Around The Horn Cancelled: ESPN Sets Final Episode Airdate For Long-Running Debate Show

After more than 20 years, ESPN will stop going Around the Horn this spring.

TVLine has confirmed that the cable network's long-running roundtable series Around the Horn is set to conclude, with the very last episode scheduled for Friday, May 23, at 5 pm ET. The debate show will have been on the air for nearly 23 years and more than 4,900 episodes at the time of its sign-off.

Per ESPN, a 30-minute episode of SportsCenter will replace Around the Horn at 5 pm on weekdays throughout the summer, with more scheduling updates to be announced at a later date.

"Around the Horn has had a remarkable run of more than two decades. That kind of longevity in media is incredibly rare, and we look forward to celebrating the show's many accomplishments before the final sign-off in May," said David Roberts, ESPN's executive vice president of sports news and entertainment, in a statement on Tuesday. "Beyond [host] Tony [Reali] and the ensemble of on-air contributors, we are particularly grateful to the production team led by Erik Rydholm and Aaron Solomon, who have been instrumental in ATH's consistent success since the very beginning."

Around the Horn first premiered on ESPN in November 2002. Originally hosted by sports commentator Max Kellerman, the series invites a quartet of sports writers and reporters to enthusiastically debate the sports headlines of the day, earning or losing points from the moderator along the way as they present their arguments. In 2004, Reali took over as host of Around the Horn and has served as the show's debate moderator since then.

The New York Post first reported Around the Horn's cancellation last November; ESPN declined comment to TVLine at the time.