Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will stay dark next week amid the growing alarm about rising COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County and the rest of California.The syndicated daytime talk show has been airing reruns since Dec.
10 when DeGeneres announced that she had contracted the coronavirus. The show had hoped to resume production on a Warner Bros.
soundstage on Monday. But in a memo sent to “Ellen” staffers on Thursday, producers told employees to work from home next week and that no new episodes would be produced.“Due to the current surge, we have decided that we will not do any shows next week and instead work from home,” producers wrote.
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