TLDR: Despite recurring online claims that The Pioneer Woman has been cancelled, Ree Drummond’s show remains part of Food Network’s active lineup.
The cancellation rumors tend to resurface every year or two, often tied to unrelated news about Ree stepping back from cookbook writing or, in some cases, outright scam advertising that has nothing to do with the network at all.
Ree Drummond has been cooking on Food Network since 2011, and somehow, every couple of years, a new wave of “is The Pioneer Woman cancelled” headlines makes the rounds.
It happened in 2022, again in 2023, and the rumor mill hasn’t slowed down since. So it’s worth actually sorting out what’s real here.
The short answer: it’s still airing
As of now, Food Network’s own schedule still lists The Pioneer Woman as part of its active programming, with new and repeat episodes continuing to air. There’s no network announcement, no statement from Drummond, and no industry reporting confirming an actual cancellation.
If the show were genuinely ending, that’s the kind of news that would be reported by entertainment outlets directly, not just whispered about in comment sections.
Where the cancellation rumors keep coming from
A few different things tend to fuel this particular rumor cycle, and they’re worth untangling separately.
The most persistent source has actually been outright scam advertising. Back in 2022 and again in 2023, fake ads circulated on Facebook and Instagram claiming Drummond was leaving Food Network to promote a line of weight loss gummies, with some versions even tying the fake story to a dispute with a network sponsor.
None of it was true.
Drummond never endorsed any keto or CBD gummies, and fact checkers traced the rumor back to scam sites using her image without permission, the same playbook scammers have used against plenty of other celebrities chasing weight loss product clicks.
Separately, Drummond has made real, legitimate announcements about scaling back parts of her career, just not the parts people assume.
She’s talked about stepping away from writing new cookbooks after publishing her tenth, since she felt she’d told the culinary stories she wanted to tell.
She’s also expanded into a YouTube series called Drummond Ranch, which gives fans a more behind-the-scenes look at the family’s actual cattle operation.
Neither of those moves means she’s left her Food Network show behind, but it’s easy to see how “Ree is stepping back from X” gets reflexively rounded up to “Ree is leaving Food Network entirely.”
There’s also been the occasional real production gap. Like most long-running shows, The Pioneer Woman has had stretches between seasons where new episodes pause for months at a time, which tends to spike search interest in whether the show got cancelled before new episodes quietly pick back up.
The bottom line
Ree Drummond is still on Food Network, still running the Drummond Land and Cattle Company with her husband Ladd in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and still expanding her brand well beyond the show itself.
If the show’s status ever genuinely changes, it’ll come from Drummond or the network directly rather than a recycled rumor cycle.
For now, the safest bet is to take any “cancelled” headline with a healthy amount of skepticism, especially if it’s paired with an ad for a supplement.
