by Thinus Ferreira
NBCUniversal has cancelled E! News on E! (DStv 124) again with the last episode that will be shown on 25 September.
E! News was cancelled after 29 years in 2020 just 8 months after the show's production and studio was moved from Los Angeles to New York.
NBCUniversal then revived E! News in November 2022 and moved production back to Los Angeles and has now cancelled it again.
E! News is currently co-hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester.
There's been no statement about the E! News cancellation from NBCUniversal, which is getting rid of E! as well as other of its traditional pay-TV channels, into a new company that it initially named SpinCo and which is now Versant.
NBCUniversal International Networks distributes a version of E! to MultiChoice's DStv in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
Very little original programming remains on E! as the channel has been steadily dismantled over the past years with E! now close to being another of the numerous pay-TV zombie channels filled with old repeats and repurposed shows from other channels.
Content like E! Live from the Red Carpet that used to be shown live on E! is now also stale with NBCUniversal International Networks that keeps using the name to give the fake appearance that it's "live" but instead shows it late as recorded content for DStv viewers in South Africa and across the continent.
With E! News gone from October there will be even less reason for DStv subscribers to watch E!.
According to American reports the E! News staff were told on Thursday that the show is over. Thursday's episode of E! News was also scrapped and replaced by a repeat. The first new E! News episode will be next week.
