It’s the top of an E-ra. After greater than three many years, E! is ending its flagship present, E! Information. Plus, the community has lengthy since stopped Maintaining Up With the Kardashians. So what’s subsequent for cable TV’s pop-culture vacation spot?
Followers came upon final week that E! Information, launched in 1991, will finish on September 25, although the information operation will proceed as a digital model on platforms just like the E! On-line web site.
E! beforehand known as a halt to the nightly entertainment-news program in 2020 amid Covid-19 lockdowns. The present returned in 2022 and shifted from daytime to late evening. However upon the present’s cancellation final week, its workers was knowledgeable that audiences most well-liked to eat leisure information all through the day on social media — the place E! has 87 million followers — as an alternative of at evening on tv — the place Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester, pictured under, host the present’s present iteration — in response to the Los Angeles Occasions.
E! Information’ cancellation comes amid a company breakup, as NBCUniversal spins off E! and different cable channels — together with USA Community, Syfy, and MSNBC — into a brand new firm known as Versant. NBC, Bravo, and Peacock, in the meantime, will stay with NBCUniversal. And whereas about 20 individuals will probably be out of a job at E! Information, in response to the Occasions, some correspondents are anticipated to get new roles at Versant, Selection studies.
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However the finish of E! Information isn’t essentially the top of E! The channel nonetheless boasts unique programming like Botched Presents: Plastic Surgical procedure Rewind and Truthfully Cavallari: The Headline Tour, and the upcoming exhibits Kimora: Again within the Fab Lane and E!’s Soiled Rotten Scandals. E! will proceed to air Dwell From E! pink carpet protection, and the thirty first Critics Alternative Awards are slated to air on E! on January 4, 2026. The Folks’s Alternative Awards has aired on E! currently, and it’s doable Botched will return with new episodes quickly.
E! additionally ended 2024 because the sixtieth most-watched community, with 158K complete viewers, forward of channels like Nickelodeon, CNBC, Disney Channel, and OWN, as Selection reported. Within the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, the channel ranked forty first, with 54K viewers. These numbers are down from 2014, when E! was getting 550k complete viewers and 320k complete viewers. However different linear TV channels have suffered comparable viewers declines with the rise of streaming. In the identical timeframe — 2014 to 2024 — FX misplaced 71 % of its attain, USA misplaced 63 %, and TBS misplaced 58 %, in response to Nielsen and MoffettNathanson information cited in TripleLift’s 100 Years of Tv report.
Plus, E! has had success with its Dwell red-carpet programming just lately. In 2024, Dwell From E! averaged 735K viewers throughout its Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, and Folks’s Alternative Awards protection, up 30 % over the yr prior, in response to Deadline. Plus, Dwell From E! ’s 2024 Grammys Award telecast was its most-watched Grammys present in seven years and the most-watched E! telecast in almost 4 years, and each the pre-show and the post-show protection grew for the third consecutive yr. That excellent news got here after Dwell From E! loved its most-watched Oscar programming within the 18-to-49 demo since 2020 and a tripling of its Folks’s Alternative Award viewers.
So there’s no want to write down E!’s obituary simply but: For now, the community will nonetheless air actuality exhibits, docuseries, and its common pink carpet protection. However possibly former E! Information host Lilliana Vazquez is true to say the community simply wants extra of that dwell, hot-take power.
