The Tamron Hall show has been renewed for season 8 as the daytime television landscape undergoes sweeping changes.
On Wednesday, March 18, Variety exclusively reported host Tamron Hall got the renewal news after the ABC-owned station group picked up the show for another season.
Tamron Hall airs on ABC-owned local stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and other markets.
“My vision of where we’re going usually comes to me in the middle of night, and all of these changes were happening,” Hall told Variety. “And I said, ‘Let’s keep talking,’ season 8. That’s our thing. I called our team and I said, ‘Let’s keep talking.’ The landscape is always going to change.”
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The renewal announcement came just days after Hall co-hosted this year’s Oscars red carpet show on ABC.
The TV veteran said she frequently hears from people in the business about the massive shift that’s happening.
“I think there are obviously some big headlines. But in truth, everywhere you go, people are having the same conversation. ‘Will I keep working? Will I continue to be able to do what I love?’ That’s not unique to daytime TV. I think what we are seeing is a reflection of a larger conversation. So that’s why our theme is ‘Let’s Keep Talking,’ whether it’s on daytime TV, whether it’s in a podcast, whatever version of this. I think that will never go out of style,” she said.
Tamron Hall premiered in 2019, and Hall won a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding informative talk show host for her inaugural season.
Her team often books high-profile guests. Just this month, the guests have included award-winning actors Billy Porter and Ariana DeBose.
The March 11 episode featured music icons Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, along with singers Ruben Studdard and Shanice Wilson. The four performed Janet Jackson’s 1990 single “Love Will Never Do,” which Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis wrote and produced.
News of Hall’s renewal follows the recent cancellations of Sherri and The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Then last week, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios announced it had canceled Access Hollywood, Karamo, and The Steve Wilkos Show, saying the daytime staples would not return for new seasons.
“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 head of Peacock Unscripted, said in a statement to Urban Hollywood 411.
Before launching her talk show, Hall was part of NBC’s Today and a national correspondent for NBC News.
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