After five successful seasons, Tyra Banks has decided to call it quits with her show. The Tyra Show was immensely popular with women as it was often centered on the themes of “empowerment of women” and “inner beauty”. The series will run its course, however, and end in 2010. “This will be the last season of The Tyra Show,” Banks exclusively revealed to People magazine. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past five years.”
The announcement comes close on the heels of the bombshell dropped by daytime talk show queen and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, when she announced the end of the Oprah show. The longest running daytime talk show will come to an end in September 2011 after an amazingly popular run. All is not lost as Oprah plans on concentrating on The Oprah Winfrey Network and will be back on air with a new talk show on that network. Details of the new show have not been revealed yet.
“With Oprah’s big announcement this year, I think that gave Tyra the confidence to get out there and follow her longtime dream of film producing,” said a source for People magazine. The void in daytime television left behind by the departure of these two hosts will be hard to fill, both in stature and in programming. How it pans out will be known in the months ahead, but in the meantime Tyra will still be around on TV. She still plans to continue with her other shows America’s Next Top Model and True Beauty.