Kelly Clarkson Drops Season 7 Premiere Date After Ex-Husband's Tragic Death
Fans have been waiting to see how Clarkson would move forward, and now the countdown to her TV comeback is officially on.
Kelly Clarkson is heading back to daytime after a heavy summer, and the timing lines up with a busy fall on multiple fronts. Here is what is actually happening and when.
Season 7 is locked in
NBC says new episodes of The Kelly Clarkson Show are on the way this month, with production kicking off right before mid-September and a late-September premiere. The show took the summer off, but it is about to start moving fast again.
- Production on Season 7 starts the week of September 8
- Season premiere is September 29, with fresh episodes rolling out after that
- One early episode will spotlight the heroes who rescued campers during the July flooding in Texas
- The series, launched in 2019, was unusually pre-cleared in nearly every U.S. TV market before day one (inside baseball: that kind of clearance before a premiere is rare), and it also airs in Canada and Australia
A tough personal chapter
Last month, Kellys ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, died from melanoma. On August 6, she told fans about his illness and pushed her Las Vegas residency to make space for her kids during the crisis. Kelly and Brandon share two children: River (born 2014) and Remington (born 2016).
Clarkson will be everywhere this fall
On top of the talk show, she is back in The Voice orbit. The 29th season of the talent show is coming soon. Kelly last sat in a big chair in Season 23; this time, she will pop in as a guest mentor alongside John Legend and Adam Levine. During her daytime hiatus, Jennifer Hudson essentially filled some of that space in the daytime mix with her own show, but Kelly is now returning to her usual slot.
The show remains a daytime juggernaut
Since 2019, The Kelly Clarkson Show has cranked out over 1,000 episodes, scooped up 22 Emmys, and is up for eight more Daytime Emmys this year, including Outstanding Daytime Talk Series and Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host. It was sold as a break-from-the-usual daytime format at launch, and the energy still seems to be working.
Season 7 starts later this month. You tuning in?