Tom Bergeron to Exit AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS After Next Season

Tom Bergeron has announced that will be leaving the long running ABC series America's Funniest Home Videos at the close of the series' next season. Bergeron has hosted the show since 2001.

About the show:

"America's Funniest Home Videos," the longest running Primetime entertainment show in ABC history, enters its 24th season with the same mission -- giving families something genuinely funny to enjoy. Host Tom Bergeron is back, and funnier than ever, with an abundant supply of fresh clips to keep families laughing from coast to coast. There have been many imitators, but there is only one "America's Funniest Home Videos."

This season the show's $100,000 winners will compete at the chance to win a spectacular Grand Prize: A Disney Parks Vacation for four to the Disneyland® Resort in California and the Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida. The winner can experience all the magic the Parks have to offer including New Fantasyland(tm), the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom® Park history at the Walt Disney World ® Resort and at the Disneyland Resort, the re-imagined Disney California Adventure® Park featuring Cars Land.

In its 24 seasons to date, "America's Funniest Home Videos" has given away over $13 million in prize money and evaluated more than a million videotapes from home viewers. Viewers wishing to submit home videos to "America's Funniest Home Videos" should visit www.AFV.com for details. Vin Di Bona is executive producer, with Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway serving as co-executive producers.

"America's Funniest Home Videos" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format with a 5.1 channel surround sound.

Photo: ABC/CRAIG SJODIN

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