Buh-bye! The Martha Stewart Show canceled

Jan 04, 2012 4:32 PM by Kim Grundy

Posted in Entertainment / Television

What's Next For
Martha Stewart?

The Martha Stewart Show is being canceled after seven seasons, with its final episode airing in April. What’s next for Stewart?

Martha Stewart must pack up her perfectly organized kitchen and craft drawers, as her show on the Hallmark Channel has gotten the ax.

The Martha Stewart Show was averaging only about 225,000 viewers according to the New York Post, which proved to be too costly to produce the live show on a daily basis.

Lisa Gersh, president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) hinted of this problem last month, saying, "Our expensive studio lease is expiring next year, and we will either bring television in-house or find lower cost space, which will significantly reduce our TV operating margins."

The show will stop production in April, however they will continue to run reruns throughout the summer. "The daytime block on Hallmark Channel demonstrated year over year ratings growth and earned The Martha Stewart Show two Daytime Emmy Awards in its first season on Hallmark Channel," MSLO and Crown Media said in a statement. "That show will continue to air through the end of summer 2012."

What's next for 70-year-old Stewart now that her show is ending? We have no doubt she will land on her feet -- and it sounds like she already has plans for the future. "We love working with The Hallmark Channel and are talking to them about daytime programming in the future as well," a spokesman for MSLO told the Post.

Sources are saying that "Martha's TV family" is already planning a "lavish Oprah-style send-off" for her.

In the meantime, Stewart seems to be handling the news well, writing on Twitter yesterday that she is at a "fascinating jungle/sea property owned by friend Jean Pigozzi" and has been "kayaking, hiking, exploring, horseback riding, picnicking and boating."

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Comments on "Buh-bye! The Martha Stewart Show canceled"

I always started my day off with the Martha Stewart Show - she is not replaceable, bringher back. We need her!

Martha Stewart and the news were about all I watched. I will really miss it.

Hallmark Channel-Please bring Martha Stewart back. I love her living better tips, cooking demonstrations, craft projects and decorating ideas. She is an american icon in domestics. DIY network was wonderful showing many types of crafting shows but has changed to all competitve project shows that do not interest me or my daughters so we stopped watching DIY altoghter for several years now. I watched every Martha Stewart show fatihfully last year by DVR'ing it and watching it in the evening. I will greatly miss her but am trying to keep up with her newest ideas by watching her on the interent.

Instad of T.V. viewing getting better it's going down the tank. Martha talk as an adult, really taught us things. I will not watch the stupid game-cook shows. I have gone back to turning off the T.V. and reading a good book, cookbooks included!

This happens everytime the viewers love a show some guy in a suite canceles a show fans love, when will the television people listen to the viewers/fans why dont we have a voice isnt it us who keep them employed with out us thier is no television...just something to think about... BRING BACK MARTHA STEWART

i love martha she always had such good shows, please come back martha marie will not take her place and i wont watch her

I am sorry to see Martha's show cancelled. She was always a wealth of information and fun ideas. What a shame. Not sure if Marie Osmond can fill her shoes. Hopefully Martha will be back on another time slot or station.

Very sorry to learn that Martha has been cancelled. I record her show each morning and watch it later in the day. Where else can you learn to fold a tee shirt and a contour sheet plus make wonderful food and do great crafts. Martha, we'll miss you! Please find your way back to daytime TV.