After 15 seasons and 2,993 episodes, “The Talk” will sign off for the final time on Friday, December 20, CBS announced on Tuesday.

In honor of the show’s final week of episodes, hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood will say farewell by welcoming an array of guests and feature big holiday giveaways all week long. In fact, in December alone, the show will gift more than $2.5 million in giveaways to the show’s loyal audience.

Over its 15-season run, “The Talk” has garnered over 70 awards and nominations, welcomed over 10,800 guests, gifted over $103 million in giveaways and welcomed over 250,000 audience members.

Averaging 1.209 million viewers so far this season, “The Talk” tops “NBC News Daily” and “GMA3: What You Need to Know” among Women 25-54 viewers (155,000), and places a solid second among Women 18-49 viewers (105,000), according to Nielsen Live+Same Day ratings data (09/23/2024-11/22/2024). 

“The Talk” airs weekdays at 2:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT on CBS and is available to stream Live and On Demand on Paramount+*. Rob Crabbe is executive producer and showrunner with Ianthe Jones serving as co-executive producer.

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“Beyond the Gates”
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Although the network has yet to announce what will air in the show’s timeslot immediately after the talk show concludes its run, beginning Monday, February 24, 2025, CBS is set to launch “Beyond the Gates,” the first-ever one-hour daytime soap opera featuring a predominantly Black cast and the first daytime drama series to premiere since “Passions” in 1999. The series is set in a leafy Maryland suburb just outside of Washington D.C. and in one of the most affluent African American counties in the United States.

“Beyond the Gates” will take over the 2:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT slot on CBS following the conclusion of “The Talk.” The network has not revealed what programming will air during the gap between the two shows.

*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers will have access to stream Live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as On Demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream Live but will have access to On Demand the day after the series airs.

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Really? They couldn’t let them hit the 3000? Lol

20 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

Really? They couldn’t let them hit the 3000? Lol

That's what I was saying when I first saw that. Why not just give them a week in January or something? Yikes. Heck, they could have let the show continue until Beyond the Gates premieres. I guess they felt they would have lost too much money since they might have to extend salaries beyond originally thought, I'm assuming.

1 minute ago, Errol said:

That's what I was saying when I first saw that. Why not just give them a week in January or something? Yikes. Heck, they could have let the show continue until Beyond the Gates premieres. I guess they felt they would have lost too much money since they might have to extend salaries beyond originally thought, I'm assuming.

That's my thought: you'd have to extend contacts, etc. and you run the risk of people [likely] already securing other job opportunities, etc.

I was never a regular viewer of the show, having only seen a handful of episodes. I can't help but see the irony of it being replaced by a soap. CBS' experiment failed and now it's time to go back to what made CBS daytime so successful to begin with.

16 minutes ago, skiman12082004 said:

I was never a regular viewer of the show, having only seen a handful of episodes. I can't help but see the irony of it being replaced by a soap. CBS' experiment failed and now it's time to go back to what made CBS daytime so successful to begin with.

A 14 year run is a failed experiment?

25 minutes ago, bongobong said:

A 14 year run is a failed experiment?

Definitely not failed; what I consider failed is The Revolution. The Talk had some pretty solid success, but I'd wager its repeated panel changes⏤which I always praised their consistent panels in comparison to The View⏤as on of its strong suits.

6 hours ago, Errol said:

That's what I was saying when I first saw that. Why not just give them a week in January or something? Yikes. Heck, they could have let the show continue until Beyond the Gates premieres. I guess they felt they would have lost too much money since they might have to extend salaries beyond originally thought, I'm assuming.

That might be the real reason.

What I think that killed this show was the Sharon Osbourne thing. The talk audience never got over it and some even quit watching