STEVE HARVEY REPLACED FOR ‘LITTLE BIG SHOTS’ JUST AFTER TALK SHOW IS CANCELLED!

Steve Harvey's Talk Show has been cancelled and now he won’t be returning as host of kid talent show “Little Big Shots”. Details below!

Not even syndicated series are safe from the ax in this week of heavy TV casualties: Steve Harvey's talk show will stop airing this summer, our sister site Variety reports.

The change was announced shortly after news of Harvey’s daytime talk show, Steve, getting canceled by NBC after seven years with the network.

Steve taped its final episode last Thursday; the installment, which will serve as a series finale, will air in June.

In its place, the network will air Kelly Clarkson‘s new daytime show, The Kelly Clarkson Show.

The news may not have been surprising to Harvey himself, who had previously expressed uncertainty over whether he and the program would stay with the network when the current season ended.

“I thought I was until they made an announcement a couple weeks ago that they wanted to give Kelly Clarkson the owned and operated NBC Networks, and that’s my slot,” he said during an interview at Variety ‘s Entertainment Summit in January.

He went on to admit that he would have liked for NBC to reveal the news to him personally, instead of finding out about in the press, like everybody else.

“I’m an honorable guy and I’m just an old school guy and I just thought that you’re supposed to talk to people and go, ‘Look, you’ve been good business for us. This is what we’re thinking of doing. Are you okay with that?’ No, you don’t just put something in the paper and say, ‘I’m gonna make this move right here’ because it’s crazy,” he said. “You look at the numbers on.”

But that’s not the only thing changing in Harveys career.

Steve Harvey won’t be hosting the kids’ talent show Little Big Shots as well, when the series returns to NBC.

Harvey, 62, who hosted the show for its first three seasons, will be replaced by Melissa McCarthy, PEOPLE confirms.

“Melissa’s just an incredible performer and incredible comedian,” NBC’s co-chairman of entertainment Paul Telegdy said in a statement, adding that the mother of two, 48, “will bring a completely fresh perspective to it.”

“Melissa is a strong creative force with her own ideas. Changes will be apparent,” Telegdy added.

There isn’t an exact date for the series’ return has not been announced, the show will begin airing again at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights after the end of football season next winter.

NBC executives were reportedly unhappy with the decision to cancel Harvey’s show, due to the network losing its ownership stakes of the popular daytime talk show, according to Variety.

Harvey’s producers are in the process of shopping the program to other networks, however, fans of the show can still watch him on ABC’s Family Feud in the meantime.