Ellen Degeneres Announces She is Ending Talk Show!

Woah!  I knew it was coming, especially after the drama last summer, her ratings are low this season, and that she’s had so many fill in guests this year, but I didn’t think it would be so soon.  She is over 60 and super rich, so I can’t say I blame her.

Here are the details:

She informed her staff May 11, and will sit down with Oprah to discuss the news on Ellen‘s May 13 show.

“When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged – and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore,” DeGeneres tells The Hollywood Reporter, discussing the move publicly for the first time.

“Although all good things must come to an end, you still have hope that truly great things never will,” says Warner Bros.’ Unscripted TV President Mike Darnell, who as recently as late April was still prodding DeGeneres to reconsider. He calls her eponymous series “an absolute phenomenon,” having established itself over nearly two decades on air “as the premiere destination for both superstars and incredible heartfelt human-interest stories.”