BREAKING. The Queen Latifah Show on e.tv and M-Net Series Zone cancelled after two seasons.

The Queen Latifah Show, seen in South Africa on e.tv and M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) which are both broadcasting the current second season, just got cancelled - abruptly.

The syndicated American daytime show produced by Sony Pictures Television and not even yet in the middle of its second season will shut down production at the end of December. Staff were told on Friday.

It's was Queen Latifah's second attempt at a TV talk show.

Although ratings were bad and cancellation feared, nobody expected The Queen Latifah Show to cease so suddenly. New episodes will continue to be shown until the end of March 2015 but will all be recorded before the talk show shuts down just before Christmas.

It creates an immediate hole 4 months from now for the M-Net Series Zone and e.tv schedules with programmers at e.tv and M-Net who will have to do some unexpected work in finding a replacement show.

At e.tv's spring programming preview last week the South African broadcaster played a specially recorded message from Queen Latifah for the South African media and TV critics

"We want to thank Queen Latifah, the producers and the entire staff of The Queen Latifah Show for creating a program that we are all very proud of," says Sony Pictures Television said in a statement.

"The most important thing in life is that you wake up every single day and take chances. No matter what the outcome…believe in yourself and continue to fly," says Queen Latifah.

M-Net moving The Ellen DeGeneres Show to M-Net Series Reality from December; Queen Latifah, The Doctors changing to earlier timeslots.

M-Net has decided to move The Ellen DeGeneres Show from M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113) to M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) from December - with weekday episodes of the American talk show which will channel hop and shift to the 18:30 timeslot from 2 December on the adjacent DStv channel.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show moving from its longtime home - it started on M-Net Series - is causing a domino effect on the schedule of M-Net Series Reality, pushing two other American talk shows earlier, starting from 2 December.

The Queen Latifah Show on M-Net Series Reality at 18:30 - the timeslot where Ellen is moving to, is moving one hour earlier to the 17:30 timeslot from 2 December.

The Doctors on M-Net Series Reality at 17:30, the timeslot where Queen Latifah is moving to, is moving one hour earlier to the 16:30 timeslot from 2 December.

BREAKING. M-Net secures The Queen Latifah talker; hot new talk show will start on M-Net Series Reality from 21 October on weekdays.

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M-Net has secured the broadcasting rights to the hot and just started The Queen Latifah Show - Queen Latifah's second try at a daily talk show - and is dumping The Steve Harvey Show on Mzansi Magic to make way for The Queen Latifah Show to start on weekdays on M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) from 21 October 19:30.

The Queen Latifah Show which started on 16 September, will broadcast on M-Net Series Reality from Mondays to Fridays. Repeats of episodes will be shown at 05:30 and 10:30 on M-Net Series Reality on weekdays, and M-Net Series Reality will also have an omnibus of the week's episodes which will start from Sunday 27 October.

For M-Net Series Reality's schedule it means that The Doctors will stay in the 19:30 timeslot until 18 October and will move an hour earlier to 18:30 from 21 October as the lead-in to The Queen Latifah Show.

Jeff Probsts will remain in the 18:30 timeslot until 18 October and from 21 October Jeff Probst will move an hour earlier to 17:30.

M-Net is dumping The Steve Harvey Show from 1 October from its prime spot on the channel and moving the show from M-Net Series Reality to Mzansi Magic.