A recent report reveals that after 29 years of celebrity and entertainment coverage, E! News has been cancelled by NBCUniversal.
This news comes only a year after the show announced in August 2019 that it would transition from a nightly show based in L.A. to a morning show based in New York, a change that involved layoffs of 20–25 members of the its Los Angeles staff.
In October of 2019, host Giuliana Rancic announced that she would be leaving the show. The New York-based morning show began airing in January 2020 and was hosted by Lilliana Vazquez and Scott Tweedie, before it was shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic in March.
E! News has aired over 7,500 episodes since its inception in 1991 and has had several hosts including Maria Menounos and Ryan Seacrest.
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Two other shows under the E! entertainment umbrella ” Pop of the Morning” and “In the Room” have also been cancelled. Variety writes, “The cancellations will translate to layoffs within the New York-based production team, which is fewer than 10 people big. The extent of layoffs is unclear, but a source familiar with the situation says that the company is trying to place some of those staffers in other positions within the network.”
Meanwhile, there is no word on how the cancellation of the E! show will affect its red carpet coverage.
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