\t\u201cThe Talk\u201d executive producer Rob Crabbe is getting a little too familiar with TV goodbyes. A year and a half after his previous talker, \u201cThe Late Late Show With James Corden,\u201d signed off, he\u2019s now doing the same thing on Friday with \u201cThe Talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIt\u2019s a different kind of show, and therefore a different kind of goodbye. But still, there are similarities to the sign-off. \u201cThe emotional undercurrent of what the shows were trying to accomplish is the same,\u201d Crabbe told Variety. \u201cYou\u2019re trying to express joyfulness. You\u2019re trying to make people feel something. And with \u2018The Talk,\u2019 we\u2019re giving everybody a little break in their day, the routine of it. This is a respite in your day, where you can come and laugh and watch five people that really like each other have a really good time on television. That emotional currency will be missed for a lot of people in the audience.\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe Talk\u201d ends its 15-year run on Friday with one final live episodes, which Crabbe said will be devoted to celebrating the show\u2019s history and its hosts, past and present. There won\u2019t be any guests on the goodbye, except for one: Howie Mandel, who made regular appearances on \u201cThe Talk,\u201d will pop his head in one more time to pay tribute to hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O\u2019Connell and Sheryl Underwood. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \t\u201cHe\u2019s coming on as a long time friend of the show to surprise the hosts with some superlatives that the staff came up with for them,\u201d Crabbe said. \u201cAnd then, I think it\u2019s important to pay tribute to the staff and the crew that make the show. And so there\u2019ll be some of that in there as well. It\u2019s quite the end of an era for our daytime viewers and for the people that work here. And so if I was a betting man, I think I would take the over on some tears as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe final episode will feature a pre-tape package looking back at Underwood\u2019s tenure on the show, having been there the longest (joining for Season 2 in 2011). \u201cThe Talk\u201d has been paying tribute to all of the hosts, one-by-one, every day this week. <\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe show has a long history, and 15 seasons is an incredible number to wrap your head around,\u201d Crabbe says. \u201cWith this finale week, it\u2019s important to really focus on these hosts. So we\u2019ve been giving each host a full segment where we\u2019re surprising them with a retrospective tape that they haven\u2019t seen, and then having them react to it. We\u2019ve kind of gone in reverse chronological order when they started the show. For the finale day, we\u2019ll finish with Sheryl\u2019s retrospective. She\u2019s the longest tenured host here. And I think those are really nice, because they\u2019re experiencing their journey at the show in almost real time.\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\tCrabbe plans to give the hosts plenty of time in the finale to reflect on what \u201cThe Talk\u201d meant to them, and to say goodbye. \u201cFor the finale, I wanted to really be reflective for the hosts,\u201d he says. \u201cI think that they\u2019ll each have something that they want to say about their experience and what it\u2019s been like for them and what it\u2019s meant to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe Talk\u201d began in 2010 off an idea by Sara Gilbert, who was one of the show\u2019s first hosts, along with Julie Chen Moonves, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete and Marissa Jaret Winokur. Others who have hosted include Aisha Tyler, Eve, Carrie Ann Inaba, Marie Osmond and Elaine Welteroth. There\u2019s no plan for previous hosts to make cameos in the finale, but they will be seen in clips.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cYou\u2019ll see imagery, certainly of other hosts in these highlight packages,\u201d he says. \u201cBut we don\u2019t have any plans for any surprise appearances by past hosts. Also a lot of clips feature the former hosts, it was their show as well. And we want to be respectful to the entire run of the show. All the work that\u2019s gone into it and all these past seasons with all those other hosts. So it\u2019ll be a full look back at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tCrabbe says things have been getting increasingly emotional on set, particularly as the audience comes to the realization that this is it for \u201cThe Talk.\u201d <\/p>\n
\t\u201cOne of the things that impressed me is how much the show means to the viewers and the in studio audience,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a very loyal group, and the outpouring has just been tremendous. There\u2019s a couple that met in the audience and got married, and we try to feature some of these audience stories as well. A lot of people who credit the show sparking the joy that saved their lives.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI\u2019m not sure that they were necessarily clocking that the end was coming, but now it\u2019s become very clear, and so we have audience in tears every day in studio,\u201d he adds. \u201cThe show means a lot to a lot of people. And so I think it\u2019s going to be missed in this space.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe show has spent the week discussing their impending departure, and even had some fun with it in a cold open where they teased their versions of iconic series finales like \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d and \u201cThe Bob Newhart Show.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe Talk\u201d will be replaced in the new year by a new soap opera, \u201cBeyond the Gates,\u201d which premieres on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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