3PM newscast, much like stations losing Shepherd’s show could easily opt for a new 10AM hour expansion to their morning news shows. As for former NBC Today co-host Hoda Kotb headlining a new syndicated talk show, I think the jury is still out on that one, unless NBC were to get into the summer test run gig. Fox is also known for giving talk shows summer test runs.
Talk shows we have left are… Drew Barrymore, Tamron Hall, Jennifer Hudson, TMZ Live, Live with Kelly & Mark, The View, GMA3, Today 4th Hour with Jenna & Sheinelle, and Access Hollywood Live. Shows previously headlined by Wendy Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray, Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Sally Jessy Raphael, Rosie O’Donnell, The Talk, The Real, DBL, Phil Donahue, Montel Williams, and Oprah Winfrey aren’t coming back either, and had their time under the sun.
Time to retire the whole daytime talk format.
She wasnt Wendy.
That’s the real evolution in TV landscape.
Either there will be another hack to join the talk show fold or they’ll just do news because we don’t have enough of it on tv already.