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The Kelly Clarkson Show
Genre	Variety talk show
Created by	Paul Telegdy
Showrunner	Alex Duda
Written by	Jordan Watland (head writer)
Directed by	Joseph C. Terry
Presented by	Kelly Clarkson
Starring	My Band Y'all
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	943 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Kelly Clarkson Alex Duda
Production locations	Universal City, Los Angeles, California (2019–2023) Studio 6A, NBC Studios, Manhattan, New York City (2023–present)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	43 minutes
Production companies	NBCUniversal Television Distribution (season 1–2) NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (season 2–present)
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 9, 2019 (2019-09-09) – present (present)

The Kelly Clarkson Show is an American daytime television variety talk show hosted by Kelly Clarkson. It is produced and distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and features Clarkson interviewing celebrities and segments about "everyday people". Clarkson opens the program with "Kellyoke", a musical performance of a cover version of various songs requested by a member of her audience and ends with her participating in an activity with her guests. "Kellyoke" classic was introduced in the third season, where Clarkson performs her own songs that were not released as singles. Cameo-oke was introduced in sixth season, musical guests will perform at the beginning of the show.

The series premiered on September 9, 2019, in first-run syndication, with NBC Owned Television Stations serving as its main affiliate base. For the first four seasons, filming took place at the Universal Studios Lot in California. Starting in the fifth season, the show moved production to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. The sixth season premiered on September 23, 2024. On December 15, 2024, the show was renewed for a seventh season.

As of December 20, 2024, 943 episodes of The Kelly Clarkson Show have aired.

The Kelly Clarkson Show has earned twenty-two Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment and Outstanding Talk Show as well as Clarkson winning Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2023.

Concept

The program's press release states that "In her new daytime talk show, Kelly Clarkson uses her gift of connection to bring viewers something new: a fun, energetic show that breaks with tradition. In each episode audiences will experience an hour full of remarkable stories, celebrity guests, spontaneous surprises, humor, heart and, of course, good music. It's like a weekday brunch party with a fascinating guest list of people who would otherwise never meet." Clarkson usually performs a cover song in each episode.

Episodes

Production

Paul Telegdy, who was NBCUniversal's president of Alternative Programming, had originally scouted Clarkson to serve as a mentor—and later a coach—on NBC's music competition series The Voice. As part of a corporate restructuring, Telegdy additionally became the head of NBCUniversal's syndication division in late 2016.

Despite being reluctant at first, Clarkson accepted the offer for the series in an effort to "connect with people, play games, music and find ways to help or give back to communities/organizations." She also sought advice from various television presenters, including Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres, and Blake Shelton. On August 6, 2018, it was reported by Broadcasting & Cable that Clarkson had filmed a pilot for the talk show that was later offered for syndication, broadcast on another platform, or both. Celebrities such as Josh Groban, Terry Crews, and Chloë Grace Moretz were reported to have participated as her guests on the pilot. She is also accompanied by her touring band for her musical performances in the program, which includes a barn-like studio as a reflection to her "country roots". Clarkson also revealed the talk show will be opened by audience-requested covers of various songs.

On September 19, 2018, NBC Owned Television Stations announced that it had picked up the program; it replaced Steve Harvey's eponymous talk show on most NBC owned-and-operated stations, with a number of stations owned by E. W. Scripps Company likewise using it as a replacement for that station group's Pickler & Ben. Alex Duda, previously a showrunner of The Tyra Banks Show and Harvey's 2012–2017 talk show, was commissioned to be the program's executive producer. In November 2019, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 21, 2020.

Midway through the first season, production on the show was suspended on March 13, 2020, after the World Health Organization announced the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The show resumed production in April of the same year, with multiple episodes being recorded from Clarkson's home in Montana, then later at her Southern California home. The show continued in production for its first season into August, when traditionally, most syndicated talk shows are dark. Clarkson returned to studio-shot shows in September 2020, with a virtual studio audience.

On December 15, 2020, the show was renewed for its third and fourth seasons through 2023. The third season premiered on September 13, 2021. The new season marked the return of the live studio audience. The first week of shows for the third season were taped in New York City. The fourth season premiered on September 12, 2022. On November 7, 2022, the show was renewed for its fifth and sixth seasons through 2025. The show was renewed for a seventh season on December 15, 2024.

Production was suspended in May 2023 due to the Writers Guild of America strike, but there was still an inventory of new episodes that had not yet been aired. That month, it was announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show would re-locate from the Universal City Studios in Los Angeles to the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan for its fifth season, moving to Studio 6-A at NBC Studios. Clarkson cited a desire to move the show to the East Coast so that she could be closer to her family in North Carolina, as well as her interest in Broadway theater. The move also takes advantage of new film tax credits for relocated productions introduced by Governor Kathy Hochul. Delayed to adjust for the end of the Writers Guild of America strike to allow the return of writers and to build out the new set (unlike her fellow daytime brethren, Clarkson had not announced a return to production until after the strike's settlement), the fifth season premiered on October 16, 2023. The sixth season premiered on September 23, 2024.

Broadcast

For its first season, The Kelly Clarkson Show was commissioned for broadcast in virtually all television markets in the United States, with the NBC Owned Television Stations serving as its primary affiliate base, along with the Citytv television system in Canada. On most NBC stations, it was initially positioned as a lead-in program to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, or as a centerpiece program leading into local afternoon newscasts. The series also airs the same day on Bravo as part of its overnight programming, while NBC stations and affiliates carrying The Kelly Clarkson Show also have the option to carry a late-night repeat in lieu of a network broadcast of NBC News Now's Top Story with Tom Llamas.

In May 2021, the National Broadcasting Company Owned Television Stations group announced that the series would take the timeslot of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on the ten NBC-owned stations that carry both programs, taking effect after Ellen's final season reruns ended at the start of September 2022.

As of August, 2024, The Kelly Clarkson Show airs in every U.S. television market, as well as Puerto Rico (through WKAQ) and the U.S. Virgin Islands on WVGN. IPTV services allow the show to be available in most of the Caribbean Islands and American Samoa. It also airs on the American Forces Network.

Outside of North America, the Philippines' TAP TV, Ireland's RTÉ, and on Australia's 7Bravo network. Elsewhere, it can be streamed on Peacock.

Kellyoke

Kellyoke is a covers extended play (EP) by Kelly Clarkson. The title is a portmanteau of her first name and the word "karaoke", and is based on the Kellyoke cold open segment which opens each episode of the show, where Clarkson and her band perform various song covers adjusted slightly for time requested by fans, studio audience members, are a standard or favorite song of that day's lead guest (usually a musical performer themselves which may be their own song), or are originally by artists who inspired her personally - thus she calls the segment Kellyoke. She has performed songs by artists such as Whitney Houston, Aerosmith, The Chicks, Nat King Cole, and among many others. The segment occasionally uses previous or taped performances on taping days where Clarkson is either unavailable to perform a song or is on vocal rest due to illness, or to preserve her voice for other commitments. "Cameo-oke" covers was introduced in the sixth season, with musical guests performing at the beginning of the show.

The EP was released on June 9, 2022, through Atlantic Records.

Track listing

Charts

Reception

Ratings

On its pilot week, The Kelly Clarkson Show premiered with over 2.6 million viewers and a 1.6 household rating according to Nielsen Media Research—the best premiere rating for a new first-run syndicated program since Katie in 2012. A month after the show aired, Nielsen data stated that the show gained 1.9 million average viewers per episode and became the fourth most watched daytime talk shows. The New York Times reported in September 2021 that the show was drawing an average daily audience of 1.3 million viewers. In December 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported that the second season has 1.6 million average daily viewers and has the youngest audience among the top four daytime shows. The fourth season of the show gained 1.37 million average daily viewers and ranked third among all syndicated daytime talk shows.

Controversy

In a Rolling Stone article published on May 12, 2023, former employees of the show spoke of mistreatment and favoritism from producers, stressing the fact that they were overworked, underpaid, and that working at the show was traumatizing to their mental health, which leads to the conclusion where they described The Kelly Clarkson Show as a toxic environment. Staffers said that "Clarkson was likely unaware of the alleged mistreatment" with one describing her as "fantastic."

The night the allegations were issued, Clarkson posted a public statement on her social media accounts in which she said she was unaware of the situation, yet it is unacceptable. Furthermore, she assured that as the show makes its move to the East Coast, the best and kindest staff members will continue to be in place and that everyone in senior management positions, including Clarkson herself, will undergo management training to be the best versions of themselves and until the notion of toxicity is eradicated. Alex Duda who was at the center of many allegations remains on the show.

Accolades

Notes

1. The show's title is unofficially abbreviated as TKCS, according to an on-set sign.

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External links

• Official website
• The Kelly Clarkson Show at IMDb

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