'The Montel Williams Show' is going off the air

Seventeen years ago, The Montel Williams Show arrived on the air to bring us such pressing stories as people being hypnotized in supermarkets and a medium channeling voices from beyond the grave (remember that old chestnut?). But the AP reports that CBS Television Distribution has announced it will no longer produce new episodes of the show.

“I can’t say thank you enough to those who’ve welcomed me into their homes for the past 17 years,” the 51-year-old talk show host said. “It has been both an honor and a joy.” CBS said it will give syndicated stations a year’s worth of Best of Montel episodes, but after that it’s all over. At least he still has his 1996 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host.

[Photo: With Rachael Ray two weeks ago. Getty Images]