https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kelly-clarkson-show-renewed-2025-1235425317/

By Joe Otterson

“The Kelly Clarkson” show will now air through at least 2025.

NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has sold two additional seasons of the daytime talk show hosted by the award-winning singer, songwriter, and inaugural “American Idol” winner to NBC Owned Television Stations.

“Kelly Clarkson is one of the brightest stars of our time,” said Tracie Wilson, executive vice president of Syndication Studios and E! News. “With more than 500 hours viewed on broadcast, cable and digital platforms since its launch, ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ has been a home for stories that entertain, inspire important conversations and connect with loyal viewers across multiple generations in meaningful ways. Together, with our best-in-class producing team, we’ll continue to build on the show’s success and legacy.”

The hour-long show is currently in its fourth season. It airs in 211 local markets across the country. Alex Duda is executive producer and showrunner with Clarkson also executive producing. Per NBCUniversal, the series is averaging 1.3 million viewers per episode at this point in the 2022-2023 season.

“As the fourth season reaches new heights of critical acclaim and viewership, Kelly has used her genuine warmth and natural curiosity to create an engaging, fun show,” said Valari Staab, chairman of NBCUniversal Local. “‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ is a treasured part of our programming lineup, and we’re enthusiastic about its continued longevity.”

To date, “The Kelly Clarkson Show” has won 13 Daytime Emmy Awards and two Gracie Awards for best talk show–entertainment. Duda also won a Gracie for best showrunner.

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Clarkson will move (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/13by63k/the_kelly_clarkson_show_moving_cross_country_from/) to New York, along with her executive producer and showrunner, Alex Duda, and her longtime musical director, Jason Halbert. “The Kelly Clarkson Show” was recently nominated for 11 daytime Emmys and has scooped up 13 trophies during its run.

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When The Kelly Clarkson Show debuted on NBC in the fall of 2019, the talk show immediately became a beloved, fresh addition to the traditional daytime lineup. With a built-in fan base from Kelly Clarkson’s singing career who have been rooting for her since she won the first-ever American Idol competition in 2002, the show captivated audiences. Over the past four seasons, the pop singer has interviewed guests like Hillary Clinton and Dolly Parton, performed “Kellyoke” segments where she sings covers of other people’s popular songs, like Whitney Houston’s “Queen of the Night” and Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” and has maintained a level of candor and relatability with viewers at home.

But behind the scenes, employees say they were overworked, underpaid, and that working at the show was traumatizing to their mental health, describing The Kelly Clarkson Show as a toxic environment. These employees are veterans in the entertainment industry who know the potential downsides of working in a high-pressure environment like daytime television, and are disappointed to see this culture perpetuated on a show that had a chance to make a difference in the industry. One current and 10 former employees spoke to Rolling Stone under the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution, and say they’re confident the talk-show host doesn’t have a sense of how unhappy employees are with the working conditions.

“NBC is protecting the show because it’s their new money maker, but Kelly has no clue how unhappy her staff is,” one former employee says.

A second former employee adds, “I remember going up on the roof of the stage to cry, being like, ‘Oh, my gosh, what am I doing? Why am I putting myself through this?’”

NBC did not provide a comment for this story after being given several days to do so. Clarkson and the show’s executive producer, Alex Duda, did not respond to separate requests for comment.

The Kelly Clarkson Show leads in the ratings compared to with competitors, boasting 1.4 million daily viewers as of December 2022, according to Nielsen, and growing in numbers year after year. The Emmy Award-winning show is helmed by executive producer and showrunner Duda, who previously served as an executive producer on Steve Harvey and The Tyra Banks Show, and has been renewed through its sixth season in 2025. According to a current employee, The Kelly Clarkson Show was supposed to tape new episodes until May 20, but because of the writers strike that went into effect on May 1, employees don’t think they will finish the current season. They were told they’ll still be paid through the next few weeks.

Former employees say the toxic behavior behind the scenes starts with Duda, who shields Clarkson from what staffers say they’re enduring because of the climate Duda created.

“I think Alex Duda’s a monster,” a former employee says. “I have a friend who’s an executive producer who warned me about taking this job, because apparently she has done this on every show she’s worked on.”

As for Clarkson, the current employee as well as 10 former employees are under the impression she isn’t aware of how bad things are for lower-level staffers, some of whom say they’ve taken on other jobs as babysitters, dog walkers, and Uber Eats drivers to pay their bills. They say there’s a divide behind the scenes between staffers who are favored by executive and senior producers and those who aren’t. Former employees are also frustrated that there hasn’t been a shift in the culture at the show despite a number of HR complaints, and they worry the longer the behavior continues without repercussions, the worse it will get as the seasons go on.

“Kelly is fantastic. She is a person who never treats anyone with anything but dignity and is incredibly appreciative,” one former employee says. “I would be shocked if she knew. I’d be floored if she knew the staff wasn’t getting paid for two weeks of Christmas hiatus. The Kelly that I interacted with and that everyone knows would probably be pretty aghast to learn that.”

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In the report, the anonymous employees called Clarkson “fantastic” but said show producers were “monsters” who made their lives “hell.” Clarkson said she loves her team. “To find out that anyone is feeling unheard and or disrespected on this show is unacceptable,” she said in the post.

Ever since she became the first winner of American Idol on FOX there's just no stopping Kelly Clarkson and with albums and a hit talk show Kelly is just the kind of person who never seems resting on her laurels. And with The Kelly Clarkson Show a mighty hit and a new renewal through 2025 it shows that Kelly Clarkson will become the next Oprah Winfrey due to the success of her talk show. When you look at it it seems that singers seem to be the best talk show hosts because they view it as a second hobby. Look at Jennifer Hudson another American Idol alum who also has a talk show. And it seems that singers make a lot of money doing talk shows. It won't be long till we see Billy Joel or Aaron Neville have their own talk shows in the future because singers as I mentioned have the better luck at hosting talk shows because that makes them more popular. And for Kelly Clarkson that seems to work miracles
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Clarkson will move (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/13by63k/the_kelly_clarkson_show_moving_cross_country_from/) to New York, along with her executive producer and showrunner, Alex Duda, and her longtime musical director, Jason Halbert. “The Kelly Clarkson Show” was recently nominated for 11 daytime Emmys and has scooped up 13 trophies during its run.

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"The Kelly Clarkson Show" Renewed for Season 7 at NBCUniversal
by Armando Tinoco
December 16, 2024


Kelly Clarkson will continue singing as her syndicated talk show, "The Kelly Clarkson Show", has been renewed for another season, bringing it through 2026.

For the 2024-25 season (Season 6), "The Kelly Clarkson Show" averages 1.2 million viewers per day, an increase from fall 2023, and consistently ranks as one of the top syndicated talk shows. The talk show, distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, currently airs in over 200 local stations nationwide.



“Kelly Clarkson is a national treasure. We couldn’t wait to announce another season of The Kelly Clarkson Show, fresh off the top-rated ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’ in which Kelly hosted,” said Tracie Wilson, EVP, Syndication Studios and E! News at NBCUniversal.

“There’s an appetite in talk for stories that entertain and inspire, and The Kelly Clarkson Show is a shining star that delivers for our stations and connects with viewers across multiple generations in meaningful ways.”

https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-kelly-clarkson-show-renewed-season-7-nbcuniversal-1236204701/