{"id":2173125,"date":"2025-11-23T06:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2173125"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:55:49","slug":"e-news-nightly-show-axed-as-versant-eyes-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/e-news-nightly-show-axed-as-versant-eyes-digital-future\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018E! News\u2019 Nightly Show Axed As Versant Eyes Digital Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/e\/\" id=\"auto-tag_e_1\" data-tag=\"e\">E!<\/a> News<\/em>, the long-running celebrity news show, is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/versant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_versant_1\" data-tag=\"versant\">Versant<\/a>, the nascent company that oversees E! as well as a number of former NBCUniversal cable networks, is axing the show on September 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe half-hour launched in 1991 and currently airs at 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline understands that employees on the show were informed this morning, with around 20 people working on it. Some of them might be offered other roles, and some are expected to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt marks the first major programming decision since Versant was formed earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe move is not unexpected; given the way that people consume pop culture news these days, largely on their phone and across social media, means that operating a nightly news operation is more challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/e-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_e-news_1\" data-tag=\"e-news\">E! News<\/a> digital brand will continue with a focus on social platforms. As Deadline <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/e-news-viewership-digital-social-2024-1236245239\/\">revealed<\/a> earlier this year, the brand saw some impressive growth, particularly on Instagram, where video views were up 49% and TikTok views up 52%. E! currently has around 87M social media followers and digital shows including <em>E! News\u2019 The\u202fRundown<\/em> on Snapchat, <em>Hot Goss <\/em>on Instagram, RE!<em>CAP<\/em> on YouTube.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe nightly show is hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester. The show was previously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/08\/e-news-pop-of-the-morning-in-the-room-canceled-e-financial-1203005259\/\">canceled<\/a> in 2020 but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/10\/e-news-returns-adrienne-bailon-houghton-justin-sylvester-1235150791\/\">returned after a two-year break.<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Access Hollywood <\/em>and<em> Access Daily <\/em>will continue to operate as normal. E! currently also airs shows such as <em>Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind <\/em>and<em> Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour<\/em> with upcoming titles including <em>Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane <\/em>and<em> E!\u2019s Dirty Rotten Scandals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: E! News, the long-running celebrity news show, is coming to an end. Versant, the nascent company that oversees E! as well as a number of former NBCUniversal cable networks, is axing the show on September 25. The half-hour launched in 1991 and currently airs at 11:30 p.m. Deadline understands that employees on the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[352275,340130,390356],"class_list":["post-2173125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-e","tag-e-news","tag-versant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018E-News-Nightly-Show-Axed-As-Versant-Eyes-Digital-Future.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173127,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173125\/revisions\/2173127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}