New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel on FOX - Part 1

[RockSP]

Didn't realize she was pregnant again until the episode before this latest one.

 

[Sawyer]

Bubble Watch: Status Report On ‘Once’, ‘Elementary’, ‘2 Broke Girls’, ‘Exorcist’, ‘Timeless’ & Other Series In Limbo

The consensus is that veteran New Girl, a legacy show for Fox as it carried the torch for comedy at the network for a long time, would likely get a limited final season for a proper sendoff.

I'd be good with that. It definitely feels like we're in the midst of the endgame, but not necessarily 100% done. There were definitely still a few balls up in the air after that finale. Mostly, though, I just don't like the idea of taking a show that's had a (relatively) long run and just cutting it off, rather than giving it a real ending. Basically the Castle treatment, except... with a show I actually care about.

 

[chamber-music]

I figured they might give them a final limited series run as a send off.

 

[RockSP]

They need to get all the wacky recurring characters back one more time: Bearclaw, Cece's Russian model former roommate, Coach of course, etc.

 

[chamber-music]

Outside dave

 

[Sawyer]

Waiting on that renewal, Fox...

 

[Sawyer]

'New Girl' Renewed for Seventh and Final Season at Fox

Fox has renewed the Zooey Deschanel-led comedy for a seventh and final season. While an official episode count has yet to be determined, sources say the final season will be a shorter run.

 

[Sawyer]

‘New Girl’: Final Season Details & How Last-Minute Renewal Was Clinched

The upcoming eight-episode seventh and final season of Fox’s New Girl, which was picked up yesterday, will feature a time jump. But before we get to that and other details about Season 7, let’s look back at the wild past few days when the comedy series went from a shoo-in for a 13-episode final season to the brink of cancellation to an eight-episode renewal.

New Girl has been an important show for Fox and sibling 20th TV: It was the network’s first big comedy hit in a long time, it became the first big SVOD sale of a current broadcast series to Netflix for a reported $900,000 an episode, and six seasons in it continues to be Fox’s highest-rated comedy series. So when the Season 6 finale came and went last month, everyone assumed the comedy was getting one more chapter for a proper sendoff. But as broadcast series renewals and cancellations started rolling in midway through last week, a shocker hit the rumor mill — New Girl was getting canceled. While the show did not officially get the ax, it came very, very close to it.

I hear that was because of various reasons (for instance, star Zooey Deschanel is on maternity leave having just given birth to her second child), and most if not all main cast members would not be able to return to work until the fall. With the logistical challenges, no space on the midseason schedule and a Season 6 finale that tied in a bow so many loose ends, the network leaned heavily toward not going with a seventh season.

That’s when I hear creator/executive producer Liz Meriwether made a last-minute call and pitched a final-season arc that turned the tide. I hear it features a time jump, with Season 7 picking up three years after the Season 6 finale, in which Jess (Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) rekindled their romance, Cece (Hannah Simone) and Schmidt (Max Greenfield) became expectant parents, and Winston (Lamorne Morris) called his father.

I hear Season 7 would feature major milestones for all main characters over the period of one year, including a big one in the series finale.

I hear that pitch got everyone excited. Fox’s midseason schedule was revisited. After some discussions, the network’s executives were able to find a stretch of eight weeks for New Girl. Next, the actors’ deals had to be renegotiated to lower their guarantees from 13 to eight. When that was also done, with not a minute to spare, New Girl was officially renewed Sunday, just a day before Fox’s upfront presentation.

So, after a roller-coaster final stretch, a show with a long and successful history on Fox will get a proper send-off from the network and give fans a chance to say goodbye, instead of an after-the fact cancellation.

An episode order like that will certainly make for tighter storytelling, but I don't like that a show that was the network's first comedy hit in years, and has since been it's highest rated comedy, would need to haggle like this to get a farewell season. Oh, you didn't have enough room on the midseason schedule, FOX? Bulls***.

The bit about the time jump is interesting though.

 

[javonstokess]

^That is weird though.

I wish it was 13 episodes at least. 8 seems like too short.

 

[Sawyer]

New Girl: Meet Schmidt and Cece's Daughter Ruth — 2018 FIRST LOOK

 

[javonstokess]

Anyone know the season 7 premiere date?

 

[Quasar]

The season 6 episodes are expiring off On Demand in March, so I assumed that was about when the final season would start.

 

[Sawyer]

New Girl: J.B. Smoove Set to Play Winston's Father in Final Season

TVLine has learned exclusively that the Curb Your Enthusiasm vet is set to play the estranged father of Lamorne Morris’ character in the Fox comedy’s upcoming seventh and final season. Not so coincidentally, the episode featuring the anticipated father-son reunion will be directed by Morris himself.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The universe has just divided by zero.

Please let J.B. Smoove have a cat too!

 

[Sawyer]

Don't know whether to be happy that it's that much longer until it's over or mad that I have to wait until the ass-end of the TV season for it.

 

[Sawyer]

http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/04/new-girl-final-season-time-jump-finale-date/

The comedy about a quintet of friends, which also stars Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone, will say goodbye in the future: The long-rumored time jump is true, and the final season kicks off three years down the road. The season 6 finale saw Jess (Deschanel) once again revealing her feelings to her friend-turned-ex-turned-friend Nick (Johnson), Cece (Simone) and Schmidt (Greenfield) learning that she is pregnant, and Winston (Morris) getting engaged to Aly (Nasim Pedrad). In the future, Jess and Nick, still together, return from a European book tour, Schmidt is staying at home with daughter Ruth while CeCe is a working mom, and the now-married Winston and Aly are expecting a child.

Season 7 will welcome back a fair amount of guest stars, including original cast member Damon Wayans, Jr., Dermot Mulroney, David Walton, Nelson Franklin, Sam Richardson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Rob Reiner. Want some new faces, too? JB Smoove and Tig Notaro also will pop up in the final batch of episodes.

 

[Sawyer]

Hannah Simone to Star in ABC's 'Greatest American Hero' Remake

As soon as I saw that she was being sought after for pilots and remembered that the remake's lead character was an Indian female, I had a feeling.

 

[Teelie]

She isn't a bad choice imo.

 

[Sawyer]

Back tonight, folks!

 

[Pennywise]

RIP Schmidt's moustache!

 

[Sawyer]

Jake Johnson should get an Emmy nom solely on the basis of his physical response to seeing Schmidt's mustache.

 

[kane9321]

glad its back
moustache..is gone

 

[RockSP]

Coach? Check.
Outside Dave? Check.
Robbie? Check.
Dr. Whathisname that Jess used to date? Check.
Even Dunston...check.

Now we need a final appearance by CeCe's Russian model roommate and Jess's female doctor friend.

 

[Sawyer]

Tonight, folks. This is it.

 

[RockSP]

^Hm. Forgot it was going to be a super short season...