The CNN documentary series "This Is Life With Lisa Ling" will end its run on the network this year, a casualty of the news channel's recently announced budget reductions.
Ling confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the ninth season of the series, where she often embeds herself in situations to report on the margins of American society, will be the last. The program's final six-episode run begins Nov. 27 on CNN at 10 p.m. ET.
"I was hoping to get to 10 seasons, but we fell short of that," Ling said in a phone interview from her home in Los Angeles. "I would like to do many, many more seasons, especially right now, when we are existing in these bubbles and we follow people who espouse what we believe. In some ways, we've cut ourselves off from really getting to know people who might be different or think differently than we do."
