Nick Cannon’s syndicated talk show, set for this September, is off the docket.

Lions Gate and producer Debmar-Mercury have put it off for at least a year, if not forever, following Cannon’s firing by Viacom thanks to his anti-Semitism scandal.

“The ‘Nick Cannon’ talk show will not debut this year,” Lions Gate’s Debmar-Mercury, the show’s producer and distributor, said in a statement Friday. “After conversations with Nick, we do believe that his public comments don’t reflect his true feelings and his apology is heartfelt and sincere. We want to continue the healing process as he meets with leaders of the Jewish community and engages in a dialogue with our distribution partners to hear their views. We are standing by Nick in our hope that by fall 2021 he will be able to use his extraordinary talent and platform to entertain, enlighten and unite his audience on the ‘Nick Cannon’ talk show. Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury condemn anti-Semitism, racism and hate speech. It runs counter to everything we stand for.”

I doubt we will ever see this show, despite it having been cleared in almost all of the country. This just gives the producers time to let the heat of the scandal wear off before they find a new host. Nick would have to do something he hasn’t done so far– go on a full scale apology tour that actually seems genuine– before it could work.

So this leaves just Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch, that hasn’t pulled the plug on a Cannon project, “The Masked Singer.” They’re probably freaking out right now because if they do take Cannon off, the audience will revolt. But if they keep him on, the audience will be equally upset. And boy, can you imagine the jokes or even parodies of “The Masked Singer”? I’ll leave them to your imagination.

“Days of our Lives” star Kristian Alfonso has given the reason she’s leaving the show after 37 years: disrespect.

Alfonso told Entertainment Tonight that when it came time to re-sign her contract, the show asked her to sit out for “four -t0-five months” until she could be launched in a new storyline.

“And at that moment I thought to myself, you know what, it’s time for a change, and it was the perfect moment to make that decision,” she told ET. “I was taken aback when he said that they wanted, he and [co-EP] Albert [Alarr] wanted to take me off camera for four to five months. It was not something that had ever been discussed but that’s what it was… I just thought, you know what, it’s time to really write a new chapter. I’ve had an incredible run there.”

Alfonso has announced her departure without filming a finale. She’s shot episodes through the fall. She has no idea how they will handle her exit.

“In the storyline, I still have scripts that were supposed to be shot,” she told ET. “Of course, everything is being probably rewritten because of COVID and guidelines that they have to adhere to. But that was not supposed to be the end.”

Maybe she and executive producer Ken Corday, the cheapest man in show biz, can work something out. Realistically, at one one point down the line her character would have to return because the actor who’s played her father for fifty years, Bill Hayes. is 95 years old.

But the reality is, she’s rich, she’s famous, popular, and done. She could work at Hallmark steadily. Any of the other three soaps will jump at the chance to stunt cast her. Fans of “The Young and the Restless” are already clogging social media with ideas.

Alfonso’s departure is not alone at Days. Executive producer Greg Meng was just forced out after 31 years. About a half dozen other actors have been let go, all long term and popular, too, because of Corday’s budget cuts. But she was the longest-tenured.

I have to laugh when I read about Corday’s budget cuts. He and the Bells, who created “Y&R” and “Bold and the Beautiful,” are very, very rich. The estate of William and Lee Bell just sold two properties in Los Angeles totaling over $50 million. No soap actor has ever lived so grandly.