Ellen DeGeneres show loses 1 mn viewers after host apologies for 'toxic' workplace; Warner Bros counters claims
FirstpostViewers tuned in for the apology: This year’s season opener had the highest ratings for an Ellen premiere in four years. Warner Bros, the division of AT&T’s WarnerMedia that produces “Ellen,” confirmed that the show would return for a 19th season in September, after her usual summer hiatus. “ The Ellen DeGeneres Show remains one of the top three highest-rated syndicated talk shows this season,” David McGuire, an executive vice president of programming at Telepictures, a Warner Bros. subsidiary, said in a statement. Public perception of DeGeneres started to change in July when BuzzFeed reported that several of the show’s former and current staff members said they had confronted “racism, fear and intimidation” on the set. In addition to her daytime show, DeGeneres is also a prime-time star for NBC — and her show for that network, Ellen’s Game of Games, also a Warner production, has lost 32 percent of its viewers this season, as well as 35 percent in the adult demographic important to advertisers.
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