Ellen DeGeneres Daytime Talk Show Drops to All Time Low Ratings, Down 11% in One Week

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For the week of April 4th, Ellen’s afternoon talk show hit an all time low in the ratings– just 800,000 viewers average for those five days. That’s down 11% from the prior week, and around 300,000 viewers off since the beginning of the season.

By contrast, “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” which airs earlier in the day, averages 1.8 million. Ellen is now being beaten by low quality shows like Wendy Williams and Maury Povich. At the same time, her weekly NBC nighttime show, “Game of Games,” has lost half its audience this season, sinking to around 1.5 million viewers per week.

Most of this can be attributed to the reports of backstage chaos and a toxic work environment, producers being fired, and celebrities complaining about their treatment. Some of it can be tallied to overall low viewership for syndicated shows in the last couple of weeks. Constant interruptions for news bulletins and hearings, press conferences, etc are a big problem for afternoon shows.

Still, Ellen keeps pulling in A list stars. But they have less and less to promote because of the pandemic curtailing movie releases, etc. All of this is a bad omen heading into May sweeps.

https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/04/14/afternoon-emergency-ellen-degeneres-daytime-talk-show-drops-to-all-time-low-ratings-down-11-in-one-week

[SWBTATTReg]

1. One's actions has consequences for everyone. I have seen her do good things for people

on her show, but rumors of a toxic work env. and chaos doesn't help anyone. And there are tons of talk shows, reality shows, everywhere...how to do this, what is this about (topics a-z), a million guests on all of the shows spewing out advice, news, nonstop, one would have to literally watch nonstop and not have a life if a person were to spend their time watching TV, youTube, on the Internet in many thousands of ways, etc., a numbing of the mind you might call it...

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's also important to keep in mind, that when guests appear on talk shows to promote their books or

movies, they usually appear on three or four shows within a one to two week period. The viewers become burned out on those guests. We saw that recently when Michelle Obama appeared on two of the late night talk shows and then showed up on two of the daytime syndicated shows the following week. By the time we made it to the daytime syndicated shows we realized that Michelle Obama was repeating the same stories that we heard the week before so they found something else to do.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Makes sense!

[Sibelius Fan]

3. I have never understood Ellen's appeal.