In what will be quite sad for many, the announcement first reported by The Hollywood Reporter confirms that NBC’s award-winning and top-rated drama series This Is Us will come to an end with its sixth season. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the network is poised to announce on Friday that the series will conclude with the upcoming 2021-22 broadcast season.
NBC is set to reveal its fall schedule for the 2021-22 season on Friday as new execs Frances Berwick and Susan Rovner present their vision for the future of the network to the press corps for the first time.
News that This Is Us will end after six seasons is hardly a surprise. When NBC in May 2019 renewed This Is Us for three additional seasons, sources told THR at the time that season six would likely be the last for the Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, and Sterling K. Brown. Dan Fogelman stated,
“We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, so we have a very direct plan. I have script pages I have written and I’m writing that really are deep, deep, deep into the future. We have a plan for what we’re going to do, and I know what the plan is,”
This Is Us is NBC’s second scripted show that will end during the 2021-22 broadcast season and joins former Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which will wrap with an abbreviated and delayed the eighth season. The news comes as NBC this season parted ways with Superstore.
