No More ‘Games’ For Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres got more bad news as her unscripted primetime series 'Ellen's Game of Games' has been canceled by NBC.
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More bad news for Ellen DeGeneres. The comedian’s primetime game show, Ellen’s Game of Games, has been cancelled by NBC.

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The unscripted reality competition served up supersized versions of the some of the popular games from Ellen’s self-titled talk show. Launched in 2017 with an 8 episodes, the show ran for four seasons. The final season premiered in October 2020 and aired its final episode in May 2021.

Initially, the family-friendly format performed well for NBC. In 2019, Game of Games was the number one game show in primetime. But according to Deadline, the show lost a large portion of its audience.

The cancellation announcement follows a string of bad press that’s been bleeding out over at The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Following a rocky 2020-2021 season, the afternoon talkshow announced the 2021-2022 season would be the series’ 19th and final installment.

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More from Deadline:

After a long reign as daytime’s top entertainment talk show and a slew of Daytime Emmys, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, produced by Warner Bros’ Telepictures, has struggled during the pandemic-impacted 2020-21 season, with its ratings falling 40% year-to-year, pushing the program down the daytime rankings.

Following a string of reports about a toxic workplace on the show last spring and summer and an internal investigation by Warner Bros, The Ellen DeGeneres Show made a number of behind-the-scene changes last fall, including ousting longtime executive producers, and DeGeneres apologized to her staff.

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source: Deadline


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