NBC is ending production on Access Hollywood after nearly 30 years. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the celebrity gossip and entertainment news program will continue airing new episodes through the summer before officially ending its run in the fall.
Since its 1996 debut, Access Hollywood has aired nearly 12,000 episodes. Yet its most infamous segment was one that never made it to broadcast: in October 2016, weeks before the presidential election, The Washington Post obtained footage of then-candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments about women to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush. While the tape forced Trump to make a rare apology, it did nothing to alter the election’s outcome, as he went on to win the presidency.
