'Game Of Games': NBC Cancels Ellen DeGeneres' Show Due To Low Ratings

NBC has axed Ellen DeGeneres' primetime show, "Ellen's Game of Games," after four seasons due to a notable decline in ratings.

Launched in 2017, the game show began as a holiday season fill-in for NBC but expanded to a full show on a primetime slot. It started out with high ratings, even ranking No. 4 on the list of most-watched primetime entertainment programs for kids and becoming the top game show in 2019, as per Deadline. However, the show lost a significant portion of its audience last year, according to the report.

"Ellen's Game of Games" saw DeGeneres lead contestants in a set of games similar to the ones played on her self-titled daytime talk show. Winners who made it to the final round got a chance to win a $100,000 cash prize.

Besides hosting the program, DeGeneres also served as its executive producer. Stephen "tWitch" Boss, her sidekick on her talk show, worked as announcer and co-host on the game show.

The show's fourth and final season, which premiered in October 2020, ran through May 2021 and completed a total of 48 episodes.

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is also ending this year after toxic workplace allegations were thrown at the host.

The program, which reined as one of the top daytime entertainment talk shows for many years and bagged several Emmy trophies, reportedly struggled with ratings in 2020 and 2021 following the controversy.

It can be recalled that the 63-year-old host announced in 2019 that she was seriously thinking of ending her show. However, she ended up signing a new three-year deal that would extend it until 2022.

When she opened its 18th season in September 2020, DeGeneres made an apology on-air and thanked her staff for all their hard work. She also assured everyone she was working on improving herself and taking the issue as "an opportunity to learn."

"Sometimes I get sad, I get mad, I get anxious, I get frustrated, I get impatient, and I am working on all of that," she said at that time. "I am a work in progress"

"And I am especially working on the impatience — and it's not going well because it's not happening fast enough," she added.