END OF AN ERA

‘E! News’ TV Program to End After 34 Years

The move is a major casualty of the NBCUniversal split.

E! News will air its last TV episode on September 25, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, ending a 34-year run for the nightly entertainment news program. The show was once anchored from 2006 by Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic, who passed the torch to Jason Kennedy in 2012 before he left the show in 2021. The show is currently hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester. E! News will live on as a digital brand, however, and related shows Access Hollywood and Access Daily will remain on the air. The site reports that E! News employees learned of the cancellation on Thursday morning. Some of the show’s correspondents will take on roles at new company Versant, one half of NBCUniversal’s new split between its USA Network, Syfy, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen and Golf Channel, and digital properties Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, and Golf Now, and the rest of NBC, its studios, Peacock, and Bravo.