*Now that Steve Harvey’s daytime talk show “Steve” has been cancelled by NBC after seven seasons, the comedian is saying goodbye to his entire staff as well.
Harvey recently filmed the final episode of his syndicated talk show, and according to RadarOnline.com he has already moved on and not returning any of his former staff’s calls or emails.
“Steve is the King of being not grateful. He filmed his last show on Thursday and by Friday he had already moved on,” a source told Straight Shuter.
In his podcast, “Straight Shuter: Naughty But Nice,” Rob Shuter drops the deets about Harvey’s cold exit from his show — see below.
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“Steve didn’t know many of his staff’s names, so he didn’t have many to forget,” said the insider. “The few staff who have his email and contact number have already been deleted and the one or two farewell notes he received were not returned.”
According to Radar, “Harvey’s show was canceled because he was too cheap to hire any real talent,” the outlet writes. As we previously reported, Kelly Clarkson has been tapped to take over his time slot.
“After a show gets cancelled its usual for the host to take the crew and producers out to say thank you and goodbye. However, with Steve it’s out-of-site, out-of-mind. He will be blaming them for getting bumped,” said the source.
NBC is also replacing him with Melissa McCarthy as host of “Little Big Shots!”
Steve’s show may have been “the casualty of animosity between NBCUniversal and Endeavor’s IMG Original Content over IMG’s takeover of the show two seasons ago,” per Variety.
via Variety:
After his initial five-year deal with Endemol ended, Harvey in 2016 opted to cut a deal with IMG Original Content to produce a new version of the show, renamed “Steve,” that relocated to Los Angeles starting with season six in fall 2017.
IMG offered Harvey a much larger ownership stake in the show, a higher salary and more creative control over the production. The deal commanded attention in the industry because IMG is a corporate sibling of WME, which represents Harvey, raising the specter of conflict of interest as IMG became Harvey’s production partner.
NBCUniversal executives were furious at losing their stake in Harvey’s show after the transition to IMG, even though it remained the distributor of “Steve.”
It was no surprise when NBC moved to develop a high-profile new show to replace “Steve.”
Variety’s Cynthia Littleton noted that the network felt Harvey “had too many outside obligations” to maintain his NBC hosting jobs.
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