Is Daytime TV Dying? The Recent Cancellation Spree, Explained

Another long-running daytime TV institution is coming to an end: As pop culture vultures learned last week, Access Hollywood is going off air this summer after 30 years and taking spinoff Access Live offline with it. And those aren’t the only syndicated NBCUniversal productions disappearing from the daytime lineup: Karamo and The Steve Wilkos Show are ending this summer, too, and NBCUniversal previously announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show is coming to a close this year. “NBCUniversal is making changes to our first-run syndication division to better align with the programming preferences of local stations,” Frances Berwick, chairman of Bravo and Peacock’s unscripted content for NBCUniversal, said in a statement,…