Ellen DeGeneres is sticking with daytime TV for the foreseeable future. The popular daytime personality has inked a new three-year deal to extend hosting her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The deal will extend her show through 2022.
“I’m excited to announce that I’ll be doing my show for three more years,” DeGeneres told her audience during today’s show. “Mostly because I love doing it so much every day but also because that takes me to the end of my car lease.”
Many people were worried that DeGeneres wouldn’t extend her time beyond her current contract that wrapped in 2020. DeGeneres had stated that she was “torn” about how long to keep doing the show. The new contract extension puts an end to any of that talk.
In its 16th season, The Ellen DeGeneres Show continues to be a leader in the daytime talk show genre. This February, The Ellen DeGeneres Show was the top-rated talk show again with W25-54 and A25-54, marking the eighth consecutive major sweep topping the genre. The series has the largest rating point lift over lead-in of any talk show with W25-54 (+0.4 rating points) and A25-54 (+0.3).
The show has earned 63 Daytime Emmy Awards since its inception in 2003, including a category-record 11 for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show. The Ellen DeGeneres Show is set to return for Season 17 on Monday, September 9.
